When it comes to maps—a technology that is 4,000 years old—two completely contradictory things are true: Nothing has changed. And everything has changed. What hasn’t changed is maps are a language.

For the past two years, Environmental Justice Evanston has been working on a prototype of a map based on environmental equities data in partnership with the city. The geographic information system ...

Geographic information system (GIS) maps help researchers, policymakers, and community members see how environmental risks ...

Esri, the global leader in geographic information system (GIS) technology, has launched a terrestrial mapping workflow with ...

Over the past 50 years, geographers have embraced each new technological shift in geographic information systems (GIS)—the technology that turns location data into maps and insights about how places ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marianna Kantor is the chief marketing officer at Esri. Mapping is now the secret hack that has become a super-power for ...

The GIS viewer has data layers that can be turned on or off. The plan room has a file directory. Ground Penetrating Radar Systems, based in Toledo, Ohio, provides services that include utility ...

Startup inspiration can strike anywhere. But for Atlas.co*, a freemium browser-based, real-time mapping tool that’s being built by an Oslo, Norway-based team of (initially student) engineers, the ...

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

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 ...

For more than 25 years, Nancy Tosta has directed government and private-sector efforts to use geospatial technologies in environmental and natural-resource-related projects. She has served as ...