FOSS4G Software List

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This an overview of major free GIS software projects. It is a personal selection aiming at listing only those projects that seem to have a stable user community or have potential to establish a wider user base. The content of this page is part of a manuscript that we submit end of January 2012: S. Steiniger and A.J.S. Hunter: "The 2012 Free and Open Source GIS Software Map – A Guide to facilitate Research, Development and Adoption".

The categories of software used are based on that presented in Steiniger and Weibel (2010): "GIS software" [1].

To test some of the software below we recommend the OSGeo Live DVD (http://live.osgeo.org).

last update to this page was made on 13. Jan. 2012

Desktop GIS

major:

others:

Spatial Data Base Managment Systems

mayor:

other:

NoSQL (see http://nosql-database.org/):

Server GIS (OGC WPS)

Mobile GIS

viewers for smart phones:

Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis Software

Remote Sensing Software

Software Libraries and Extensions

Data input/output and conversion libraries

Geometry libraries

Projection libraries

Geographic data processing and analysis libraries

Other useful libraries

= General Frameworks for own GIS Development

Web Map Server (OGC WMS, WFS etc.)

Web Map Application Development Frameworks

Map Viewer

major:

others:

  • ModestMaps
  • OpenZoom (image viewer for very large images)

General Map Application Development Frameworks

Tiling

  • TileMill - XXX