Disconnected systems slow down plan review and leave staff without the spatial context they need for accurate decisions.

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 ...

Proposed by Egyptian scientists, the proposed GIS technique considers a pumped-hydro project’s head and elevation difference, the penstock-length distance from the base plant, the site’s slopes and ...

Chad Beam provides the ins and outs of the implementation of GIS, advanced communication systems and predictive modeling to ensure that staffing, to whatever extent, is utilized most effectively. A ...

Sometimes a simple picture can say more than mountains of data — especially if that picture is created from the data itself. Akhlaque Haque, PhD, an associate professor of government at UAB and an ...

Two catch phrases that quickly are becoming mainstream in the fire service are data-driven and data-assisted. Although private industry and nearly every other aspect of modern life adopted data ...

The purpose of a geo-spatial system is to combine data with the questions that are asked administratively. GIS provides spatial information in response to the query -- what next should I look at?

By partnering with CRG, MESB is ensuring Minnesota's school mapping initiative sets the benchmark for interoperability, ...