Automatable

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.

Red LightAI can do it · workers don't want it

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.

Worker desire to automate2.8/5

How much the people who do this task want AI to take it over (avg of 5 workers).

AI capability today4.0/5

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.

H3Equal human–AI partnership

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.

  1. 1Use AI to generate options and rough drafts, then shape them yourself.
  2. 2Keep templates and swipe files so you start faster.
  3. 3Automate the production steps around the creative core, not the core itself.

Tools that can help

AI assistantTemplate libraryAsset tools

Know a better way, or spot an error?

Share how you automate this in real life, or correct the data. Reviewed before publishing.

This is 1 of 4 tasks studied for Geographers, where workers want 25% of tasks automated.

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