An in-depth look at the announcement holds interest for the GIS community. The Artemis program will be heavily dependent on spatial technologies and require a Lunar Spatial Reference ... The towers ...

To cope with the large scale, complex spatial problems of the 21st century, we need to make use of some powerful tools. GIS technology provides these tools. And for the moment, at least, humans ...

NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey (NGS) is announcing a delay in the release of the modernized National Spatial Reference System (NSRS). In 2007, NGS began planning for the modernized NSRS, acquiring ...

Consist of multiple SAS/GIS spatial databases that are linked together hierarchically in a tree structure. ... Reference the spatial data sets that belong to the child spatial entries beneath them on ...

GERS assigns a unique ID to geospatial entities, including 2.6 billion buildings, 61 million places, 321 million road ...

The Overture Maps Foundation, a collaborative effort to build interoperable open map data, is offering the general availability of its Global Entity Reference System (GERS)-providing a unique ID for ...

The system for the foundation of technology and how spatial coordinates are determined within the U.S. is the National Spatial Reference System — which has not been updated within the last four ...

In a GIS, you need to consider the projection, because any map you view or create is essentially flat like a paper map. Thus, the same concept applies to both situations. Just as important as the map ...