GIS?  What is it?  Well, it stands for Geographic Information System and you can find it almost everywhere now.  GIS is a great tool that provides the ability to capture, store, and display data spatially.  It is way more than a pretty map, as it helps planners, public officials, and governmental organizations make decisions based on spatial patterns and relationships of data.  If you wanted to know how many Maple Trees were in your neighborhood, you would have to go out and collect that data and place it geographically in GIS and now you will know how many Maple Trees are on your street.  Just google COVID19 and you will find links and links to data and maps that show the COVID19 pandemic.  Listen in to this episode as we discuss how we get data, how data is collected, and how it is used to tell a story through the power of GIS.

Who’s on it?

Jared Perry
Sam Tuten
Bret Allphin

Resources
COVID19 Data Maps for reference to GIS in the news from Johns Hopkins University of Medicine
Census & American Community Survey Data
How to Lie with Maps by Mark Monmonier (Book)
esri / ArcGIS
Ohio Data – OGRIP
Ohio URISA

Recorded

August 2020

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