Open Source and Low Cost Tools Workshop - Resources General FOSS GIS Resources OSGeo - OSGeo is the Open GeoSpatial Foundation, a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to support and promote the collaborative development of open geospatial technologies and data. http://www.osgeo.org/ - OSGeo's main site. FreeGIS - . Maintains an very comprehensive list of FOSS projects with links. Over 350 at the time this was written http://freegis.org/ - Free GIS Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) - a non-profit organization who provides standards for geospatial and location based services. http://www.opengeospatial.org/ - Main site Databases PostgreSQL - robust FOSS database http://www.postgresql.org/ - Main site http://www.pgadmin.org/ - PG Admin - Administrative front end to PostgreSQL http://www.postgresql.org/download/windows - Download site for the windows installer which includes pgAdminIII PostGIS - Spatial enables PostgreSQL http://postgis.refractions.net/ - Main site MySQL Spatial – OGC compliant spatial extensions for MySQL, not as well supported by desktop GIS applications as PostgreSQL/PostGIS http://dev.mysql.com/ - Main Site http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/spatial-extensions.html - Spatial Extensions Page
SpatiaLite – An extension implementing OpenGIS on a SQLite database. Gaining popularity for mobile applications. http://www.sqlite.org/ - SQLite main page http://www.gaia-gis.it/spatialite/ - SpatiaLite extension main page Desktop GIS GDAL/OGR http://www.gdal.org/ - Main site http://fwtools.maptools.org/ - Simple windows installer for GDAL/OGR & packages like OpenEV, MapServer, & PROJ4. OSGeo Installer http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ - Windows installer for many OSGeo supported packages including: QGIS, GRASS GIS, GDAL/OGR, MapServer, OpenEV, uDig etc. A one stop shop for FOSS geospatial software. This is the best way to install QGIS with GRASS GIS support. QGIS - One of the leading FOSS desktop GIS's with a very active development team. Includes plug-ins for added functionality. http://www.qgis.org/ - Main site with access to downloads, wiki, listserv and documentation GRASS GIS - The oldest and most sophisticated FOSS desktop GIS. Very powerful analysis capabilities. Now available for windows with a GUI and accessible via QGIS, uDIG and other FOSS packages. http://grass.fbk.eu/ - Main site with access to downloads, screenshots, documentation, sample data and listserv MapWindow GIS - FOSS desktop GIS customized for Windows. Comes with Google Geocoder, and many other plugins. http://www.mapwindow.org/ gvSIG - One of the most robust of the FOSS desktop packages being well suited for both analysis and cartography. http://oadigital.net/ - Homepage for the Oxford's release of gcSIG which is very robust and much more user friendly than the main version. http://www.gvsig.org/web/home/gvsig-home/view?set_language=en - Main site Manifold GIS - A very impressive low cost very robust desktop GIS http://www.manifold.net/ - Main site
Tatuk GIS – A suite of low cost GIS software tools with a free GIS data viewer. http://www.tatukgis.com/
Web MapServer - The leading FOSS web mapping engine. This in fact is one of the leading packages in both the FOSS and proprietary worlds. It offers very good performance, scaleability and stability and can consume data from a huge variety of sources. http://mapserver.org/ - Main site with access to downloads, documentation, listserv and wiki http://www.maptools.org/ms4w/index.phtml - MapServer for Windows - the easiest way to install MapServer, Apache, PHP, etc on a Windows machine MapGuide OS – The Open Source version of the commercial MapGuide ”value added” product from Autodesk. http://mapguide.osgeo.org/ OpenLayers - A JavaScript tool for adding dynamic maps in any web page. It can display map tiles and markers loaded from any source. http://openlayers.org/ Mapbender - A web based GIS front end implemented as a PHP script based environment for handling, displaying, managing, navigating, and querying web map services compliant to the OGC WMS Specification. http://www.mapbender.org/Mapbender_Wiki Manifold GIS – The low cost Manifold Desktop GIS application includes the capability to be used as a fully functional Internet Mapping Service (only on Windows IIS). Data OpenStreetMap - a free editable map of the whole world. It is made by people like you. http://www.openstreetmap.org/ - Main site
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