Software & Tools
Methods

The Methods category draws together information related to "How to" accomplish various mapping processes and tasks. Bioregional Mapping Cartographic ConcepR...
Indigenous Guardians Toolkit

We are excited to share the news that the Indigenous Guardians Toolkit website is now live! The Toolkit is a place for Indigenous communities across Canada to learn, share and c...
Training Kit on Participatory Spatial...

The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) has been spear
New GIS field guide from MapAction (F...

MapAction has published the first edition of its Field Guide to Humanitarian Mapping. The guide, which is downloadable free, will help aid organisations to use geospatial tools ...
OziExplorer

There is a very simple program that could meet your mapping needs.It is called OziExplorer, www.oziexplorer.com. You can download waypoints and tracks from most handheld ...
Community Based Mapping Tools

Some free innovative Mapping Tools which help in local resource mapping and data to map interface.It informs about simple and user friendly Mapping tools for Development practit...
Landscape Values Institute

The Landscape Values Institute is a non-profit consortium of international researchers and planners interested in advancing knowledge about landscape values to improve land allo...
Free Cartography Systems

This website provides many links to free and open source software pages for mapping as well as to information about such systems. Website: http://justcartography.googlepages.com/
Quantum GIS – Free GIS!

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 ...
OpenJUMP

A free, Java based and open source Geographic Information System. http://openjump.org/
FreeGIS.org

Aims and Services The FreeGIS Project aims to promote the freedom in the scope of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). A GIS can be defined as an information system that is de&...
SAGA: Open-source GIS software

SAGA – System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses- is a hybrid GIS software.
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