The exercises are based on CARIS GIS, a GIS developed by CARIS - Universal Systems Limited. A customized version of it has been created for this Guide having identical interfaces as the production version but with somewhat reduced functionalities. In addition, the customized version can only work with the data files supplied with this Guide. You can also use a production version of CARIS GIS with this Guide.

The animated demonstrations were created using Macromedia Director and were packaged to run by themselves. There is no need for you to purchase the Director software.