AP Human Geography / Unit 1: Thinking Geographically
1.3 The Power of Geographic Data
Notes
Geographic data help governments, businesses and individuals make decisions: planning schools, emergency response, store locations, disease tracking.
Practice
Mapping where disease cases cluster helps officials:
Spatial decisions.
A business uses population density data to:
Location decisions.
John Snow's 1854 cholera map showed:
Early spatial analysis.
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