GIS Software

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GIS Software

• Chris Gist
• Geostat Center
• Alderman Library

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GIS Software Matrix
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HTML ImageMapper

• http//www.alta4.com/eng/products_e/im/
• Advantages
• build online GIS application within minutes
• only need ArcGIS and HTML ImageMapper
• define and adopt the cartography inArcGIS
• output is pure HTML and JavaScript
• no programming and no server side software
  installation required
• outputs a fully interactive GIS website
• perfect for CD-ROM productions
• low price, convenient licensing
• Disadvantages
• Not dynamic
• Limited number of layers
• No user adjustment of symbology
• No toggling of layers
• Gallery

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GeoDa

• https//geoda.uiuc.edu/default.php
• Data Input and Output
• read and write shape files
• copy graphs and maps to clipboard
• save maps and graphs to bitmap file
• Spatial Data Manipulation
• create point shape files from text files
• centroids for polygons
• Thiessen polygons from points
• contiguity based spatial weights for polygons
• distance based spatial weights for points and
  polygons
• Visualization and Queries
• graphs, maps and table
• linking and brushing of all maps and graphs,
  multiway linking of table
• spatial selection on maps
• query selection in table
• Mapping
• quantile and standard deviational maps
• outlier maps box map and percentile map

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Manifold GIS

• http//www.manifold.net/
• Fully functional desktop GIS
• Fully functional IMS (Windows only)
• Fully functional SDE
• Uses industry standard GIS data formats
• Good map visualization (claimed)
• Good raster data handling (claimed)
• 3D visualizations
• Integrated IMS
• ASP scripting
• Geocoding
• Easy georegistratin (claimed)
• Spatial editing
• Geospatial statistics
• Integrated GPS capability