GIS, maps teach Los Angeles high school students about not just STEM, but the meaning of what makes a community. For history teacher Mariana Ramirez and English teacher Alice Im, education is viewed ...

The web-based tool combines Geographic Information System mapping with links to project websites and other data about all waterfront projects. The Greater Cleveland Partnership says it will monitor ...

Technology and the data it collects can play a big role in the beginning stages of fire station design when it comes to selecting the best site location for the community’s emergency responders. The ...

Westminster is launching an archaeological study of its downtown historic district, and the newly digitized data could offer a “first-in-the-nation” service to downtown property owners. With some ...

Forget cartography: Maps also serve humanistic inquiry. When I can't coax students to participate, I'll pull up a map and marvel at their volubility. In fact, I often use Saul Steinberg's famous New ...

In 1999, WWF helped set up a project that represented a unique marriage between Aboriginal traditional ecological and cultural knowledge and the latest in western technology. Kowanyama is a community ...

DALLAS — For more than four years, Larry Johnson has been cleaning the Oak Cliff Cemetery, which is less than a mile from where he was raised. “When we first started this work back in 2019, all this ...

It is a Monday morning in early December, and the 20 students in professor Jack Loveless’ Mapping Our World: Introduction to Geographic Information Systems course are clustered in small groups around ...

Geographical information systems (GIS) are computer-based systems for geographical data presentation and analysis. They allow rapid development of high-quality maps, and enable sophisticated ...

Picture having a room filled with maps of data that provided you with information pertaining to safer walking routes for elementary students, where the heaviest crime areas are located around the city ...

Another proposal has entered the mix for Sidney officials to consider on compiling a digital record of the city's utility and ...