Macintosh Resources for GIS

Thursday June 21st 2007
Filed Under Link Library, Operating Systems 

Resources, software and reviews on the use of GIS and in the Macintosh Operating System.

ArcExplorer
ArcExplorer is the Java based free data viewer from ESRI. This program allows you to view and geocode data in shapefile format.

ArcVoyager Special Edition
A free package designed expressly for school use, based on ESRI’s ArcView, and available for both Windows and Macintosh systems. ArcVoyager Special Edition contains runtime ArcView and come with pre-packaged data.

GeoMax
A list of various GIS resources available for Macintosh. Remote sensing software, GIS, and GPS solutions available on the Macintosh platform are listed there.

MacDEM
MacDEM is an application to view and edit digitial elevation model (DEM) files for the Mac OS.

Map MAC
The MAP Mac list is designed to be an interactive clearinghouse for questions and other information related to mapping or the production of map art on Apple Macintosh Operating System computers.

MapServer OSX
MapServer OSX is a Mac OS X (v 10.2+) port of the Open Source MapServer software, distributed in the easy-to-install Mac OS X package installer format. “MapServer is an OpenSource development environment for building spatially enabled Internet applications. The software builds upon other popular OpenSource or freeware systems like Shapelib, FreeType, Proj.4, libTIFF, Perl, PostGIS, PostgreSQL and others. MapServer will run where most commercial systems won’t or can’t, on Linux/Apache platforms.”

Quantum GIS
Also referred to as QGIS, Quantum GIS is an Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS) that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows. Version 0.8.1 was recently released and can be downloaded for free.

TNT Products
Created by Microimages, The TNT Products is a suite of GIS applications for fully integrated GIS, image processing, CAD, TIN, desktop cartography, and geospatial database management. Platforms: Windows, UNIX, Macintosh.





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