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Who Coined the Phrase Geographic Information System?
The phrase Geographic Information System was a term promoted by Roger Tomlinson back in the 1960s.
Fun Map and Geography Themed Gifts for 2012
The gift giving season is upon us. So, what to get for that Geogeek or map aficionado? [accordion] [toggle title=”Disclosure ...
New Map of the Earth’s Night Lights
NOAA has released an updated map of the Earth, showing light sources at night from street lights, oil and gas drilling, wildfires, volanic activity, and skyglow.
Change Detection in GIS
Change detection in GIS is a method of understanding how a given area has changed between two or more time ...
Six of this Year’s Most Interesting Maps
Every year, there seems to be a handful of maps that fascinate the masses and fire up the social media platforms. Listed here are some of the more fascinating maps and GIS data visualizations that caught the public's attention in 2012.
Turn Restrictions Simplified
Tim Hirrel takes a look at a new method for implementing turn restrictions in GIS street data.
World GIS Data
Looking for global GIS data? Listed here are free sources for finding GIS data in both vector and raster formats ...
Post-Election Maps for the 2012 Presidential Election
A look at some of the more insightful post-election maps from the 2012 presidential race.
GIS Techniques
Listed here are GIS techniques covering GIS data creation and manipulation, geoprocessing, mapping and spatial analysis.
Best Election Maps
With every major news outlet hosting some form of a 2012 Presidential election map, what are the best election maps ...
Presidential Election Maps from 1968 to 2012
Listed here are the presidential election maps for each the past eleven elections spanning 1968 to 2012. The maps show the breakdown of electoral college votes by state.
Twitter Map of the Last One Million Tweets
Want to see where the most recent one million geolocated tweets were posted from? The One Million Tweets Twitter map ...
Help Classify Images of Hurricane Sandy Damage
Volunteers are needed to classify images of Hurricane Sandy to help FEMA. The site is using open source image sorting ...
Hurricane Sandy Maps with Open Data and GIS Publication Platforms
This guest submission by Chris Brown, CEO of MangoMap, takes a look at how open data and online GIS publication ...
The GIS Career, Revisioned
GIS tools and software applications are becoming more intuitive, more user friendly. There is a mindset that is slowly being ...
Where is the Phrase “80% of Data is Geographic” From?
Those that work in GIS data have probably heard the phrase "80% of data is geographic". What is the origins of this phrase, and is it true?
Mapping Hurricanes
Information about embedable hurricane maps, historic hurricane tracks, and the top list of most damaging hurricanes from NOAA.
Baseball Maps and GIS
So how do cartography and baseball mix? Check out these interesting examples of baseball maps.
The Many Modes of Google’s Street View Program
Google’s street level imagery gathering is an enormous data collecting effort. Street View launched in May of 2007 and Google ...
Dos and Don’ts of Web Map Design
The proliferation of easy to use tools and web services has brought web mapping a long way from its origins. ...
Basic Geographic Concepts
Listed here are the basic geographic concepts for geographic understanding and inquiry. When looking at the geography of an area, ...
What Can You Do With GIS?
As well has having significant application in the worlds of business and commerce and natural resources the largest pool of ...
Geographic Analysis with GIS
The vast majority of information present in the world has some form of spatial element connected with it. A geographic ...
GeoSocial Interactive Map for Transportation Project Planning
This week a spectacular conference aimed towards transportation professionals is being held in Los Angeles called Rail~Volution. The aim of ...
GIS and Natural Resource Management
Peter Rodericks Oisebe, a Natural Resource Management Consultant in Kenya writes about the applications of GIS in mapping and managing natural areas.
SDTS – GIS Data Standard
SDTS stands for Spatial Data Transfer Standard. SDTS was a standard for transferring earth-referenced spatial data across disparate computer programs. The U.S. ...