Working Beyond Borders: GIS for Geospatial Collaboration (Applying GIS, 16)

In today’s world, organizations face a multitude of problems that require an unprecedented need for tools to share information and work better together.

In Working Beyond Borders: GIS for Geospatial Collaboration, see how government, industries, and others, are using location intelligence and GIS to interconnect people across jurisdictions and sectors, to respond to some of our most critical issues, such as climate change, sustainable development, racial equity, emergency management, conservation, and public health and safety.

Readers will also see how organizations are integrating geospatial infrastructure to improve efficiency, drive innovation, and empower every day decision-making in communities around the world.

Edited by Jill Saligoe-Simmel and Maria Jordan

Applying GIS 

The Applying GIS series explains how to become a spatial thinker with ideas and strategies for building location intelligence into your profession, industry, or discipline. Each book is divided into relevant topic areas that include real-life case studies that will inspire new ways to solve complex problems.

Dr. Jill Saligoe-Simmel is the principal product manager of geospatial Infrastructure at Esri. Jill has 25 years of geospatial technology, governance, and policy-level experience, with substantial involvement in statewide and national spatial data infrastructures. She is a trusted advisor to multi-organizational collaboratives integrating their geospatial infrastructure and growing data ecosystems. Today, she focuses on enabling new patterns to help address our shared challenges.

Maria Jordan Maria Jordan is a senior product marketing manager at Esri. She specializes in ArcGIS products and apps designed to advance community engagement, communication, collaboration, and data sharing. She is passionate about creating practical resources that convey best practices and customer successes to help organizations achieve their goals and address shared challenges together.