GIS mapping tools are reshaping how property owners, buyers, and planners access and interpret land data. By integrating parcel boundaries, zoning overlays, and ownership records, these systems ...

Not so long ago, only a select group of users could take advantage of GIS tools and applications. The general public barely knew what GIS was, let alone knew how to use it. Today, the Web allows GIS ...

The Intersect GIS tool (Intersct.zip) is a lightweight spatial overlay utility designed to perform geometric intersection operations on vector datasets. Unlike simple clipping tools, this utility ...

MapWindow GIS (www.mapwindow.org) is a free GIS that you can use without needing to have ArcView or ArcGIS. Once you've added the MMP Tools plug-in to MapWindow, you can follow the instructions below ...

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 ...

Information, not money or ammunition, is now the holy grail of business organisations and governments across the world. Computer programming and computer graphics, apart from enabling us to visualise ...

Florida has introduced an advanced GIS-based flood risk mapping tool that integrates rainfall, elevation, land use, and social vulnerability data to identify high-risk areas. The platform, supported ...

Privacy and ethics while matching data with locations were hot topics during Friday’s panel discussion on GIS technology and ...

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 ...