Over the past 50 years, geographers have embraced each new technological shift in geographic information systems (GIS)—the ...

It’s like Google Maps on steroids. That’s the short, easy definition of geographic information systems (GIS) that Melinda Shimizu, SUNY Cortland assistant professor of geography, usually gives to ...

Within U.S. Army Public Health Command's G-6 Directorate of Information Management/Information Technology is a small team of geographers who use maps to tell some very detailed stories. The team takes ...

Disy Informationssysteme GmbH, a provider of GIS and reporting solutions for spatial and non-spatial data, is offering a new app and service for offline maps for tablets. GIS 2go allows users to save ...

GIS and Data Management Technician Phil Abegg conducts fieldwork in the Smokies using a handheld GPS unit. Points marked in the field can be mapped onto the park’s complex geography using GIS ...

For more than 25 years, Nancy Tosta has directed government and private-sector efforts to use geospatial technologies in environmental and natural-resource-related projects. She has served as ...

Researchers built the most complete Roman road map ever made, charting nearly 186,000 miles across Europe, North Africa, and ...

Modern geographic information systems have identified 186,000 miles of Roman roads and highways, combining all existing ...

Researchers have created a new road map of the Roman world that could help historians study how religion, migration, trade, and even pandemics spread across the Roman Empire 2000 years ago.