States are making steady progress on GIS and facing old challenges, according to the latest report from the National States Geographic Information Council.
After developing an extensive geospatial data warehouse, South Carolina broadband officials say they're better able to help the state allocate broadband funding.
Rows of heavily damaged homes are seen in the aftermath of a tornado on December 10, 2023 in Clarksville, Tennessee. Multiple long-track tornadoes were reported in northwest Tennessee on Dec. 9, 2023, causing deaths, injuries and widespread damage. (Jon Cherry / Getty Images)
Officials in Clarksville-Montgomery County, Tennessee, published a new map layer that shows the path of a tornado that recently ripped through the region.
A U.S. Census Bureau geographer said the agency will begin releasing gridded data — "geographic units of a regular pattern, repeated shapes, without gaps or overlaps.”