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.

The Re-birth of Pen and Paper in Mobile GIS

GIS Contributor

Field data collection is vital to the work of many enterprises and government agencies driving important decisions that ultimately affect ...

Using Google Earth over GIS Software in Archaeology

Caitlin Dempsey

Anthropology.net has a post about the publication in the Journal of Human Evolution entitled “Google Earth, GIS, and the Great Divide: A ...

BASINS 4.0

Caitlin Dempsey

BASINS 4.0 is an environmental modeling interface built upon the open source GIS MapWindow. The system contains tools to download ...

A screenshot showing ArcMap with data layers for southern California.

How to Label More Than One Field in ArcMap

Caitlin Dempsey

You can easily label more than one field of a layer in ArcMap with Visual Basic script.

A faded web map with a circle with a red line over a computer popup message.

How to Get Rid of that Pesky “missing (jsForm.htm)” Message in ArcIMS

Caitlin Dempsey

Here's a quick solution to remove the "missing (jsForm.htm" message from ArcIMS.