Standardized data modeling has become essential within the continually changing environment of geospatial information systems (GIS). Organizations extensively use GIS to plan infrastructure and manage ...

The Geographic Information System team for the City of Lawrence was given a a Special Achievement award for its GIS work by the ESRI organization in San Diego in July. The employees were presented ...

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 ...

Project delays and failures can eat up time, resources, goodwill and -- not infrequently -- professional reputations. Over the years, a number of Geographic Information System (GIS) projects have ...

Local governments can experience numerous benefits from geographic information system use , including better insight into demographics and how data sets from different departments are related. But to ...

Electric utilities can now access the ArcGIS Data Model for MultiSpeak, a ready-to-use geodatabase template that conforms to the latest release of the widely used, industry-standard MultiSpeak ...

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 ...

Editor's Note: We are thrilled to add Eva Reid to our editorial staff as a regular columnist. In this first article, she explores modeling health data and how that impacts the geospatial community in ...

In 1999, WWF helped set up a project that represented a unique marriage between Aboriginal traditional ecological and cultural knowledge and the latest in western technology. Kowanyama is a community ...