A task performed by Geographers
Create and modify maps, graphs, or diagrams, using geographical information software and related equipment, and principles of cartography, such as coordinate systems, longitude, latitude, elevation, topography, and map scales.
Technically, much of it, experts rate AI capability 4/5, but workers don't want it automated (desire 2.8/5). It's an Automation Red Light: proceed with care.
Do you want this task automated?
How much the people who do this task want AI to take it over (avg of 5 workers).
How capable experts rate current AI at this task (avg of 3 experts).
How much human involvement should stay?
The Human Agency Scale (H1–H5) captures how much human direction workers think this task should keep.
Why workers feel the way they do
- Frees up time for higher-value work80%
- Helps handle larger scale60%
- Reduces human error40%
- It's repetitive20%
- It's stressful20%
- It's difficult20%
How to automate this
Doable with technology, but keep a person clearly in charge.
Creative & strategic work
Hard to fully automate. Use AI as a fast first draft, not the final word.
- 1Use AI to generate options and rough drafts when you create and modify maps, graphs, or diagrams, using geographical information software and related equipment, then shape them yourself.
- 2Keep templates and swipe files so you start faster.
- 3Automate the production steps around the creative core, not the core itself.
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This is 1 of 4 tasks studied for Geographers, where workers want 25% of tasks automated.
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