Links to Free GIS Software

There is a plenty of GIS software now available, we will concentrate on recommendations for free (and mostly open source software) that can be used for archaeological purposes.

• gvSIG: A free and open source software, the very useful version provided by Oxford Archaeology (http://oadigital.net/software/gvsigoade) will not be maintained any longer. We recommend the Community Edition (http://gvsigce.org/) which will provide a number of very helpful tools, especially for archaeologists.
• GRASS GIS: One of the most popular and most used free GIS software solutions -> http://grass.fbk.eu/
• Quantum GIS is a very easy to use software -> http://qgis.org/
• LandSerf is a freely available GIS for the visualisation and analysis of surfaces -> http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~jwo/landserf/
• SAGA GIS is also a very powerful free and open source GIS -> http://www.saga-gis.org/

Most modules and tools of both GRASS GIS and SAGA GIS (760 algorithms!) will be part of the future gvSIG Community Edition! Until this becomes available (at the moment only a technical preview version can be downloaded), most of these algorithms can be used in the Oxford Arcaeology version see above).