Sky JUMP

If you are looking for an intuitive GIS application that can be used to create small scale maps and manage spatial data, you might want to try Sky JUMP.

It is a relatively lightweight program that offers many useful features and supports numerous industry standard GIS vector and raster data sources.

Once you start your project, you can begin drawing shapes or inserting various objects. You can draw constrained rectangles, parallelograms, polygons, circles, linestrings and arcs. It is also possible to specify if objects should snap to vertices, lines or grids.

You can modify the pixel tolerance, which determines how far an object needs to be from a vertex, line or grid to snap to it.

Sky JUMP also allows you to insert text, rotate, move and scale items.

The application offers multiple tools for analyzing the inserted data. You can perform spatial or attribute queries, join layers on a specific spatial relationship, compute geometric functions, merge multiple layers, draw buffer zones around certain objects and calculate various areas and lengths.

You can also view detailed layers statistics, extract or polygonize segments, overlay multiple layers or extract data from them.

While Sky JUMP is a software solution aimed at specialists, it is odd that no documentation or instructions are included. It is more intuitive than many other GIS applications, but it would still help if there was a way for novices to understand its features.

As it stands, this cannot be called an accessible program, as it is very difficult for inexperienced users to get to grips with its functions.

Overall, Sky JUMP is a helpful GIS application, designed to be used for relatively small scale projects, which allows you to create maps and analyze spatial data. It features an intuitive interface but lacks documentation, which would have been very handy for users lacking specialized knowledge.