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GIS data export
A geographic information system (GIS) is a framework for gathering, managing, and analyzing data. Rooted in the science of geography, GIS integrates many types of data. It analyzes spatial location and organizes layers of information into visualizations using maps and 3D scenes.
GIS tools are custom-built to handle maps, with large data sets, integrate with other tools such as databases and create interactive maps such as Google Maps.
Being able to import a fantasy map into a GIS system puts all the power of those systems into your hands. Among other things, a GIS map can have many more layers, for example to have a view of the world at different times in history. It can link to a database to bring in as much information about the world as you have. It can also dynamically update itself from that database. For example, online game Might & Fealty allows to build roads, and roads can deteriorate over time. These roads and their condition are part of the game map.
Also, at this time, it is the only way to zoom from world map to street view without going to a different tool.
What GIS does not do is creating a map, it's made to deal with the real world, it doesn't generate random maps or invent cultures and religions. This is where Fantasy Map Generator comes in order to merge generated data with whatever other data you have in your game and to create an interactive read-only map view.
QGIS is a Free Software, multi-platform tool for GIS work. It can load, edit and print maps in high quality as well as export the results for interactive online maps. In essence, if you ever thought that having Google Maps for your fantasy world would be incredible cool, this is how you do it.
QGIS is located at https://qgis.org/
Download and installation instructions can be found there.
There are also many videos and online instructions on QGIS, such as:
https://freegistutorial.com/qgis-tutorial-beginners/ https://www.qgistutorials.com/en/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCnNWyl9qSE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltsKFhYQy_4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCnNWyl9qSE and many others