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Free GIS Software – ILWIS, THE FREE  USER-FRIENDLY RASTER AND VECTOR GIS

GREAT NEWS: ILWIS 3.6.01 IS OUT WITH NEW CAPABILITIES:
Full integration of GDAL, a library that offers access to many raster formats;
Access to Postgres/gis databases for data and maps;
Extension and improvements of the SEBS functionality

Key features

1. Vector and Raster capacity integrated into 1 software package

2. Developed by an autonomous higher education institution under the Dutch government

3. Initiated in 1984 with a subsidy from the Ministry of Development cooperation, ILWIS is one of the oldest GIS programmes around

4. With both vector and raster integrated into one package, it takes less time to learn to use the programme

5. Being developed by a training institute, ILWIS has always been tested for its user-friendliness for more than 2 decades on thousands of students 

6. The biggest savings in using ILWIS is in its greater use efficiency, thus saving costly production time

7. Free open source software available for downloading by anyone

8. More than 2 decades of development now continued by 52North, a consortium of open source developers

9. No costly periodic updates required like for the commercial packages;

10. Some of the greatest selections of  import  and export modules of widely used data formats

11. On-screen and tablet digitizing

12. Comprehensive set of image processing tools

13. Orthophoto, image georeferencing, transformation and mosaicing

14. Advanced modeling and spatial data analysis

15. 3D visualization with interactive editing for optimal view findings

16. Rich projection and coordinate system library

17. Geo-statistical analyses, with Kriging for improved interpolation

18. Production and visualization of stereo image pairs

19. Spatial Multiple Criteria Evaluation

20. More than 2,000 pages in the help

21. Very extensive training documents with training files.