Chad Beam provides the ins and outs of the implementation of GIS, advanced communication systems and predictive modeling to ensure that staffing, to whatever extent, is utilized most effectively. A ...

The Geographic Information System team for the City of Lawrence was given a a Special Achievement award for its GIS work by the ESRI organization in San Diego in July. The employees were presented ...

Back in the mid-1980s, when I established the U.S. Navy’s first GIS, we used mapping software from a company called National Planning Data Corporation (NPDC). In the process, I had several interesting ...

Standardized data modeling has become essential within the continually changing environment of geospatial information systems (GIS). Organizations extensively use GIS to plan infrastructure and manage ...

Project delays and failures can eat up time, resources, goodwill and -- not infrequently -- professional reputations. Over the years, a number of Geographic Information System (GIS) projects have ...

Local governments can experience numerous benefits from geographic information system use , including better insight into demographics and how data sets from different departments are related. But to ...

A recent study provides a new perspective on the severe impacts of escalating climate change on the heritage resources of Canadian Arctic. Referring to the application of Geographic Information System ...

Electric utilities can now access the ArcGIS Data Model for MultiSpeak, a ready-to-use geodatabase template that conforms to the latest release of the widely used, industry-standard MultiSpeak ...

Directions Magazine is pleased to welcome Eva Reid as a regular columnist. In her debut contribution, she examines how health data modeling—particularly through GIS and agent-based systems—will ...

Proposed by Egyptian scientists, the proposed GIS technique considers a pumped-hydro project’s head and elevation difference, the penstock-length distance from the base plant, the site’s slopes and ...