gvSIG Educa has the following characteristics:

• Provides a tool for educators to help students with the analysis and understanding of space.
• The ability to adapt to different educational levels.
• Not only applicable to matters of geography. Useful for learning history, economics, natural science, sociology...
• Facilitates learning through interaction with information.
• Dynamic spatial relationships.
• Concepts easier to digest (thematic maps).
• Great analytical capability.
• Allows access to data available on the Internet through so-called standard OGC services / Spatial Data Infrastructure services.
• It is designed to be easily extensible, allowing for continuous improvement of the application, as well as for sharing exercises and information between teachers and students.
• Development is based on principles of collaboration and solidarity.
• Is free software, licensed under the GNU/GPL, which allows for free use, distribution, study and improvement of the software.
• It is available in several languages.
• It is developed with Java and therefore cross-platform: Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.