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Six Best Sources for Local Land Use/Land Cover GIS Data
Guest article by Kristen Carney and Aaron Herman of Cubit. This article is a follow-up on “National Land Cover Data Set: When ...
National Land Cover Data Set: When There’s No Local Land Use GIS data
Guest article by Kristen Carney and Aaron Herman of Cubit. Finding land use land cover data is a pain. Unless your ...
Why Geography?
The citizens of many of the world’s countries still don’t realize that ignorance of geography can affect their political stability, ...
Real-time GPS Mapping and GIS Solution Aids Efficient Disaster Management
Saturday, February 7, 2009 will forever be known as Black Saturday in the state of Victoria, Australia. In the midst ...
American Red Cross Uses Trimble Technology and RDMS to Speed Hurricane Disaster Relief
Since 1881, the American Red Cross has been the United State’s premier emergency response organization. In addition to offering neutral ...
Heidelberg-3D – Interactive 3D City Mapping Based on OGC Standards
The inaugural version of the interactive 3D city information system, Heidelberg-3D.de, was launched online, offering free access to anyone.
The Re-birth of Pen and Paper in Mobile GIS
Field data collection is vital to the work of many enterprises and government agencies driving important decisions that ultimately affect ...
Five Steps to More “Interoperable” CADD Data
Paul Bartsch of the Spatial Tips site shares some tips on working with CADD data to make it more “GIS ...
Spatial Data Quality: An Introduction
Data quality is the degree of data excellency that satisfy the given objective. In other words, completeness of attributes in ...
The Components of GIS Evolve
This article discusses the proposed six components of GIS.
Military Applications of GIS
Military forces use GIS in a variety of applications including cartography, intelligence, battle field management, terrain analysis, and remote sensing.
Impressions of a GIS Intern
Anthony Calderon, a GIS intern with the City of Santa Clarita and a Geography student at California State University, Northridge, shares his experiences.
Geography Markup Language (GML) 2.0 – Enabling the Geospatial Web
Ron Lake is the President of Galdos Systems Inc., a company that provides advanced software tools to enable the delivery ...
GIS Developments in India – Year 2000 Analysis
The year 2000 was a tremendous time for GIS users in India even though the developments were in a juvenile ...
Remote-Sensing Technologies
Remotely-sensed imagery from aircraft and satellites represent one of the fastest-growing sources for raster GIS data.
What does it take to support a GIS?
A systems analyst discusses what it takes for the information technology group for a local government to support GIS operations.
U.S. discontinues selective availability of GPS to public
On May 1, 2000, the U.S. government discontinued "selective availability", which was the intentional degradation of GPS signals.