For years, it’s been only the most committed of journonerds who could invest both the time and money to put geography to use. To say that’s changing is an understatement. GIS (Geography and Geographic ...

The course is an introduction to the basic concepts and techniques of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). This course contains lectures and exercises in ArcGIS. The lectures introduce the basic ...

More data is being generated than ever before, and much of it is location-based. In order to fuel important business processes, businesses need to be able to access and make sense of this data quickly ...

Communicating geographic concepts, problems and solutions are key to the geovisualization and spatial design, the modern art and science of cartography. The foundational principles of the course will ...

James Gray continues his review of desktop Geographic Information System (GIS) applications with an introduction to the concepts needed to get started with the user-friendly, open-source Quantum GIS.

For example, if you need to evaluate population data for census tracts, you could view the information in tabular format. However, consider how much easier and more effective it would be to view the ...

Increasingly, businesses are turning to geographic information systems (GIS) to develop new markets, solve supply chain problems, predict growth, improve efficiency of routes and services, gain ...

Rob Rose is William & Mary’s new Geographic Information Systems (GIS) evangelist, spreading the gospel of geographic information systems among students and faculty alike. Rose has been the director of ...

Open source software has gained popularity in recent years, as exemplified by operating systems such as Linux, container software such as Docker, and automation tools such as Ansible. In the ...