With Vanessa Schneider, who has been with Google, based in Mountain View, California, for more than two years, working on outreach for Google Maps.
Google Maps and Google Earth are great tools to help you explore the world, whether it’s walking along the Grand Canyon using Street View, flying over Vatican City with Earth’s 3D imagery, or navigating around Japan’s Haneda Airport using indoor maps. Yet these tools also provide a powerful platform for storytelling, visualizing, and making sense of data.
This visual presentation will look at how people across industries — from nonprofits to academia to media — are using maps to make an impact, including the Surui people in Brazil tracking deforestation, Google Crisis Response making emergency information accessible during Hurricane Sandy, and a professor in British Columbia using maps to stop school closures. There will also be talk about how an individual or group can start telling personal stories with Google’s mapping tools.
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