GIS Software

ESRI Products – A wide range of commcerial/licensed products from ESRI, a long established world leader in supply of geospatial mapping and GIS software.

QGIS – a freely available open-source, full functional GIS software. Widely used around the world and provides all the geographic and mapping functionality most users are are likley to need.

Google Earth Pro – Freely available software based on Google satallite images giving global coverage of current and historical satellite imagery. Be aware that imagery used by Google is a moasic of imagery data sets taken at different times, by different satellite companies and of different resolutions.

Mapping Data

Ordnance Survey Open Data – free to use mapping data from the Ordnance Survey available under the ‘Open Government’ License. Background mapping available at many scales plus a range of other useful datasets including Greenspace, Buildings, River Networks, Road Networks etc

Emapsite – Purchase mapping and other spatial data for just the area you need. An excellent site ideal for supply of mapping, DTM, geological and hydrological data for projects.

Landmark Information Group – Another excellent site for purchasing geodata particuarly historical mapping.

Bluesky Mapshop – Speclising in aerial and LIDAR imagery

Environmental Data

Natural England GIS Digital Bounday Datasets – All the for GIS boundary files for sites, habitats, and other information either as national datasets covering all of England or in 100km tiles for the larger datasets.

Natural Resources Wales Datasets – Datamapwales, Live data API portal, flood maps, NBN Atlas Wales and other map viewers

NatureScot – Extensive range of environmental datasets for Scotland

Northern Ireland DOE Data Download – Various digital datasets held by Northern Ireland Environment Agency are now available for download from this website.

Republic of Ireland EPA GIS Data Download – Environmental datasets for the Republic of Ireland available from the Irish Environmental Protection Agency.