Software

Story Maps: The Power of Storytelling with Maps

Story meet map. Story maps are an interactive way to display a particular event, issue, place, or trend with a focus on location.

Here’s a list of non-geospatial tools we’ve all got secretly in our back pockets. It’s the functionality that GIS just isn’t cut out to do!

Buckle up. Because you’re going to witness a head-to-head battle between the juggernauts of GIS software. It’s a rematch. ArcGIS Pro vs QGIS 3

From viewers to desktop applications, these are the best and free LiDAR software tools for visualization, analysis, and conversion.

CityEngine is a stand-alone desktop application by Esri that allows users to create 3D data models for urban design and city planning.

Web mapping is in an arm’s race and the war is in the cloud. It’s a web GIS battle with ArcGIS Online, Carto, Mapbox, Mango Map, and GIS Cloud.

Today you’re going to see the best 3D maps in action. You can interactively fly around buildings and landscapes in three dimensions.

Chances are that you are already using Mapbox, and you may not know it! Apps like Snapchat integrate Mapbox directly into their applications.

Carto is where data meets maps on the web. Instead of using desktop GIS software, Carto provides it all in the cloud with just a web browser.

Web App Builder (WAB) allows anyone to build powerful and highly-customizable GIS apps that can run on any device without any coding required.