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Celebrate Arbor Day With GIS: Friday, April 24, 2009

Arbor Day is a nationally-celebrated observance that encourages tree planting and care. Did you know that GIS technology is used as a tool to manage data about trees? Here's how a few organizations around the world have employed GIS to do just that: GIS Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 21, 2009 3:47 PM by GIS-Day-Team | 0 Comments
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Geography Awareness Week

Held the third week of November every year since 1987, Geography Awareness Week is a global celebration supported by the National Geographic Society and other organizations. This year, there is a geography-related theme for each day of the week. Monday—Human Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 05, 2008 8:36 AM by GeographyMatters | 0 Comments
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New “What is GIS?” PowerPoint

A new " What is GIS? " PowerPoint presentation is available to help you educate participants at your GIS Day event. The presentation starts with definitions of geography and the origin of cartography, then describes applications of GIS technology in today's Read More...
Posted Monday, November 03, 2008 9:18 AM by GeographyMatters | 0 Comments
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The NGS Continues to Present the Wonders of the World Through its Maps and Stories

There are few that can easily put down a National Geographic magazine once they have opened it. The maps, stories, and photos of distant places are captivating; bringing a sense of adventure and wonder to both young and old. The National Geographic Society Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 30, 2008 2:22 PM by GeographyMatters | 0 Comments
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Jack Dangermond on Enterprise GIS

GIS has evolved to meet enterprise-wide needs much like the enterprise software evolutions in the financial, human resources, supply chain, and customer management arenas. An enterprise GIS is an integrated, multi-departmental system for collecting, analyzing, Read More...
Posted Friday, October 27, 2006 12:43 PM by GeographyMatters | 0 Comments

A Post by Jack Dangermond: More Thoughts on the Benefits of GIS

Last month I wrote about educating upper management about the value and benefits of GIS. Now I would like to discuss these benefits in more detail. Organizations of all sizes and users in almost every industry get value from GIS. They are increasingly Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 05, 2006 2:05 PM by GeographyMatters | 0 Comments

GIS Industry Moving Closer to Society-wide Application

There are several important trends occurring in the GIS industry. The first is the growing volume of geospatial data coming from many sources. There is an increase in geographic measurement being driven by new technologies (i.e. satellite and airborne Read More...
Posted Friday, September 01, 2006 2:30 PM by GeographyMatters | 0 Comments

GIS and geography are a powerful medium for communication and collaboration

The work of GIS users has clearly demonstrated the value of using geographic knowledge and GIS tools for applications in almost every discipline and field. Their efforts, together with the underlying technology, have stimulated a new geography-based approach Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 16, 2006 10:04 AM by GeographyMatters | 0 Comments
 
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