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Here is a list of free or open source software and online services used at Harvard. Please contact us if you have additional sources.

 

Batch Distance Calculation using Google Distance Matrix API

Batch Geocoder

CGA GitHub Page 

Esri Maps for MS Office 

Export to KML - Free ArcGIS Extensions

GeoDa 

Geographic Position Finder 

Get X, Y from Google Maps

Google Earth 

Google Earth Pro

GRASS

Great Circle Distance Batch Calculator

History of Open Source Tools by makepath

MapWindow 

Mecklenburg Geospatial Portal

Open Source 3-D Visualization Tools 

Point Locate Tool

QGIS 

R Spatial 

SAS/GIS 

Time Snapshot Application

Tracts to Text

WorldMap Platform 

ZGrid ArctoolBox 

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