Free GIS Application, MapWindow GIS v4.7, the open source GIS software

There are many GIS application available. One of the most popular GIS application is MapWindow GIS. Current version of MapWindow GIS is version 4.7. MapWindow GIS is an open source GIS software that enable us to view and edit most GIS file formats.

The MapWindow application is a ready-to-use spatial data viewer, and a tool that can be modified into a new custom application. Customization is done by editing the MapWindow Configuration File, and/or a MapWindow Project File. These are the two files that control the look and feel of MapWindow. Both are XML-format files that can be edited directly through notepad or an XML editor.

The software includes plug-ins for various geoprocessing tasks (e.g. buffer, merge, etc.), watershed delineation, accessing online data sources, and an experimental geodatabase plug-in. The attribute table editor can be used to write simple queries, and there is a complete scripting editor that allows you to write and run scripts in VB.NET and C# directly in the MapWindow program.

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By default, the layout includes a map area (white box at the right), a legend pane, and a preview-map pane. Additionally, built-in toolbar buttons allow you to create, save and open project files (collections of data layers), print, and navigate around the map. Navigation tools includ pan, zoom-in, zoom-out, zoom-to-selected-layer, zoom-to-selected-shapes, zoom-to-full-extents. A tool bar button for adding and removing data layers from the map, as well as a “selection” tool are also included in the default layout