Esri Press announced they have published The GIS Guide to Public Domain Data that provides GIS users with detailed information about the sources and quality of spatial data available in the public ...

Boundless is betting that open source, non-proprietary and ... while drawing boundaries based on data in a PostGIS system. “Having a hybrid GIS environment with proprietary and non-proprietary ...

I decode analytics for business people. Seems like it was only a few years ago when my town of Chicago launched its first-of-a-kind municipal open data portal. Oh wait, it was only a few years ago.

the local health department’s Research, Assessment and Planning (RAP) team was up to the challenge of pulling together insights from disparate data sources. GIS analyst Serene Ong and her RAP ...

If you've ever zoomed around the globe with Google Earth, you know how much fun it can be to work with geospatial data. When I need a diversion, I often fire up Google Earth and float above the ...

The application of open source GIS software provides a number of advantages, especially within a South African context. Fleming [45] notes a number of these: Holmes [50] describes a spatial data ...

The program consists of lectures, demos, lab exercises and mentorship from GIS consultants to help participants properly visualize and analyze their spatial data. It does not require any prerequisites ...