Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. Perhaps the greatest challenge confronting today’s “big data” era lies ...

No audio available for this content. For most GIS professionals, Esri’s new ArcGIS Earth will replace the soon-to-be-discontinued Google Earth Enterprise. I take a tour through the new software, which ...

When Google first came out, there was one GIS outfit who enthusiastically embraced KML as a way to share their GIS data with their community – the City of Portland, Oregon. This was in 2005 and they ...

The guys who published the Russian bird migration tracks I wrote about last week have also been creating a great collection of GIS (Geographic Information System) data regarding basic world ...