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GIS with a touch of activism

Posted by Dave Smith On 12/17/2005 09:53:00 AM 0 comments

A new book out from ESRI Press echoes the mantra of organizations like Sierra Club- encouraging the use of GIS at a local level of granularity to solve global problems.

Think Globally, Act Regionally: GIS and Data Visualization for Social Science and Public Policy Research , by Richard LeGates, ISBN: 1-58948-124-0

http://gis.esri.com/esripress/display/index.cfm?fuseaction=display&websiteID=101&moduleID=1

It's always great to see practical applications, particularly geared toward solving issues of stewardship and raising consciousness of issues beyond just a local level.

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Originally from Massachusetts, I grew up in Germany during ten years of the Cold War.
Since then, I call Pennsylvania home, by way of El Paso, Boston, Philadelphia and Washington.
I began in the Surveying field right out of high school, and while getting my B.Sc at Penn State, pursued a wide variety of academic interests, from surveying and photogrammetry to physics and civil engineering to computer science, and began to get involved in the still-fledgling fields of GIS and Remote Sensing, including a student GIS project for the City of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Over the past 20 years I have fused all of these disciplines, having obtained my license as a Professional Land Surveyor, followed by my Professional Engineer license, with my longstanding interest in computer science, to develop and deliver a wide variety of applications geared toward support of surveying, CAD, GIS, engineering and environmental science.
I recently joined the US Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Environmental Information, where I am national program manager for EPA's Facility Registry System.
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