Back in the mid-1980s, when I established the U.S. Navy’s first GIS, we used mapping software from a company called National Planning Data Corporation (NPDC). In the process, I had several interesting ...

Beijing Zhongke Journal Publising Co. Ltd. The lead author Cheng-Zhi Qin, a professor of geographical information science (GIS) at Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, ...

Xtensible, a SAM company, announced today that it has been awarded a consulting contract by Con Edison Company of New York, Inc. (Con Edison) to support a pilot project demonstrating the effectiveness ...

Ops, Essential for Mosaic Warfare” at DEFSAT 2026 highlighted a critical shift underway in how geospatial systems are being ...

"A Practitioner's Guide to GIS Terminology" The following terms are condensed and reproduced with permission from "A Practitioner's Guide to GIS Terminology" by Stearns J. Wood, which contains more ...

An unfortunate fact of the AEC (architecture, engineering, and construction) industry is that, between every stage of the process—from planning and design to construction and operations—critical data ...

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 ...

For 10 years, Temple University’s Geographic Information Systems program has turned spatial analysis into careers in planning, public service, climate work and more.