"A good map helps you to ask a better question." Joseph Kerski

Joseph is a geographer who believes that mapping and geotechnologies can transform education and society through better decisionmaking using geography. He served for 22 years as geographer and cartographer at NOAA, the US Census Bureau, and the US Geological Survey. He serves as Education Manager for Esri, where he focuses on GISbased curriculum development, research in the effectiveness of GIS in education, professional development for educators, communicating the need for geographic skills, tools, and perspectives. Joseph is active in creating and teaching online courses in spatial thinking and geotechnologies. He wrote Interpreting Our World, Spatial Mathematics, The Essentials of the Environment, Tribal GIS, and The GIS Guide to Public Domain Data. He writes for 3 blogs. He has created over 4,000 videos.

#whysofwhere, #geography, #mapping, #GIS, #spatialthinking, #geotechnologies, #educationneedsmaps, #mapguru This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx