The web offers many free tools for basic GIS analysis and visualization. Steve Schild, GIS Manager at the Rutland Regional Planning Commission, highlights the best in this slideshow.

1. Rutland Regional Planning Commission www.rutlandrpc.org The Data Resources Your Town Needs For Comprehensive Planning March 10, 2010

5. ANR and VCGI Both web pages were developed using Geocortex IMF technology. Environmental Interest Locator Vermont Interactive Map Viewer

6. VCGI/ANR: Add Your Own Data Add parcel data View parcel data Identify parcel data

12. Google Earth www.earth.google.com Documents and Settingsll Usersesktopoogle Earth.lnk

15. Google Sky, Moon and Mars Google Sky features constellations, stars, galaxies, Hubble Telescope images and animations depicting the planets in their orbits. Google Earth 5 includes a separate globe of the planet Mars , it also includes 3D renderings of the Martian terrain. There are also some extremely high resolution images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and panoramic images from various Mars landers. Google Moon allows users to view satellite images of the Moon .

17. Google Building Maker http://sketchup.google.com/3dwh/buildingmaker.html

23. 60 Free Geo Viewers and GIS Software A Google search for “free GIS viewers” returned 767,000 links.

24. http://www.geogenesis.net/geogenesislite.htm GeoGenesis Lite http://www.geabios.com/html/services/maps/PublicMap.htm GeaBios http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Earth Fourmilab www.flashearth.com Flash Earth http://www.flamingo-mc.org Flamingo http://www.forestpal.com/fgis.html FGIS http://exploreourpla.net ExploreOurPla.net http://www.anr.state.vt.us/site/html/maps.htm Environmental Interest Locator http://www.diva-gis.org/ DIVA-GIS http://cartoweb.org/ CartoWeb http://www.cartoworld.com/ CartoMap http://www.capaware.org/ Capaware http://www.blue-marble.de Blue Marble Navigator www.bing.com/maps Bing Maps http://maps.ayna.com Ayna www.arcwebservices.com ArcWeb Explorer http://www.esri.com/software/arcexplorer/index1.html ArcExplorer http://www.agismap.com/index.html AGIS for Windows http://mapper.acme.com ACME Mapper http://www.accuglobe.net/ Accuglobe

25. www.navitraveler.com NaviTraveler http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/java/ NASA World Wind http://www.multimap.com MultiMap http://maps.msn.com MSN Maps http://mapyrus.sourceforge.net Mapyrus http://www.mapwindow.org/ MapWindow GIS www.maps-for-free.com Maps-for-free.com http://mapserver.mytopo.com MapTech http://atlas.mapquest.com Mapquest http://www.mapmaker.com Map Maker http://www.mapfish.org MapFish http://link2.map24.com Map24 http://www.gvsig.gva.es gvSIG http://grass.itc.it/ GRASS GIS http://www.gpsvisualizer.com GPS Visualizer http://maps.google.com Google Maps http://earth.google.com Google Earth www.geonames.org Geonames http://www.pcigeomatics.com/ Geomatica Free View http://www.geomajas.org/ Geomajas

26. http://maps.yahoo.com Yahoo Maps http://www.worldkit.org/ WorldKIT http://www.wikimapia.org/ WikiMapia http://www.viamichelin.com ViaMichelin International www.vcgi.org VCGI Interactive Map Viewer http://udig.refractions.net/ uDIG www.trails.com Trails.com http://www.topoquest.com TopoQuest http://www.microimages.com/products/tntatlas/index.htm TNTatlas http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/ The Generic Mapping Tools http://www.terraserver.com TerraServer http://tatukgis.com/ Tatuk GIS http://www.dpi.inpe.br/spring/english/index.html SPRING https://sigisco.com/ SIGIS http://www.codeplex.com/SharpMap SharpMap http://www.shaded-relief.com Shaded Relief http://www.randmcnally.com RandMcnally http://qgis.org/ Quantum GIS (QGIS) http://www.openstreetmap.org OpenStreetMap http://openjump.org OpenJUMP

27. “ There seem at present to be two distinct groups of humanitarian practitioners: those who are already, albeit tentatively, exploiting Google Earth and related geospatial methods in their work, and those who will be, as soon as they see their first demonstration of its potential.” (MapAction, 2008:9) Steve Schild Rutland Regional Planning Commission [email_address] 775-0871, ext. 206 www.rutlandrpc.org THANK YOU!