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| 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 online maps. For an idea of what you can do with TileMill, the Chicago Tribune demonstrated some of its capabilities in its Making Maps series using PostGIS, Mapnik, TileMill, and Google Maps. Demos of TileMill in action ... read more January 23, 2012 WorldMap: An Open Source Software PlatformInternet Mapping, SoftwareHarvard’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 on Amazon’s EC2 cloud ... 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, the ... 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 from ... 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 Free GIS ApplicationsFree GIS, SoftwareListed here are applications that provide mapping and spatial analysis functionality in a no-cost software application. BASINS 4.0 BASINS 4.0 is an environmental modeling interface built upon the open source GIS MapWindow. The system contains tools to download data from the internet and can perform basic GIS functions to prepare inputs for modeling pollutant loading in streams. ... read more October 26, 2011ArcGIS Now on AndroidSoftwareEsri has announced the availability of ArcGIS on the Android platform: Google Android users can now access data and mapping capabilities on their smartphones with the ArcGIS for Android application. ArcGIS for Android lets users find and share maps as well as deploy GIS data and functionality on Android devices. The free app is now available and can ... read more October 9, 2011 Making Maps with RProgramming, SoftwareR language is a commonly used programming language and open source software that can be utilized by statisticians for statistical and data analysis. Licensed under GNU, R can be downloaded and installed on Linux, MacOS, and Windows platforms. More about what R is here. R can also be used for geographic data visualization and there are ... read more September 26, 2011 Data for the People, by the People: Designing Smartphone-based GISystems for Environmental Resource AssessmentLocation Based Services, SoftwareAccording to the most recent Nielsen data, smartphones comprise approximately 40% of mobile phones used by US citizens. As mobile device technologies (e.g., smartphones and tablets) are increasingly becoming an indispensable part of our lives, more and more companies are taking advantage of the GPS capabilities of these devices to provide powerful crowdsourced geospatial data ... read more |
