HERE Technologies, the leading location data and technology platform, today announced the launch of the HERE GIS Data Suite, ...

Jason Moore provides departments with the why and how to tap geographical information systems to improve operations. Using GIS mapping to show data provides relevance when it’s converted to a ...

Jason Moore tells of how two fire departments use geographical information systems (GIS) to improve response and reduce community risk.

A GIS-based community fire risk and hazard assessment starts with identifying, ranking and mapping identified hazards. You must first decide how you will identify the locations of certain hazards.

GIS specialists develop interactive 3D maps to display fire perimeters, evacuation zones and other critical data. The geospatial data serves as the foundation for effective communication and ...

Access to GIS mapping and data was a natural service to offer the population of about 25,000, but without a high-speed connection, maps are often slow to load.

Geospatial data serves as the foundational building block for crucial mapping and communications tools used by state and local government agencies in responding to fast-moving disasters like ...

The Park Fire is the largest wildfire of the year in California and the fourth-largest in state since reliable record-keeping started 1932.

The past month’s Rim Fire blazed through more than a quarter million acres of land in California, but the tensest moment came on August 27th, when the fire came close to threatening San ...

The map was built by the Idaho Department of Land’s award-winning GIS team. The team worked in conjunction with the Wildland Fire Interagency Geospatial Services Group.

On Tuesday, a wildfire broke out in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. The fire has since spread across at least 2,900 acres and is burning throughout spaces equal to ...

To put the Crabapple Fire burn scar in perspective, when overlaid over San Antonio, it’s the equivalent of a burned area from roughly St. Mary’s University, through downtown, then over to the ...