For years, community leaders have been turning to outside help to fix local problems. The process begins by looking at the community's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, better known as ...

Geographic information systems are crucial to the way governments plan and operate cities. From identifying flood zones to mapping prime farmland, GIS lets officials respond to the changing land ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. --In the fall of 2006, a young mapping specialist at Syracuse University began crunching and visualizing data about teens in a way no one in Onondaga County had seen, that revealed ...