Next to climate change, poor planning is getting the flak when it comes to environmental disasters. Poor planning is blamed for many things that have gone wrong in our country. From flooding to bad site location to poor land development and design, the list goes on. Thanks to a new technology called Geographic Information Systems or GIS, planners and stakeholders in planning communities can now use precise information for knowing, interpreting and visualizing data that reveal relationships, patterns and trends in the form of maps, globes, reports and charts. Read More
