This edition demonstrates the visual medium of maps,” said Geography Professor Nick Perdue, faculty adviser for the magazine. “The collection is a testament to the creativity and precision ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. The world’s news media offers an incredibly rich geographic lens through ...

Over the past 50 years, geographers have embraced each new technological shift in geographic information systems (GIS)—the ...

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 ...

A student once told me, halfway through the term, “I thought this class would be about memorizing countries. But now I can’t ...

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. Language is inextricably interconnected with geography. Each day as we ...

"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 ...