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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
As a high school teacher and as governor, Tim Walz has tapped the power of geographic information systems, or GIS, to solve complex problemsGov. Tim Walz has been a champion of geographic information systems.Anadolu via Getty Images

When 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...

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