Third in the MapWindow screencast series is a quick runthrough of MapWindow’s shapefile editing capabilities. I think it’s one of the easiest to use of all the freeware GIS programs I’ve seen.
Among its capabilities are:
- Simple addition of shapefile layer to project
- Easy addition and removal of shapes within layer
- One-click vertex addition, removal and moving
- “Snap” to vertices in the same layer or all layers, helpful in getting shapes to match up with each other
- Ability to enter vertices either by clicking on the map, or entering geographical vertex coordinates into a text box
- Convenient attribute table editor
Two screencasts follow:
How do I download the videos to my laptop? Thanks
You can’t download the videos (a limitation of Revver).
Arcview has an extension to convert polygons to points. I wonder if Map Window can accomplish this task? Excellent tutorials and I hope to see more on this free GIS. Thanks!