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AccuGlobe 2007
An easy-to-use tool to modify and analyse GIS data. The casual user, with limited GIS knowledge and expertise in GIS, can download a free version of AccuGlobe 2007 to allow them to develop, edit and view GIS data.
Recent updates include:
* On the fly projection (both vector and raster)
* Support for ECW raster layers
* Support for JPEG 2000 layers
* Support for PNG layers
* Legend grouping - will support groups within groups
* Dynamically show and hide whole or partial themes
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ArcExplorer
ArcExplorer is a freely available lightweight GIS data viewer that lets you perform a variety of basic GIS functions. With ArcExplorer, you can display, query, and retrieve data. It can be used as a stand-alone application with local data sets or as a client for Internet data and map servers.
With ArcExplorer you can:
- Display and query a variety of standard data sources including:
- ESRI shapefiles
- ArcInfo Coverages
- Images
- ArcIMS Services (e.g., Geography Network sources)
- ESRI shapefiles
- Pan and zoom through multiple layers and identify, locate, and query geographic and attribute data.
- Symbolize your data based on attributes contained in your data layers to create thematic maps.
- Perform basic spatial analysis tasks on the geographic data, such as selecting and buffering features.
- Freely distribute ArcExplorer and your data on media so colleagues can effectively view your data.
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Bentley View
Bentley View works with MicroStation DGN and AutoCAD DWG drawings and models, allowing you to open, view, interrogate and print design data. This free solution also allows you to graphically review the progress of your projects with the design history technology found in MicroStation V8. Supports TIFF, GeoTIFF, JPEG, PNG and MrSID. Windows-based.
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CartoMAP Viewer
Free map viewing software, designed for ease of use. It supports ESRI shapefiles and MapInfo MIF/MID data formats and provides users with the ability to pan, zoom, query, fast find and order layers. Available in BDE and DBISAM versions.
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CrimeStat III
CrimeStat is a spatial statistics software package for the analysis of crime incident locations. CrimeStat is being used by many police departments around the US as well as by criminal justice and other researchers. Interfaces with most GIS software and is Windows-based.
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DIVA GIS
DIVA-GIS is a free computer program for mapping and for analyzing spatial data. It is particularly useful for analyzing the distribution of organisms to elucidate geographic and ecological patterns.
It is aimed at persons who cannot afford generic commercial geographic information system (GIS) software, or do not have the time to learn how to use these, and for anyone else who wants a GIS tailor-made to analyze biological distributions.
DIVA-GIS supports vector (point, line, polygon) and image and grid data types. DIVA-GIS can help improve data quality by finding the coordinates of localities using gazetteers, and by checking existing coordinates using overlays (spatial queries) of the collection sites and administrative boundary databases. Distribution maps can then be made. Analytical functions in DIVA-GIS include mapping of richness and diversity (including based on molecular marker (DNA) data; mapping the distribution of specific traits; identification of areas with complementary diversity; and analysis of spatial auto-correlation. DIVA-GIS can also extract climate data for all locations on land. Ecological niche modeling can be carried out using the BIOCLIM and DOMAIN
algorithms.
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dlgv32 Pro
dlgv32 Pro is a limited-feature version of commercial software called Global Mapper which was created from the original dlgv32 source code. Improved to address changes in data standards and to better meet customer requirements, dlgv32 Pro continues the tradition of providing quality viewing software for USGS data users. The USGS has obtained from Global Mapper a license to freely distribute this limited-feature version.
Improvements include a growing list of supported data formats and major enhancements which include:
* Auto-clip collar for DRG's
* Opens SDTS DLG and SDTS DEM files directly from .tar.gz archives
* Opens DLG-O and DEM files directly from gzipped archives
* Slide-over Attribute Display
* Keyboard navigation.
The latest version of dlgv32 Pro is available for download from our FTP site, as well as, binary and source distributions for the original dlgv32 (version 3.7) software.
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ER Viewer Version 7.0
ER Viewer is an easy to use image viewer featuring interactive roaming and zooming with very large image files. Supports JPEG, TIFF, UDF, ER Mapper, Spot and ESRI images. Windows-based.
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ERDAS Viewfinder 2.1
ERDAS' ViewFinder is a free viewing tool provided by Leica Geosystems. It provides basic image viewing and manipulation capabilities, including the ability to display, query, roam, rotate, zoom, and reproject imagery. Displays ERDAS, TIFF, MrSID, JPEG and ER Mapper images. Windows-based.
