Utility bundle of batch file utilities for import, export and coordinate system conversion. BatchMIF imports multiple mif/mid files into MapInfo tables. MIFexp exports multiple MapInfo tables into mif ...

Rod Bassler knows all too well what it's like to stand between people and their data. As a GIS analyst and cartographer at several public agencies for 15 years, he has often found himself the lone ...

The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that digital mapping files known as geographic information systems must be released under the state’s public records law. The decision could make it easier ...

Back in 2007, the Sierra Club requested a copy of what it thought was a public record from Orange County, California, covering information like the location and addresses of 640,000 land parcels in ...

Karen J. Bannan is a freelance writer and editor who has written for a variety of publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time and CIO. For state agencies working with ...

What is MapWindow GIS + MMP Tools? MMP Tools is a set of custom tools for the free MapWindow GIS. Together they can be used for the following: As a front-end to MMP when creating nutrient management ...

The California Supreme Court ruled this week that an electronic database, maintained in a geographic information system (GIS) file format, is a public record subject to disclosure in that format under ...

Tableau has significantly expanded its custom mapping capabilities in version 10.2, allowing for importing your own geospatial files in GeoJSON, shapefile, KML and MapInfo formats. I finally had a ...

R has some excellent mapping options. There is the leaflet R package, which I use when I want to do a lot of customization. There is tmap, which I like for its nice balance between power and ease of ...