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The document discusses software for GIS analysis categorized by user profile and ability level: beginner, experienced, expert, and researcher/developer. It also contains a table comparing various GIS applications grouped by usability, including their release date, target user profile, programming language, and whether they support raster and/or vector formats.

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The document discusses software for GIS analysis categorized by user profile and ability level: beginner, experienced, expert, and researcher/developer. It also contains a table comparing various GIS applications grouped by usability, including their release date, target user profile, programming language, and whether they support raster and/or vector formats.

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AGD Landscape & Environment 6 (2) 2012. 76-92.

1. Beginner: Data display


2. Experienced: A simple analysis, editing
3. Expert: GIS analysis
4. Researcher and Developer: Programming and Scripting

Fig. 1. Software according to the users’ profile (according to Sherman, 2001)

Table 2.Various GIS applications, grouped by usability


Name of Programme
Release Date User Profile1 Raster/Vector
Application Language
Grass 1982 expert & C, Tcl/Tk, Python raster and vector
researcher
from beginner to
QGIS 2002 C++, Qt4, Python mainly vector
researcher
from beginner to
SAGA 2001 MS Visual C mainly raster
researcher
from beginner to
uDIG 2004 JAVA mainly vector
researcher
from beginner to
OpenJump 2002 JAVA vector and raster
researcher
from beginner to
ILWIS Open 1984 MS Visual C raster and vector
researcher
from beginner to
gvSIG 2003 JAVA mainly vector
researcher
from beginner to
MapWindow 2005 C++, .Net raster and vector
researcher
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See the user profiles below.

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