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just about anything else in our modern
world maps are all around us
maps are something that people are
willing to look at long enough to learn
something from and even inspire them to
take action maps engage maps inform maps
inspire if a picture is worth a thousand
words
maps are worth a thousand pictures maps
have always been rich sources of data
communicating a large amount of
information in a small amount of space
whether that space was in the past
stone tablets edged in the dirt on
copper plates on paper film and today in
digital form on our phones on our
laptops on our tablets in our
neighborhoods on our buses in our cars
how many of you have many paper maps at
home I do paper maps are useful but they
are limited we cannot easily add
information to them we cannot easily
update them we cannot easily make them
change scale paper maps are not easily
transported or folded digital maps on
the other hand are more useful mobile
versatile they are revolutionizing the
way that we navigate our world how we
understand our world and how we can
better enable our world for the future
paper maps are still useful in the field
though because technology can fail maps
don’t just tell us where things are milk
maps help help us understand why things
are where they are why do hurricane
occur where they do and have a spatial
pattern that they do what about
landslides are you to the way they are
arranged the slope the way that they’re
facing that’s the aspect what direction
and how far are the floodwaters down the
street from my house right now
ooh real-time information that we can
map what direction are invasive species
such as zebra mussels moving and
changing and why today’s maps folks
aren’t just graphics floating out in
cyberspace they’re tied to a powerful
computer database a Geo database a
geographic information system the US
Department of Labor identified three key
hot fields for the 21st century bio
technologies nanotechnologies and geo
technologies today’s maps are part of
geo technologies geographic information
systems geo technologies also include
includes remote sensing looking at the
word world from space lidar data UAV
drone D geo technologies also includes
web mapping now folks what we’ve got
here with our wise of where
investigations is that geographic
information systems is it’s like an
elevator you just you just use it it’s
it works behind the scenes so GIS
enabled your phone to be assembled with
the correct parts supply chain
management from all over the world
GIS allowed your package to get
delivered to your house today and to
millions of others of houses in the most
fuel-efficient safe manner possible
GIS allowed you to pull up that app on
your phone that says my bus and veil is
going to come down the street in four
minutes and 30 seconds that’s what GIS
can do let’s use a web-based geographic
information system ArcGIS online for
example to look at plate boundaries
earthquakes from the last 30 days and
volcanoes what is the relationships that
you notice here what are the spatial
patterns that you see here this is the
locations of earthquakes related to
their magnitude what is the relationship
between the locations of earthquakes and
their depth hmm
what is the relationship between the
locations of earthquakes and plate
boundaries or volcanoes how many cities
are within 50 kilometers of the plate
boundaries
what about earth earthquakes that are
occurring in the in the oceans do we
care about those yes why possible
tsunamis we live in a 3d world so it
makes sense that we have 3d GIS tools at
our fingertips here I’m using a 3d scene
viewer to extrude earthquakes as
cylinders so why not just because I can
but so that I can understand the
patterns better and do something about
it let’s turn our attention for a moment
to demographic analysis population
characteristics median age at scales
from national to local blue older red
younger why is the population of Maine
older than that of Texas scale matters
at the county level why are the Great
Plains older than that of the West and
here in Vail why is this neighborhood
older than that of the neighborhoods to
the north and to the west we can add
other information some of which is
crowd-sourced citizen science such as
broken sidewalks median income commuting
patterns so that we can plan effective
services to our communities with the
goal of a sustainable community we’re
asking a lot of questions here aren’t we
folks a good map teaches you to ask a
better question what if we were to map
all the attendees attending this Vale
TEDx talk are these the patterns that
you would have expected making and this
is key sharing on the web this map took
me all of five minutes with a web-based
mapping system called ArcGIS online what
would be in your top ten list of serious
challenges facing our world
water quality and quantity biodiversity
loss economic inequality food security
energy migration climate crime all of
these have a location they have a
spatial pattern hence they can be
understood and grappled with with the
use of geographic information systems we
can use our whys of where focal point to
grapple with and solve these global
issues that increasingly affect our
everyday lives the CDC for example uses
GIS not just to treat illness but to
build wellness by applying GIS to it
ever expanding a number of disciplines
the Maps through GIS are becoming the
language of the planet even in your
local community having the zoning people
talking with the parks and recreation
people talking with the Emergency
Management people all around the common
set of map data with the goal being a
smart city but technology and data are
only two parts of this folks for people
to grapple with these global problems
with this spatial perspective requires a
population that can think critically and
spatially that has been immersed in deep
and rich field experiences and that can
think holistically and across
disciplinary boundaries think back to
your last geography class it may bring
up images of mind numbing memorization
what are the principal exports of Peru
what’s the capital of North Dakota or
conversely it may have sparked your
image your your your interest in the
world I hope this was your experience
but if geography is so fundamental to
understanding our world why is geography
so neglected
well our high-stakes subject divided
assessment driven school system leaves
little room for problem-based learning
that GIS and GPS are a part of that’s
what these students and I were doing on
the Santo Domingo Pueblo in a semi-arid
region where rainfall is scarce soil is
a precious resource we were analyzing
the amount of head cut gully erosion
with GIS
but schools and faculty students
administrators are using mapping
technologies in science technology
engineering and mathematics classrooms
in language arts business and other
classrooms your help is needed to bring
the thousands of schools that I’ve
mapped here using math technology into
tens of thousands of schools geo
mentoring is one way for you to share
your mapping technologies with with
schools and the education community
needs your help to foster deep enrich
and model deep and rich learning
experiences maps are the whys of where
maps are more relevant than ever before
will you be a champion for deep thinking
spatial thinking and mapping
technologies in education and society
how do I end this talk I don’t you do
