Google Maps has become so deeply embedded in everyday life that most of us never think about alternatives. It handles directions, trip planning, and place searches so well that switching to something ...

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Early in my GIS career, I wanted to produce digital maps at home. Of course, I couldn’t use the tools I had access to at work due to licensing and cost restrictions. That limitation pushed me to ...

As NASA’s Perseverance rover continues to explore the surface of Mars, an open-source, online mapping software known as Multi-Mission Geographic Information System (MMGIS) has been instrumental in ...

Garment supply chains can be confoundingly opaque, making labor and environmental abuses impossible to detect. A new online tool, on the other hand, wants to shed some light on the issue. How? By ...

Choosing the best GIS software can define how efficiently you handle mapping, spatial analysis, and geospatial data. In this guide, we summarize how each geographic information system software ...