The holiday season is upon us and for the Geography Division at the U.S. Census Bureau, the season starts with GIS Day! Today is GIS Day, a worldwide celebration that highlights how geography and GIS can help answer questions. Geographic information systems (GIS) combine software and data to display and analyze spatial information. GIS allows us to visualize and interpret data through maps and charts, and in a way that is quick to understand.
At the Census Bureau, GIS plays an important role in our everyday work, not only in the Geography Division, but throughout the Census Bureau. Whether it is using the OnTheMap tool to help answer questions about our working population or creating maps for our data visualization gallery to make data not only interesting and fun but also easier to understand, you will find GIS technology throughout census.gov.
In addition, we utilize GIS to be more efficient in our daily activities and we are now better able to share products with data users. For example, GIS has allowed us to create and print millions of maps for taking a census in a relatively short period. We are also able to provide GIS files that data users can use in their own GIS software and a web-mapping application with a web mapping service (WMS) for those who do not have their own GIS or want to stream our data as a base in their own applications. We create maps, charts, reports, and tools so our data can be viewed spatially, all using GIS.
HxGN Live - The Hexagon Global Network - Learn about surveying, mapping, laser scanning and geospatial solutions from Leica Geosystems. June 3-6, 2013, Las Vegas, Nevada
Join us at GIS for Government 2013 taking place June 24-26, 2013 in the Washington, DC Metro Area to find out everything you need to know about GIS. Click here for more information
To register for the first GCS Geospatial Big Data webinar, visit the new GCS website at www.YourDataSmarter.com. The one-hour free webinar will be broadcast live at 3 pm EDT Wed, June 12, 2013
