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Guest lecture GIS course 16 April 2021 Rienk Kuipers Gemeente Stadskanaal
Goals of this lecture • 1) Why should you care about GIS? • 2) How does the Dutch government / Stadskanaal make use of GIS? • 3) Personal reflection on career opportunities in GIS for geographers and urban planners
John Snow’s 1854 London cholera outbreak map
Most if not all of you are using geo-information on a daily basis. Let’s use Google Maps as an example. Groningen.
This too is Google Maps 2021. The town of Ippy, Central African Republic. Population (est.): 16,500.
Haiti, 2010
Red Cross Projects
Ippy on Open Street Maps
Compare Google Maps to the Base Registration Adresses and Buildings. Excerpt from website Kadaster.
What can we learn from this? • Geo-information is a tool to make sense of the world • Geo-information saves lives, in 1854, in 2010, and on ... • Quality of geodata is crucial • Completeness – Correctness – Up-to-dateness
Goals of this lecture • 1) Why should you care about GIS? • 2) How does the Dutch government / Stadskanaal make use of GIS? • 3) Personal reflection on career opportunities in GIS for geographers and urban planners
Basisregistraties / Base registrations
Web links • https://www.pdok.nl/viewer/ • https://bagviewer.kadaster.nl/ • https://www.verbeterdekaart.nl/ • https://streetsmart.cyclomedia.com/ • https://stadskanaal.maps.arcgis.com/
Goals of this lecture • 1) Why should you care about GIS? • 2) How does the Dutch government / Stadskanaal make use of GIS? • 3) Personal reflection on career opportunities in GIS for geographers and urban planners
A career in GIS • Rienk Kuipers (1990) • Alumnus Faculty of Spatial Sciences • 2013 GIS teaching assistent FSS • 2015 GIS specialist NEO Amersfoort • 2017 GIS specialist Stadskanaal • 2020 Head of Geo- information / Taxation Stadskanaal
My career advice – > try to become a ‘T’

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Guest Lecture GIS Course Rienk Kuipers 16 04 2021

  • 1. Guest lecture GIS course 16 April 2021 Rienk Kuipers Gemeente Stadskanaal
  • 2. Goals of this lecture • 1) Why should you care about GIS? • 2) How does the Dutch government / Stadskanaal make use of GIS? • 3) Personal reflection on career opportunities in GIS for geographers and urban planners
  • 3. John Snow’s 1854 London cholera outbreak map
  • 4. Most if not all of you are using geo-information on a daily basis. Let’s use Google Maps as an example. Groningen.
  • 5. This too is Google Maps 2021. The town of Ippy, Central African Republic. Population (est.): 16,500.
  • 8. Ippy on Open Street Maps
  • 9. Compare Google Maps to the Base Registration Adresses and Buildings. Excerpt from website Kadaster.
  • 10. What can we learn from this? • Geo-information is a tool to make sense of the world • Geo-information saves lives, in 1854, in 2010, and on ... • Quality of geodata is crucial • Completeness – Correctness – Up-to-dateness
  • 11. Goals of this lecture • 1) Why should you care about GIS? • 2) How does the Dutch government / Stadskanaal make use of GIS? • 3) Personal reflection on career opportunities in GIS for geographers and urban planners
  • 12. Basisregistraties / Base registrations
  • 13. Web links • https://www.pdok.nl/viewer/ • https://bagviewer.kadaster.nl/ • https://www.verbeterdekaart.nl/ • https://streetsmart.cyclomedia.com/ • https://stadskanaal.maps.arcgis.com/
  • 14. Goals of this lecture • 1) Why should you care about GIS? • 2) How does the Dutch government / Stadskanaal make use of GIS? • 3) Personal reflection on career opportunities in GIS for geographers and urban planners
  • 15. A career in GIS • Rienk Kuipers (1990) • Alumnus Faculty of Spatial Sciences • 2013 GIS teaching assistent FSS • 2015 GIS specialist NEO Amersfoort • 2017 GIS specialist Stadskanaal • 2020 Head of Geo- information / Taxation Stadskanaal
  • 16. My career advice – > try to become a ‘T’