As a data analyst, I am a big fan of showing data on large screens. And I like world maps.

Lately, a very large Swiss global corporation selling milk, chocolate and coffee asked me to draw 750’000 farms on a world map, with a mix og GPS points, shapes and rasters.

Weeks later, I am finding arcGIS super painful in terms of licensing management, and QGIS is anything but simple to apprehend without reading the manual.

I therefore programmed this very light GIS, so light I called it “pico” GIS.

All it does – but it does it very quickly – is to map up to :

• 2 files with GPS coordinates ( a big number will take some time to load, like 750’000 farms take 20 seconds to show up but amore reasonable file like 500 points shows up in a flash )
• 2 shape files
• 2 tif file, 1 which can show with color graduation and 1 which appears in black and white to easily differenciate the 2 rasters if they oth show at the same time

Have fun and let me know if you have ideas and suggestions of how I can improve it.

Thanks

Philippe