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[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
just about anything else in our modern
world maps are all around us
maps are something that people are
willing to look at long enough to learn
something from and even inspire them to
take action maps engage maps inform maps
inspire if a picture is worth a thousand
words
maps are worth a thousand pictures maps
have always been rich sources of data
communicating a large amount of
information in a small amount of space
whether that space was in the past
stone tablets edged in the dirt on
copper plates on paper film and today in
digital form on our phones on our
laptops on our tablets in our
neighborhoods on our buses in our cars
how many of you have many paper maps at
home I do paper maps are useful but they
are limited we cannot easily add
information to them we cannot easily
update them we cannot easily make them
change scale paper maps are not easily
transported or folded digital maps on
the other hand are more useful mobile
versatile they are revolutionizing the
way that we navigate our world how we
understand our world and how we can
better enable our world for the future
paper maps are still useful in the field
though because technology can fail maps
don’t just tell us where things are milk
maps help help us understand why things
are where they are why do hurricane
occur where they do and have a spatial
pattern that they do what about
landslides are you to the way they are
arranged the slope the way that they’re
facing that’s the aspect what direction
and how far are the floodwaters down the
street from my house right now
ooh real-time information that we can
map what direction are invasive species
such as zebra mussels moving and
changing and why today’s maps folks
aren’t just graphics floating out in
cyberspace they’re tied to a powerful
computer database a Geo database a
geographic information system the US
Department of Labor identified three key
hot fields for the 21st century bio
technologies nanotechnologies and geo
technologies today’s maps are part of
geo technologies geographic information
systems geo technologies also include
includes remote sensing looking at the
word world from space lidar data UAV
drone D geo technologies also includes
web mapping now folks what we’ve got
here with our wise of where
investigations is that geographic
information systems is it’s like an
elevator you just you just use it it’s
it works behind the scenes so GIS
enabled your phone to be assembled with
the correct parts supply chain
management from all over the world
GIS allowed your package to get
delivered to your house today and to
millions of others of houses in the most
fuel-efficient safe manner possible
GIS allowed you to pull up that app on
your phone that says my bus and veil is
going to come down the street in four
minutes and 30 seconds that’s what GIS
can do let’s use a web-based geographic
information system ArcGIS online for
example to look at plate boundaries
earthquakes from the last 30 days and
volcanoes what is the relationships that
you notice here what are the spatial
patterns that you see here this is the
locations of earthquakes related to
their magnitude what is the relationship
between the locations of earthquakes and
their depth hmm
what is the relationship between the
locations of earthquakes and plate
boundaries or volcanoes how many cities
are within 50 kilometers of the plate
boundaries
what about earth earthquakes that are
occurring in the in the oceans do we
care about those yes why possible
tsunamis we live in a 3d world so it
makes sense that we have 3d GIS tools at
our fingertips here I’m using a 3d scene
viewer to extrude earthquakes as
cylinders so why not just because I can
but so that I can understand the
patterns better and do something about
it let’s turn our attention for a moment
to demographic analysis population
characteristics median age at scales
from national to local blue older red
younger why is the population of Maine
older than that of Texas scale matters
at the county level why are the Great
Plains older than that of the West and
here in Vail why is this neighborhood
older than that of the neighborhoods to
the north and to the west we can add
other information some of which is
crowd-sourced citizen science such as
broken sidewalks median income commuting
patterns so that we can plan effective
services to our communities with the
goal of a sustainable community we’re
asking a lot of questions here aren’t we
folks a good map teaches you to ask a
better question what if we were to map
all the attendees attending this Vale
TEDx talk are these the patterns that
you would have expected making and this
is key sharing on the web this map took
me all of five minutes with a web-based
mapping system called ArcGIS online what
would be in your top ten list of serious
challenges facing our world
water quality and quantity biodiversity
loss economic inequality food security
energy migration climate crime all of
these have a location they have a
spatial pattern hence they can be
understood and grappled with with the
use of geographic information systems we
can use our whys of where focal point to
grapple with and solve these global
issues that increasingly affect our
everyday lives the CDC for example uses
GIS not just to treat illness but to
build wellness by applying GIS to it
ever expanding a number of disciplines
the Maps through GIS are becoming the
language of the planet even in your
local community having the zoning people
talking with the parks and recreation
people talking with the Emergency
Management people all around the common
set of map data with the goal being a
smart city but technology and data are
only two parts of this folks for people
to grapple with these global problems
with this spatial perspective requires a
population that can think critically and
spatially that has been immersed in deep
and rich field experiences and that can
think holistically and across
disciplinary boundaries think back to
your last geography class it may bring
up images of mind numbing memorization
what are the principal exports of Peru
what’s the capital of North Dakota or
conversely it may have sparked your
image your your your interest in the
world I hope this was your experience
but if geography is so fundamental to
understanding our world why is geography
so neglected
well our high-stakes subject divided
assessment driven school system leaves
little room for problem-based learning
that GIS and GPS are a part of that’s
what these students and I were doing on
the Santo Domingo Pueblo in a semi-arid
region where rainfall is scarce soil is
a precious resource we were analyzing
the amount of head cut gully erosion
with GIS
but schools and faculty students
administrators are using mapping
technologies in science technology
engineering and mathematics classrooms
in language arts business and other
classrooms your help is needed to bring
the thousands of schools that I’ve
mapped here using math technology into
tens of thousands of schools geo
mentoring is one way for you to share
your mapping technologies with with
schools and the education community
needs your help to foster deep enrich
and model deep and rich learning
experiences maps are the whys of where
maps are more relevant than ever before
will you be a champion for deep thinking
spatial thinking and mapping
technologies in education and society
how do I end this talk I don’t you do
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