In the innovation age, Geographic Information Systems are central to many of society's most essential functions. Imagine what it can do for a generation of tech-literate learners. On a crisp day in ...

GIS and Data Management Technician Phil Abegg conducts fieldwork in the Smokies using a handheld GPS unit. Points marked in the field can be mapped onto the park’s complex geography using GIS ...

GIS has always suffered from a crisis of identity. Indeed, some still argue over the acronym itself. Perhaps it is our need to distinguish ourselves from other technologists. After all, our knowledge ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna and two ...

“Historians and history students are used to working with words on the page, says Professor of History Patrick Rael, “but for many years I had been wanting to incorporate a more spatial and ...

In California, Pennsylvania, Washington and elsewhere, water districts are often turning to GIS and other tech tools to better serve their communities and the increasing needs of firefighting.

No one can predict when an emergency will occur or what shape it will take. It could look like a hurricane causing widespread power outages and downed trees, or it could be a chemical fire that takes ...