Client Stories: What LandPro says about Map Suite GIS Editor

Unlike ArcGIS, Map Suite GIS Editor is very intuitive and easy to use, whether you’re a first-time GIS mapping user or an advanced GIS analyst. It is very easy to work with the most common GIS data such as .SHP, .TAB, .GRD, .BAS, .GDB, .TGEO, .SID, and many more. You can create and edit various layer types (area, line, point, multipoint), create and populate attributes, specify common projections (Lat/Lon, Google Maps / Bing Maps / OpenStreetMaps, State Plane, UTM) as well as hundreds of EPSG, ESRI, and custom projections.

Map Suite GIS Editor is ideal for individuals that want to create maps, query data, create polygons, show nice “base maps” backgrounds such as Bing Maps, OpenStreetMaps, and World Map Kit. ThinkGeo’s Cloud Layers include National Atlas, Natural Earth, Open Street Maps, Zillow Neighborhoods, as well as US Township and Range, Sections, US BLM Quarter-Quarter and Lots, and Texas Survey Abstracts.

The Place Search tool is awesome. Quickly find locations based on actual street address, county, city, twn-rng-section, survey/abstract, and more. There are numerous drawing tools (point, multi-point, line, polygon, rectangle, square, ellipse, circle, etc.), a vertex tool, buffer, simplify, blend, dissolve, clip, merge, split, uncombined, and more. For those of you needing Metes & Bounds tools and Jeffersonian quarter-quarter tool, there is a COGO plugin (sold separately) that does the job with elegance and precision. Create your maps, polygons, drop annotations of all types (labels, polygons, squares, lines, points, file links), and also export data to Google Earth / Google Earth Pro with a couple of keystrokes.

Easily export your maps to shapefiles. Edit and run Python, Ruby, and C# scripts. Identify, Pan, Zoom in/out, Manage Scales, Legends. Print simple to very sophisticated maps with one or more maps per page, with page sizes ranging from 8.5″x 11″ to 34″x 44″, or customize the size.

Oil & Gas Land Departments as well as Coal Mining Companies can also benefit using Map Suite GIS Editor, by licensing the special “LandPro Edition” by visiting LandPro.

I am very satisfied with Map Suite GIS Editor, and the fact that it has only a fraction of the features present in ESRI ArcGIS doesn’t bother me, because when it comes to being able to generate maps and create polygons based on Metes and Bounds / Jeffersonian Quarter-Quarter calls, Map Suite GIS Editor, along with the LandPro COGO Tool, does the job very well.