In today’s era of digital maps, the use of paper maps might seem a bit antiquated. When Google Maps are easily accessible through any computer, tablet, or smartphone, pulling out a paper map appears to be as old-fashioned as using a rotary telephone or listening to a vinyl record. There […]
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GIS Data
Is the GIS Industry Splitting?
Matt Sheehan, from WebMapSolutions, shares some of the results from a survey asking, “is GIS splitting?” These are exciting times for GIS. We are in the midst of a GIS revolution, driven by the popularity of mobile and cloud technology. Suddenly location has become very important. The demand for maps and […]
GIS Software
The Changing Face of the Map Maker
In this essay, Chris Brown, the CEO of MangoMap, discusses how the accessibility of GIS and map making has changed. Who makes all the maps? That would be us GIS professionals right? Not anymore. Let me begin by giving you a little context. I’m the CEO of the web map […]
GIS Learning
Opinion Piece: The Future of GIS
Noam Rozenfeld has been working in the field of GIS for over five years, most recently as a GIS project manager for the Survey of Israel. Rozenfeld has written an opinion article about what he considers to be the future trends of GIS: what emerging geospatial technologies will become commonplace tools […]
GIS Software
Five Reasons to Start Using QGIS
For those of you still sitting on the fence about developing some hands on experience with the open source GIS platform QGIS, here are five very strong reasons to start this Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) now.
GIS Learning
Future of GIS
Always interesting are the predictions that pundits have for the future of GIS. I’ve started to collect GIS predictions and list them here. The GIS predictions for the future are listed by the year in reverse chronological order. The Future of GIS is in the Cloud Digital Map Products, a […]