The ability to build location-based services into applications is emerging as a key battleground between Microsoft, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc. and others. But it also promises over time to have a ...

As an improvement for the Army’s Distributed Common Ground System-Army (DCGS-A), Esri has provided a revised set of customized templates that include maps, analytic capabilities and other ...

Decades of research have shown that the most disadvantaged communities exist at the intersection of high levels of hazard exposure, racial and ethnic marginalization, and poverty. Mapping and ...

Geospatial tools can help map damage like these homes along St. Ferdinand Avenue, captured days after a tornado ripped through St. Louis. As thousands from the geospatial community descend on St.

The Federal Geographic Data Committee launched the Geospatial Platform, located at geoplatform.gov, that helps users view federal data collections on common geographic maps. This first iteration is a ...

Not so long ago, only a select group of users could take advantage of GIS tools and applications. The general public barely knew what GIS was, let alone knew how to use it. Today, the Web allows GIS ...

The world is awash in a growing tsunami of data pouring from satellites, drones and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The ability to harness all that data, contextualize it in space and time and put ...

Recent advances in commercial geospatial technology—including access to time-stamped satellite imagery, multispectral data and radar imaging—have created new evidentiary tools for IP litigators.

For years, it’s been only the most committed of journonerds who could invest both the time and money to put geography to use. To say that’s changing is an understatement. GIS (Geography and Geographic ...