Software for GIS

Claudia Engel, Department of Anthropology & Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Research

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Desktop GIS - ArcGIS Desktop. Install from here to take advantage of the Stanford Campus License (Stanford affiliated only). New: ArcGIS Pro - QGIS - GRASS-GIS
Databases - ArcGIS Server. Find the product in SearchWorks and order the installation discs at Branner (Stanford affiliated only). - PostgreSQL with PostGIS spatial extension
Spatial Analysis - GeoDa, Python - R
Field data collection
- Avenza PDF Maps
- Collector for ArcGIS
Geocoding
- Google: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/intro
- ArcGIS (Stanford only): http://locator.stanford.edu/arcgis/rest/services
- Many others, selected examples:
  - Census Geocoder: http://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/
  - TAMU https://geoservices.tamu.edu/Services/Geocode/WebService/
  - OSM (Nominatim) http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org
  - Data Science Toolkit: http://www.datasciencetoolkit.org
  - Routing, Time-Distance: https://mapzen.com/documentation/matrix/
  - IP Geocoding: http://freegeoip.net and https://github.com/fiorix/freegeoip/releases
Web Mapping - ArcGIS online. Stanford affiliates can request access to a (shared) account from Stanford Geospatial Center. (Link). - CartoDB. Stanford affiliates can request access to an enterprise accout at http://stanford.cartodb.com/signup. Use your stanford.edu email address to sign up for a profile (Stanford affiliated only). Examples are here, here, and here - JavaScript: Leaflet, MapBox, OpenLayers, d3, and more...