Geospatial Resources : Tools & Resources

Data archive comprises data and links for global and Pacific Northwest climate and natural resources.

The University of Washington Olympic Natural Resources Center located on the Olympic Peninsula in Forks, Washington, provides scientific information to address critical issues and solve problems concerning forestry and marine sciences in the region.

A cloud-based, collaborative content management system for maps, apps, data, and other geographic information. Purchase plan required.

Used to create and share KML files

A free online service for making custom maps for geographic analysis or presentations.

A GIS project that includes a free and open source desktop geographic information system with an extensible plugin architecture; a GIS ActiveX control; and C# GIS programmer library called DotSpatial.

A user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS) licensed under the GNU General Public License. QGIS is an official project of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). It runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, Windows and Android and supports numerous vector, raster, and database formats and functionalities.

A free computer program for mapping and geographic data analysis. With DIVA-GIS you can make maps of the world, or of a very small area, using, for example, state boundaries, rivers, a satellite image, and the locations of sites where an animal species was observed. They also provide free spatial data for the whole world that you can use in DIVA-GIS or other programs.

A free toolkit for developing mapping applications. It’s written in C++ and there are Python bindings to facilitate fast-paced agile development. It can comfortably be used for both desktop and web development. It can read ESRI shapefiles, PostGIS, TIFF rasters, .osm files, and any GDAL or OGR supported formats.

Geographic Resources Analysis Support System, commonly referred to as GRASS, is a free Geographic Information System (GIS) software used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics/maps production, spatial modeling, and visualization. GRASS GIS is currently used in academic and commercial settings around the world, as well as by many governmental agencies and environmental consulting companies. GRASS GIS is an official project of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo).

A tool for cartographers to quickly and easily design maps for the web using custom data. It is built on the powerful open-source map rendering library Mapnik - the same software OpenStreetMap and MapQuest use to make some of their maps. TileMill is not intended to be a general-purpose cartography tool, but rather focuses on streamlining and simplifying a narrow set of use cases.