QGIS

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

• The GUI is pretty simple and intuitive and it runs decent on windows (at least as fast as ArcMap), but on GNU/Linux it flies. And since the license is GPL you can use it for different purposes (from educational to research or commercial) without worrying for a sue. Guest • May 2020 Disagree   Agree
• QGIS runs on multiple platforms, has a strong community and is becoming more and more mature. You can do almost everything using QGIS and it integrates very well with GRASS and SAGA for additional power. caiocco • Apr 2020 Disagree   Agree
• yes. because for linux this is the only option available. Guest • Oct 2018 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• u can do everything in qgis what u can do in ArcGIS but also in QGIS u have full acces to the source code and all is free Guest • Apr 2018 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• Closest in terms of UI, and gets a lot of extra power from integration with other packages like Grass and orfeo. Guest • Feb 2018 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• QGIS can read geodatabases. The software is frequently updated and print composer is very good alternative to ArcGIS for map layouts. Guest • May 2017 • 4 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• QGIS doesn't have the imagery tools, templates, or 3D capabilities of ArcGIS. Nor does it have the mobile apps and online cloud capabilities. Guest • Mar 2017 • 0 agrees and 8 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android BSD

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GRASS GIS

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

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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OpenLayers

OpenLayers is a high-performance, feature-packed library for all your mapping needs. FEATURES Tiled Layers Pull tiles from OSM, Bing, MapBox, Stamen, MapQuest...

Free Open Source Web Self-Hosted

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PostGIS

PostGIS adds support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL object-relational database. In effect, PostGIS "spatially enables" the PostgreSQL server...

• While PostGIS can collect GIS data, its primary functionality is that of a database and doesn't provide most of the feature set that ArcGIS has. Guest • Jun 2015 • 3 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD

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gvSIG Desktop

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Mapserver

MapServer is an Open Source platform for publishing spatial data and interactive mapping applications to the web. Originally developed in the mid-1990’s at the...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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MapWindow GIS

MapWindow is a fully free and open source geographic information system project. It includes an open source programming component, MapWinGIS ActiveX, and an extensible...

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Mapline

Maximize the use of your Excel spreadsheet data. Make mapping the easiest. Transform Excel data into visual analysis. We lead in data simplification and presentation. We...

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MangoMap

Transform your data into interactive web maps that empower clients, colleagues and communities.

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Geoconcept

The GEOCONCEPT solution was designed first and foremost to respond to expectations of users who wanted to leverage the power of geographical data to the fullest. The...

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