About

AcadGIS exists to make one of the most common — and most painful — figures in research effortless: the study-area map. Today that usually means hours in QGIS or ArcGIS, or a hundred lines of fiddly plotting code. It shouldn't.

AcadGIS is two things sharing one engine: an open-source Python package for researchers who code, and a forthcoming no-code web app for everyone else. Both turn a place name and a data table into a publication-ready map — boundaries, choropleths, terrain, rivers, locator insets and sampling points included.

Open data, properly cited

AcadGIS builds on open data and tells you what to cite:

• Boundaries — GADM
• Terrain — Copernicus GLO-30 DEM
• Rivers, water, world layers — Natural Earth and OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors)

License

AcadGIS is released under the Apache-2.0 license.

Links

• Package — pypi.org/project/acadgis
• Source — github.com/riponcm/AcadGIS
• Website — acadgis.com
• Changelog — on GitHub

Contributing & support

Found a bug or have a feature request? Open an issue on GitHub. Contributions are welcome.