About AcadGIS

AcadGIS exists to make one of the most common — and most painful — figures in research effortless: the study-area map. Today it 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.

Built for researchers, by a researcher

AcadGIS is developed by a PhD researcher who got tired of remaking the same map for every paper. It's open-source (Apache-2.0), reproducible, and designed around what journals and reviewers actually expect.

Open data, properly cited

Boundaries come from GADM; terrain from Copernicus GLO-30; rivers, water and world layers from Natural Earth and OpenStreetMap. AcadGIS tells you exactly what to cite.

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