Back in the mid-1980s, when I established the U.S. Navy’s first GIS, we used mapping software from a company called National Planning Data Corporation (NPDC). In the process, I had several interesting ...

Web-based geographic information system software enables utilities to manage aspects of their assets in a contextual, visual and map-based database. Modern GIS software enables utilities to manage ...

GIS technology greatly enhances trade area analysis by enabling extraction, aggregation, and visualization of demographic and spatial data. Analysts can combine spatial layers with customer data to ...

Given the current state of practice and visions for the future (including AI), certain practices should be reevaluated. This ...

Chad Beam provides the ins and outs of the implementation of GIS, advanced communication systems and predictive modeling to ensure that staffing, to whatever extent, is utilized most effectively. A ...

The purpose of a geo-spatial system is to combine data with the questions that are asked administratively. GIS provides spatial information in response to the query -- what next should I look at?

Journal of Urban and Environmental Engineering, Vol. 1, No. 2 (July to December, 2007), pp. 44-52 (9 pages) Abstract:Environmental degradation, and specifically erosion, is a serious and extensive ...