August 25, 2025, Planning Board Special Meeting Transcript - WEHI

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 7 just ask you a few questions to qualify as an expert. I mentioned earlier you are on the faculty at Rowan University, is that correct? A. Correct. Q. What is your academic position? A. I am a professor of geography and I am the director of the undergraduate program and planning, also the director of the Geospatial research lab where we do GIS analysis. Q. And just describe generally what is a GIS analysis? A. Geographical Information Systems is a way of essentially doing mapping with computers that are powerful. You can ask all kinds of questions of the GIS and I often say that geographers -- three most important things that geographers study are location, location, location. Real estate people have stolen that from us, but that's what we do. Why there. Why does it make sense there and why not someplace else and what are the conflicts in the space there. GIS is probably getting a lot of attention right now because there are districting projects going on across the nation, potentially, and computer mapping is technology that allows analysis like that to happen. I will correct one thing that you said about