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FlowMap
FlowMap is a freeware application designed to analyse and display flow data. This application was developed at the Faculty of Geographical Sciences of the Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Platforms: Windows 3.11/95/98/NT/2000.
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Forestry GIS
Forestry GIS (fGIS) is an easy-to-use GIS editor, digitizer, map printing and data query program created at the University of Wisconsin. The freeware software reads common spatial image and vector formats and writes shapefiles and geo-referenced images compatible with commercial GIS programs. Windows-based.
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GIS Cloud
GIS Cloud is world's first full featured web based Geographic Information System (GIS) powered by Cloud Computing with advanced capability of creating, editing, uploading, sharing, publishing, processing and analyzing geospatial and attribute data.
Its purpose is to help in making best possible life and business decisions and tackle problem solving through data visualization and geo-processing.
So what can GIS Cloud help you with?
Edit:
* Create Layer: Line, Poly, Point
* Edit Line, Poly, Point
* Create and edit attributes
* Mobile Input
Import:
* Vectors: ESRI Shapefille, MapInfo, KML, all OGR formats
* Raster: GeoTiff, all GDAL formats
* Tiles: Google Maps, NASA, …
* WMS
Styling:
* Colors
* Labels
* Appereance
Analyse:
* Hotspot
* Buffer
* Layer coverage
* Statistical intersections
Share:
* Export Vector
* Export Raster
* Sharing with users
* WMS
* Embed
* Print
GIS Cloud is Software as a Service (SaaS) available in free and pay-per-use model.
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GIS Explorer
GIS Explorer is a user friendly freeware Geographic Information System from BMT Cordah. It supports many spatial data formats (Oracle Spatial, DGN V7, ESRI Shape, ASCII NXYZ, GeoTIFF). Besides just opening and viewing files, the viewer supports an extensive list of features including layer properties control, spatial querying, map measurements, raster, Flash and PDF export, plugins and much more.
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GISLook and GISMeta
GISLook and GISMeta are more like free viewers rather than full blown GIS's. GISLook/GISMeta are plugins for Mac OS X 10.5 that show GIS data in the Finder.
* Use GISLook to browse and preview GIS data in Finder windows, including Cover Flow and Quick Look windows.
* Use GISMeta to view the size of GIS raster grid files.
Supported file formats:
Vector data
• ESRI Shape (.shp)
• E00 ArcInfo Interchange (.e00)
• ArcInfo Coverage (.adf)
Raster grids, such as digital elevation models or land cover data with a single band
• BIL (.bil), BIP (.bip) and BSQ (.bsq) with .hdr file
• ESRI ASCII Grid (.asc)
• ESRI Binary Grid (.flt with .hdr file)
• PGM (.pgm)
• SRTM (.hgt and .dem)
• Surfer Grid (.grd)
• USGS DEM (.dem)
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gvSIG
gvSIG is a tool oriented to manage geographic information. It is characterized by a user-friendly interface, with a quick access to the most usual raster and vector formats. In the same view it includes local as well as remote data through a WMS, WCS or WFS source.
It is aimed at users of geographic information, whether professionals or civil servants (city councils, councils, regional councils or ministries) from any part of the world (at the moment its interface is in Spanish, Valencian, English, Basque, Gallego, Czech, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese-Brazilian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swahili and Turkish), in addition to being free.
Given its Free Software nature (open source) it is highly interesting for the international community of developers and, in particular, for university settings due to its R&D&I component. In fact, special emphasis has been placed on the expansion of the project so that potential developers can easily expand the functions of the application, as well as develop completely new applications from the libraries used in gvSIG (as long as they comply with the GPL license).
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gvSIG
gvSIG has established itself as one of the most comprehensive Open Source GIS packages. gvSIG is a fully fledged desktop application designed for capturing, storing, handling, analyzing and deploying any kind of referenced geographic information in order to solve complex management and planning problems.
gvSIG has built up a vibrant user community which makes it an ideal choice if you want a comprehensive GIS package with support but without the price tag. The user community is particularly strong in Spanish speaking countries but the software has been translated in many other languages.
gvSIG features include:
* Access to vector formats: SHP, DXF, GML, DWG, DGN, KML.
* Access to raster formats: BMP, GIF, TIF, TIFF, JPG, JPEG, JP2, PNG, VRT, DAT of ENVI, ERDAS (LAN, GIS, IMG), PCI Geomatics (PIX, AUX), ADF of ESRI, ILWIS (MPR, MPL), MAP of PC Raster, ASC, PGM, PPM, RST of IDRISI, RMF, NOS, KAP, HDR, RAW.
* Access to remote services: OGC (WMS, WFS, WCS, WFS-T, WPS), ArcIMS, Ecwp.
* Access to databases and tables: PostGIS, MySQL, ArcSDE, Oracle, JDBC, CSV.
* Display:zooms, panning, frames, locator.
* Query: information, area and distance measurement, hiperlink.
* Selection: by point, by rectangle, by polygon, by layer, by polyline, by circle, by buffer zone, alphanumeric search, invert selection, delete selection.
* Searching: by attribute, by coordinates.
* Geoprocessing: buffer, intersection, clip, dissolve, union, convex hull, difference, merge, spatial join, XY shift, reprojection, Sextante geoprocessing.
* Graphical editing: add event layers, snapping, grid, flatness, command stack, undo/redo, copy, move, simmetry, rotate, scale, edit vertex, internal polygon, matrix, explode, split, join, autocomplete polygon, insert point, multipoint, line, arc, polyline, polygon, rectangle, square, circle, elipse.
* Alphanumeric editing: manage fields, edit registers, field calculator.
* Catalogue and Gazetteer services
* Vectorial representation: unique symbol, quantities (dot density, intervals, graduated symbols, proportional symbols), categories (expressions, unique values), multiple attributes, save/load legend, symbology constructor, symbology levels, symbology libraries.
* Raster representation: brightness, contrast, enhance, transparency by pixel, opacity, colour tables, gradients.
* Labelling: Static labelling, advanced labelling, individual labelling.
* Tables: statistics, filter, ascending/descending order, link, join, move selection, export, import fields, coding, normalization.
* Layout constructor: page layout, cartographic elements (view, legend, north, scale, frames, image, text, graphic), grid, templates.
* Printing: to PDF, to Postscript, export to several image formats.
* Network analisys: network topology, stops manager, minimum path, connectivity, minimum spanning tree, origin - destination matrix, emergency / nearest facilities provider, service areas.
* Raster and remote sensing: statistics, filters, histogram, scale range, enhance, save to raster file, vectorizacion, Region of Interest (ROI) definition, general components, georeferencing, geolocation, supervised classification, band algebra, image profiles, decision tree, main components, tasseled cap, image fusion, scatter diagram, mosaics.
* Publishing: MapServer's WCS, WMS and WFS, Geoserver's WFS.
* 3D and animation: 3D Views, XYZ-projected as well as spherical (planetary), 3D layers, 3D symbology, 3D editing, 3D framing, 2D and 3D animation, stereo viewing (horizontal split).
* Topology: topological building, topological editing, generalization, reverse line direction, polygons from/to lines, lines from/to points, Delaunay triangulation, Thiessen polygons, build, clean, topological error fixing (in Batch mode).
* Other: Coordinates Reference Systems manager, import from/export to WMC, scripting, translations manager.
For the latest gvSIG versions in English, you may wish to check out the download page on OA Digital
gvSIG is an OSGeo supported project.
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HidroSIG
HidroSIG is a stand alone GIS that specializes in hydrology. Most of the tools in this application are water related, but the application might still be useful for DEM editing.
Main Features:
# Display of maps in raster and vectorial formats.
# Tools of processing and analysis of Digital Terrain Models (DTM).
# Automatic extraction of drainage networs and river basins.
# Tools for geomorphological analysis of river networks.
# Topologic and Geometric Width Function of river networks.
# Horton Analysis of river networks.
# Generalized Horton Analysis (Simple scaling of network properties).
# Network links analysis (Length, area, slope, etc) including xy-plots for link properties (e.g. Hack's Law).
# Rainfall- Runoff Model : Distribuited Hydrological tank model that works with rainfall time series, for making estimations of discharge in any point of the basin.
# Land-stability model : Works in conjuction with the rainfall-runoff model. It computes security factors in the hillslope, after a storm event.
# Water quality model : Computes pollution transport along a river network ( One Dimensional Transport Equation) .
# Hydrological balances, estimation of maximum discharges and minimum discharges in river basins from maps of climatic variables.
# Erosion in river basins.
# Extraction of terrain and river profiles.
# HidroSIG is able to store time series of any variable in a MySQL database.(e.g. Climatic stations)
# For the study of the statistical properties time series, HidroSIG has a module called ANSET that makes Homogeneity tests for time series. It also detects outliers by different methods..
# Search for information of hydro climatic stations using SQL queries .
# Module of remote sensors for classification of Landsat and spot images.
# Multilanguage (Spanish/English).
# 100% made in JAVA.
Display of information of hydro climatic stations.
# Map´s histograms.
# Modification of raster maps.
# Tools for creation of vectorial files.
# Conversion from vectorial maps to raster maps.
# Three-dimensional display of maps.
# Map´s calculator.
# Interpolation of raster maps.
Import of raster maps from formats:
# Import of vectorial maps in AutoCAD DXF format .
# Import of vectorial maps ESRI Shapefile format.
# Export of raster maps in format ArcView ASCII.
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Inkscape
An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.
Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development.
This package allows users to produce print quality maps at larger sizes than standard GIS packages.
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Map Maker Gratis
Map Maker Gratis is a powerful introduction to the world of GIS. Unlike other free viewers, Gratis is a fully functional map production program with GIS functions such as thematic mapping and data interrogation. The program can be used both with vector and raster data and produces high quality, accurately scaled print outs. Supports ESRI, AutoCAD, Idrisi, BMP, TIFF, DBF, JPEG and MIF.
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MapExplorer
Map Explorer is a free GIS software developed by ESRI (UK) which may be downloaded and can be used on Windows NT 4.0 or higher or Windows 95 or higher platforms.
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MapInfo
This site offers a number of free resources relating to MapInfo. There is information on user applications of Mapinfo and downloadable demo programs. Platforms: Windows, DOS and Oracle.
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MapWindow
The MapWindow application is a ready-to-use spatial data viewer, and a tool that can be modified into a new custom application. Customization is done by editing the MapWindow Configuration File, and/or a MapWindow Project File. These are the two files that control the look and feel of MapWindow. Both are XML-format files that can be edited directly through notepad or an XML editor.
MapWindow can be used as:
* As an alternative desktop GIS
* To distribute data to others
* To develop and distribute custom spatial data analyses
MapWinGIS ActiveX Control
At the core of the MapWindow application is the MapWinGIS ActiveX control. Using this control, you can program custom mapping functionality directly into your own software.
* Open source component (free distribution)
* Complete GIS API for shapefile and grid data
* Many built in GIS functions
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Mapyrus
Mapyrus is software for creating plots of points, lines, polygons and labels to PostScript (up to A0 paper size), PDF and web image output formats. Mapyrus is freely-available and is implemented entirely in Java enabling it to run on Linux, Sun Solaris, MicroSoft Windows and all platforms for which Java is available.
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Minerva
Minerva is an open-source program for viewing geospatial data that works on Windows, Mac, and Linux. It unifies standard GIS capabilities with high-performance, 3D visualization.
Minerva's primary strength is the ability to display raster and vector data together from multiple sources at interactive speeds. It can easily display large terrain and image repositories because it automatically draws the appropriate level of detail.
Features:
* Semi-transparent ground
* Connect to ArcIMS servers
* Arbitrary latitude and longitude extents
* Ability to turn tile "skirts" on/off
* Hide or show the back side of the ground tiles
* Change the distance in which tiles subdivide
* Arbitrary number of background threads building tiles
* WMS imagery
* Imagery from georeferenced raster formats (e.g., geotiff)
* Vector data from PostGIS databases
* WMS terrain using 16-bit greyscale PNG images
* ArcAscii terrain
* Multiple planetary bodies
* Classic trackball navigation
* Click to define center of rotation
* Fly underground
* Ellipsoidal and flat land models
* Arbitrarily scale geometry
* Local caching of imagery and terrain data for fast load
* Planetary tiling engine that manages level-of-detail
o Runtime generation of tiles
* Arbitrary number of color-to-alpha mappings for each raster layer
* Ability to display data according to a time-stamp or time-window
* Multi-pass antialiased rendering
* Export screenshots of arbitrary pixel dimensions
o Bounded only by system memory and destination file format
* Planets are actual size
o Does not normalize radii
* Multiple elevation layers composite
The project is written in platform-independent C++ with an extensible plugin architecture. It builds on several popular open-source projects, including: OpenSceneGraph OSSIM GDAL, and Boost.
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OrbisCAD
Orbis is a latin word which means 'the world' or 'belonging to the world' and CAD stands for Computer Aided Design. In short, OrbisCAD intends to be the World's Computer Aided Design Program.
Led and developed by The Community, OrbisCAD pursues two basic objectives: (1) building a powerful and reliable project which can fully handle the needs of the sector and (2) generating an interactive methodology based on continuous feedback in order to be able to accomplish the first aim.
The project is built in top of GDBMS, a library to perform (read & write) operations against any kind of cartography with available access drivers. There is a tutorial at the GDBMS site about its use. A mailing list has been enabled to allow feedback communication with the development team. Any question will be answered as carefully as possible, given that making of GDBMS and OrbisCAD development something agile and easy for everyone is our main principle.
Currently, the development is aimed towards:
* OGR-GDBMS integration
* Creating a installer program
* Editing tools development
* Plugin development
* GDMBS driver development
* User interface improvement
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Quantum GIS
Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS) licensed under the GNU General Public License. QGIS is an official project of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). It runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows and supports numerous vector, raster, and database formats and functionalities.
It has many features that you would find in big proprietry packages that cost losts of money such as descent printing capabilities, spatial analysis and raster analysis. There is also a well developed user community that is continually developing the package and offers user support through the active forums.
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SAGA
SAGA's first objective is to give (geo-)scientists an effective but easy learnable platform for the implementation of geoscientific methods. This is achieved by SAGA's unique Application Programming Interface (API). The second is to make these methods accessible in a user friendly way, what is first of all done by its Graphical User Interface (GUI). Together this results in SAGA's true strength: a fast growing set of geoscientifc methods ready to be used in numerous applications.
SAGA is coded in the widespread and powerful C++ programming language and has an object oriented system design. Since version 2 SAGA uses the cross platform GUI library wxWidgets for user interface functionality. Because wxWidgets enables operating system independent software development, you can run SAGA with MS-Windows as well as with Linux.
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School COP
The School Crime Operations Package (School COP) is a FREE software application for entering, analysing, and mapping incidents that occur in and around schools.
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Scribus
Scribus is an Open Source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/UNIX, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp 4/eComStation and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout.
Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, Spot Colors, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation.
Why would you want to use Scribus? Scribus is powerful software that helps you create great looking documents of all kinds. It also comes with a lot of support options to help you achieve the best result. There is an enthusiastic and friendly community around Scribus that assists beginner and pro alike through our mailing list, IRC channel, wiki, contracted support, and the bugtracker.
Scribus allows print quality maps to be produced at larger sizes that standard desktop GIS's
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TatukGIS Viewer v2.61
Perhaps the world’s best free GIS Viewer, this desktop application opens most GIS/CAD vector, raster image, grid and SQL database layer file types, including the aerial imagery and vector street map data provided by the leading vendors, most ArcView, ArcExplorer, and MapInfo projects, and projects exported from ArcGIS/ArcMap using the free Arc2TatukGIS plug-in. Each file type is supported ‘natively’, without any format conversion. Advanced support for coordinate systems includes nearly 3,000 pre-defined coordinate systems with on-the-fly layer reprojection to present data in multiple coordinate systems together as a single map. Besides just opening and viewing map files and attribute data, the free Viewer includes a comprehensive visual layer properties control, legend control, attribute data table, features for thematic mapping, spatial and attribute querying, custom labeling, on-map measurements, hyper-linking, and much more. The user interface is available in 16 language options.
The TatukGIS Viewer can be downloaded free of charge from the Tatuk website via links below.
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TNTLite
TNTlite is a free version of TNTmips, TNTedit and TNTview which are professional software used for geospatial data analysis. The free TNTlite product has all the features of the professional version, except it limits the size of Project File objects, and it enables data sharing only with other copies of TNTlite. Windows-based.
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UDIG
uDig is an open source (LGPL) desktop application framework, built with Eclipse Rich Client (RCP) technology.
* uDig can be used as a stand-alone application.
* uDig can be extended with RCP “plug-ins”.
* uDig can be used as a plug-in in an existing RCP application.
The goal of uDig is to provide a complete Java solution for desktop GIS data access, editing, and viewing. uDig aims to be:
* User friendly, providing a familiar graphical environment for GIS users;
* Desktop located, running as a thick client, natively on Windows, Mac OS/X and Linux;
* Internet oriented, consuming standard (WMS, WFS, WCS) and de facto (GeoRSS, KML, tiles) geospatial web services; and,
* GIS ready, providing the framework on which complex analytical capabilities can be built, and gradually subsuming those capabilities into the main application.
uDig is distributed under the open source LGPL license.
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