Proposed by Egyptian scientists, the proposed GIS technique considers a pumped-hydro project’s head and elevation difference, the penstock-length distance from the base plant, the site’s slopes and ...

"A Practitioner's Guide to GIS Terminology" The following terms are condensed and reproduced with permission from "A Practitioner's Guide to GIS Terminology" by Stearns J. Wood, which contains more ...

It’s hard to find anyone who hasn’t heard of open data by now, and yet the state and local governments working to expose their data are vastly outnumbered by those that are waiting for a solid ...

Provide information that relates to the map features. Consist of sequences of two or more coordinates that form zero-width shapes, either closed or unclosed. Line features represent entities that ...

The theme may have been "Imagining Construction's Future" at ENR's Nov. 7 FutureTech conference in New York City, but, for many panelists and attendees, what once seemed like tomorrow's technology is ...

At Esri’s Infrastructure Management and GIS conference, held in Palm Springs, Calif., Oct. 28-30, large utilities such as PG&E showed off how they were using geographic information systems when ...