Western Chapter of the NC Surveyor Society

Last night I presented to the Western Chapter of the NC Surveyor Society on the topic of Local Data Sources and Open-Source GIS. The presentation portion embedded in this post is pretty short however the bulk of the time I demonstrated MapWindow (http://www.mapwindow.com/ and some of it's functionality.

Some nice featuresof MapWindow include:

• Create and edit shapefiles
• Projects data - even on the fly - sort of
• has many other vector tools like merge, clip, buffer etc ...
• Can connect to postGIS
• Plugin for exporting to kml
• accepts many data formats
• adding WMS layers

Some links from my presentation can be found here: http://geospatial.wetpaint.com/page/MapWindow+Resources