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Open Source GIS and Its Potential for Small Businesses. Open Source GIS offers small businesses a chance to do some basic GIS analysis without the high cost of most commercial GIS. See “A Sampler of Freely-Available GIS Tools” by Jerry Platt for a full list of these products. In the example below we take you through an example with real-world data. We will use an online geo-coder to convert addresses into latitude and longitude coordinates. Then we will use MapWindow GIS to create a shapefile of points from the coordinates and then access public domain shapefiles of census tracts to over