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Mapping School Performance and Inequality With GIS

March 28, 2019By Mark AltaweelSpatial Analysis

With GIS, researchers can look at how effective schools are relative to spatial measures.

Location and the Oculus Pilot Program for Libraries

June 8, 2017By Troy LambertGIS Industry

On June 7th, Oculus Education announced a pilot program in California, placing units in 90 libraries around the state.

GIS for Kids

August 15, 2010By Caitlin DempseyGIS Learning

Listed here are a few resources both online and on the ground to point you in the right direction to teaching your kids about GIS and mapping.

Elements of a Map

Map elements such as the map frame, legend, and north arrow are parts of what create a map.

Learn GIS for Free

There are a few online options to learn GIS for free. Take advantage of resources that provide you access to free courses from some of the world’s best universities and institutions.

Open Source GIS and Freeware GIS Applications

An open source application by definition is software that you can freely access and modify the source code for. Open source projects typically are worked on by a community of volunteer programmers. Open source GIS programs are based on different base programming languages. Three main groups of open source GIS […]

What is GIS?

GIS is a technological field that incorporates geographical features with tabular data in order to map, analyze, and assess real-world problems. The key word to this technology is Geography – this means that some portion of the data is spatial.

Calculating Polygon Area in ArcMap

Here are the steps for calculating the area of a polygon using ArcGIS.