{"id":942851,"date":"2020-07-22T09:56:50","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T16:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&p=942851"},"modified":"2020-10-26T09:56:55","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T16:56:55","slug":"walking-across-the-world-with-paul-salopek","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/story-maps\/mapping\/walking-across-the-world-with-paul-salopek","title":{"rendered":"Out of Eden: walking, mapping, and learning with Paul Salopek"},"author":7221,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[22941],"tags":[398132,420872,706371],"industry":[],"product":[36611,380802],"class_list":["post-942851","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","tag-arcgis-storymaps","tag-national-geographic","tag-storymaps","product-story-maps","product-arcgis-storymaps"],"acf":{"short_description":"Esri collaborates on a series of ArcGIS StoryMaps with master storyteller and \"slow journalist\" Paul Salopek, a National Geographic explorer.","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Seven years ago, journalist Paul Salopek set out on the Out of Eden Walk<\/a>, a multi-year trek across the planet, tracing the human diaspora from Africa’s rift valley to the southern tip of the Americas.<\/p>\n

My team and I have been fortunate to collaborate with Paul on three efforts, the latest of which is a multimedia story called The River Roads of India<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It took Paul about a year and a half to walk the breadth of the teeming subcontinent, during which he became acutely aware of a looming and potentially catastrophic water crisis. Due to a complex combination of factors, including India’s burgeoning population, misguided engineering projects, and government mismanagement, the nation is exceeding the capacity of its great river systems \u2014 Indus, Ganges, and Brahmaputra \u2014 to sustain it.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":942911,"id":942911,"title":"","filename":"River-roads.jpg","filesize":142520,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/07\/River-roads.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/story-maps\/mapping\/walking-across-the-world-with-paul-salopek\/river-roads","alt":"","author":"7221","description":"","caption":"The river roads of India by Paul Salopek","name":"river-roads","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":942851,"date":"2020-07-22 15:37:29","modified":"2020-07-22 15:38:53","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1080,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/07\/River-roads-213x200.jpg","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/07\/River-roads.jpg","medium-width":464,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/07\/River-roads.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":432,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/07\/River-roads.jpg","large-width":1920,"large-height":1080,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/07\/River-roads-1536x864.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":864,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/07\/River-roads.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1080,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/07\/River-roads-826x465.jpg","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/07\/River-roads.jpg","wide_image-width":1920,"wide_image-height":1080}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/storymaps.arcgis.com\/stories\/42416c676a1a4df6b187b44cebdcf0bc"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Journalism in low gear<\/h2>\n

Salopek, a two-time Pulitzer prizewinner, is practicing what he calls slow journalism<\/a>. \u201cSlow journalism allows me to make hidden connections that you miss when you travel too fast,” he says. “The world is complicated, and we require more than just short bits of information.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no wonder that Paul loves maps. Maps<\/a> are another means by which hidden connections reveal themselves. In a complicated world, maps unveil patterns and relationships that can, one hopes, lead to new insights and steer policymakers toward wise and informed decisions.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve often spoken and written about how microcosm and macrocosm can be useful storytelling devices: How a personal, local encounter or anecdote can be a gateway to much larger phenomena. Combining Paul\u2019s on-the-ground observations with thematic maps is a formula for powerful storytelling.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":942991,"id":942991,"title":"Silk maker","filename":"Silk-maker.jpg","filesize":203755,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Silk-maker.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/story-maps\/mapping\/walking-across-the-world-with-paul-salopek\/silk-maker","alt":"","author":"7221","description":"","caption":"","name":"silk-maker","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":942851,"date":"2020-07-22 15:46:32","modified":"2020-07-22 15:46:32","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1265,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Silk-maker-213x200.jpg","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Silk-maker.jpg","medium-width":396,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Silk-maker.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":506,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Silk-maker.jpg","large-width":1639,"large-height":1080,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Silk-maker-1536x1012.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1012,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Silk-maker.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1265,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Silk-maker-706x465.jpg","card_image-width":706,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Silk-maker-1639x1080.jpg","wide_image-width":1639,"wide_image-height":1080}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.org\/projects\/out-of-eden-walk\/media\/2018-02-on-foot-in-the-path-of-the-silk-road\/"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Walking the Silk Road<\/h2>\n

The first of our joint efforts was On Foot in the Path of the Silk Road<\/a>. In the story, Paul ruminates on the historical impact of the Silk Road as he roughly parallels its route across the parched terrain of central Asia. His image of a worker spinning threads in Uzbekistan evokes centuries of silk making, while the accompanying maps weave patterns of trade across the vastness of Asia.<\/p>\n

In Exploring with GIS: A StoryMap on the Silk Road<\/a> \u2014 a video co-produced by Esri and the National Geographic Society \u2014 Salopek introduces students to his journey and the power of storytelling with maps. The video is part of an Out of Eden Walk resources package<\/a> available on the National Geographic Society\u2019s education website.<\/p>\n

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This material represents the initial stages of a larger partnership effort between Esri and the National Geographic Society to foster spatial literacy, and regard for our planet, in millions of young people.<\/p>\n

Parents and teachers can find more GIS-related educational resources for home and remote learning through the following sites:<\/p>\n