Geography Matters

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...

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...

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...

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...