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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] Best Free GIS Viewer |
| Date: |
01/21/2005 05:15:01 PM |
| From: |
Stephany Filimon |
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Hi Analisa,
Full disclosure: I haven't used many stand-alone GIS viewers. From my
admittedly limited experience, then, I've found that the easiest-to-use,
free GIS viewer is CartoMAP viewer, available at:
http://www.cartoworld.com/
It's easy to include on a CD since it's just one file, and isn't a folder or
directory with multiple things to confuse the less technical people you
mentioned.
The one I really wanted to recommend is NucleusMAP, because it's just *so
good*, but it only comes free in a trial version, is about $20 to buy,
and--to complicate matters and make it impossible to really test in any
meaningful way--the trial version can only be used for a whopping 10 minutes
at a time.
Good luck!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Analisa Gunnell" <analisa@ecotrust.org>
To: <gislist@lists.thinkburst.com>: <SCGIS@PETE.URI.EDU>
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 3:37 PM
Subject: [gislist] Best Free GIS Viewer
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am part of a team who is working to create a free watershed data CD
> loaded with all available data, reports, maps, and references for the
> general public. My question is this, we need a free stand-alone GIS
> viewer so that people can explore the data any way they see fit on the
> CD but we're having serious issues using either ArcReader or
> ArcExplorer. Does anyone out there know of any other free GIS viewers?
> It would need to be easy to install (this CD is catering to the full
> range of techy know-how) and at the very least, allow them to load
> layers and query data. We were planning on building "scenes" that
> focused on various themes, such as biodiversity so this functionality is
> also needed. Any leads?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help on this!
>
> Analisa Noel Gunnell
> Chief Cartographer/GIS Analyst
> Ecotrust
> 721 NW Ninth Avenue, Suite 200
> Portland, Oregon 97209
> 503.467.0750
> analisa@ecotrust.org
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