The GISuser download repository is a valuable resource that has served up 10's of thousands of downloads over the past year. The following applications make up the Top 5 downloaded resources from 2006. If these apps aren't what you're looking for then be sure to check out the rest of the tools, apps, scripts, extensions, etc... more than 800 to select from and growing every day!
Do you have a freeware application, free demo, script, extension, tool, converter, or ??? Drop us a line, send us a link to your app and maybe you're app will be one of the Top ranked GIS user tools for 2007!
CoordTrans Company: Franson Technology AB www: http://franson.com/coordtrans/ CoordTrans converts geographic positions between different coordinate systems. Convert between UTM and WGS84. Convert between UTM and NAD27 / NAD83. And more... grids from 17 countries supported. See complete list.
Geographic Calculator Company: Blue Marble Geographics WWW: http://www.bluemarblegeo.com/products/calculator.php The leading coordinate conversion tool world-wide from Blue Marble Geographics. You can transform between coordinate systems, calculate the distance and azimuth between two coordinates, compute grid convergence, point scale factor, datum shifts
ArcExplorer - Free GIS Company: ESRI www: http://www.esri.com/software/arcexplorer/index.html ArcExplorer is a lightweight GIS data viewer developed by ESRI. This freely available software offers an easy way to perform a variety of basic GIS functions, including display, query, and data retrieval applications. It can be used on its own with local data sets or as a client to Internet data and map servers.
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GeoMedia Viewer GeoMedia Viewer is an easy to use, FREE GIS software application for desktop viewing and distribution of geospatial data.
Forestry GIS (Free) Forestry GIS is a complete GIS data viewer, digitizer and shapefile editing program for Windows® from the University of Wisconsin and Wisconsin DNR - Division of Forestry.
3DEM 3DEM for Win95/98/ME and Windows 2000 will produce three dimensional terrain scenes and flyby animations from a wide variety of freely available data sources including: USGS Digital Elevation Model (ASCII DEM) files USGS Spatial Data Transfer Standard (SDTS DEM) files USGS National Elevation Dataset (NED) files USGS Global 30 Arc Second Elevation Data Set (GTOPO30 DEM) files NOAA Global Land One-km Base Elevation (GLOBE DEM) files.
VTBuilder A tool for viewing and processing many kinds of geospatial data. Can also load any number of SRTM .hgt files, merge them, then fill the gaps with interpolation or lower-resolution data . can read elevation from DEM, SDTS DEM, MicroDEM, GTOPO30, SRTM.
GPS-Photo Link GPS-Photo Link is PC software that links digital camera photos with the latitude and longitude of where the photo was taken. A GPS receiver is used to determine the location of the photo, without physically connecting the camera to the GPS receiver.
Google Maps (gmaps) Mobile Mobile GMaps is a FREE application that displays Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps and MSN Virtual Earth maps and satellite imagery on Java J2ME-enabled mobile phones, PDAs and other devices.
The GISuser Tool repository is one of the most useful, most popular, yet most under-used sections at GISuser.com... be sure to share this resource with your friends and colleagues! The repository is made up of a number user contributed tools including:
- 120+ ArcView & ArcGIS extensions & add ons - 90+ free GIS and map viewers - 50+ data translators - 75+ developer docs - 90+ Google maps Mashup APIs and developer tools - 35+ GIS and Geospatial technology webcasts - much more!
One of our New Year resolutions is to have more than 1,000 useful and mostly free tools and apps in our repository. Help us reach that goal by suggesting your favorite application.
Esri devMeetUps - locate a developer meetup taking place in a city near you
ERDAS Webinars - Register for a free, online webinar from ERDAS
ILMF 2012 - International LiDAR Mapping Forum, Denver, Colorado, Jan 23-25, 2012
Esri Dev Summit - The Esri Developer Summit (DevSummit) brings together developers and GIS professionals from all over the globe. March 26-29, 2012, Palm Springs, CA
Where2.0 - where the people working on and using location technologies come together to explore best practices and emerging trends in software development, tools, business strategies, and marketing. April 2-4, 20112, San Francisco, CA
Do you have a freeware application, free demo, script, extension, tool, converter, or ??? Drop us a line, send us a link to your app and maybe you're app will be one of the Top ranked GIS user tools for 2007!
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