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 ...

OpenGeo has introduced a significant update to its integrated geospatial platform with the release of OpenGeo Suite 3.0. The upgrade reflects sustained momentum in the open source GIS landscape, ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--According to the latest market study released by Technavio, the global geographic information system (GIS) market is set to reach close to USD 16 billion by 2020, growing at a ...

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 ...

I’ve received some great reader response from readers regarding my articles on open source GIS and mobile devices. I’ve included them in this week’s column along with my comments. As you can read ...

Area-wide insect pest control programmes rely on updated geospatial data for efficiently conducting and evaluating baseline data surveys and progress monitoring. Soft- and hardware available as ...

Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack ...

A geographic information system (GIS) combines software and digital geographic data to generate maps, tables, and interactive analyses of spatial information. Princeton uses GIS to manage resources, ...