Laura Jean Palmer-Moloney (founder): “When I was an Assistant Professor in the Geography Department at SUNY-Oneonta, many of my students were learning to use Geographic Information Systems (GIS), like ESRI’s ARC, for managing, analyzing, and visualizing data. Though they gained technical know-how, it pained me to see the lack of answers for … And now what? questions that they had to show.

In spring of 2002, I designed a GIS Applications course, and in summer of 2002, I started my independent consulting business, Visual Teaching Technologies (VTT). My goal then and now is to use visually displayed geographic data (maps and graphics, along with infographics, photos, and videos) to drive decision-making rather than to serve as pretty and/or intimidating slides in death-by-PowerPoint presentations.This is what became VTT’s GEONarrative approach.”

Laura Jean Palmer-Moloney (founder): “As a geographer who cut her teeth on ESRI ARCView 3.2, I appreciate the way that geographic science software tools help us understand and collaboration when confronted by earth-based challenges. I agree that GIS software ‘helps people reach a common goal: to gain actionable intelligence from all types of data.’ But GIS visualizations do not come with Calls To Action. What happens to the GIS products created?”

GIS helps users understand patterns, relationships, and geographic context, but it does not provide dialogue, discussion, and guidance about what to do with the maps, graphs, and displays it creates.

The GEONarrative is all about putting content into context, making connections, and drawing conclusions that lead to informed dialogue, discussion, and decisions. We use GIS but our work is an answer to the “so what?” for using GIS.

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