Top 15 QGIS Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

QGIS, formerly Quantum GIS, is a user friendly open source Geographic Information System (GIS) licensed under the GNU General Public License that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows and supports numerous vector, raster, and database formats and functionalities.

QGIS lets you browse, edit and create a variety of vector and raster formats, including ESRI shapefiles, spatial data in PostgreSQL/PostGIS, GRASS vectors and rasters, or GeoTiff. You can create customised plugins and GIS enabled applications using Python or C++. Maps can be compiled for printing using the print composer.

1. ArcGIS

ArcGIS ArcGIS is geographic information system (GIS) software for visualizing, managing, creating, and analyzing geographic data. Using ArcGIS, you can understand the geographic context of your data, allowing you to see relationships and identify patterns in new ways.The ArcGIS Desktop program has 3 different lincense options: ArcView, ArcEditor and ArcInfo. ArcInfo......

2. uDig

uDig uDig is a GIS software program produced by a community led by Canadian-based consulting company Refractions Research. It is based on the Eclipse platform and features full layered open source GIS. It is written in Java and released under GNU Lesser General Public License.......

3. SuperGIS

SuperGIS Supergeo Technologies Inc. is global leading GIS software & total solution provider. With series GIS products covering from desktop, mobile, server to developer SDK, SuperGIS has been utilized more than 100 different countries.......

4. GRASS GIS

GRASS GIS GRASS GIS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) is an open source, free software (FOSS) Geographical Information System (GIS) with raster, topological, vector, image processing, and visualization functionality. Used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics/maps production, spatial modeling, and visualization, GRASS is currently used in academic and commercial......

5. ProAlign

ProAlign ProAlign provides an integrated suite of web-based and desktop territory analysis and mapping software.......

6. Spatial Feature Server

Spatial Feature Server MapET Spatial Feature Server is software that makes your geographic information (vector data) available to others in your organization and optionally anyone with an Internet connection. This is accomplished through web services, which allow a powerful server computer to receive and process requests for information sent by other devices. MapET......

7. H2GIS

H2GIS H2GIS is a spatial extension of the H2 Database Engine in the spirit of PostGIS . It adds support for managing spatial features and operations including a Geometry constraints, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Simple Features for SQL (SFSQL) functions and additional spatial functions that we......

8. Manifold

Manifold Manifold GIS is a combination of mapping, CAD, DBMS and image processing. The hallmark of GIS is the power of using a visual interface to view, grab, analyze, manipulate and transform data that would not be comprehensible in classic row and column DBMS text presentations. Although many people use Manifold......

9. GIS.XL

GIS.XL Excel add-in for work with spatial data. Powerful features of Excel and GIS inside one window.......

10. SpatiaLite

SpatiaLite SpatiaLite is a spatial extension to SQLite, providing vector geodatabase functionality. It is similar to PostGIS, Oracle Spatial, and SQL Server with spatial extensions, although SQLite/SpatiaLite aren't based on client-server architecture: they adopt a simpler personal architecture. i.e. the whole SQL engine is directly embedded within the application itself: a......

11. MangoMap

MangoMap Creating web map applications with Mango is quick and easy. All you need is a web browser and your data. What you won't need are any programmers, expensive servers, software licenses or an accountant to figure out the pricing.......

12. MapInfo Professional

MapInfo Professional MapInfo Professional is a powerful, functionally rich desktop mapping application from Pitney Bowes MapInfo, designed to enable organisations to solve business problems that have a geographical element.Users can make use of a full range of sophisticated tools to map, analyse, query and compare information over both space and time, making......

13. PostGIS

PostGIS PostGIS adds support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL object-relational database. In effect, PostGIS "spatially enables" the PostgreSQL server, allowing it to be used as a backend spatial database for geographic information systems (GIS), much like ESRIs SDE or Oracles Spatial extension. PostGIS follows the OpenGIS "Simple Features Specification for......

14. Spotzi

Spotzi Spotzi is an easy-to-use FREE online GIS/data mapping platform for businesses/professionals. With a short learning curve, people can immediately start with creating maps from data. Spotzi also has a datashop with readymade maps (postal code maps, marketing data maps, census maps, worldbank data maps etc.), you can download instantly. Simply......

15. MapLarge

MapLarge Beautiful, User Friendly online mapping software that scales to big data.The MapLarge API enables user-driven, low latency, interactive visual exploration and analysis of very large geospatial and non-geospatial data collections to recognize patterns and identify anomalies. Users access MapLarge visualizations from any web browser. The system enables dynamic real time......