Installing QGIS on the Mac
QGIS is an open source GIS software package that can be freely downloaded. Find step-by-step instructions on how to install QGIS on a Mac.
How to Embed Mapillary’s Street Level Imagery Into Any Mapping Platform
MapillaryJS is a platform-agnostic WebGL JavaScript library for displaying street level photos which allows for integration with a variety of mapping applications.
Automating Extracting GIS Data from Scanned Maps
The New York Public Library Labs (NYPL Labs) has posted on Github the code to its open source map-vectorizer project.  NYPL Lab’s map-vectorizer project is seeking … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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. Â Licensed under … Read more
WhatWasThere – Augmented Reality
WhatWasThere is an augmented reality application that features a growing online database of geolocated historical photos.  You can search for photos nearby a location or upload … Read more
Walk Score To Go Open Source
Walk Score is preparing to go open source which they announced on their blog and in a press release.. At walksource.org the source code will … Read more
GRASS GIS: Open Source GIS
Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) is a GIS software application under a GNU GPL license originally developed by the US Government. Official GRASS Site … Read more