Students competing for the U-Spatial Prize use maps, data and more to tell highly engaging stories about their research.

It’s a busy day anywhere in the world. You roll out of bed and grab your smartphone. You check a news website or a weather app or look up directions to an appointment. Most people don’t think about it ...

For more than 25 years, Nancy Tosta has directed government and private-sector efforts to use geospatial technologies in environmental and natural-resource-related projects. She has served as ...

Don Murray is cofounder of Safe Software and has spent his career helping organizations bring life to data to make better decisions. The world we live in is spatial. Think about how many times you use ...

Automated map generalisation is the process of automatically reducing and transforming the detail of spatial data to produce legible maps at varying scales. Key operations include simplification, ...

Fairfax County, Va., shows how maps, dashboards and a layered data ecosystem are a critical part of responding to the ...

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Basic Concepts of GIS -- ch. 1 Some Concepts That Underpin GIS -- You Ask: "What Is GIS About?" -- And So You Ask Again: "What Is GIS About?" -- Exercise 1-1 ...

Good news for the curious scientist: Spatial transcriptomics got another bump in resolution. In Nature Neuroscience on February 2, researchers led by Morgan Sheng and Xiao Wang of the Broad Institute ...

The study of spatial language has long relied on classic frameworks distinguishing between egocentric (self-centered) and allocentric (world-centered) reference frames. However, recent breakthroughs ...