Software Resources

Free software is available that can manage and display geospatial data. We offer the links below as a convenience. The Columbia Center has no connection with any of the following products or companies and makes no warranties as to their usefulness or quality.

If you know of another free resource that you find useful, please send us a link and we will add it to this list.

ESRI

ArcExplorer Family of Free Geospatial Applications

Google

Google Earth

Lizzard Tech

ExpressView Browser Plug-in(MrSid) for Windows
Express Server Plug-in for ArcGIS

Leica

Leica Geosystems ViewFinder V2.1

Purdue University

Multispec (Multispectral Image Data Analysis System)

NRCS

NRCS Soils Data Viewer - ArcGIS extension for
soils data

Other GIS Data Sources

The following organizations provide free access to GIS data for Texas. The Columbia Center provides this list as a convenience and makes no claims as to the quality or usefulness of data available on these sites.

Academic:

Regional Government:

State Government: