Geography Matters

– From Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot In addition to cats, the process for selecting geographic placenames is too a difficult matter. In the suburban town of Temecula in Southern California, the city’s main sports park was recently Read More...

Claudius Ptolemaeus or Ptolemy lived in Alexandria, Egypt from approximately 87 -150 AD. He was an astronomer, mathematician and geographer. One of his major works was Geographia , a thesis totaling eight books. It attempted to map the known world giving Read More...

On March 12, Professor Michael Goodchild was the featured speaker at the weekly Colloquium held on the ESRI campus. His topic, "Citizens as Sensors: Web 2.0 and the World of Volunteered Geography," discussed the growing phenomena of contributions to cooperative Read More...

You put a lot of time and effort into your GIS Day events, now share your success with others. Creating your very own GIS Day site is a great way to promote your organization and gain publicity for your event. Web page templates are available for download Read More...

As GIS Day celebrates its tenth anniversary this year, the GIS Day committee thought it would be a great time to make a small improvement to the GIS Day logo. Can you spot the difference? The new logo focuses on the benefits and power of GIS technology Read More...