The paper presents an effort to standardize cost effective to support the development of spatial modeling. It is motivated by the increasing role of both cost effective and spatial modeling to contribute on society development worldwide. Therefore the future of spatial modeling would focus on minimizing cost and required time for model generation, in which cost effective become the only reliable approach to achieve these objectives. Considering that spatial modeling commonly consists of data acquisition, digitations process and model development, hence the characteristic of cost effective to minimize any required resources for system development is required to be presented in each stage. It means the method being utilized in each stage must comply with the objective of cost effective, thus method selection takes a vital role in the development process. The work has presented various strategies consisting of different methods being employed for model development in which each carries its own benefits and flaws. Finally it is important to consider available resources to meet with method selection in order to enable wise implementation of spatial modeling
