Geospatial technologies provide methods to aid in the systematic documentation of evidence as it is collected in the field, analyze the
spatial relationships and preserve data in the lab, and provide new ways of
communicating complex relationships and
spatial information visually to a variety of audiences.
The role of GST in geography education has become more explicit in the revision of Geography Standard 1, «How to use maps and other geographic representations, geospatial technologies, and
spatial thinking to understand and
communicate information» (Heffron & Downs, 2012, p. 21), reflecting the development of GST and increased recognition of
spatial thinking as a key practice in geography (Bednarz, 2015).