• Question: How does your job link to geography

    Asked by fano536urps47 on 2 Dec 2025. This question was also asked by cere536carr94.
    • Photo: Alexander Treliving

      Alexander Treliving answered on 2 Dec 2025:

      Great question! The main way my job links to geography is through maps and where things are in the world.
      My job as a Local Land & Property Gazetteer Officer is to make sure every place has the right name, address and location, so people can find it easily. All this location info is stored in a geographic database (called a gazetteer) which uses a Geographical Information System (GIS) to help map everything accurately.

      Think about all the places you know – your house, your school and the shops you visit – all of them are stored and located in a gazetteer.

      Have you ever navigated somewhere using a map app on your phone? If you have, you probably used the location info from a gazetteer to get you there!

      It’s really important to make sure that every place has an accurate address linked to its geographic location as crucial services like postal delivery, waste collection and emergency services rely on it. If something is missing or in the wrong place we’d all get lost!

    • Photo: Keith Thomas

      Keith Thomas answered on 2 Dec 2025:

      There are two key ways my work links to geography:

      Statistics/Data Analysis – using socio-economic data from ONS / Census and you may have heard of the recent update to the Index of Multiple Deprivation provides insight to the characteristics of people in a local area.

      Mapping / Search Tools – especially now google earth to locate places, get a sense of what the land around them looks like what barriers might there be to new development (landscape/flood risks) and how accessible a place is by road and rail etc.

    • Photo: Hannah Gow

      Hannah Gow answered on 2 Dec 2025:

      My job links to geography as it is about mapping and the physical environment of the earth. The maps and data show where things are and what they are like there. Lets take geology as an example. We all know that we have geology under our feet but what kind of geology is under our feet and what is it like? A map location 🗺️can tell us that the geology under our feet might be called the Sherwood Sandstone. The data in that map can help us to understand that the sandstone is porous (lets water 💧through). Through this we can start to understand what the world is like to make decisions on managing our resources and where or where not to put things. I hope that helps 😊

    • Photo: Tom Moir

      Tom Moir answered on 2 Dec 2025:

      My job is to help keep the map of GB up to date, showing everything from new buildings, fences and roads, to help people make good geographic decisions, either emergency services taking the fastest route to an accident (avoiding the speed bumps we map), Land Registry recording what land people own, insurance companies understanding what your house is made out of, councils working out where a bin route needs to go, or a new school to be built.

      My surveyors and drone pilots use surveying skills and aerial imagery to map new construction and map the location of everything in GB.

    • Photo: Louise Thurston

      Louise Thurston answered on 4 Dec 2025:

      The main link between my job and geography is looking at how humans are impacting the environment through different pollution sources. I look at how climate change may change peoples behavior and how extreme weather events might increase pollution events. I also use/make maps frequently and analyze geographical data. Because of this, my work is considered hard-core physical geography!

Comments