Tag: Open Source
Weave – Open Source Data Visualization
Weave is an open source offering from the Open Indicators Consortium. OIC is a collaboration with the Institute for Visualization and Perception Research (IVPR) at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and counts membership from a range of local, regional, state, and federal government agencies and nonprofits. Weave takes its name from the software description: Web-based Analysis and Visualization Environment and [...]
Installing QGIS on the Mac
One of the best user friendly options out there for Mac users who want to run GIS software natively is QGIS (aka Quantum GIS). QGIS is an open source GIS software package that can be freely downloaded. Anita Graser provides an overview to the QGIS ecosystem which includes a desktop GIS component, cloud hosting, and [...]
TileMill: Open Source Mapping Now for Windows
TileMill can now be used natively in Windows with the latest release. The release of TileMill 0.9.0 also includes a new plugin system: “TileMill UI can now be extended and modified using standalone, JavaScript plugins.” The new release also includes many fixes and updates including shipping with a desktop app client instead of requiring a browser. For an idea of [...]
Fabric Engine: 3D LiDAR Rendering Via Web Browsers
Fabric Engine enables developers to create compute-intensive web applications with comparable performance to native, multi-threaded applications. Fabric Engine achieves this by tapping into all of the processing power of the user’s computer – something that normal web-based applications cannot do. For the GIS market, this means that any web programmer can develop solutions for visualizing [...]
Making Maps with R
R 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 [...]
