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




Global Mapper is not available for Mac but there are a few alternatives that runs on macOS with similar functionality. The best Mac 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 Global Mapper and four of them are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to Global Mapper are GRASS GIS, SAGA GIS and gvSIG Desktop.
A fully featured, user friendly, open source Geographic Information System (GIS) with similar power to ArcGIS and MapInfo.




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.


SAGA - 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...


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.
