DETROITography has participated in GIS Day since 2014 with UM Dearborn. Since 2020, DETROITography has organized Detroit GIS Day with Wayne State University, the University of Michigan-Dearborn, and University of Detroit Mercy.

GIS Day is an international celebration of geographic information systems (GIS) technology. GIS is a scientific framework for gathering, analyzing, and visualizing geographic data to help us make better decisions. On GIS Day, we hope to help others learn about geography and the real-world applications of GIS through lightning presentations and GIS workshops.

Detroit has been a hotbed of geospatial data collection, innovative GIS projects, and new applications in GIS for cities.