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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] Best Free GIS Viewer |
| Date: |
01/21/2005 06:25:01 PM |
| From: |
Dylan Keon |
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Analisa Gunnell wrote:
> Hello everyone,
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> 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?
Analisa,
How about open source software? QGIS would be a pretty good,
user-friendly choice, but you might also look at JUMP GIS and OpenEV.
They all run on both Windows and Unix/Linux (QGIS also runs on Mac OSX),
support multiple formats, and allow you to save your custom views as
projects (much like ArcView). Not sure about the query capabilities,
though. And you would need to check the licensing for each project to
make sure you can redistribute.
www.jump-project.org
qgis.sourceforge.net
openev.sourceforge.net
UDIG (udig.refractions.net) is another open source GIS desktop app that
looks promising, but it's in beta stage, and is probably overkill for
use just as a viewer.
You might also take a look at freegis.org, where you can find quite a
few open source GIS software apps.
--Dylan
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Dylan Keon - GIS Coordinator
Northwest Alliance for Computational Science and Engineering
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331
keon@nacse.org voice: 541-737-6608 fax: 541-737-6609
http://gis.nacse.org
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