Geographic Information System SoftWare
https://allthe.codes/mirror/awesome-gis#geographic-information-system-software
- ArcGIS is SaaS and/or propietery Windows software. I’ll only need to know more if I’ve made poor career choices.
- QGIS - “QGIS is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS) licensed under the GNU General Public License. QGIS is an official project of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). It runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, Windows and Android and supports numerous vector, raster, and database formats and functionalities.”
- GeoDa - GPL, “designed to facilitate new insights from data analysis by exploring and modeling spatial patterns”
- GRASS GIS - “Geographic Resources Analysis Support System, commonly referred to as GRASS GIS, is a Geographic Information System (GIS) used for data management, image processing, graphics production, spatial modelling, and visualization of many types of data.” Started in 1982! GPL
- uDig - “The goal of uDig is to provide a complete Java solution for desktop GIS data access, editing, and viewing.” EPL and BSD
- gvSIG - user group for “geomatics professionals”, whoever is brave enough to put that on their card… not software.
- Marble - “Marble is a virtual globe and world atlas — your swiss army knife for maps.” A KDE project!
- SharpMap - LGPL C# desktop app. I submitted a patch to update the list (MS-Git: Update SharpMap links by maiki · Pull Request #69 · sshuair/awesome-gis · GitHub).
- OpenJUMP - “OpenJUMP is an open source Geographic Information System (GIS) written in the Java programming language.” GPL
- Whitebox GAT - “an open-source desktop GIS and remote sensing software package for general applications of geospatial analysis and data visualization” GPL
- TileMill - “TileMill is no longer in active development. To learn more about our newer mapping tools see Mapbox Studio.” Patch to remove: Remove TileMill and CartoCSS links by maiki · Pull Request #70 · sshuair/awesome-gis · GitHub
- Global Mapper - ArcGIS alternative.
- OpenOrienteering Mapper - GPL warez for “orienteering”, the new thing I learn today!
- Mapinfo - Has the most hilarious sales copy I’ve read, but otherwise skippable.
- SAGA -
a role-playing game system that uses “fate cards” to determine the effects of actions"is the abbreviation for System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses" GPL (LGPL for API, because that makes sense) - GISInternals - an funny, ugly website with daily builds of something called GDAL and MapServer.
Hey, only three patches! Not bad.
Seriously though, most of that is free software, and I’m looking forward to reviewing each.