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City of Seattle GIS ROI Study

GIS Management Consulting Services completed a major GIS return on investment (ROI) study for the City of Seattle. The details of the study were published recently in this Society for Benefit Cost Analysis Blog article by Greg Babinski. This study found that in 2024, GIS generated between $127 million and $184 million in net financial…

Locus Charter Provides an Ethical Foundation for Your Use of Location Data

EthicalGEO and The Benchmark Initiative announced the Locus Charter for the ethical and responsible use of spatial data in February 2021. By July 2021 initial signatories of the Charter represented its high-level international support, including the American Geographical Society, Association for Geographic Information (UK), Environmental Information Systems Africa, the National Institute of Statistics and Geography…

I Am Geography

The summer before my junior year at Wayne State University in Detroit, I rolled my 1959 VW bug while going 60mph on a camping trip near Traverse City, Michigan. The gods must be crazy, because I survived, and the VW survived. But I took it as a sign, and I sold the VW with the…


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