Category: News

Something I was introduced to this week at GITA 27 that falls under the category of" cool" was a service called Ask The…

The National Spatial Reference System (NSRS), maintained by the National Geodetic Survey (NGS), is a consistent National coordinate system that defines latitude, longitude,…

In January of 1954, 120 employees of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) moved into what would be the first of many USGS buildings…

The Marine Resource GIS IMS is an on-line mapping tool designed to allow users to view spatially referenced data, create customized queries, design…

Created from the Extracted Vector Shoreline Series, a topologically clean shoreline file depicting the Mean High Water line at the best scale for…

NOAA has recently announced that high-resolution radar data from the national network of Next Generation Radar (NEXRAD) is now available in real time to…

When I first used this fabulous resource the first thing that came to my mind was that anyone out there who’s being paying big…

 Bruce Mackenzie has left his government job to take a position as an ‘Internet Geographer’ at Latitude Geographics Group Ltd. Bruce has helped create the…

Mapping gay neighborhoods. It’s no surprise that San Francisco is at the top of the list, however, other tops include West Hollywood, New…

All of the elements of geodesy are joined together in the National Spatial Reference System (NSRS). For almost 200 years, the National Geodetic…