Proposed cuts to food assistance threaten not only to harm food-insecure people, but deprive food banks of valuable data they need to serve their communities.

Kern County, California, Deputy Fire Chief Zachary Wells and Esri's Ryan Lanclos say ALERTCalifornia's new map layer  strengthens emergency management and improves community safety.

Milwaukee County recently updated its vehicle collision dashboard to include data on crash "hotspots," with the aim of driving improvements in public safety.

Staff at the Hawaii State Energy Office said that a critical decision-making tool that helps the state respond to and plan for emergencies may not have happened…

Local election offices are using mapping software to improve the transparency of their processes and to encourage more people to go vote.

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.

After serving as director of the New York's GIS office, Elisabetta DeGironimo is now the statewide geographic information officer.

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.”