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How Government Organizations Are Using Location Intelligence to Drive Digital Engagement
This opinion piece by James Brayshaw, Vice President of LI and Spectrum Business with Pitney Bowes, takes a look at how location intelligence is helping local governments make timely and accurate decisions.
David or Goliath: Establishing Your Mobile GIS Portfolio
Lowell Ballard, the Director of Geospatial Solutions for Timmons Group, discusses the David versus Goliath approach in developing robust and full-featured versus smaller more focused mobile GIS applications.
Using GIS to Evaluate Parking Availability
GPS and GIS can be used to analyze parking space usage in a college town.
Mapping County Demographic Data in R
Learn how to map US County demographic data in R in this article by Ari Lamstein.
Black Holes No More: The Emergence of Volunteer Geographic Information
This essay by Ron Mahabir takes a look at how crowdsourced mapping efforts are helping to fill in much needed geographic information about impoverished areas around the world.
Keys to Successfully Managing GIS Data Health and Quality
Jennifer Kennedy, a GIS Analyst at Timmons Group discusses the importance of managing GIS data quality and some GIS solutions for managing GIS data and ensuring its integrity.
Geodesign to Create Smarter Cities and Adaptable Landscapes
Nadia Amoroso writes about geodesign and the geodesign technology platform offered by Esri as it pertains to Smart Cities.
Defining Waterfall and Agile GIS Project Management Styles
Lowell Ballard, the Director of Geospatial Solutions for Timmons Group, takes a look at effectively engaging clients for GIS projects. ...
Solving Field GIS Wireless Connectivity Issues with Web Apps
WebMapSolutions enhances offline GIS capabilities in the browser by integrating JavaScript widgets that extend functionality in any web app.
Using a Heat Map to Show the Level of Happiness by Province in Turkey
Dogus Guler created a heat map showing levels of happiness by province in Turkey using GIS.
Conflict over Gibraltar: Who has control?
Gibraltar is a 6.5 square kilometer territory located south of the Spanish border, along the Strait of Gibraltar. The small ...
A Case Study in Environmental GIS: Light Pollution Mapping
Geospatial consultant Marcus Hinds uses remote sensing and environmental GIS methodologies to study light pollution in the Greater Toronto Area in Canada.
Disconnected Editing with ArcGIS in the Browser
Matt Sheehan discusses disconnected editing for ArcGIS and the libraries that Web Map Solutions has developed to provide users with disconnected capabilities to any ArcGIS web app in the browser.
Focusing GIS Apps on the User’s Needs
Timmons Group's Lowell Ballard stresses the importance of preventing scope creep in GIS app development to keep them focused and user-friendly.
How GIS is Being Used in Conservation Biology
GIS has a central role in analyzing the geographic distribution of endangered species, in measuring and monitoring biodiversity, and in identifying priorities for conservation management.
GIS in Urban Planning
Frank Stafford, a graduate of Cambridge University with a background in Civil Engineering writes about why GIS is being used in Urban Planning.
Planning with Google Earth – A Cost-Effective Alternative
Rick Tralies of the Natural Lands Trust, explains how organizations and non-profits can use Google Earth as a planning and mapping tool.
Is the GIS Industry Splitting?
Matt Sheehan, from WebMapSolutions, shares some of the results from a survey asking, "is GIS splitting?"
Best Practices for Successful GIS Data Management
Lowell Ballard, Director of Geospatial Solutions for Timmons Group, shares some of his experience on managing GIS data and growing a GIS program.
Where is the Cloud in GIS for Watershed Management?
Barbara Horvatic, the Marketing Manager at GIS Cloud, explains how using a cloud-based GIS can help create a collaborative environment ...
A Spatial Analysis of Moscow’s Fuel Stations
Andrey Pirogov, a lecturer at the Lomonosov Moscow State University Business School, describes his project to map out and analyze fuel station locations in Moscow, Russia.
Legal Geography Explained
Legal Geography is a subset of geography that takes into consideration the connections between the law and legal system and ...
Top Five Things to Do in Romania
The true beauty and authenticity of Romania, its wild and pristine natural environment, the rich cultural heritage and many more advantages are drawing more travelers than ever.
What is Tourism Geography?
By the 1950s, tourism geography began to be accepted as its own domain, especially in scientific works from USA and Germany.
GPS Experts Call for Safeguards After GLONASS Outage
The Russian GLONASS global satellite navigation system went down for 13 hours on April 2, but it’s not causing much ...
“Interoperability” for the Surveying Profession
Gavin Schrock, PLS, the editor of Professional Surveyor Magazine, writes about the surveying field changing in the face of the ...