GIS & Digital Mapping: Mapping Software/Tools

A free and open source GIS platform

With certain restrictions, all current faculty, staff, and students are eligible to participate in Esri Site License software downloads and license requests.

Free ArcGIS Public Account, which is a personal account with limited usage and capabilities and is meant for non-commercial use only.

Collaborative project to contribute and maintain data about roads, trails, cafés, railway stations, and much more, all over the world.

Search engine for OpenStreetMap data. You may search for a name or address(forward search) or look up data by its geographic coordinate(reverse search). Each result comes with a link to a details page where you can inspect what data about the object is saved in the database and investigate how the address of the object has been computed.

Allows you to create a map with OpenStreetMap layers and embed it in your site.

Free desktop software that allows for visualization, assessment, and creation of geospatial data. Including a "time machine" that displays historical aerial imagery dating back to the 1980s/early-1990s.

Cloud-based platform for planetary-scale analysis incorporating satellite imagery and remote sensing data.

Browser-based mapping tool that allows for annotation and collaboration.

Open source mapping platform for custom designed maps. Accounts are free up to a certain size.

Provides GIS and web mapping tools for display in a web browser. Accounts are free up to a certain size.

If you have large number of addresses or locations to add to a map, BatchGeocode can create a kml file. It uses a spreadsheet template to convert addresses to latitude and longitude so you can then map the points.

Make maps from aerial photos.