{"id":710122,"date":"2024-10-29T19:59:24","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T02:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=arcnews&p=710122"},"modified":"2024-10-29T12:44:29","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T19:44:29","slug":"a-book-that-explains-gis-to-people-who-dont-do-gis","status":"publish","type":"arcnews","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcnews\/a-book-that-explains-gis-to-people-who-dont-do-gis","title":{"rendered":"A Book That Explains GIS to People Who Don\u2019t Do GIS"},"author":5752,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10892,282062,472991],"tags":[475822,490422,176332,271,19312],"arcnews_issues":[490712],"class_list":["post-710122","arcnews","type-arcnews","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esri-press","category-geography","category-gis","tag-geographic-approach","tag-geography-of-hope","tag-gis-user-community","tag-mapping","tag-users","arcnews_issues-fall-2024","arcnews_sections-gis-people"],"acf":{"short_description":"The Geography of Hope covers how people around the world use \u201cthe most important technology you\u2019ve probably never heard of.\u201d","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":"","file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","layout":"standard","image_reference":null,"image_reference_figure":"","spotlight_image":null,"section_title":"","spotlight_name":"","position":"Center","content":"Editor\u2019s note: Former National Audubon Society CEO and award-winning writer and photographer David Yarnold traveled the world to meet people who are effecting change using what he calls \u201cthe most important technology you\u2019ve probably never heard of.\u201d The Geography of Hope: Real-Life Stories of Optimists Mapping a Better World<\/em> puts these human faces to GIS in a way that hasn\u2019t been done before, revealing the GIS that\u2019s all around us all the time.","snippet":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"\u201cI wish more people got how important GIS really is.\u201d\r\n\u201cI wish my boss got GIS.\u201d\r\n\u201cMy friends and family don\u2019t understand what GIS is or what I do.\u201d\r\n\u201cI wish my students saw the potential impact they could have.\u201d"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"I\u2019ve heard GIS professionals lament how obscure geospatial technology is since I attended my first Esri User Conference (Esri UC) in 2011. That\u2019s why I wrote The Geography of Hope<\/em>. I wanted to write a book for you\u2014one that you could give to the people around you who don\u2019t get what you do."},{"acf_fc_layout":"gallery","gallery_images":[710152,710162,710172]},{"acf_fc_layout":"gallery","gallery_images":[710182,710192]},{"acf_fc_layout":"gallery","gallery_images":[710202,710212]},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"The Geography of Hope<\/em> describes GIS technology tools but focuses primarily on the extraordinary things people do with it. Although GIS can be \u201ccomplicated to explain\u201d or, perhaps, \u201cdoesn\u2019t feel real to people\u201d\u2014thoughts I heard from attendees at the 2024 Esri UC\u2014people around the world accomplish incredible feats with it, whether that\u2019s using AI to reshape a national intelligence program or employing maps to give voters their fair shake in local politics.\r\n\r\nI hope this book makes you feel appreciated and understood for the work you do. It really does change the world."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":710222,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"
\r\n\r\nThe Geography of Hope: Real-Life Stories of Optimists Mapping a Better World<\/em>, 252 pages, is available. Ebook ISBN: 9781589487420 and paperback ISBN: 9781589487413. Want to buy the book? Explore purchasing options<\/a>.\r\n\r\nGet excerpts from the book, and more, by exploring the ArcGIS StoryMaps story<\/a>.\r\n\r\n
\r\n\r\nAll photos by David Yarnold. 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