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Hello everyone, and
welcome to Fundamentals of GIS.
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In this lesson I'm going to give
you a brief introduction to GIS but
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not an overly technical one.
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We're going to focus, instead,
on why GIS is really exciting and
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why you might want to
learn how to work with it.
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In the next lesson will give you a more
concrete understanding of GIS, but for
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now I just want you to get excited.
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This lecture is safe to skip
if you're in a rush, but
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if you stick around to the end I hope I
can make you as excited about GIS as I am.
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To introduce GIS I'd like to
tell you how I came across it.
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When I was in school I was sort
of an amateur software developer.
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I was thinking small at this point, but
still thought I had an idea that would be
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useful at least to a few
thousand people or something.
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I mentioned my roommate, and
he said, that sounds a lot like GIS.
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In a sort of matter of fact way like,
yeah, that's a good idea and
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they already have it.
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Looking it up, I discovered just how
important this software already was in
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shaping the modern world and
how many disciplines already rely on it.
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So much of what we interact with matters
in part because of where it is or
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what's around it.
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And people had been building
these types of tools for decades.
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That's what I want to show you right now.
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The many ways to understand the world and
your own work in it with GIS.
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is to combine this information about our
road networks with population information.
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And use it to figure out where to
put resources, such as warehouses or
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storefronts for your business, so
that they're accessible by customers.
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GIS can also help us solve other
types of routing problems.
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A classic one in my line of work is,
where does the water go?
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We know water flows downhill, but
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we need data to tell us where
downhill is on a landscape scale.
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Once we have that information for
an area, we can figure out
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where rivers form by figuring out the
common locations that water runoff occurs.
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This can help in everything
from determining flood risk and
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choosing town locations, to figuring out
how much water is available for an area.
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A utility might take that information and
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In the county or state government,
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an economist may be interested in what
crops the farmer is are choosing to grow
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in order to accurately estimate
economic output across regions.
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They can use this to determine what kinds
of jobs and training are needed in a given
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area, understand how the value of that
land is changing when production changes,
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predict tax revenue, and
direct funds for infrastructure.
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That data's also passed off to members
of the emergency management agencies.
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They keep track of incidents of floods,
tornadoes, hurricanes and
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earthquakes, and this information
can help them estimate and
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prevent human and economic losses
from these types of disasters.
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Even with all these stories,
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we're still only scratching the surface
of what you can do with GIS.
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There are many directions that
information can take you.
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One direction is what you learn in this
class, which is to analyze location data.
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I do think that it will become so
important to be able to analyze
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location data that the next generation
will learn the basics of GIS
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the way that my generation
learned how to use spreadsheets.
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Again, I think all this
is really exciting and
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I hope it illustrates that
GIS isn't just one thing.
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It's a general set of technologies and
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a way to think about data that open
up exciting, new possibilities.
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I'm even more excited about GIS now
than I was when I thought I came
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up with idea many years ago.
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It's getting more interesting and
more powerful every year.
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