In San Diego, Augmented Reality and GIS Go Hand in Hand
The city government of San Diego serves 1.4 million residents by using GIS as a core technology. The city adopted GIS 30 years ago.
Posts Tagged: GIS
In a City of Change, Las Vegas IT Director Finds Common Ground
When Michael Sherwood, Director of Technology and Innovation for Las Vegas, assumed his role about three years ago, he was tasked with improving the city’s outlook for the future.
How to Modernize GIS in the Cloud
An agency’s decision to move to cloud can be complicated if an agency doesn’t quite understand the implications of cloud on everyday operations.
Leveraging GIS as an Integrator to Produce Mission Outcomes
Over the years, geographic information systems (GIS) have matured to central enterprise business systems in most government agencies.
Overcoming Homelessness With GIS
Geographic information system (GIS) technology captures, organizes and analyzes geographic data for public servants trying to improve their communities.
How GIS Can Catalyze Emerging Technologies
How can government agencies work smarter? For one, they can use geographic information systems (GIS) to increase effectiveness and management and go further by combining GIS with the Internet of Things (IoT).
Altering the Course of Disease Surveillance: Connecting Cause and Effect to Location
The latest advancements in GIS technology have made the work of disease surveillance efforts even more comprehensive and effective. Here’s how.
Understanding the Importance of Resiliency
Because so many resiliency issues deal with location-based data, GIS is an essential tool for communities to use to understand and articulate where these challenges are, where they’re likely to be in coming years, as well as how and where these unforeseen issues can be either mitigated or rectified.
3 GIS Trends to Watch in Government
The future of GIS is about secure, web-based services that are accessible and put greater capabilities into the hands of everyday employees.
Policymakers, How Well Do You Know Your Community?
Government agencies across the country make public policy decisions every day — and most all public policy decisions involve issues that have a spatial component. As agencies strive to make more analytics-driven decisions, the decision makers rely more on the work of analysts. These analysts need to collect, manage, interpret, integrate, synthesize, analyze, and visualizeRead… Read more »