Imagine the scene: You’re driving in an unfamiliar city and use Google Maps on your iPhone to get directions to your next meeting. But you don’t just want to know how to get from point A to point B.

Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) have transformed the way we capture, store, and analyse spatial data by integrating methods from computer science, statistics and geography. Central to GIS is the ...

Given the current state of practice and visions for the future (including AI), certain practices should be reevaluated. This ...

With record-breaking temperatures across the South, smoke from Canadian wildfires across the North, historic flooding in the Northeast and a powerful hurricane in the Southeast, the summer of 2023 has ...

Background: There is great concern within health surveillance, on how to grapple with environmental degradation, rapid urbanization, population mobility and growth. The Internet has emerged as an ...

As data becomes central to decision making across sectors — from logistics and real estate to environmental monitoring and smart cities — geospatial content licensing has become a cornerstone of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. We all know how locked down and controlled 2020 has been.

As unpredictable and tragically dangerous as fighting fires remains, geographic information tools offer the kinds of global incident views and intelligence that were unimaginable less than a decade ...