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 ...

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 ...

Disaster response is a race against time. Hurricanes and wildfires, in particular, demand swift, coordinated, and informed actions to save lives and protect infrastructure. Historically, emergency ...

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 ...

Developers, always seeking new techniques to enhance their applications and provide meaningful insights to users, might want to consider the power of geographically visualizing data. As businesses ...