Location data is critical to nearly all state and local government work — whether it’s responding to a public safety call, supporting community planning and development, or maintaining critical ...

Geographic information system (GIS) mainstay Esri is looking to expand its stake in digital twin technologies through significant updates in its product portfolio. As it announced at its recent user ...

No one can predict when an emergency will occur or what shape it will take. It could look like a hurricane causing widespread power outages and downed trees, or it could be a chemical fire that takes ...

The Yale GIS Accelerator program — which aims to teach University affiliates how to utilize geographic information systems, or GIS, in projects — began on Jan. 6, 2025. It is a five-day intensive GIS ...

Map out a future career in GIS. An emerging issue in the field of geospatial data science is the imbalance between the abundance of freely available big datasets and the limited number of ...

Karen Schwartz is a freelance technology writer based in the Washington D.C. area. Companies that work with geospatial data face unique storage obstacles. The data itself is voluminous; the files in ...

The Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software is a fundamental tool for gathering, preserving, examining, and presenting geographical information. It plays a significant role in multiple fields ...