GIS software can help identify optimal farm sites by integrating factors such as tides, currents, habitat sensitivity, and ...

Let's check in on some projects attempting to use GIS to visualize the recent political protests, preserve data and keep activists informed.

3-D modeling and DIY mapping tools are giving cities new ways to market their economic viability to prospective businesses.

How did our GIS-dependent world and GIS-related science evolve, and where did GIS come from? It turns out the U.S. National Science Foundation played a central role in the technology’s development and ...

Susan Cutter, a geography professor at the University of South Carolina, discusses the use of GIS in emergency management and the ‘why of the where’ when working with maps.

David Gadsen, a program manager for nonprofits and global organizations at Esri in Redlands, has been using GIS mapping to assist NGOs and governments in targeting resources to area that need ...

Each year, environmental studies lecturer Eileen Johnson teaches students how to use GIS mapping technology and current scientific data to better understand, and propose solutions to, some of our most ...

More and more banks are using advanced geographic information systems to help make decisions around branch consolidation, lending in low-income communities, monitoring fraud and even deploying talent.

Maps have always been a way that we were able to conceptualize the topography of our universe. Now the use of GIS has given us more insight into the history of inequality embedded in our country ...