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Benjamin Heumann, a professor with Central Michigan University uses a drone to map threatened plant species

Drones and GIS: A Look at the Legal and Ethical Issues

September 10, 2015By Caitlin DempseyGIS Industry

The ethical and legal issues about gathering geographic data using drones can be divided into four main areas: regulations, privacy, safety, and noise.

Google Street View News from 2008

August 30, 2008By Caitlin DempseyGIS Software

Described here are select Google Street View news from 2008.

Google Street View along the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, 2008.

Google’s Street View

June 11, 2007By Caitlin DempseyGIS Software

Since the launch of Google’s street level imagery in May of 2007, Street View has become topic of fascination, legal wrangling, and just plain fun.

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.

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.