Something that i'm learning

Hi bloggers 

Today i’m going to talk to you about something that i am learning in my career as a geographer. In geography the water and its location it’s very important to know how the territory has to be planificated and also to understand the configuration of itself. In Geography, there’s something called SIG, that means Systems of Geographic Information which are used to represent the territory, commonly we use them to make maps. With the SIG, in the subjects that i have this semester, i’ve learned to locate the flows, directions and, in essence, where is the whole hydrographic net in an specific place. Among other things, i’m learning a lot about Hydrography and how to represent it so like this, for example, people who don’t know about this stuff can understand this through maps. In the beginning it was a little hard to learn, but with time, i’ve become a master in maps (not too much in Hydrology yet).  Indeed, it started as an assignment but now i enjoy a lot doing maps because i think that the graphic part it’s really important to comunicate, and i would say that also the easiest way, more tan words.

In the future i hope that these tools that i’m learning can be useful to make a real change. I would like to have and make a good use of all this knowledge; with maps it's possible to reach to more people with science, who don’t understand the technical or scientific language. Geographers have the tools to make an easier and a better comunication through maps but, let's say it, the geographic knowledge it’s underrated. There are a lot of things that can be explained using the geographic and feminist perspective combinated, and people still don’t accept it. They should know that we are very useful; we are more than cities and capitals, and our knowledge, perspective and tools such as maps are our sharpest weapons.

PS: I borrowed the picture of the book from Yves Lacoste