The U.S. Geological Survey has developed the “Shoreline Management Tool,” a GIS software program designed to test ways of managing land and water resources adjacent to a lake or stream. The new software tool will help water-, land-, and wildlife-resource managers balance competing needs when managing surface-water levels for water quantity, water depth, area of [...]

It’s Wednesday morning and Sean McGinnis is holding a giant orange orb. “Let’s go walk the balloon,” says the IT specialist from New Jersey’s Office of GIS. McGinnis is holding a spool of 1,000 feet of kite string. Dangling from the balloon is a small camera protected by a modified plastic juice bottle. In minutes, it’s [...]

Location is vital to decision making in supply chain management (SCM) because it is the great invisible common denominator. But when used in analysis, it is far more complicated. That’s why SCM professionals need to master powerful tools such as geographic information systems (GIS) to convert massive amounts of location-based data into business intelligence that [...]

In an effort to keep up with its Silicon Valley constituents, the city of Palo Alto, Calif., has released a set of open geospatial datasets, available for making maps and apps ranging from planning to public safety. The city’s Open GIS datasets are the first of hundreds of data layers the city plans to make available, [...]

The Department of Human Settlements and Spatial Planning will be leveraging GIS to improve data integration and management for the sustainable development of human settlements in the country. The system enables users to create and embed maps with charts and other documents; visualise spatial data to show the original landforms and its spatial features; import and [...]