A gentle introduction from BostonGIS, a “testbed for GIS and Web Mapping solutions utilizing open source, freely available and/or open GIS technologies.” Putting it online with OpenLayers ...

In 2011, Esri showed how social data could be integrated into its maps, enabling emergency services to respond more quickly and effectively to floods in Australia and beyond. “Maps can be a very ...

Byrne became the agency’s first GIO in 2010. FCC launched a maps feature, located at fcc.gov/maps, in October 2011 to highlight mission-critical work. Also: White House ‘We the People’ API, data now ...

The U.S. Department of the Interior launched the Map Overlay and Statistical System (MOSS) in 1978, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released the Geographic Resources Analysis Support System ...

New hyperlocal business directory ZoomBusiness designed to help Main Street businesses across North America engage with local residents. GIS Planning has launched an online tool that enables local ...

How would you go about identifying usable land that suits your building tastes? [Scott Sexton] was specifically looking for land that’s not too steep to build on, and realized that existing ...

The Overture Maps Foundation, a collaborative effort to build interoperable open map data, is offering the general availability of its Global Entity Reference System (GERS)-providing a unique ID for ...

GIS, or geographic information systems, are applications used for making maps at their most basic level. But the complexity of what is involved and possible within contemporary GIS in terms of ...

I will close with a 'heads-up' for an exciting book to look for in March 2008, namely Desktop GIS: Mapping the Planet with Open Source, written by Gary E. Sherman and published by the Pragmatic ...