gvSIG desktop is a powerful software solution used by specialists to capture, store, analyze, and deploy various geographic data with the scope of solving difficult management and planning tasks.
It comes wrapped in a standard GUI, comprised of a content area, menu tabs, and a toolbar for command shortcuts. There are numerous options available inside the menus, but none of them for customizing the appearance.
What is impressive about gvSIG desktop is the high number of embedded features and the wide range of possibilities they cover. One of these features is Jaspersoft integration, a tool used for generating reports that is now a built-in feature. In gvSIG desktop you'll find a topology framework to help users increase the cartographic information and a tool for capturing coordinates and copy-paste them into other applications.
Furthermore, users have quick access to snapping tools and drawing tools that allow them to draw geometric figures and create unique drawings.
To sum it up, gvSIG desktop is a reliable software utility for processing geographic data and solving planning problems. It lacks digital image processing and has limited options for changing the tables' layout fields, but you can't ask that much from a free product.
v2.1 [Dec 2, 2014]
Integration of functionalities of gvSIG 1.x not present at gvSIG 2.0
- Georeferencing
- Legends
- Expresions
- Proportional symbols
- Graduated symbols
- Dot density
- Quantities by category
- Charts (pies and bars)
- Advanced labeling
- CSV support
- Import/export SLD
- Copy/paste geometries
- Lateral buffer
- Split line
- Consecutive numbers function
- Duplicated records function
Functionalities:
- Chart document
- Map sheets (map series)
- Connection with OpenStreetMap services
- New symbol libraries
- PostGIS 2.x support (raster and vector)
- Layout
- Insert table
- Insert chart
- Added layout with TOC (table of contents) included.
- Added grid functionalities.
- Portable views (thematic maps plugin)
- Advanced dissolve geoprocess
- Labeling
- Halo option
- Always show label option
- Raster
- Set projection to layer
- Change data type
- Create multi-file layer
- Convert to grayscale
- Export to KML
- Show attributes in ballon option
- Use labels option
- Reprojection:
- Reprojection forcing
- Added EPSG projections support.
- Scripting: raster data support
- Layer loading:
- Dragging layers from the file browser.
- Memory management at the Preferences menu.
- WFS service:
- XY axis order selection.
Other improvements:
- Raster
- Integration of tools in the geoprocessing toolbox
- Principal components tool improved
- Georeferencing tool improved
- Print performance improved
- Added design of info tool
- Bug fixing
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