Update – April 2017 Many things have changed with QGIS over the last few years since this post was written. I thought it worth the time to revisit the topic and expand its scope. Please take a look at my new post: QGIS – Loading Data —————– One of the major differences between many COTS applications and Open-source is in …
Open Source GIS Central – OSGeo.org
Finding open source GIS software is as simple as a Google Search. Of course, once you do that, sorting through the hundreds of returns to find something useful, is likely to be a challenge. If you look at the results for “open source GIS”, the first would seem likely. That site, however, hasn’t been updated since 2008. The 2nd return, …
Where, but also why and how
This is the first post of the blog, so I suppose I should say what I think it is going to be about. Initially, I was going to begin writing a series of tutorials for using open source GIS products to mimic the functions of ESRI’s ArcGIS software suite. The more that I have started using free, open-source software though, …