GIS Software – Geographic Information Systems – GIS Mapping Software

A Geographic Information System (GIS Software) is designed to
store, retrieve, manage, display, and analyze all types of
geographic and spatial data. GIS software lets you produce
maps and other graphic displays of geographic information for
analysis and presentation.

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easiest-to-use professional GIS software available. For more
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Mapping Software pages. Otherwise, please read on to explore
the GIS capabilities of Maptitude.

What is GIS Mapping Software?

GIS software lets you produce maps and other graphic displays of
geographic information for analysis and presentation. With these
capabilities a GIS is a valuable tool to visualize spatial data or to
build decision support systems for use in your organization.

A GIS stores data on geographical features and their characteristics.
The features are typically classified as points, lines, or areas, or as
raster images. On a map city data could be stored as points, road data
could be stored as lines, and boundaries could be stored as areas, while
aerial photos or scanned maps could be stored as raster images.

Geographic Information Systems store information using spatial indices that make it possible
to identify the features located in any arbitrary region of a map. For
example, a GIS can quickly identify and map all of the locations within
a specified radius of a point, or all of the streets that run through a
territory.

In addition to the above capabilities, Maptitude implements a
professional-strength relational database, a feature critical for GIS
software. Attribute data may be freely joined to and detached from
geographic layers and tables. Relational data manipulation is integrated
with robust and powerful geoprocessing for spatial queries, polygon
overlay, and other location-based analyzes. This is supported seamlessly
so that data are moved easily to and from relational tables and
geographic databases. In addition, the Maptitude fixed-format binary
table supports 32,767 fields and 1 billion records, and has unlimited
character field widths.