No audio available for this content. Some years ago, I predicted that the price of GIS data-collection hardware would eventually decline to the point that software would be the most expensive part 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 ...

If you've ever zoomed around the globe with Google Earth, you know how much fun it can be to work with geospatial data. When I need a diversion, I often fire up Google Earth and float above the ...

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 ...

Over the past several years, many small municipalities and public utilities—with technical teams of fewer than ten staff members—have faced the same question: how to implement an enterprise GIS that ...

For decades, disaster response agencies depended heavily on proprietary software to collect, visualize and interpret emergency data. Satellite imagery, geographic information systems (GIS) and ...

This article provides an overview of Linux-based tools for Geographic Information Systems (GIS), including a quick take on the ESRI's ArcReader. Future articles will explore this and other individual ...

The agriculture giant is using open source geospatial software to help visualize crop performance and yield information, thereby lowering costs and boosting IT's options to tailor applications for ...

No audio available for this content. I received a bit of email from my article last week on open source GIS. There are two letters from readers I’d like to share with you because I think they clearly ...