Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. Perhaps the greatest challenge confronting today’s “big data” era lies ...

When Google first came out, there was one GIS outfit who enthusiastically embraced KML as a way to share their GIS data with their community – the City of Portland, Oregon. This was in 2005 and they ...

New Jersey, United States- In this report by Infinity Business Insights , the GIS Software market percent of the basic players has been covered significantly which will be underneath the opposition on ...

Carmelle Terborgh gets a little tired of explaining to people why geography excites her. “Sometimes you tell people, ‘I’m a geographer,’ ” Terborgh said, “and people say, ‘So, you know where all the ...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Autodesk, Inc. today announced the availability of a new government geospatial bundle that combines Autodesk's powerful ...

The guys who published the Russian bird migration tracks I wrote about last week have also been creating a great collection of GIS (Geographic Information System) data regarding basic world ...