Desktop Mapping Software - Create, Edit, Analyze and Report using maps on your PC.
Online mapping tends to lend itself more towards data reporting and if you need more ability to create, alter and explore your geographic data then you need desktop GIS software. As is often the case, more complexity results in a higher learning curve with specialist operators normally required to get the best from
any Geographic Information System.
There are numerous solutions to choose from, our favourites are:
At See IT we use MapInfo as our preferred desktop product. The MapInfo corporation have been building great desktop GIS software for many years and we are accomplished in its use. We are also
familiar with MapBasic (a computer language for extending MapInfo) and can build custom applications and utilities around MapInfo.
Whilst discussing geographic software for use on your desktop we also want to introduce Google Earth. Google Earth is not the same type of product as MapInfo however it
comes as a free download from Google (there is a extended version with a license fee) and presents you with an interactive view of the world. As you zoom in to a specifc area, more
detail is drawn from the web illustrating the real world via aerial and satellite imagery.
