'There are many people who do not know where you are on the map,' the weather castors bother


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People are looking at maps casually in everyday life, such as weather forecasting and route search to the first shop to go. Thanks to the GPS and location information of the base station, the smartphone's map app allows you to identify your location without knowing yourself. However, behind these conveniences, there is a result of the survey that 'many people can not show where you are on the map', and the weather caster 'becomes to know where you are on the map' 'I want it.'

Many Alabamas can't find themes on a map, and that's dangerous-al.com
https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2017/02/many_alabamians_cant_find_them.html

Alabama meteorologist James Spann urges viewers to-The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/04/15/many-people-cant-find-themselves-map-laments-alabama-meteorologist/

Social scientist April Taylor will implement a trauma recovery treatment program for people living in Dukebar County , northeastern Alabama, on April 27, 2011, where traumas from tornado outbreaks in the southern United States will continue. did. At that time, the occurrence of large-scale tornadoes has been reported in the past, such as in weather forecasts, and Mr. Taylor also knew that tornadoes occurred near the affected area, but many people who received counseling said, 'I did not know that the tornado came.'

At first, Mr. Taylor did not understand people's claim that he had a warning in the weather forecast and still did not know that the tornado would come, but 'If people look at the weather forecast on TV, they I decided to carry out an experiment, thinking 'Where did I live on the map and I did not understand that the tornado came?'

First, as a small experiment, Taylor handed seven people with university degrees a white map of the northern half of Alabama. The map depicts the county boundaries and major highways, but does not list county names or landmark structures. Mr. Taylor asked 7 people, 'Please write the names of the county you live in and the counties around it on this map.' Then three people knew where they were in their county, and only one knew the names of surrounding counties. Later, Taylor conducted larger-scale experiments across Alabama, but 60-65% of people, regardless of group, struggled to find their county, regardless of academic background. It was said that



'The result is unbelievable. It's a very shocking result,' said Kevin Lo of the National Weather Service .

'The biggest countermeasure against meteorological disasters is to first identify the current situation,' Lo points out, saying that it is important to know that the disasters are coming to the place where they live. However, if you do not know where you are on the map, no action can be taken no matter what weather warning is given.


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'We're putting a lot of effort into creating a weather forecast map graphic,' said James Span, Chief Weather Caster at ABC 33/40 News, which covers Alabama and broadcasts. If you post the figure on SNS etc., you will immediately get comments such as “How about Karman ?” “What is Jasper ?” “ What is Airsta Boga ?” People do not know where their current location is on the map It is said that.

Laura Myers, a senior researcher at the University of Alabama and director of the Public Health and Safety Center, pointed out that the maps that people usually see include the names of counties, cities and roads, etc. . The types of maps used for weather forecasting have indicated that these reference markers do not exist, so it may not be possible to understand your whereabouts even if you look at the weather forecasting map.

So Span told people to 'want to be able to read maps,' and posted a movie on Twitter asking them to learn their skills.




'Please listen, we don't expect people to become geographers or radar meteorologists, but we can not identify ourselves on the map that many people see in the news etc. 'We knew about that,' said Span, pointing out that it was a big problem not being able to find out where you are from the maps used during disasters.

On the other hand, Mr. Span recognizes that the map app installed on smartphones in recent years is extremely high performance, and the frequency of reading maps in daily life is decreasing. However, not knowing your current location from the map you see in the weather forecast will lead to a serious lack of information that may be related to the crisis of life. 'The ability to discover where you live and the county's location on a white map can be a great help for you,' Span said in the movie.



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