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QGIS
QGIS lets you browse and create map data on your computer and it supports vector, raster, and database formats.
Introduction
Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS) that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows. QGIS supports vector, raster, and database formats. QGIS lets you browse and create map data on your computer. It supports many common spatial data formats (e.g. ESRI ShapeFile, geotiff). QGIS supports plugins to do things like display tracks from your GPS. QGIS is Open Source software and its free of cost. Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a Geographic Information System (GIS) that supports vector, raster, and database formats.
Features
Some of the major features include:
- Support for spatially enabled PostGIS tables
- Support for shapefiles, ArcInfo coverages, Mapinfo, and other
- formats supported by OGR
- Raster support for a large number of formats
- Identify features
- Display attribute tables
- Select features
- GRASS Digitizing
- Feature labeling
Visit the qgis homepage at : http://qgis.org/
Here are some screenshots of the implementation:
- QGIS displaying world raster with all plugins loaded (OS X)
- Raster properties dialog (OS X)
- Plugin Manager showing all available plugins (OS X)
