Slides from guest lecture at GIS course, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen, 16 April 2021

1. Guest lecture
GIS course
16 April 2021
Rienk Kuipers
Gemeente Stadskanaal

2. Goals of this lecture
• 1) Why should you care about GIS?
• 2) How does the Dutch government / Stadskanaal make use of GIS?
• 3) Personal reflection on career opportunities in GIS for geographers
and urban planners

3. John Snow’s 1854 London cholera outbreak map

4. Most if not all of you are using geo-information on a daily basis. Let’s use Google Maps as an example. Groningen.

5. This too is Google Maps 2021. The town of Ippy, Central African Republic. Population (est.): 16,500.

6. Haiti, 2010

7. Red Cross Projects

8. Ippy on Open Street Maps

9. Compare Google Maps to the Base Registration Adresses and Buildings. Excerpt from website Kadaster.

10. What can we learn from this?
• Geo-information is a tool to make sense of the world
• Geo-information saves lives, in 1854, in 2010, and on ...
• Quality of geodata is crucial
• Completeness – Correctness – Up-to-dateness

11. Goals of this lecture
• 1) Why should you care about GIS?
• 2) How does the Dutch government / Stadskanaal make use of GIS?
• 3) Personal reflection on career opportunities in GIS for geographers
and urban planners

12. Basisregistraties / Base registrations

13. Web links
• https://www.pdok.nl/viewer/
• https://bagviewer.kadaster.nl/
• https://www.verbeterdekaart.nl/
• https://streetsmart.cyclomedia.com/
• https://stadskanaal.maps.arcgis.com/

14. Goals of this lecture
• 1) Why should you care about GIS?
• 2) How does the Dutch government / Stadskanaal make use of GIS?
• 3) Personal reflection on career opportunities in GIS for geographers
and urban planners

15. A career in GIS
• Rienk Kuipers (1990)
• Alumnus Faculty of Spatial
Sciences
• 2013 GIS teaching assistent
FSS
• 2015 GIS specialist NEO
Amersfoort
• 2017 GIS specialist
Stadskanaal
• 2020 Head of Geo-
information / Taxation
Stadskanaal

16. My career advice – > try to become a ‘T’