WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.750 --> 00:00:01.583 Hey, everyone. 2 00:00:01.583 --> 00:00:05.160 So this week we're gonna be talking about maps. 3 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:07.320 Now, some of you are here 4 00:00:07.320 --> 00:00:10.650 because you're taking the GIS Program. 5 00:00:10.650 --> 00:00:11.880 You're learning how to create maps, 6 00:00:11.880 --> 00:00:13.920 like, that's literally the entire program, 7 00:00:13.920 --> 00:00:15.372 what it's about, right? (chuckles) 8 00:00:15.372 --> 00:00:18.150 So you know how to create maps. 9 00:00:18.150 --> 00:00:19.830 I'm not gonna teach you anything new about maps. 10 00:00:19.830 --> 00:00:22.260 In fact, I'm not even here to teach you about making maps, 11 00:00:22.260 --> 00:00:23.790 any of you. 12 00:00:23.790 --> 00:00:26.430 But what I'm here to remind you of is 13 00:00:26.430 --> 00:00:30.990 that maps aren't just allowing us to understand the nature 14 00:00:30.990 --> 00:00:33.120 of a geographic place. 15 00:00:33.120 --> 00:00:35.280 Maps serve many, many different purposes. 16 00:00:35.280 --> 00:00:37.290 There are all kinds of different types of maps, 17 00:00:37.290 --> 00:00:39.720 and you know that if you're a GIS student, right? 18 00:00:39.720 --> 00:00:41.340 There are navigational maps, 19 00:00:41.340 --> 00:00:43.110 there are maps for businesses to figure out 20 00:00:43.110 --> 00:00:45.930 where they should place, you know, new chains, 21 00:00:45.930 --> 00:00:48.270 you know, locations for their chain store, 22 00:00:48.270 --> 00:00:50.520 et cetera, et cetera, times a million, right? 23 00:00:51.780 --> 00:00:53.670 But what I do wanna remind you all is 24 00:00:53.670 --> 00:00:56.250 that the techniques you use 25 00:00:56.250 --> 00:00:59.580 to create different types of maps are, kind of, similar. 26 00:00:59.580 --> 00:01:01.200 They overlap quite a bit. 27 00:01:01.200 --> 00:01:04.380 For those of you who are not GIS students, listen, 28 00:01:04.380 --> 00:01:06.480 you don't know how to create a map. It doesn't matter. 29 00:01:06.480 --> 00:01:08.430 You use maps all the time, right? 30 00:01:08.430 --> 00:01:10.350 I would love if we were in a classroom, 31 00:01:10.350 --> 00:01:12.360 I would ask for a show of hands 32 00:01:12.360 --> 00:01:17.360 to tell me how many of you used a map in the last 24 hours. 33 00:01:17.370 --> 00:01:18.540 And these days, 34 00:01:18.540 --> 00:01:21.630 unlike in 1972 when it might have been more rare, 35 00:01:21.630 --> 00:01:23.040 we're all on our maps all day long, right? 36 00:01:23.040 --> 00:01:25.260 We open up Google Maps to get everywhere we're going. 37 00:01:25.260 --> 00:01:29.340 So we use maps, some of us create maps. 38 00:01:29.340 --> 00:01:32.490 Data visualization, thematic mapping, 39 00:01:32.490 --> 00:01:33.810 is a slightly different thing 40 00:01:33.810 --> 00:01:36.120 than creating navigational maps, 41 00:01:36.120 --> 00:01:39.090 but as I'm gonna talk about, there's a ton of overlap. 42 00:01:39.090 --> 00:01:40.770 The most important thing is knowing 43 00:01:40.770 --> 00:01:42.333 what your map is meant to do. 44 00:01:43.650 --> 00:01:44.640 By the way, 45 00:01:44.640 --> 00:01:48.960 just because you have geographic information 46 00:01:48.960 --> 00:01:51.990 does not mean you should create a map. 47 00:01:51.990 --> 00:01:54.720 A map only should exist 48 00:01:54.720 --> 00:01:58.140 if that blend of geography and data 49 00:01:58.140 --> 00:01:59.550 actually is gonna help your audience do 50 00:01:59.550 --> 00:02:02.610 whatever it is they're supposed to do with this information. 51 00:02:02.610 --> 00:02:04.260 So keep that in mind. 52 00:02:04.260 --> 00:02:07.200 And another short week, a very quick lesson today, 53 00:02:07.200 --> 00:02:09.600 but, hopefully, you'll enjoy it, 54 00:02:09.600 --> 00:02:10.530 and I think you'll have a lot of fun 55 00:02:10.530 --> 00:02:12.263 with the homework this week as well.