Geospatial Information Systems have come a long way as a discipline, allowing users to view, understand, question, interpret, and visualise data in ways that reveal relationships, patterns, and trends in the form of maps, globes, reports, and charts. GIS has been leveraged by the Government and industries, including finance, retail, health and human services, natural resources, public safety, transportation, and utilities. What’s helping to guide the next phase of GIS is Location analytics – an emerging trend in the geospatial community and the core theme of the ESRI workshop at this year’s GovCFO Summit 2013. Read More
