HORRY COUNTY, SC (WMBF) - One local high school is getting to teach its students a piece of technology that only six other schools in the state currently have their hands on. The Academy for the Arts, ...

The City of Morgantown joined in recognizing National GIS Day this week to help showcase the capabilities of the services. A ...

The city of Morgantown hosted a spatial event on Wednesday. It wasn’t alone. Globally, an untold number of practitioners and ...

In the innovation age, Geographic Information Systems are central to many of society's most essential functions. Imagine what it can do for a generation of tech-literate learners. On a crisp day in ...

GIS and Data Management Technician Phil Abegg conducts fieldwork in the Smokies using a handheld GPS unit. Points marked in the field can be mapped onto the park’s complex geography using GIS ...

GIS has always suffered from a crisis of identity. Indeed, some still argue over the acronym itself. Perhaps it is our need to distinguish ourselves from other technologists. After all, our knowledge ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna and two ...

Since 2006, New York City has required owners of office towers taller than 15 stories to file “emergency action plans.” Tens of thousands of floor plans have since been delivered to the city's fire ...

Twenty years ago, the map room in Great Smoky Mountains National Park might have been dedicated to heavy, flat-file drawer cabinets — each one filled with stacks of intricately detailed maps of the ...