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, or Geographic Information Science is a powerful tool used to capture, store, analyze, and display spatial and geographic data. In combining layers of information about a place, GIS helps us ...

Last week I attended a workshop sponsored by the Oregon GPS User’s Group (soon to be Oregon GNSS User’s Group). OGUG invited Michael Dennis, RLS, PE, current Ph.D. geomatics student, former full-time ...

James Gray continues his review of desktop Geographic Information System (GIS) applications with an introduction to the concepts needed to get started with the user-friendly, open-source Quantum GIS.

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 ...

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Basic Concepts of GIS -- ch. 1 Some Concepts That Underpin GIS -- You Ask: "What Is GIS About?" -- And So You Ask Again: "What Is GIS About?" -- Exercise 1-1 ...

GIS enthusiasts across the University of Delaware community celebrated on Nov. 19, to see the university and the Delaware Geographic Data Committee receive an award from the Delaware General Assembly, ...

When Carolina Szoepe enrolled at Harper College, she had no idea what GIS was, much less planned to study it or work in the field. Now a GIS (Geographic Information Systems) project assistant for the ...