Susan Cutter, a geography professor at the University of South Carolina, discusses the use of GIS in emergency management and the ‘why of the where’ when working with maps.

Myrtle Beach is introducing new technology to assist in flood preparation at any time, not just during peak hurricane season.

During such times, Esri isn’t thinking about software licenses for customers who need help, says Brian Cross, who heads its professional services division. “We just say, ‘Get it out there ...

More and more banks are using advanced geographic information systems to help make decisions around branch consolidation, lending in low-income communities, monitoring fraud and even deploying talent.

Missouri is driving the push to make state highway maps more accurate and easier to update.

RouteSmart has announced it is offering RouteSmart for ArcGIS, which the company says combines the latest geographic information system (GIS) technology and routing software. This new integrates with ...

At Muskogee Public Schools, we recently had to redraw our school attendance boundaries. Using geographic information system (GIS) software gave us a wealth of data to inform our decisions; but after ...

Equip Yourself With Fundamental GIS Skills. Geographic Information Science (GI Science) is the study of how we collect, use, and understand information about places on Earth. This interdisciplinary ...

Esri today reported it's committing up to $1 billion in free accounts for its cloud-based GIS mapping software, hosted through Amazon Web Services. Amazon said it's committing AWS resources for three ...

The idea, says Rael, is to use GIS as the main avenue of investigation for a history course. “We mostly dealt with nineteenth-century US history. We had data on a wealth of subjects, like ...