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Σύνδεσμοι GIS

EUROGI – European Umbrella Organisation for Geographic Information 

International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS)

Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)

Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (AGILE)

GeoPlace LLP – UK authoritative address and street data

Geospatial World (πρώην gisdevelopment.net)

Association for Geographic Information UK (AGI)

Perry–Castañeda Library Map Collection – University of Texas

Center for Geographic Analysis – Harvard University

Free Tools

ArcExplorer – ESRI’s FREE geographic viewer 

CartoMap – FREE Viewer supports both MapInfo Mif/Mid and ArcView Shape files 

ChartViewer – NOAA Nautical Chart Viewing Extension for ArcView 3.x 

Geomatica® 9 FreeView – Geomatica® 9 FreeView is a flexible data viewing tool supporting over 100 raster and vector formats for loading, viewing, selection, and enhancement. FreeView is useful for any geospatial data viewing application, and is freely distributable

MassGIS Data Viewer – Expands the functionaly of ArcView 

ShapeViz – mechanism to view multiple Shape files 

TatukGIS Free Viewer – The free TatukGIS Viewer provides an easy way to quickly evaluate the TatukGIS technology and compatibility with various formats, as well as a great companion product for the TatukGIS Internet Server. Reads the following formats: Raster – TIFF/GEOTIFF, ECW, MrSID, BMP, SPOT, JPEG, PNG, PixelStore, CADRG, ASCII GRID, FLOAT GRID, BT, DTED, ADF. Vector: SHP, E00, MIF/MID, TAB, DXF, DGN, TIGER, DLG, SDTS, GML, GDF 

WebView – The Internet Extension for ArcView GIS – Present your maps on the Web or on CD ROM 

Agis – A simple mapping and shareware package supporting a variety of data formats including Mapinfo MIF, E00, Arc gen, and a variety of others. Runs on Win 95, 98, NT 

Autodesk DWF Viewer – FREE viewer for DWF files 

CADViewer – CadViewer is the Java-based viewer for AutoCAD Drawing Web Format (DWF, also known as Whip!) and Mosaic Simple Vector Format (SVF, used by MicroStation). Supports HPGL/HPGL2, DWG/DXF, PS/PDF, DGN, DWF, SVF, DLG, ESRI SHP, DLG, ESRI SHP, IGES, SolidWorks 

CartoMap Viewer – FREE Viewer supports both MapInfo Mif/Mid and ArcView Shape files 

ChartViewer – NOAA Nautical Chart Viewing Extension for ArcView 3.x 

DLGVU – dlgvu is an interactive viewer for Unix 

DLGv32 Pro – Free Viewer from the USGS, supporting many data formats

GRASS – Popular free raster-based GIS 

Geomatica® 9 FreeView – Geomatica® 9 FreeView is a flexible data viewing tool supporting over 100 raster and vector formats for loading, viewing, selection, and enhancement. FreeView is useful for any geospatial data viewing application, and is freely distributable

GeoTiff Examiner – allows raster images in the TIFF format to be georeferenced in two different manners 

GeoView – GeoView is an intelligent mapping component for Windows developers who need to quickly embed sophisticated map viewing with spatial overlays in their applications 

GeoView LT – add support for the display of AutoCAD DWG/DXF, Microstation DGN, ESRI Shape, MapInfo MIF, and image files, with graphic overlays, spatial queries, and links to your database quickly 

Geographic Explorer – explore map files directly on your desktop with the Geographic Explorer 

Map Maker Gratis – Map Maker Gratis is a powerful introduction to the world of GIS. Unlike other free viewers, Gratis is a fully functional map production program with GIS functions such as thematic mapping and data interrogation. The program can be used with both vector and raster data and produces high quality accurately scaled print outs — the free GIS for Windows! 

MapInfo ProViewer – Allows you to share your MapInfo data with non MapInfo users 

MapViewer – Thematic mapping package from Golden Software 

MassGIS Data Viewer – Expands the functionaly of ArcView 

NIMAMUSE – Useful raster viewer used to import and view DTED®0 

OpenMap – a JavaBeansTM based programmer’s toolkit 

Osview – read Ordnance Survey data in .NTF, .DXF formats 

SIGIS – SIGIS is an integrated vector/raster GIS and remote sensing application running under Windows(95/98/NT/ME/2000). It features satellites image processing, raster and vector spatial analysis, geographically linked database management, mapping and 3D surface rendering & animation. 

Spring – freeware general GIS and image processing package 

Terrain Tools – A quick and easy to use mapping program from SofTree 

Tiny Viewer – TinyViewer is a small program to view images on the PalmPilot, and supports the ImageViewer format 

TNTlite – Learn GIS and image processing using a package that utilizes raster, vector, shape, CAD, relational database and TIN formats. TNTlite is FREE, and supports display and processing of the following formats: shapefiles, Oracle Spatial, DXF, DWG, DGN, TAB, TIFF/GeoTIFF, JPEG2000, MrSID, PNG, JPEG, ECW and additional raster formats

Map Maker Gratis – Model and animate terrain from point, line, or surface data. Delineate watersheds, line of sight, render forests and water. Use data including USGS, Shuttle Radar Topography, Surfer, ArcGrid, and Idrisi32, and more 

3DSM– AutoCAD R12, R13 Add-on for Terrain Modelling 

DEM3d_100 – DEM3d Viewer version 1.0 from the USGS 

dXmPlus– dXm is for 32 bit windows and is easy to use. It triangulates 5,000 points in less than 1 minute on a PII processor running at 500MHz. It can save contours to a DXF file to be imported into AutoCAD or other CAD software. dXmPlus created contours and cross sections from a triangular mesh. Contours can be exported to a DXF file, or printed. Data input is via .XYZ, .TXT, .PRN and .CSV files. A fully working copy is available for a 5 day free evaluation 

MicroDEM 4.0 – 3D visuallization software from the US Army 

Surface III – software for creating contour displays of 3-D surfaces 

TerraExplorer – Explore photo-realistic 3D environments from satellite imagery and photos 

Triangulator – Triangulator is a MapInfo plug-in for creating contour maps