In the innovation age, Geographic Information Systems are central to many of society's most essential functions. Imagine what it can do for a generation of tech-literate learners. On a crisp day in ...

GIS has always suffered from a crisis of identity. Indeed, some still argue over the acronym itself. Perhaps it is our need to distinguish ourselves from other technologists. After all, our knowledge ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna and two ...

UNG junior Rylee Chafin will speak about her summer internship with NASA at GIS Day Nov. 18. Chafin is pursuing a degree in environmental spatial analysis.

“Historians and history students are used to working with words on the page, says Professor of History Patrick Rael, “but for many years I had been wanting to incorporate a more spatial and ...

Twenty years ago, the map room in Great Smoky Mountains National Park might have been dedicated to heavy, flat-file drawer cabinets — each one filled with stacks of intricately detailed maps of the ...

A Geographic Information System (GIS) is a key piece of technology that allows us to manage and analyze spatial data. These systems are what make location tracking, digital maps and spatial data ...

Chad Beam provides the ins and outs of the implementation of GIS, advanced communication systems and predictive modeling to ...

Geauga County Auditor Charles E. Walder recently announced that his office will be hosting several events surrounding this year’s Geographic Information System Day, which takes place on Nov. 19.