Leaders for the town of Normal, Illinois are finding power in maps and dashboards to track planned infrastructure projects and share transparently with the public where and how community spending is applied.
A rural Pennsylvania community expanded broadband internet services using GIS.
At the center of the new Climate Mapping for Resilience and Adaptation portal is a tool that features data relevant to making decisions and projections about climate conditions that can be searched by address to help communities adapt.
In Atlanta, one nonprofit is using geographic tools help locate and analyze often overlooked land within and alongside highways as sites for solar panel arrays.
Residents in Ontario, California, are poised to be among the first in the U.S. to experience a citywide drone delivery program.
Montana’s Department of Natural Resources and Conservation employed maps and dashboards to add transparency to the distribution of economic stimulus funds.
The infrastructure bills represent a huge opportunity for once-in-a-generation change for the greater good. Let’s do everything we can to do it securely.
More public sector agencies are moving their operations and applications to the cloud, and are looking for a common cloud infrastructure.
Communities need to learn to think GIS first to drive long-term decision-making and planning by implementing data-driven decisions and collaboration with geodesign.
Budgets are getting tighter and resources are being spread thin at the state and local level. One way for governments to stretch their diminishing dollars is to use data to make smarter decisions.