Shapefile Viewers
Listed here are shapefile viewers for viewing GIS vector data in shapefile format by using desktop software or an online option.
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.
Listed here are shapefile viewers for viewing GIS vector data in shapefile format by using desktop software or an online option.
Learn how to use the suitability modeler in ArcGIS Pro to map out suitable areas given a set of criteria.
Looking for R spatial packages? Listed here is a brief look some of the spatial packages in R that are available.
This ArcGIS Pro tutorial shows how to add LIDAR data from the National Map to ArcGIS Pro and create topography contours.
There are many open source GIS and web mapping applications to choose from.
William Bakemeyer describes how he used QGIS and open source data to create a fly fishing map.
Kent Campbell writes about how he has come to view the benefits of using QGIS as a graduate student.
People with little or no training in archaeology or geographic computing systems can build GIS data using Humap’s Placemaker.
Adding data from an ArGIS Online Map Service or Feature Service into a QGIS map project is fairly easy and quick in most instances.
This quick QGIS tutorial takes you through the steps of how to add a CSV file with latitude and longitude coordinates.
This tutorial is a step-by-step approach for performing supervised classification on Landsat 8 imagery using Remote Sensing and GIS methodologies.
Fluid Earth is a web visualization tool developed by The Ohio State University’s Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center (BPCRC) that enables users to view weather and climate patterns.