Geography Matters

Be one of the first GIS Day participants to register your 2008 GIS Day event . Registering will ensure that each of your events will be found in the event finder for the general public or press looking to find and attend an event near them. As a reminder, Read More...

A recent article in The American Surveyor highlighted the importance of geography and accurate field measurements-in this case, for the drought-stricken residents of Georgia. In 1818, a noted mathematician at the University of Georgia, James Camak was Read More...

Recently, Jack Dangermond, ESRI president, talked with Government Technology on what lies ahead for GIS and how the Web plays a crucial role. "My forecast is that as society becomes familiar with looking at things through geospatial visualization, they Read More...

A group of Turners Falls [Massachusetts] High School students used GIS to map and describe various aspects of their community such as population, industries, and environmental changes. It gave them an opportunity to see and appreciate where they live Read More...

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