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 ...

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 ...

The Strategic Role of Geographic Information Systems. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have become indispensable tools for organizations seeking to improve decision making and ...

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 ...

Raster-based GIS routing models prevent pipelines from becoming an economic burden on the companies and countries involved in their construction and operation by minimizing not just the economic costs ...

When an additional 50,000 residents were predicted for the population of Uppsala, Sweden, by 2050, the city’s planners set out to create a new district with 33,000 housing units—and they wanted do so ...

The study identifies Geographic Information Systems as the foundational layer of modern digital waste management. Waste ...