State and Local

When “Full Coverage” Isn’t Full: Why Rancho Mirage Is Mapping Wireless Gaps

Rancho Mirage uses GIS to uncover wireless coverage gaps. The city’s maps of cellular performance helped residents understand service quality, guide infrastructure planning, and accelerate collaboration with wireless carriers to expand reliable connectivity across a fast-growing desert resort community.

Why AI Citation Registries Are Emerging as a Practical Path Forward for Government Agencies

Agencies publish an array of documents — decentralized and in different formats — that AI systems often misinterpret when answering resident questions. Standardization and centralization would address the problem, but those can be heavy lifts. A citation registry, however, can change how AI understands government writings.