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Open Source GIS and Freeware GIS Applications

Filed in GIS Software by Caitlin Dempsey on November 26, 2012 • 11 Comments
Open Source GIS and Freeware GIS Applications

An 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 [...]

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Linux in GIS

Filed in GIS Software by Caitlin Dempsey on February 3, 2008 • 0 Comments
Linux in GIS

Currently applications and resources geared towards running GIS software on Linux operating systems. fmaps GIS/RS application for Linux and Gnome platforms. Open source code is available for downloading from this site. FreeGIS FreeGIS DVD GNU/Linux. This DVD contains GRASS, a GIS software application as well as server software for web-based, interactive mapping and programming libraries [...]

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GIS Software Components: Examples Using OpenMap and MapObjects

Filed in GIS Software by Marco Morais on April 4, 2000 • 0 Comments

A short time after beginning to use a GIS you will come upon one of the most frustrating aspects of the industry, interoperability. As an example, you have some data from an organization that was given to you for incorporation into your own database. Unfortunately, the data is in a different format from the GIS [...]

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