Don Murray is cofounder of Safe Software and has spent his career helping organizations bring life to data to make better decisions. The world we live in is spatial. Think about how many times you use ...

“Data governance policy is a collection of principles, frameworks, programs, roles, and responsibilities that help manage data collection, storage, access, usage, quality, and archival of data assets ...

Open the Planetary Computer data catalog and you will find all kinds of useful data: from decades’ worth of satellite imagery to biomass maps, from the US Census to fire data. All together, there are ...

Faced with growing legislative and consumer demands for change, industry executives and governments are looking for ways to make a difference and address issues surrounding climate change. In fact, ...

A map can turn a flat table of coordinates into something you can read in seconds, and that is the real value of geospatial data visualization tools. They help you convert geographic data and ...

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Alan Boyle on May 19, 2026 at 7:00 ...

Geospatial engineering combines principles of engineering, geography, and surveying to collect, analyze, and manage spatial data. Geospatial engineering involves surveying. Over time, the field of ...

Top: Devil’s Elbow Trestle Bridge near Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. Bottom: A LiDAR scan of the same trestle bridge. (Sgt. 1st Class Andrew French and CW4 Michael Baber) The current state of ...

A new report says that Australia should focus its efforts on its AI capabilities, including geospatial data and environmental data.

Geospatial data governance roadmaps provide a plan to improve organizational effectiveness and efficiency by assembling geospatial data into actionable information that is reliably delivered to ...