Xtensible, a SAM company, announced today that it has been awarded a consulting contract by Con Edison Company of New York, ...

Back in the mid-1980s, when I established the U.S. Navy’s first GIS, we used mapping software from a company called National Planning Data Corporation (NPDC). In the process, I had several interesting ...

Web-based geographic information system software enables utilities to manage aspects of their assets in a contextual, visual and map-based database. Modern GIS software enables utilities to manage ...

Karen Schwartz is a freelance technology writer based in the Washington D.C. area. Companies that work with geospatial data face unique storage obstacles. The data itself is voluminous; the files in ...

Location data is critical to nearly all state and local government work — whether it’s responding to a public safety call, supporting community planning and development, or maintaining critical ...

Forward-thinking executives are finding new ways to look at the data they’ve long received from architects, engineers, and contractors before, during, and after construction. They’re anchoring that ...

The purpose of a geo-spatial system is to combine data with the questions that are asked administratively. GIS provides spatial information in response to the query -- what next should I look at?