The maps of land form changes are of great significance for infrastructure development. I have a set of spatial data about the soil properties with the geographical locations. Which software is recommended to generate the maps?
Hi Mohsin,
At open source side QGIS has good tools to work with while commercially ArcGIS is best.
Depending what you want to do, R has many libraries that can also help. I would tend to side with pure GIS solutions as suggested above, but depending what you were doing, R could serve your purposes.
Hi Mohsin Usman Qureshi ,
Please make sure which you want analysis for landforms or mapping.
If you need map you could use QGIS or ArcMap, or analysis purpose you can use ERDAS imagine software. If you need further clarification plz revert.
Hi Moshin Usman Qureshi,
As said Asid Ur Rehman, QGIS and ArcGIS are two software which are very effective for mapping...
Hi Moshin Usman Qureshi,
It depends on your project, but I would suggest QGIS, it is free and Open Source, it has many tools and can work with Python, very useful to analysis purpose.
http://www.qgis.org/en/site/
You may want to use GeoTools. If you are comfortable with java, I'd definitely recommend. It belongs to the The Open Source Geospatial Foundation, for which QGis belongs to also; and there more platforms, tools etc in that foundation also. If you are going to develop special spatial routines, waay below it uses Vividsolutions's JTS topology suite, and you can program it also using java. Besides, you can have it up and running in eclipse or netbeans, since they have maven integration.
Another point: You can embed the gis tool as java beans into another program too. ie: map at the left, table to the right.
You can have a look at them at their site.
http://www.osgeo.org/
In my experience (predominantly technical projects) , the best available options for mapping (layout, symbology) are ARCGIS and QGIS. I am not referring to spatial analysis, only mapping. Usually, I do the spatial analysis using R, Grass, Saga, Idrisi... but I have mapped all the results in ArcGIS (Layout, Simbology). However, QGIS has improve a lot in the last years. If you want to mapping your scientific results QGIS is enough.
Dear Dr Mosin
R is best, it depends on what for you will use but still R is very powerful.
regards
Hi!
Recommended open-source software:
QGIS,
Python,
R (spatial packages: e.g. sp, spatstat, etc)
Commercial Software for GIS:
ArcGIS (easier for new beginners)
Idrisi
Good luck!
Best,
Karolina
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