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GIS Conference Roundup

June 1, 2011By Caitlin DempseyGIS Learning

In the latest GIS conference news, Safe Software is offering a free webinar, OSGIS registrations are closing soon, the INTERGEO conference will be held in September, and the International LiDAR Mapping Forum has a call for papers. Safe Software is offering a free one-hour webinar on loading data into Oracle Spatial and […]

GIS News: New Production Mapping Blog, Census 2010 Data, OSGIS 2011

May 23, 2011By Caitlin DempseyGIS Learning

Today’s geospatial industry news includes a new blog from Esri, Esri Census 2010 data products, and the OSGIS annual conference. Esri has launched a new blog on Production Mapping aimed at those in charge of producing maps and other cartographic products. Esri has released Esri Census 2010 data: This release […]

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.

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.

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 […]

Calculating Polygon Area in ArcMap

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