Spatial data now underpin a wide array of critical applications from environmental monitoring and urban planning to public health management and resource allocation. Advances in geospatial ...

Environmental sustainability refers to the conservation and management of natural resources to match the needs of present ...

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

Jeremy Goecks (left) is the Assistant Center Director for Research Informatics at the Moffitt Cancer Center (FL, USA), where he is also an Associate Faculty Member in the Department of Machine ...

Don Murray is cofounder of Safe Software and has spent his career helping organizations bring life to data to make better decisions. The world we live in is spatial. Think about how many times you use ...

Geospatial engineering combines principles of engineering, geography, and surveying to collect, analyze, and manage spatial data. Geospatial engineering involves surveying. Over time, the field of ...

No audio available for this content. In my August 2025 GPS World newsletter column, I highlighted that a colleague reminded me that the National Geodetic Survey’s (NGS) new National Spatial Reference ...

Location data is critical to nearly all state and local government work — whether it’s responding to a public safety call, supporting community planning and development, or maintaining critical ...

Don Murray is cofounder of Safe Software and has spent his career helping organizations bring life to data to make better decisions. How many times a day do you think about the word "where"? It likely ...

Startup inspiration can strike anywhere. But for Atlas.co*, a freemium browser-based, real-time mapping tool that’s being built by an Oslo, Norway-based team of (initially student) engineers, the ...

No audio available for this content. My last newsletter highlighted the products on the National Geodetic Survey (NGS) Alpha Preliminary Products site. The alpha site provides products that ...

Nature Research Intelligence Topics Topic summaries Information and Computing Sciences Applied Computing Spatial Data and Applications Spatial data now underpin a wide array of critical applications ...