Articles in this section examine how free and open source software is changing the world of geographic and geospatial information science (GIS) and mapping.
A devastating magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Nepal on April 25, 2015, killing more than 9,000 people, injuring thousands more, and leaving an additional 3 million homeless…
Next week, FOSS4G North America is coming to Raleigh, NC. FOSS4G is a conference celebrating all of the ways that free and open source software are changing the world of…
There are a lot of great geographic information systems ( GIS) that run in web browsers and mobile apps, thanks in large part to the introduction of new web standards in 2010…
The Missing Maps project, which launched in 2014, aims to literally and figuratively put more than 20-million at-risk people on the map using OpenStreetMap (OSM) as a platform…
Every year on the third Wednesday of November, map geeks around the world (myself included) celebrate GIS Day. Short for geographic information systems, or occasionally…
