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Burns & McDonnell India celebrated GIS Day 2025, highlighting how geospatial technology is evolving from mapping tools to ...

How much do you know about GIS and how effectively is your organization, locality or state using GIS? If you cannot answer this question, the time has come to find out. This article is written to ...

The Worldwide Event, Sponsored in Part by ESRI and the National Geographic Society, Showcases the Importance of GIS, GPS, and Other Technologies. Government officials, business executives, and other ...

In the last 48 hours President Joseph Biden, some 40 other world leaders, and more than 300 businesses have committed to meaningful climate action, including ambitious goals for carbon emissions. The ...

Geographic Information System (GIS) is no longer a term that is alien to us. GIS technology has a myriad of uses in areas such as disaster management, healthcare, emergency management, public safety, ...

Disconnected systems slow down plan review and leave staff without the spatial context they need for accurate decisions.

GIS has always suffered from a crisis of identity. Indeed, some still argue over the acronym itself. Perhaps it is our need to distinguish ourselves from other technologists. After all, our knowledge ...