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

ArcGIS Online and Android

October 18, 2018By Olivia HarneGIS Software

Developers can work with ArcGIS Online in tandem with Android Studio in order to make their applications available to a wider mobile audience.

How to Get the Map View in QGIS to Resize Properly on a Mac

October 16, 2018By Caitlin DempseyGIS Software

One Mac OS specific bug is the map view canvas doesn’t fill the available space in QGIS 3.x versions. Learn how to fix this.

Screenshot from Guardacostas Pro.

Guardacostas Pro: Tracking Illegal Vessels

October 9, 2018By Olivia HarneGIS Software

Argentina’s coast guard, or the Prefectura Naval Argentina will utilize Esri’s platform to create a new, real-time tracking system, aptly titled “Guardacoastas Pro.”

Using Visual Crossing’s Location Analysis Plugin in Excel

October 5, 2018By GIS ContributorGIS Software

Sean McCafferty provides an overview of Location Analysis, a new Excel Add-in from Visual Crossing, which helps store owners place locations and analyze retail competition.

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.

Elements of a Map

Map elements such as the map frame, legend, and north arrow are parts of what create a map.

Learn GIS for Free

There are a few online options to learn GIS for free. Take advantage of resources that provide you access to free courses from some of the world’s best universities and institutions.

What is GIS?

GIS is a technological field that incorporates geographical features with tabular data in order to map, analyze, and assess real-world problems. The key word to this technology is Geography – this means that some portion of the data is spatial.

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 […]

Calculating Polygon Area in ArcMap

Here are the steps for calculating the area of a polygon using ArcGIS.