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I tell people , I work in Gis , either

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you get a blank stare or you get

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someone who's like , oh , that's really

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cool because they know what it is . I'm

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Joel Porterfield . I'm a geographer in

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the Geospatial section and I work for

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the US Army Corps of Engineers in the

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Saint Paul district , GIS . It stands

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for geographic information systems . Um

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It's basically working with a lot of

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geographic data . It's also um

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producing maps . Um either PDF maps ,

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paper maps or online maps that are

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interactive . Any , anything that's

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related to where things are , is

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important to know for , for projects .

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It's collecting attributes of what is

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in a certain place . Whenever the , the

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longer I've worked in GIS , the more

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people are starting to at least have

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had some experience using the online

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dashboards or online math that someone

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made . So they recognize the , the

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final product that is put out a lot of

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times . But maybe a lot of people don't

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understand what goes on behind the

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scenes to get there . They might not

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understand that that's geography . Um

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So trying to get people to understand

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that , get more people to understand

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that , trying to get people to see how

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geography affects them in their lives ,

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in the real world . Um , those are all

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goals of GIS Day . We help bring the

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geographic data to life . That's a good

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way of putting it .