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 ...

Bringing everything from utilities information to site conditions out of a GIS map into a BIM usually requires cumbersome rework. That's now changing. A point cloud with LiDAR data of buildings, roads ...

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

For companies with weather-vulnerable assets across the country and across the globe, GIS technology provides the capability to monitor the occurrence and threats of all types of meteorological ...

In celebration of GIS Day on Nov. 19, the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries' GIS Lab created "Mapping Vanderbilt's Past, Present, Future," an ...

“Geographic Information System” (GIS) describes any computer system that incorporates data related to location. GIS can present several different data points in a single map, which allows users to ...

What can a map tell us about the world? In a growing number of civil rights cases, it can illustrate how critical infrastructure is selectively parceled out from neighborhood to neighborhood. The ...