As a high school teacher and as governor, Tim Walz has tapped the power of geographic information systems, or GIS, to solve complex problems
- Written by Marcia Moreno Báez, Research professor of geospatial technology, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Gov. Tim Walz has been a champion of geographic information systems.Anadolu via Getty ImagesWhen Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz first learned about geographic information systems, or GIS, as a high school geography teacher in the 1990s, he didn’t need much convincing about how useful it would be.
“I said to my colleagues, ‘This is going...