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GIS on the Chisholm Trail

A profile of James Mallory, GISP, whose job in the Oklahoma County assessor's office sometimes involves using GIS to locate historic trails and treasure.

September 18, 2009 - The Journal Record (OK)

Mapping Software That Isn't Just Google Maps Plus

MIT researcher Jeffrey Warren has just released the latest version of Cartagen, a software platform for interactive mapping. Julia Galef takes a look.

August 15, 2009 - Metropolis Magazine

Visualizing and Analyzing Plans with CityCAD

Planning technology expert Charles A. Donley reviews a new piece of software that combines the worlds of Computer-Aided Design and Geographic Information Systems to help site planners visualize and analyze their plans.

July 30, 2009 - Charles A. Donley, AICP

Anybody For Some Duck Duck Goose?: Planning School, Semester Two Begins

On Friday, in the first week of my second semester of planning graduate school, we did the hokey-pokey. We put our right foot in, put our right foot out, put our right foot in, and then we shook it all about. We turned ourselves around. That was what it was all about. The demonstration was all about pointing out common ground and how people were rooted in order to approach problem solving and conflict resolution. It sounds a little squishy, I know. But it got the point across, and more important, it introduced the dance to one international student who had never heard of the hokey-pokey.

January 18, 2009 - Jeffrey Barg

Geomapping the Rats of New York

By mapping rat infestations, New York City's health inspectors have found a whole new way to beat back the rodents.

December 16, 2008 - Time

Maryland Uses GIS To Track Open Space

The State of Maryland has created a new internet-based mapping system, which it hopes will help target conservation funds.

December 15, 2008 - GIS News

GIS Solves Crimes

Cops in Toronto catch a criminal through GIS plotting, and reporter Sara Barbour takes us on a tour of other unusual new applications of GIS.

June 30, 2008 - Miller/McCune

Rumor: Microsoft To Buy ESRI?

So if both Microsoft and ESRI are concerned about the Google's move into mapping with the impressive Google Earth, then perhaps a Microsoft-ESRI combination would be the way to fight back. Wow. That's a big rumor.

August 8, 2005 - Chris Steins

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