It’s one thing to feel there are too few parks or crosswalks in a community, and another to back up that assertion with data. This past summer, high school students participating in the GRACE project ...

Beyond the edge of SXSW last week, the Esri team camped out in an old brick firehouse with the interior of an Italian palace. It felt like the home of an eccentric Texas aristocrat, alone in his ...

The interactive navigation app Waze, with its 65 million active monthly users, has partnered with Esri, which provides geographic information systems (GIS) software to 25,000 state, local and national ...

Susan L. Cutter is a Carolina Distinguished professor of geography at the University of South Carolina where she directs the Hazards and Vulnerability Research ...

Using a simulated disaster scenario of a chemical accident on a highway near their school, Livonia High School students soon discovered how important geographic information systems and imaging science ...

Note: This article is part of the Firehouse 2024 Station Design Supplement. To read the entire supplement, click here. Gaining community consensus around an idea rarely is easier than gaining ...

Students will present their maps at the Historic Triangle Community Services Center in Williamsburg, 312 Waller Mill Rd. in Williamsburg, at 7 p.m. on Nov. 15 in conjunction with the celebration of ...

As pressure mounts to tackle the Zika outbreak, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response is using Esri’s GIS software to create maps ...

A common type of geographic mapping software offers a new way to study human remains. In a new study, researchers describe how they used commercially available mapping software to identify features ...