It’s a busy day anywhere in the world. You roll out of bed and grab your smartphone. You check a news website or a weather app or look up directions to an appointment. Most people don’t think about it ...

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 ...

Local governments are sitting on a goldmine of spatial data, yet most plan review departments can’t easily access it when they need it most. While jurisdictions maintain extensive geographic ...

Don Murray is cofounder of Safe Software and has spent his career helping organizations bring life to data to make better decisions. The world we live in is spatial. Think about how many times you use ...

Geospatial engineering combines principles of engineering, geography, and surveying to collect, analyze, and manage spatial data. Geospatial engineering involves surveying. Over time, the field of ...

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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 ...

Women make up more than half of NV5 Geospatial’s eGIS business unit, which collects and analyzes data to develop custom applications for government clients. Even though women make up nearly half of ...

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 ...

What do environmental management, urban planning, public health and civil engineering all have in common? They use geospatial information science and technology to make important decisions. Geospatial ...

Burns & McDonnell India marked GIS Day 2025 with a day-long programme that reflected a clear shift in how geospatial technology is viewed in India’s utilities and infrastructure sectors. What was once ...