Directions Magazine is pleased to welcome Eva Reid as a regular columnist. In her debut contribution, she examines how health data modeling—particularly through GIS and agent-based systems—will ...

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At a basic level, geospatial data supports map production and navigation. That was one of the early reasons digital mapping took off in the first place, since updating a paper map used to be slow and ...

Location data is critical to nearly all state and local government work — whether it’s responding to a public safety call, supporting community planning and development, or maintaining critical ...

The course is an introduction to the basic concepts and techniques of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). This course contains lectures and exercises in ArcGIS. The lectures introduce the basic ...

Most projects benefit from having a data model. This article gives an overview of the most common types. At its heart, data modeling is about understanding how data flows through a system. Just as a ...

A 2026 analysis highlights leading geospatial intelligence platforms including AI-powered GEOINT tools, and real-time ...