GIS Software

Information about GIS software and applications including both commercial and open source GIS applications. This category covers desktop GIS (Esri’s ArcGIS suite, MapInfo, QGIS, and GRASS) as well as web mapping, GIS apps, mobile GIS, and component GIS.

GIS Software

How Plex.Earth is Used in Teaching: An Interview With Professor Martin Cajade

September 10, 2018By GIS ContributorGIS Software

Eleni Natsi from Plexscape recently interviewed Martin Cajade, who teaches in the Faculty of Architecture, Design, and Urbanism (FADU) in the University of the Republic in Uruguay, about how his students incorporate PlexEarth as a data mining tool.

A Story Map Journalism Experience

August 22, 2018By GIS ContributorGIS Software

Eudel Cepero shares his experience developing a popular story map for Diario de Cuba using ArcGIS Online.

Run Image Processing Tasks in Your Browser with the EOS Platform

June 14, 2018By GIS ContributorGIS Software

This guest article by EOS introduces the newly upgraded EOS platform, a set of mutually integrated cloud products for searching, analyzing, storing, and visualizing geospatial data: Landviewer, Processing, Vision, Storage.

How to Use the Color Blind Preview Option in QGIS

June 6, 2018By Caitlin DempseyGIS Software

With the release of QGIS 3, you can now preview how your maps will look for those with two types of red-green color blindness.

What are QGIS Files?

April 27, 2018By Caitlin DempseyGIS Software

A .qgs file extension refers to a QGIS project file.

Viz Palette Helps You Pick Colors for Data Visualizations

April 12, 2018By Caitlin DempseyGIS Software

There’s a new color picker tool to help with selecting a palette for data visualizations.

A screenshot showing ArcMap.

What is a MXD File?

March 29, 2018By Caitlin DempseyGIS Software

Files with the extension .mxd are ArcMap document files. MXD files are created by Esri’s ArcMap, a component of the ArcGIS suite of GIS software.

Adding “Early Voting Wait Time” Information to a Layer in ArcGIS.com

March 8, 2018By GIS ContributorGIS Software

Tracy Garrison outlines an example of how a “County” might provide current early voting wait times to the public with ArcGIS.com and coding.

QGIS 3.0 Released

February 23, 2018By Caitlin DempseyGIS Software

Version 3.0 of QGIS, the popular free and open source GIS software, was released today.

Holographic GIS

January 27, 2018By Mark AltaweelGIS Software

As mobile and handheld devices increasingly use virtual reality and augmented reality applications, GIS has been incorporated to deploy spatial databases that apply holographic capabilities.

Tracking Post-Storm Water Movement Using GPS

NASA researchers recently published a study which uses GPS technology to track water volume and movement post-Harvey

Forecasting Cholera Using Remote Sensing

The NASA cholera forecasting tool effectively takes satellite observations on environmental conditions and combines the data with information on infrastructure and conditions in a country.

Elements of a Map

Maps are the primary tools by which spatial relationships are visualized. Maps therefore become important documents. There are several key elements that should be included each time a map is created in order to aid the viewer in understanding the communications of that map and to document the source of […]

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