Anne-Laure Freant

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Anne-Laure is a passionate geographer who has been working and traveling in France, New Zealand and Canada. After exploring the business school world, the academic universe and experimenting what it's like to work in a travel start-up, she now works on her geography blog: geo-pickmeup.com and contributes to the geoawesome project

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Building Together an Open Collection Of Historical Maps: Discover the Wikimaps project

Anne-Laure Freant - July 29, 2014 0

The biggest challenge of our times regarding geographic information is to process and organize a massive amount of data from various sources, with various dates and especially, formats. Big...

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Insights into the 2014 GEOSPATIAL WORLD FORUM

Anne-Laure Freant - April 8, 2014 2

Happening from the 5th to the 9th May in Geneva, Switzerland, the 2014 Geospatial World Forum is a major woldwide event for anyone involved or...

Events

Attend GeoSkill Project Workshop in Netherlands

Anne-Laure Freant - March 26, 2014 0

Initiated by the Dutch and the Geo Employment Market Foundation (SAGEO), the GeoSkill Plus Project is an ambitious project aiming to match labour market needs...

Geography

Useful Geography: What Geographers Can Bring to the Table

Anne-Laure Freant - March 17, 2014 0

While some geographers find it hard to demonstrate the incredible potentials of their field to the public (in one hand), there is a growing curiosity...

Geography

Why Leaders Should Learn Geography

Anne-Laure Freant - February 4, 2014 4

Kirk Goldsberry mentioned in "The Importance of Spatial Thinking" that "Harvard eradicated its Geography Department in the 1940's, and many universities followed suit". Indeed,...

Maps

The Hidden Meanings of Maps: Between the Lines of Legend

Anne-Laure Freant - January 7, 2014 2

Most cartographers neglect map legends. They put a lot of efforts in the projection and scale choice, data and pretty colors selection, but then...

Maps

The Hidden Meanings of Maps: Design and Colors

Anne-Laure Freant - December 31, 2013 1

Along with projection choice and scale options, design and colors have a huge impact on how well, and to who, the map will carry the appropriate message....

Geography

The Hidden Meanings of Maps – Why Scale Matters

Anne-Laure Freant - December 23, 2013 2

Projection is one first step. Then comes the scale choice of what will be the limits of what matters in the trend or phenomena you want to show. More...

Geography

The Hidden Meanings of Maps – The Projection Choice

Anne-Laure Freant - December 17, 2013 9

By showing the territories from above, the cartographer takes an artificial “objective” point of view. He stops being just a “regular inhabitant” who lives...

Geography

How Can Geography Literacy Be So Bad At The Age Of Google Earth?

Anne-Laure Freant - December 5, 2013 13

National Geographic calls Geography Literacy: “the ability to use geographic understanding and geographic reasoning to make far-reaching decisions”. It relies on three conceptual pillars: Interaction:...

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