Today people from all around Wisconsin will gather at the UW-Madison to show off high-tech mapping skills that tell communities everything from the location of fire hydrants to crime patterns. As someone who works with geographic information systems for the UW- Madison, Karen Tuerk, says she never had a job she could easily describe to her mother. She says very simply, GIS is a way to make maps, but â??itâ??s a lot more than that.â? (9th item.)
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