Since 2006, New York City has required owners of office towers taller than 15 stories to file “emergency action plans.” Tens of thousands of floor plans have since been delivered to the city's fire ...

Maps answer the age-old question, “Where am I?” But maps also provide insight on a variety of other questions, too, through the use of a geographic information system (GIS), a powerful mapping and ...

For years, it’s been only the most committed of journonerds who could invest both the time and money to put geography to use. To say that’s changing is an understatement. GIS (Geography and Geographic ...

If you want to know if a property you're interested in is on a flood plain, if there's an easily bikeable path from your house to work or even if there is an EPA Super Fund site within miles of where ...