FOSS4G Software List

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This is 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) (? or GISVM - http://gisvm.com ?)

For updates send an email to sstein=.at.=geo.uzh.ch, last update on 13. Jan. 2012

A selection of FOS GIS Software Projects 2011

Desktop GIS

major:

others:

Spatial Data Base Managment Systems

major:

others:

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.)

see also the OSGeo server benchmarking docs: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Benchmarking_2011

major:

other:

Rest-based:

MetaData and Registry

editor:

Web Map Application Development Frameworks

Map Viewer

major:

others:

General Map Application Development Frameworks

Tiling