A fully featured, user friendly, open source Geographic Information System (GIS) with similar power to ArcGIS and MapInfo.
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ArcGIS AlternativesOnly apps categorised as GIS Software for Mac
ArcGIS is not available for Mac but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on macOS with similar functionality. The best Mac GIS Software alternative is QGIS, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to ArcGIS and 11 are GIS Software available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac GIS Software alternatives to ArcGIS are GRASS GIS, gvSIG Desktop, SAGA GIS and Mapserver.
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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.
gvSIG is a Geographic Information System (GIS), that is, a 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.
31 SAGA GIS alternativesSAGA - System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses - is a Geographic Information System (GIS) software with immense capabilities for geodata processing and analysis. SAGA is programmed in the object oriented C++ language and supports the implementation of new functions with a...
40 Mapserver alternativesMapServer 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 University of Minnesota, MapServer is released under an MIT-style license, and runs on all major platforms (Windows...
PostGIS adds support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL object-relational database. In effect, PostGIS "spatially enables" the PostgreSQL server, allowing it to be used as a backend spatial database for geographic information systems (GIS), much like ESRIs SDE...
OpenJUMP is an open source Geographic Information System (GIS) written in the Java programming language. It is developed and maintained by a group of volunteers from around the globe.
Turn CSV & Excel data into interactive map analytics dashboards — choropleth, bubbles, heatmaps, connection lines & more. 10 map styles, export to HTML/PDF/PPTX. Fully offline, no cloud, no subscription. One-time purchase.
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9 Magic Maps alternativesMagic Maps is a simple mapping and data-analysis package for macOS, with a focus on ease-of-use and clean, Mac-native graphics.
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SNAP is a common architecture for FOSS toolboxes developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) for the scientific processing, analysis, and exploitation of satellite data.
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QGIS can read geodatabases. The software is frequently updated and print composer is very good alternative to ArcGIS for map layouts.