Adversity can inspire innovation. Laguna Beach, an idyllic seaside city in Southern California, continues to build on an extensive GIS application launched after a devastating fire in October 1993, ...

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) might not sound like something that matters to every Blount Countian. But it does, and that’s why Blount’s GIS office — staffed by Maryville government but also ...

GIS is used in the mapping of dead trees in Utah woodlands as identified by the Utah Department of Natural Resources’ Division of Forestry, Fire & State Lands using technology. In Houston, Texas, GIS ...

In the innovation age, Geographic Information Systems are central to many of society's most essential functions. Imagine what it can do for a generation of tech-literate learners. On a crisp day in ...

Geographic Information Systems, which use computers to combine, analyze and map sets of data, have quietly gone from a nerdy side-project to the backbone of a wide cross-section of local government ...

It’s a busy day anywhere in the world. You roll out of bed and grab your smartphone. You check a news website or a weather app or look up directions to an appointment. Most people don’t think about it ...

Nurse practitioners and nursing students can use local, real-time maps of opioid overdoses to inform their clinical work with adolescents in community health settings, finds new research from NYU Rory ...

When Washington Dulles International Airport opened in 1962 in Loudoun County, Va., the county was mostly rural. It was only after local industry expanded to accommodate the needs of this major global ...