Hello! I’m Ariauna Hickman. I’m from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. I’m a sophomore, majoring in Pre-Professional Zoology on the Pre-Veterinary track. I am also double minoring in business and chemistry. A quick fun fact is that I have a Great Dane who is a goofball.
After reading Schuurman ch. 1, it is clear to see how important GIS is in many different career choices. I like how it can be used for many different things. The part where it mentions how municipalities use it for things like affects on highways, however, confuses me a bit. How are they able to tell how it affects those areas? Now that I read the next page, my question was answered. It is to see how it would work with landscapes and housing. It is crazy to think about how more than 50% of our brains neurons are used for visual intelligence. No wonder GIS is so important. It is like a visual way of seeing geographical locations. The visuality is used as a means to be able to make it more accessible to see the patial awareness of areas.
After looking at a few different ways that GIS is used. I found how it can be used for video games. For example, Watch Dogs 2 usesGIS in the way that it is open world. They made it highly detailed and realistic with the urban planning, architecture, and digital infrastructure. GIS is also used in Pokemon GO. People go around using a geographical map that matches their location to go and catch different pokemon. It is a blend between the physical and digital world.
Geographic Information Systems, Intersections, Iowa Computer Science Education Week 2023, Technology, Video Games, Video Games and GIS, Wael Alhaj