The handy technology used to create the colorful maps that lead you to view the tigers at the zoo or let you know how much snow you will receive during the next winter storm, also serves as a critical ...

Carmelle Terborgh gets a little tired of explaining to people why geography excites her. “Sometimes you tell people, ‘I’m a geographer,’ ” Terborgh said, “and people say, ‘So, you know where all the ...

When it comes to maps—a technology that is 4,000 years old—two completely contradictory things are true: Nothing has changed. And everything has changed. What hasn’t changed is maps are a language.

A geographic information system, as organizer Ariann Nassel explained, “is both a technology and a science.” The technology “is designed to work with the complexities of location-based data, connect ...

GIS has always suffered from a crisis of identity. Indeed, some still argue over the acronym itself. Perhaps it is our need to distinguish ourselves from other technologists. After all, our knowledge ...

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 ...

The city of Roswell, Ga., knows how to put its public Web site to good use. The bustling community just outside Atlanta, which has experienced an explosive population increase from 30,000 to 84,000 ...

Darrell Hamamura punches his code into a keypad, pulls open the door to the vault and steps back into the past. As the land information systems manager for Kamehameha Schools, he tracks the ...