24th February 2011, 05:24 PM
A recommendation. !!
Just to update this thread..... I have been playing with the free QGIS (Quantum GIS) package the past few days. And I would like to recommend it. For a freeby this is easily as good as some of the earlier versions of ArcGIS and most of the commands are very similar so one could easily lead to the other and vice versa. Very very good!! (There is a slight incompatibily in that QGIS doesn't save files in the same .mxd format as ArcGIS, but the constituent parts (the shape files are interchangeable)....
Gosh, if only the rest of life was as good as this.....
http://www.qgis.org/
Just to update this thread..... I have been playing with the free QGIS (Quantum GIS) package the past few days. And I would like to recommend it. For a freeby this is easily as good as some of the earlier versions of ArcGIS and most of the commands are very similar so one could easily lead to the other and vice versa. Very very good!! (There is a slight incompatibily in that QGIS doesn't save files in the same .mxd format as ArcGIS, but the constituent parts (the shape files are interchangeable)....
Gosh, if only the rest of life was as good as this.....
http://www.qgis.org/
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