Then he posted it on Louisville’s open data portal. The extraction contains a wealth of GIS data to help civic hackers, data analysts, citizens and other users create maps, do research and learn ...

Global GIS data market The data segment is the second largest segment in the market in 2015 and is expected to reach USD 4.373 billion by 2020, growing at a CAGR of over 11%.

Boundless is betting that open source, non-proprietary and license-free is the future of the geographic information systems (GIS) market. It’s a bet wagered in the form of dual product launches ...

Essentially, a shapefile is a set of files with vector-based location and attribute data, which can be represented in a GIS application. QGIS also supports some other file formats, such as MapInfo and ...