As the GIS landscape continues to evolve, events like this play a critical role in connecting thought leaders, practitioners, and innovators. They reinforce a culture of collaboration and propel the ...

Before 2025 came to a close, the city of Aspen rolled out an update to its GIS-powered MapAspen webpage, which allows anyone ...

Over the past 50 years, geographers have embraced each new technological shift in geographic information systems (GIS)—the technology that turns location data into maps and insights about how places ...

An ecological analyst with ODNR works on the new interactive vegetation map of 18 th century Ohio. If you've been wondering what Ohio looked like, well, before it was a state, the Ohio Department of ...

Engaging Youth Through Community Mapping. Community mapping programs offered through 4-H introduce young people to geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial thinking while ...

For the past two years, Environmental Justice Evanston has been working on a prototype of a map based on environmental equities data in partnership with the city. The geographic information system ...

Two catch phrases that quickly are becoming mainstream in the fire service are data-driven and data-assisted. Although private industry and nearly every other aspect of modern life adopted data ...

As the delta variant continues to spread throughout the country, local health departments are turning to geographic information system mapping to track the spread of COVID-19 and manage the ...

Garrett Andrews is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Political Science at Portland Community College where he teaches State and Local Government. Veronica Beagle is the managing editor ...