Jack Dangermond started his working life at his parents’ plant nursery in Redlands. Now, Forbes says, he’s a billionaire. Dangermond is founder and president of Esri, one of the world’s leading ...

National Geographic cartographers fill a key map gap on the North American Continental Divide and pay tribute to the Father of American Mapmaking A portion of the Trails Illustrated Wind River Range ...

Gilbert H. Grosvenor, National Geographic magazine’s founding editor, is credited with saying: A map is the greatest of all epic poems. Its lines and colors show the realization of great dreams. This ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. What happens when we begin to think of all information as data that can ...

"I was a landscape architect who turned to a life of crime," jokes Robert Cheetham, founder of Azavea, a software development and research firm based in Philadelphia. Fourteen years ago, he was one of ...

Two seniors in the College of Earth, Ocean and Environment have won a University of Delaware mapping competition recognizing both the art and science of mapping, and the winners combined accurate ...

‘Maps aren't magic,’ says University of British Columbia prof — but during disease outbreaks, they can help us sort good information from bad Tom Koch has several job titles, but he’s notably an ...

Rebecca Theobold graduated with a PhD from CU Boulder Geography in 2007 and an MA in 2003. Q&A: How political maps are drawn determines how communities are represented at the local, state and national ...