Web-Based Mapping Applications

Guide on ArcGIS Online, a web-based software package for map making, collaborating, analyzing spatial data, and sharing maps.

Latest interface for Esri's flagship client-based software package for map making and analyzing spatial data.

The classic interface to Esri's client-based software package for map making and analyzing spatial data.

Guide to the open-source client-based GIS software package Quantum GIS (QGIS).

Guide to Tableau Public and Tableau Desktop, client-based software for visualizing data (including mapping).

Overview on data visualization in general (including mapping).

Guide to the client-based Google Earth software, whose native formats, KML and KMZ, are popular geospatial data formats.

Guide to the web-based Fusion Tables application, intended for managing, visualizing (including mapping), and sharing tabular data.

Links to GIS data on the web, from local to international. Mostly free, but a few licensed just for Duke users.