Free Maptitude AlternativesGIS Software & Map Services like Maptitude

The best free alternative to Maptitude is QGIS, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Maptitude and many of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Maptitude are Plus Codes, what3words, GRASS GIS and PostGIS.

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

    58 QGIS alternatives

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    • Android
    • BSD
     
  2. Plus Codes icon
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    A plus code address looks like a regular address, but with a short code where the street name and number would be. These addresses exist for any location, even for places where there are no roads.

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  3. what3words icon
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    What3words encodes geographic coordinates into 3 dictionary words (for example, the Statue of Liberty is located at planet.inches.most). what3words is different from other alphanumeric location systems and GPS coordinates in that it displays 3 words rather than long strings of...

    39 what3words alternatives

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    • Freemium
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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Apple Watch
     
  4. GRASS GIS icon
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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.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
     
  5. PostGIS icon
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    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...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  6. 3geonames icon
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    Geocode is a one-dimensional geo location code. It maps a two dimensional point (latitude,longitude) to either an alphanumeric string or a geoname triple with no loss of information.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  7. SAGA GIS icon
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    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...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. Mapline icon
     25 likes

    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 are committed to deliver the tools needed to outpace competition.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
     
  9. uDig icon
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    uDig is a GIS software program produced by a community led by Canadian-based consulting company Refractions Research. It is based on the Eclipse platform and features full layered open source GIS. It is written in Java and released under GNU Lesser General Public License.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
     
  10. gvSIG Desktop icon
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    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.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. MapWindow GIS icon
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    MapWindow is a fully free and open source geographic information system project. It includes an open source programming component, MapWinGIS ActiveX, and an extensible desktop application that supports plug-ins written in .NET (C# and VB.NET).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
     
  12. Mapserver icon
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    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 University of Minnesota, MapServer is released under an MIT-style license, and runs on all major platforms (Windows...

    40 Mapserver alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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