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Case Study: How Brindisi, Italy is Using GIS to Help Preserve its Ancient Architecture

May 1, 2019By Pitney BowesGIS Learning

The city of Brindisi, Italy deployed a solution from Pitney Bowes® that provides 80 to 90 percent faster performance, while dramatically improving the user-friendliness of maps and significantly reducing staff time dedicated to mapping.

Learn Web GIS, Step by Step

March 16, 2015By Caitlin DempseyGIS Learning

Esri has released a new workbook for GIS students entitled, Getting to Know Web GIS. This workbook uses Esri’s ArcGIS platform including ArcGIS Online, Portal for ArcGIS, Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS, web app templates, and ArcGIS API for JavaScript in order to teach students how to create web GIS applications. The book […]

OWGIS was used to display important data for immigrants that cross Mexico searching for better opportunities. This project was built at the Americas Datafest Hackathon.

OWGIS – Open Source GIS Web Application

October 13, 2014By Caitlin DempseyGIS Software

Standing for Open WebGIS, the developers of OWGIS describe it as an “OpenSource Java Servlets web application that creates WebGIS sites by automatically writing HTML and JavaScript code.” OWGIS uses XML files to configure which GIS data is displayed via the web GIS application. An article published in Environmental Modeling and Software […]

Figure 1 Internet GIS and Web GIS comparison.

What is is the Difference Between Web GIS and Internet GIS?

February 21, 2014By Majid HojatiGIS Learning

Majid Hojaty, a MSc student of GIS and Remote Sensing with Tehran University, Iran, discusses the differences between web GIS and Internet GIS.