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GIS in its most simple terms is

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it's the science of space it's defining

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uh where we are and putting detail to

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that . The goal is to put it into

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something that's way more um possible

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that you can see um in a second or a

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minute or so that you get a one screen

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visual like they say a picture says

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1000 words . You know , years ago it

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was the it was . You know it was kind

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of a simplified notion of it . Well ,

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you're taking a , a normal database and

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you're applying , you know , a point

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line or a polygon to it . You're saying

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here's where this particular record

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exists in , in space and time , um .

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And now you know we're taking that to

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really the nth degree . Almost

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everything in modern times is to some

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degree a spatial database , you know ,

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everything has some spatial component

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nowadays , so we've . We've opened up

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the frontier now . Representation of a

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lot of data and uh processing it down

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and being able to make uh data driven

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um decisions quickly . Um , a lot of

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the data I'm doing here is also a lot

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of um situational awareness . Um , and ,

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and , and it's complexities on top of

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complexities . I mean just the . Just

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the fact that we're sitting here in the

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Appalachians , uh , the fact that we

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have hill country , we have flats , we

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have just a , a , a metric ton of

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different waterway sizes and shapes and

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varieties and not to mention the . The

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damage that occurred to those , you

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know , you have , you have waterways

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that float a certain way for for

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decades that have been and sometimes

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completely reshaped by the events that

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occurred . Uh , it's , it's so

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meaningful work . I'm working the

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emergencies , you know that you're

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having an impact , um , like from that

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day and that it's being used and you're

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helping the communities . It means a

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lot . It makes me passionate about

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working .