The last native effort by Esri to produce GIS software for the Mac was a ported version of ArcView in the early 1990s that never made it past pre-release. Running ArcGIS on the Mac Although Esri has released an app version of ArcGIS for iOS, ArcGIS unfortunately isn’t natively offered as a option for installing on a Macintosh computer. Other native Macintosh GIS software packages are listed further below in this article. One of the most popular options for running GIS softly directly on within the Macintosh OS environment is QGIS, known formally as Quantum GIS, a free and open source (FOSS) software package. There are a few software packages and configuration options for those Macintosh users that are interested in running GIS software on their computers. Free Download Quantum GIS for Mac 2.8.1-1 - Create very complex and detail-rich maps using a large variety of spatial data formats such as vector.
