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May 7, 2012 Introducing the Quantum GIS EcosystemFeatures, SoftwareAnita Graser provides an introduction to the desktop, web, and mobile capabilities of the open source GIS software, QGIS in this guest article. A GIS specialist with the Austrian Institute of Technology, Anita Graser also writes about open source GIS topics on her blog, “Free and Open Source GIS Ramblings”. The Quantum GIS ... read more March 12, 2012 Getting Started With QGIS: Open Source GISSoftwareQuantum GIS is an open source GIS desktop software more popularly known as QGIS. QGIS 1.0 was first released in January of 2009 although development on the software began back in 2002 by Gary Sherman with the first versions of the software intended as a GIS data viewer for PostGIS. QGIS is increasingly becoming a viable alternative ... read more February 21, 2012 New Release of GRASS GISSoftwareGRASS GIS 6.4.2 has been released by the GRASS development team. GRASS GIS is an open source GIS software package. Over 770 updates are included in this new stable release. What’s new with the release of GRASS GIS 6.4.2? The new wxPython graphical user interface (wxGUI) has been updated with many new features and tools. Python ... read more February 6, 2012 TileMill: Open Source Mapping Now for WindowsSoftware, Web MappingTileMill is built on open source libraries (Mapnik, node.js, backbone.js,express and CodeMirror) and uses CSS styling with its map styling language Carto to render beautiful that can either be exported as image and PDF files or uploaded and displayed online. For an idea of what you can do with TileMill, the Chicago Tribune demonstrated some of its capabilities as ... read more January 23, 2012 WorldMap: An Open Source Software PlatformSoftwareHarvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis recently released WorldMap, an open source mapping application designed to make it easier for researchers to upload large GIS datasets and to create online maps using thousands of geographic layers available to them from the Worldmap Library. WorldMap is built using open source software (access the WorldMap source code via github.com) and is hosted ... read more November 29, 2011 Explaining Socium, a Cloud Based GIS Data Validation ServiceSoftwareAbbie Beckford, Customer Relations and Marketing Manager at Socium, shares insight about the new launch and what the benefits of this cloud based online data validation and management services are. Having confidence in spatial data is vital to organisations that rely on it for making business critical decisions and with increased demand for sharing data, ... read more November 27, 2011 Python and GIS ResourcesCodingFind resources to web sites about Python scripting to use in GIS. Learn how to use Python to expand your geographic information system. Esri uses Python as its scripting language for ArcGIS and the language can be found in many open source GIS applications. Also see: Learning Programming for GIS for general Python resources. A ... read more November 26, 2011 Open Source GIS and Freeware GIS ApplicationsFree GIS, SoftwareAn open source application by definition is software that you can freely access and modify the source code for. Open source projects typically are worked on by a community of volunteer programmers. Open source GIS programs are based on different base programming languages. Three main groups of open source GIS (outside of web GIS) in ... read more November 23, 2011 A Look at ArcGIS for SmartphonesFree GIS, SoftwareArcGIS for smartphones and tablets is an app from Esri available for free from the Apple App Store, Android App Marketplace (ArcGIS for Android was just released in October), and Windows App Store that makes it easy to extend the GIS capabilities of your phone. ArcGIS is a a way to use and discover maps ... read more November 16, 2011 TdhGIS – Free Software for Vector Based AnalysisFree GIS, SoftwareTdhGIS is a free GIS software application for Linux and Windows operating systems for spatial analysis of vector based geographic data. The software can also be used as a shapefile viewer and editor. Tim Hirrel is the developer of TdhGIS which was developed using C++, wxWidgets and SQLite. Hirrel, water resources engineer, developed the software based on ... read more |
