Planning is under way for the 2024 AGIC Education and Training Symposium! Arizona's premier GIS event will be held in Prescott, Arizona at the Prescott Resort and Conference Center on August 27 - August 30, 2024. Start planning your presentations and map submission now!
Tuesday, April 23, 2024 - 10:55am
PostGIS is an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) compliant software used as a spatial database extender for PostgreSQL, which is a form of object-relational database. While PostGIS is free and open source, it is used in both commercial (e.g., ArcGIS) and open source GIS software (e.g., QGIS).
Tuesday, April 23, 2024 - 10:55am
Whether you are new to the field of GIS or a decades-long veteran, continuously working to improve your geospatial skills should be a lifelong pursuit. Listed here are five practical strategies that GIS users can adopt to further develop their capabilities and grow with the geospatial industry.
Tuesday, April 23, 2024 - 10:53am
The American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing is revising the ASPRS Positional Accuracy Standards for Digital Geospatial Data for publication as v2 of the 2nd Edition and we are seeking public opinion on the proposed changes. Revising the standard is an important and necessary process, as technologies and practices are evolving. The updating of these standards will impact geospatial capabilities and all who benefit from these services worldwide for years to come, so please participate in this historical event that only comes every 20 years by reviewing the draft and providing feedback.
Tuesday, April 23, 2024 - 10:48am
Artificial intelligence (AI) is dominating discussions everywhere. Specifically, the rapid rise of generative AI—AI that can create new data, such as text, images, videos, audio, and 3D models—from platforms such as ChatGPT has led to a lot of debate about the ethics and quality of information used to train AI models.
Monday, April 22, 2024 - 9:35am
The idea of being able to track ones position when moving predates the invention of Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and the personal navigation devices that have followed.
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