Over the past 50 years, geographers have embraced each new technological shift in geographic information systems (GIS)—the ...

I've already looked at some GIS applications available on Linux. Programs like GRASS and qgis provide a full set of tools to do GIS. Sometimes, that's really overkill though. You may just want to ...

James Gray continues his review of desktop Geographic Information System (GIS) applications with an introduction to the concepts needed to get started with the user-friendly, open-source Quantum GIS.

Over the past 50 years, geographers have embraced each new technological shift in geographic information systems (GIS) - the technology that turns ...

Chad Beam provides the ins and outs of the implementation of GIS, advanced communication systems and predictive modeling to ...

R has some excellent mapping options. There is the leaflet R package, which I use when I want to do a lot of customization. There is tmap, which I like for its nice balance between power and ease of ...

Asset management hardly makes hearts race. It’s also not a subject that’s usually under the CIO remit, but instead languishes organizationally somewhere around the level of Facilities or Real Estate.

This subject scares me. I’m not a trained geodesist. I’m not a mathematician. Yet, I’d be derelict in my duty if I didn’t write about this subject. I know enough to be dangerous, and enough to know ...