Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna and two ...

In California, Pennsylvania, Washington and elsewhere, water districts are often turning to GIS and other tech tools to better serve their communities and the increasing needs of firefighting.

Local governments have long wanted to work with GIS in the field, but the marriage between GIS and wireless presents a number of problems. One hard-to-ignore detail is funding the necessary software ...