Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Cindy Elliott is director of business industry at Esri. This article is more than 2 years old. FEDEX IS ONE OF THOSE COMPANIES ...

Scientific data that’s spatially analyzed produces highly useful information for academics, scientists and other researchers, helping them answer questions and make well-informed decisions, according ...

The fundamental importance of location in human affairs is one reason why GIS use is so widespread today. You may think I’m prejudiced for saying this, because I’m in the GIS business, but spatial ...

Gaming in VR is great, but there’s huge potential for the tech to be used for productivity too. One early stab at that is Noda, a mind mapping tool for the Vive and Rift. A mind map is a type of ...

Sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on nothing until, at last, we stumble unconsciously against the only one ...

Spatial intelligence is the ability to visualize a change in the position of things. Here are some tips to help grow your preschooler's spatial thinking. Grow preschoolers’ spatial thinking to prepare ...

Emily Farran received funding from the Leverhulme Trust, the Economic and Social Research Council, the British Academy and the Centre for Educational Neuroscience to carry out research discussed in ...

A mix of support systems can be brought to bear on spatial thinking. These support systems form a suite that ranges from the simple to the most complex. Chapter 7 considers GIS as an exemplar of a ...

Though scientists know children with strong spatial thinking skills have an edge in science, technology, engineering, and math, and that those skills are teachable, no one has formally infused them ...