Читать книгу GIS Research Methods - Steven J. Steinberg - Страница 102

To date, GIS has rarely been incorporated into analyses that explicitly use grounded theory. We believe that the spatial information GIS provides can be an important additional component to research that adopts an inductive approach. The visual patterns in spatial data can prove a powerful indicator when you are exploring emergent themes drawn from existing data to develop theory. We have devised a series of steps that you can follow when using GIS as part of this approach to social research: