A fully featured, user friendly, open source Geographic Information System (GIS) with similar power to ArcGIS and MapInfo.




There are many alternatives to Surfer for Windows if you are looking for a replacement. The best Windows alternative is QGIS, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Surfer and eight of them are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to Surfer are ArcGIS, Global Mapper, GRASS GIS and Spatial Feature Server.
A fully featured, user friendly, open source Geographic Information System (GIS) with similar power to ArcGIS and MapInfo.




ArcGIS offers unique capabilities and flexible licensing for applying location-based analytics to your business practices.

Global Mapper is a cutting-edge GIS software that provides both novice and experienced geospatial professionals with a comprehensive array of spatial data processing tools, with access to an unparalleled variety of data formats.




GRASS GIS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) is an open source, free software (FOSS) Geographical Information System (GIS) with raster, topological, vector, image processing, and visualization functionality.


Spatial Feature Server by MapET is an ESRI Geoservices REST Implementation and works with all ESRI Rest API's. The source of published data is the spatial extension of the major RDBMS, such Oracle, Microsoft SQLServer, MySQL, PostgreSQL.


Maptek Vulcan, the world’s premier 3D mining software solution, allows users to validate and transform technical data into dynamic 3D models, accurate mine designs and operating plans.
TopoCal is a CAD software capable of creating digital models of any topographic project making the most of the great power of the software. The program is available in 6 languages: Spanish, Portuguese, German, English, Italian and French.

Been using for the last 5 years in substitution of ArcGIS. The GIS environment is top, but the map layout mode is still shallow and hard to manipulate. If it looked and worked more like an Inkscape environment-like I believe it would be a perfect improove.