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Diva GIS

Diva GIS Simple but very useful GIS freeware that allows biodiversity scientists to get a good view on the spatial aspects of their data. Oriented towards environmental issues and modeling, relatively easy to use which provides advanced features in those topics. For Windows only -it seems possible to use it on Mac with wine/winebottler. Free […]

QUANTUM GIS

QUANTUM GIS Interesting alternative to Diva GIS, although it is less oriented to biology. Open source that runs on Linux, Unix, and Mac OSX. Fast development with interesting extensible plugin systems. QuantumGIS supports vector, raster, and database formats.

España firma el Memorando de Entendimiento

España firma el nuevo Memorando de Entendimiento de GBIF En la pasada reunión de la Junta de Gobierno de GBIF que tuvo lugar en octubre de 2010 en Suwon (República de Corea), el futuro de GBIF quedaba asegurado mediante la aprobación de un nuevo Memorando de Entendimiento. Este mes de noviembre, España ha firmado dicho memorando que da […]

Species Link – infoXY

SPECIES LINK – infoXY A classic tool developed by The Centro de Referência em Informação Ambiental, Brazil (CRIA), very basic but very easy-direct to use by scientists. By entering data on geographic coordinates the tool returns information about the point, such as the name of the country, state or administrative region, and the name of […]