Sparks 2008 APS Poster - "Regional predictions of potato late blight risk in a GIS incorporating disease resistance profiles, climate change, and risk neighborhoods"
Originally uploaded by earlycj5.
(The poster is about potato blight. This is not related to cause of death.)
5 comments:
I'm a self-trained hobbyist but I've been darn happy with Manifold for Windows. I haven't used any of the analytical functions; I use it mainly to map wildfires during fire season, and make other maps.
I've been collecting links to software for GIS at
http://delicious.com/judielaine/GIS%3Asoftware There are some interesting things there, like the online map rectification tool. Which is cool to have available like that compared woith having to get an additional module for ArcGIS IIRC.
I liked ArcGIS, but it's pricy and came with a surprising learning curve.
UDig and QGIS are opensource solutions. I haven't played with them yet in depth. At one point in time, when i was fresh from really knowing how to use ArcGIS i found them lacking, but time has passed and they continue to be developed.
http://udig.refractions.net/
http://www.qgis.org/
Here's another vote for Manifold. There is also another one called MapWindows which is free and reasonably decent.
In a previous life, I used MapInfo a lot. It depends on what kind of data you're using, what format it comes in, etc.
Wow! I umm am surprised to see my poster in someone else's blog, thanks!
I used R, Diva, and ArcGIS for that poster. That said, I'd echo what others said, if you're getting started, I'd take a look at uDig and QGIS to start with.
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