Abstract:
Scientific spatial concepts provoke much discussion and are important for the formalization of knowledge and the development of classification systems of geographical objects. This article reviews and critically analyzes the scientific literature with a view to clarifying the content of fundamental spatial concepts and their representation in a geographic information system (GIS) when developing geospatial data. Thus, based on widely known significant publications (Golledge, 2002; Bader, Glennon, 2009; Janelle, Goodchild, 2011; UCSB, 2018; De Smith et al., 2018), this article describes key theoretical geographical spatial concepts (Location, Distance, Neighborhood and Region, Network, Scale, Spatial Heterogeneity, Spatial Dependence, Objects and Surfaces), as well as their use in GIS