November 13th @geotecUJI celebrated the Day of Geographic Information Systems (GISday). We prepared a set of missions which had GIS and geospatial technologies at their core. Missions helped participants to understand how GIS is used in different fields and contexts, and they served us as an introduction to the technologies we are using everyday. Missions were perfect examples to explain projects such as A-Wear, SyMptOMS , EO4GEO or Copernicus Academy initiative to name a few.

Looking for a book in the library using indoor technologies, playing a mobile game inside a building which connects the gameplay with the current place, sharing the location of a horse sculpture at the university campus or write a post about the possible uses of GIS,  were some of the missions available to complete. The last mission was to meet us and attend to the talk in which our colleague Carlos Granell explained how geospatial technologies supported the missions (see the sketch he prepared above).  After the talk, we had a drink with the participants and chat with them. And last but not least… some prizes were also raflled 😉

During those days more than 100 missions were completed by 26 participants and we are very happy to share our knowledge with students and UJI staff as well.  You can have access to the full list of missions and associated apps and tools we used at https://gisday19uji.web.app/ . A press note and some pictures about UJI GISday are also available here https://www.uji.es/com/noticies/2019/11/1q/gis-day/#

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Thanks to all participants who came and thanks to UJI staff for their support in organising this very special day for us.