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## Joseph Kerski highlights the potential of geographic information systems to understand how the world works and to improve it

06/04/2018 |
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The geographer and Education Manager of the Enviromental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), Joseph Kerski, has explained how spatial analysis through digital mapping can transform education and society through better decision making using the geographical perspective in the lecture "The world in your hands: the influence of maps in the information age", organised by the GEO-C project of the Universitat Jaume I.

Kerski has highlighted the importance of cloud-based geographic information systems in order to access data from anywhere. In this sense, the geographer has explained that these systems are more than maps to know where things are because they can help understand the functioning of the world and help improve it. "Geographic information systems are like a nervous system that is behind everything: health, electrical systems or food we consume and can transform cities to make them more efficient", he has assured.

Likewise, he has highlighted the multiple applications that geographic information systems have in areas not necessarily related to technology such as history or education. However, he has also advised to always be critical and not believe anything we find just because it is online.

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