gpMapper

gpMapper (General Purpose Mapper) is a lightweight but powerful GIS (Geographical Information System). The first mapping software was called Interfarm and was released in 1996. Two years later, the entire mapping engine was totally re-written and released under the name gpMapper. The mapping ‘engine’ of that version of gpMapper was also used as the mapping engine in the farm management software called PAM. The gpMapper (on-premise) software is used around the world for a variety of purposes — by fertiliser spreading companies for planning and recording fertiliser applications for clients, by rural real estate offices for preparing maps for farm auctions, by irrigation specialists for planning irrigation layouts (center pivots, etc.), by plantation managers in SE Asia for mapping their coffee plantations, and by contractors planning livestock water reticulation systems for pastoral stations. It is also used by professional farm mapping contractors to prepare farm maps for clients. Now in 2022, gpMapper has moved to the cloud for convenience and to make it usable across all hardware platforms.