The main features of KIDS include:

• Mapping indicator data over vector maps.
• Visualizing indicator data in tabular format, time-series, and charts.
• Full featured interface to combine multiple vector and raster layers.
• Complete editor to create projects, modify data, define legends and update metadata.
• Handling of multi-dimensional indicator dataset, without limits on dimensions.
• Can be run as a standalone application, or over the internet as a web application.
• Configurable interface written with XML and stylesheets.
• Expert user web-services interface and API libraries.
• Security model for data level access control.
• High speed algorithms for navigating large datasets and detailed maps in real-time.
• Other GIS functions and tools.

KIDS is actively and completely maintained by a community of experts, who are committed to support and enhance the product, and to keep the product opensource (GPL) and free.  These experts bring a wide array of knowledge and creativity to the challenging problems in thematic mapping and managing of ever increasing indicator data.  On our team we have experts in GIS, data-mining, human computer interaction, quality control, as well as translators, statisticians, system administrators and programmers.  This group is geographically spread across the globe in Italy, USA, Brazil, Australia, Thailand, UK, Czech Republic, Philippines,  Namibia, Peru, India, Botswana, Switzerland, China and Syria,  just to name a few.  The list is growing daily, and we are always looking for more people to join the team and adopt the product, as end-users or developers or testers, and to contribute to KIDS to grow and evolve.

Sample application - FIGIS  FAO Fisheries Global Information System is a network of integrated fisheries information - Map shows the distribution of tuna and billfish catches.

You can see sample uses of KIDS, and download the complete software and source-code for free, at http://kids.fao.org