What is AutoMapa?
AutoMapa is an open source desktop application designed specifically for creating interactive and zoomable maps. It provides a user-friendly graphical interface that allows users to easily import a variety of spatial data sets including shapefiles, geoJSON files, KML files, and more.
Once data sets are imported, AutoMapa provides extensive styling and symbolization options to allow users to customize the visual appearance of map features. Different color schemes, transparency effects, scaled symbols, and labels can be applied. AutoMapa leverages zooming and panning capabilities to allow users to explore data sets at multiple scales.
Some key features and capabilities of AutoMapa include:
- Import spatial vector and raster data
- Style map features with colors, symbols, scale-based symbols, transparency effects, and labels
- Interactive zooming and panning to explore data sets at multiple map scales
- Export maps to common image formats like JPEG, PNG, SVG and PDF
- Print full resolution maps with customizable print layouts
- Extend functionality with Python plugins
- Completely open source with community-driven development
AutoMapa empowers users to create compelling, custom interactive maps for visual analysis and presentation without needing advanced GIS expertise or proprietary software. Its intuitive workflow allows users to quickly go from raw geospatial data to an interactive, customized cartographic product.
Waze, OsmAnd, MotionX GPS, HERE WeGo, Organic Maps, Sygic GPS Navigation, TomTom GO Mobile, iGO My Way, NAVIGON, MotionX GPS Drive, Scout by Telenav, MapFactor Navigator are some alternatives to AutoMapa.