What decades in a municipal highway department, a GIS degree, and a master's program in technology management have taught me about choosing the right tool — and why many organizations now refuse to ...

The histories of some pieces of land in Chicago are well-known. The Thompson Center in the Loop stands on the former site of the Sherman House Hotel. The Chicago Police Belmont Area Headquarters and ...

Microsoft’s research arm has long been fascinated with working with large amounts of data at scale. Projects like TerraServer explored how to search and display geospatial data, mixing mapping and ...

As a condition of using these data, you must cite the use of this data set. Such a practice gives credit to data set producers and advances principles of transparency and reproducibility. Other ...

Fire insurance maps are an invaluable resource for anyone trying to understand how cities have changed over the past century. The challenge has always been unlocking what's inside them—that is, until ...

ArcToQ converts ArcGIS formats (currently only LYRX) to QGIS-compatible equivalents. This project is in its early stages, so don't expect working code of files that make sense yet. The converter will ...

Glacial lakes in the Alaska region expanded by >150 km 2 between 2018 and 2024, representing a 50 to 120% faster rate of expansion than previous periods (1986–2018). This growth primarily occurred in ...

You've read 5 stories this month. Support the CT Mirror reporting you rely on. More refugees arrived in Connecticut in the 2024 fiscal year than in any of the past 10 years. Connecticut welcomed 1,032 ...

Few things change from day to day in Connecticut, but over the years, those little changes add up, and the “land of steady habits” is a different place than it was a decade ago. Hartford’s immigration ...

We invite applications for a 4-year PhD position in the area of Exoplanetary Systems at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Ireland. The successful candidate will join Prof. Luca Matrà’s research group, ...

The Need for Improvement: Given the critical role filtering plays in data analysis, as seen in intuitive EDA software suites like Tableau, Power BI, and Qlik, it is imperative for QGIS, the dominant ...

1 Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, China. 2 Faculty of Forest Science, National University of Laos, Vientiane, ...