GIS Software

Information about GIS software and applications including both commercial and open source GIS applications. This category covers desktop GIS (Esri’s ArcGIS suite, MapInfo, QGIS, and GRASS) as well as web mapping, GIS apps, mobile GIS, and component GIS.

A screenshot showing a transparent green polygon on top of a purple polygon with a dark grey 3D geographic background.

Crowdsourcing Archaeological Data with Participatory GIS

GIS Contributor

People with little or no training in archaeology or geographic computing systems can build GIS data using Humap's Placemaker.

Side by side comparison of screenshots of a data layer with a simple red outline and black labels as seen in ArcGIS Online and QGIS.

How to Add Data from ArcGIS Online to QGIS

Caitlin Dempsey

Adding data from an ArGIS Online Map Service or Feature Service into a QGIS map project is fairly easy and quick in most instances.

Screenshot showing a CSV file with information about mean centers of population in the US. A shaded relief map is being the text file.

How to Add Latitude and Longitude as a CSV File in QGIS

Caitlin Dempsey

This quick QGIS tutorial takes you through the steps of how to add a CSV file with latitude and longitude coordinates.

Screenshot of a land use map for Ghana in ArcGIS Pro with shades of green for the categories.

How to Use ArcGIS Pro for Supervised Classification

Jeff Oppong

This ArcGIS Pro tutorial provides a step-by-step guide for performing supervised classification on Landsat 8 imagery using remote sensing and GIS techniques.

Screenshot of a map visualizing hurricane wind speeds.

Fluid Earth: Open-source Visualization of Weather and Climate Data

GIS Contributor

Fluid Earth is a web visualization tool developed by The Ohio State University's Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center (BPCRC) that enables users to view weather and climate patterns.