For years, it’s been only the most committed of journonerds who could invest both the time and money to put geography to use. To say that’s changing is an understatement. GIS (Geography and Geographic ...

No audio available for this content. I received a bit of email from my article last week on open source GIS. There are two letters from readers I’d like to share with you because I think they clearly ...

No audio available for this content. Some years ago, I predicted that the price of GIS data-collection hardware would eventually decline to the point that software would be the most expensive part of ...

Early in my GIS career, I wanted to produce digital maps at home. Of course, I couldn’t use the tools I had access to at work due to licensing and cost restrictions. That limitation pushed me to ...

The Open GIS Consortium (OGC) is a unique organization of GIS users and vendors developing standards to guide the application of new distributed computing technologies to geodata and geoprocessing.

In this special guest feature, Anthony Calamito, Chief Geospatial Officer at Boundless, an open GIS provider, discusses hybrid architectures (proprietary + open source software) for geographic ...

Boundless, a leader in open GIS, introduced an open GIS ecosystem to unlock the business intelligence of location-based data. In response to market demand for more open and scalable GIS solutions, the ...