GIS Software Program Application for Students & Educators

When I needed to learn GIS it was not supported in my college sociology program so I had to finance myself. Unfortunately then there were few free options and none suited my purpose. Things have changed in the 20 years since then. Students and educators can now take advantage of the free and open source GIS programs and tools that are available. Also, we offer a free GIS tutorial and shapefile atlas. See links at bottom of this post. Here are some of the GIS software applications and tools available there are many many more:


Chameleon is a distributed, highly configurable, environment for developing Web Mapping applications. Chameleon is OpenSource, this means that you can use it freely for your own applications, and that you also have access to the source code.

Community MapBuilder - MapBuilder is a powerful, standards compliant, open source geographic mapping client which runs in a web browser. Using MapBuilder, Web designers can concentrate on the presentation and usability using HTML with simple links to the MapBuilder JavaScript code.

CPSGeo - Simple GIS for CPS - Cartographic maps are extremely useful tools for analyzing and summarizing information with a spatial component, and many CPS documents have a spatial component: events happen at places, and reports are often concerned with places.

CRAN Task View: Analysis of Spatial Data - For spatial analysis, disease and ecological mapping and more.

CrimeStat III is Windows-based and interfaces with most desktop GIS programs. The purpose is to provide supplemental statistical tools to aid law enforcement agencies and criminal justice researchers in their crime mapping efforts.

CycleAtlas is a free, open-source software for managing track rides, mainly intented for cycling and other open air sports.

DC Maintenance Management System - A web-based maintenance management system for water and wastewater networks. Allows to store customer complaints and issue workorder sheets.Rather than using street names, maps and landmarks are used for navigation.

deegree - Free Software for Spatial Data Infrastructures - offers the substantial building blocks for the building of a Spatial Data Infrastructure by implementing the standards of the Open Geospatial Consortium. Deegree components can be used to either develop a standalone desktop mapping solution to be locally installed on a users machine, or to set up a highly distributed and service-based infrastructure.

Free GIS Software and Tools for Students and Educators

Free Learn2Map GIS Mapping Tutorial and Shapefile Atlas

Download Free Afghanistan ArcGIS Shapefile Map Layers

Afghanistan Airfields

Afghanistan Cultivated Areas

Afghanistan District Boundaries

Afghanistan Health Facilities

Afghanistan International Airports

Afghanistan International Boundaries

Afghanistan Irrigated Areas

Afghanistan Lakes

Afghanistan Landcover

Afghanistan Provincial Boundaries

Afghanistan Rivers (Line)

Afghanistan Rivers (Polygon)

Afghanistan Roads

Afghanistan Settlements

Afghanistan Watersheds

If you are new to GIS and shapefiles, check here to learn more. You can use and combine these free shapefiles in various ways with many of our free GIS mapping software programs and create your own GIS projects. Also, you can use our free Learn2Map Tutorial & Atlas and included free software.

Free Learn to Map GIS Mapping Tutorial and Shapefile Atlas

Are you new to GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and mapping? Would you like to learn what it is all about and learn how to create your own maps? Would you like to begin a new professional career? Our free online Learn2Map GIS Mapping Tutorial and Atlas is designed to give you a quick-start introduction to the basics of GIS.

In just a few minutes you can begin to learn how to create digital maps. The easy-to-follow step-by-step distance learning online tutorial is based on free resources. There is nothing to purchase. All you need to begin mapping today is the free Learn2Map GIS Mapping Tutorial and Atlas.

I Hope that these prove useful to you. We have free GIS software available and there is plenty of free data and shapefiles that will work with these programs and the tutorial. More to come!

Click here for more about and access to the Learn2Map GIS Mapping Tutorial and Atlas

Mike

Free Toxic Chemical Pollution Maps

I've added a page that lists Free Toxic Chemical Pollution Maps. This page joins a growing number of free maps available in addition to the pages we have for free GIS shapefiles and
free GIS software and resources.

If you are new to GIS, please check out our free Learn2Map GIS Tutorial and Atlas.

Cheers,

Mike