Free gis mapping software for mac

Dont let the name fool you. This program renders more than just the Mandelbrot Set.

It also creates:
• Julia Sets
• Iterated Functions Systems
• Fractal Trees
• The Lorenz Attractor
• The Feignbaum Bifurcation Diagram
• The Newtons Method for finding the roots of a polynomial fractal (up to 16 roots)
• Martins Mapping (Hopalong)
You are able to change any parameter for the above fractals to customize them to your liking :)

It also allows you to create QuickTime movies of the fractals changing (zooming in/out, morphing, panning, etc.).

The program uses a simple interface to create movies. Just select the first and last frame, and Gerrys Mandelbrot Set will create all the frames in between.

GRASS GIS 6.4rc5 is stand for Geographic Resources Analysis Support System, which used for data management, image processing, graphics production, spatial modelling, and visualization of many types of data. It is Free (Libre) Software/Open Source released under GNU General Public License (GPL). GRASS is official project of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation.
Originally developed by the U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories (USA-CERL, 1982-1995), a branch of the US Army Corp of Engineers, as a tool for land management and environmental planning by the military, GRASS has evolved into a powerful utility with a wide range of applications in many different areas of scientific research. GRASS is currently used in academic and commercial settings around the world, as well as many governmental agencies including NASA, NOAA, USDA, DLR, CSIRO, the National Park Service, the U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, and many environmental consulting companies.
The new GRASS 6 release introduces a new topological 2D/3D vector engine and support for vector network analysis. Attributes are now managed in a SQL-based DBMS. A new display manager has been implemented. The NVIZ visualization tool was enhanced to display 3D vector data and voxel volumes. Messages are partially translated (i18N) with support for FreeType fonts, including multibyte Asian characters. New LOCATIONs can be auto-generated by EPSG code number. GRASS is integrated with GDAL/OGR libraries to support an extensive range of raster and vector formats, including OGC-conformal Simple Features.
The GRASS Development Team has grown into a multi-national team consisting of developers at numerous locations.
In September 2006, the GRASS Project Steering Commitee was formed which is responsible for the overall management of the project. The PSC is especially responsible for granting SVN write access.
Major Features:

1. GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) is a raster/vector GIS, image processing system, and graphics production system.
2. GRASS contains over 350 programs and tools to render maps and images on monitor and paper; manipulate raster, vector, and sites data; process multi spectral image data; and create, manage, and store spatial data.
3. GRASS uses both an intuitive windows interface as well as command line syntax for ease of operations.
4. GRASS can interface with commercial printers, plotters, digitizers, and databases to develop new data as well as manage existing data.
   
5. GRASS supports workgroups through its LOCATION/MAPSET concept which can be set up to share data over NFS (Network File System). Keeping LOCATIONs with their underlying MAPSETs on a central server, a team can simultaneously work in the same project database.
   
6. GRASS is released under GNU GPL, the source code (5.x: more than 1 million lines of C; 6.x 500k SLOC) is completely available.
7. GRASS provides a sophisticated GIS library which can be used for own developments.
   

Enhancements:

• New modules
  
• Major module changes
  
• Minor module changes
  
• Library changes
  
• Driver changes
  
• GUI changes
  
• Portability changes
  
• Build changes
  
• Documentation updates
  
• Message translation updates
  
• Closed tickets
  
• Closed bugs since branching
  

Log Visuals is a web server log file extraction and mapping program.
With a few easy steps you can have an interactive map available to you to display your log files.
All you need is a web server with log files in the standard extended format.
Log Visuals is currently is currently being beta tested. There are a lot of things to be added, but if there is something that would make the product more worthwhile for you please send an email to: logvisuals@ltconsult.com.au with any comments, suggestions or bugs. Hopefully this software will be released as commercial software in the not to distant future.
Enhancements:
- First Version.

Pov-Ray is a ray tracer, computer graphics software that can create amazing photo-realistic computer-generated images and animations. It uses an easy scene description language.
This text file containing information of objects, lighting, texture, camera, ..., can be written in any ASCII editor, but ...with MacMegaPov it is easier and faster and it includes some of the most recent patches.
Enhancements:
- Control up to which trace level area lights are calculated
- Bicubic interpolation for images
- Custom tone mapping feature that offers detailed control of how the colors are mapped to the resulting image and how this interacts with antialiasing
- Radiosity improvements.

MindNode 1.3 is launched to be a user-friendly mind-mapping application for the Macintosh. It was created with the user in mind and features a very simple and intuitive user interface that lets the user focus on expressing and developing ideas. Nearly no time is required to learn the interface. MindNode is based on the same codebase as the commercial version. While it is still a very powerful application, it misses some of the features added to MindNode Pro that help improve your productivity.

swfmill is an xml2swf and swf2xml processor with import functionalities. Its most common use is the generation of asset libraries containing images (PNG and JPEG), fonts (TTF) or other SWF movies for use with MTASC- or haXe-compiled ActionScript, although swfmill may be used to produce both simple and complex SWF structures.
Main features:
- built around an XSLT/EXSLT processor (libxslt)
- input and output of the XSLT transformation can be either XML or binary SWF
- XSLT commands for importing PNG, JPEG, TTF and SWF, and for mapping SWF ID numbers
- built-in simple dialect to support library creation and building simple SWFs