Working with and living in spatially complex environments may help delay cognitive decline, though more research is needed.
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Women have moved from mapmakers using their bodies to depict maps to being leaders shaping the field of cartography.
Gov. Tim Walz used geographic information systems as a schoolteacher. How will that experience come into play if he and Kamala Harris win the White House in November?
There are a lot of opportunities in applying geospatial information system to aid COVID-19 response and other outbreaks.
By matching narratives from North Korean escapees with Google Earth images, a fuller picture is emerging of abuses in North Korea.
We tend to think of archaeological sites as dead silent – empty ruins left by past cultures. But this isn’t how the people who lived in and used these sites would have experienced them.
Social media is notoriously unsuitable for population studies, but these researchers have found a way to make the bias work in their favour.
On printed maps, piling on the detail risks obscuring the meaning. This new digital map is really more of a database from which users can create different versions that match their own interests.
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Registered Professional Archaeologist, PhD Candidate, University at Albany, State University of New York
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