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Big time #geography fail! But not the first time...see reply for more from CTV, BBC, Daily Show and Taste Nova Scotia. thanks @CBC @cbc this geography is laughing, not. Maybe it's another Lake Ontario game? Or worse, Greenland!
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Besides the classic US Dept of State's recent Africa map fiasco....others have had a go at it.
ALT CTV map shows Nova Scotia Labelled where New Brunswick is.
ALT Taste Nova Scotia both reversed the province (mirror image) and placed it in a bad orientation
ALT BBC Vaccine Rollout map made a mess of city location in England and used Surrey as a city label.
ALT Daily show has map of California labelled with San Francisco near Santa Barbara.
Geographers seek solution to student ignorance of the globe
Seems not much changed since we did our bit in 2013.
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That Alliance and the entire sector would be very helpful right now because it would support the work I'm doing with others (international effort) to support, defend and enhance geography (and geospatial data & tech) in higher education AND k-12. That'll take....
..hip replacements and the RAF and not GIS. (thanks to Alex Miller for getting us the table at the RCGS dinner). And he signed the declaration!
Roger passed away 3 months after that.
Re-reading "Collaborative Geospatial Strategy for Canada: Modern Geospatial Infrastructure for Resilient Communities and Informed Decision-making" from Canadian Council on Geomatics. Thread starting. In middle of a project for geography in higherEd...but
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because the strategy keeps saying geospatial in the context of geomatics when the world is wider than that, it's moved on, it's spread into sectors who never say they were geomatics - which is a valid term - but the strategy has to speak to the full contributions and potential..
..the US lobsters want to get out, get going. Canadians? Well, whenever one tries to get out, two pull them back in. We do great things. We're doing great things. And we have done great things. But the community has to let itself out of the pot and decide...
Strategy, I get the sense their worry is that would be "have been" ..past tense... and I wonder why? Maybe it's the old joke about two pots for boiling lobster. One pot is US lobster and the other Canadian. But you have only one lid. So which pot do you cover? The US one. Why?..
..some GIS programs have been cut or are under review for potential cuts.... I also worry (sad) because when I ask folks who invented GIS (or radarsat, etc) few know. Few know we were leaders in surveying and mapping! Pound for pound we've been leaders. According to the CCOG
..only a concern that more people will spend more time doing the same work only to meet with the same disappointments. And my own worry right now is that geography is under attack in higher education worldwide because higher ed is under attack (for $$ and ideological reasons)...
Finally, there's a lesson Roger Tomlinson taught me. "If you're going to do something big, then do it. But avoid reinventing the wheel by talking to the people who built the first wheels." Now...to be blunt (well, more than above)..and very clear.. there's no sour grapes here..
strategy this is a "pivotal moment" for Canada because of "geospatial systems"...but it's beyond that. In 2016 we made the case that nothing can happen - in any other sector - before we do our work. We showed the geospatial sector was worth 1.1% of GDP in 2013. That was equal to
..but in the public forum someone in the audience raised the economic study in reply to the panel suggestion that the sector was having a hard time getting traction on the issues (hence the strategy) and there was no way they found fund any studies...but according to the...
..which is why we borrowed the surveyors 1998 word "alliance" (shout out to Dave Coleman and John McLaughlin both from UNB for that advice). Now, to be fair, maybe the CCOG strategy did use the past research and/or talk to the people who did the heavy lifting on the same issues..