Startup inspiration can strike anywhere. But for Atlas.co*, a freemium browser-based, real-time mapping tool that's being built by an Oslo, Norway-based team of (initially student) engineers, the ...

How would you go about identifying usable land that suits your building tastes? [Scott Sexton] was specifically looking for land that’s not too steep to build on, and realized that existing resources ...

Sep. 13—Plenty of Niagara Falls residents have perceptions of the conditions of their neighborhoods. Niagara University students and partner organizations spent the past year gathering datasets of one ...

No audio available for this content. Screenshot: GIS Planning New hyperlocal business directory ZoomBusiness designed to help Main Street businesses across North America engage with local residents ...

No audio available for this content. A few months ago, I wrote a little about ArcGIS Explorer (AE), a free GIS viewer from Esri. It’s a nice tool for non-GIS users who want to view GIS data. Looks ...

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 ...

Albemarle County announces the launch of the new GIS Web, the public mapping tool. The new interface has the same functionality as the old system, but with several new features and improvements.

I've heard this cycling complaint too often: “Someone's going to get hurt here unless ...” Thanks to an interactive GIS mapping tool, one can now do something besides bellyache, courtesy of the ...

When Hurricane Sandy struck the East Coast in October, Len Bundra didn’t back down. As the lead of IT and GIS operations for the Toms River, N.J., Municipal Utilities Authority, he knew the ...

Mapping company Esri is using a new GIS mapping tool to look at areas around the Tri-State and what that tells us about numbers here. Week 16 Data Dump: QBs, RBs, WRs and TEs you can COUNT ON in ...