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GRASS (Geographic Resource Analysis Support System)
Homepage: http://grass.itc.it/index.html
FreeGIS-summary on GRASS ; Last update: 14.03.2005 11:54:49.00 CET
GRASS GIS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) is a Free Software Geographical Information System (GIS) with raster, topological vector, image processing, and graphics production functionality that operates on various platforms through a graphical user interface and shell in X-Windows. Books about GRASS:
Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach by Markus Neteler and Helena Mitasova (2002)
Version: 6.0.0
License: GNU GPL

PROJ
Homepage: http://www.remotesensing.org/proj
FreeGIS-summary on PROJ ; Last update: 31.10.2004 16:15:42.00 CET
This package offers commandline tools and a library for performing respective forward and inverse transformation of cartographic data to or from cartesian data with a wide range of selectable projection functions.
Version: 4.4.9
License: MIT

GMT (The Generic Mapping Tools)
Homepage: http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/
FreeGIS-summary on GMT ; Last update: 04.10.2004 16:05:20.00 CEST
GMT is a collection of about 60 UNIX tools that allow users to manipulate (x,y) and (x,y,z) data sets (including filtering, trend fitting, gridding, projecting, etc.) and produce Encapsulated PostScript File (EPS) illustrations ranging from simple x-y plots through contour maps to artificially illuminated surfaces and 3-D perspective views in black and white, gray tone, hachure patterns, and 24-bit color. GMT supports 25 common map projections plus linear, log and power scaling, and comes with support data such as coastlines, rivers, and political boundaries.
Version: Stable: 3.4.5 and 4.0
License: GNU GPL

GDAL (Geospatial Data Abstraction Library)
Homepage: http://www.gdal.org
FreeGIS-summary on GDAL ; Last update: 14.03.2005 09:27:30.00 CET
GDAL is a translator library for raster geospatial data formats. As a library, it presents a single abstract data model to the calling application for all supported formats. A initial skeleton of GDAL has formed, and operates for a few formats.
Version: 1.2.6
License: MIT

iGMT (Interactive Mapping of Geoscientific Datasets)
Homepage: http://www.seismology.harvard.edu/~becker/igmt
FreeGIS-summary on iGMT ; Last update: 13.05.2003 09:42:13.00 CEST
iGMT provides a graphical user interface and was built using the Tcl/Tk computer language. Besides supplying a user friendly way of handling GMT, iGMT comes with built-in support for many different geoscientific data sets, such as topography, gravity, seafloor age, hypocenter catalogs, plate boundary files, hotspot lists, CMT solutions etc.
Version: 1.2-20021106
License: GPL

MapServer
Homepage: http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/index.html
FreeGIS-summary on MapServer ; Last update: 11.11.2004 15:44:22.00 CET
The heart of MapServer is a CGI-based application for delivering dynamic GIS and image processing content via the World-Wide Web (WWW). The package also contains a number of stand alone applications for building maps, scalebars and legends offline. Access to the development environment of MapServer is possible with a number of different programming languages.
Version: stable: 4.2.5 development: 4.4.0beta2
License: MapServer License

MapServer Workbench
Homepage: http://msworkbench.sourceforge.net
FreeGIS-summary on MapServer Workbench ; Last update: before 20th July 2001
MapServer Workbench is a suite of cooperative tools to build MapServer applications. The tools are written in Tcl/Tk, and use the Mapscript/Tcl interface.
Version: 0.3
License: LGPL

GEOTRANS (Geographic Translator)
Homepage: http://earth-info.nga.mil/GandG/geotrans/index.html
FreeGIS-summary on GEOTRANS ; Last update: 20.10.2004 21:17:55.00 CEST
GEOTRANS (Geographic Translator) is an application program which allows users to easily convert geographic coordinates among a wide variety of coordinate systems, map projections, and datums. GEOTRANS runs in both Microsoft Windows (95/98/NT) and UNIX Motif environments.
Archives of several version might additionally be found in Remotesensing.org´s geotrans directory.
Version: 2.2.5
License: GEOTRANS License

OGR
Homepage: http://www.gdal.org/ogr
FreeGIS-summary on OGR ; Last update: 14.03.2005 09:28:06.00 CET
The OGR Simple Features Library is a C++ open source library (and commandline tools) providing read (and sometimes write) access to a variety of vector file formats including ESRI Shapefiles, and Mapinfo mid/mif and TAB formats.
Version: 1.2.6
License: MIT

GpsDrive
Homepage: http://www.gpsdrive.de/
FreeGIS-summary on GpsDrive ; Last update: 05.03.2004 10:36:23.00 CET
Gpsdrive is a car navigation system. It displays your position provided from your GPS on a zoomable map. The maps are autoselected depending on position, prefered scale and available resolution and can be downloaded from the Internet. The program provides information about speed, direction, bearing, arrival time, actual position and target position. Additional speech output via "festival" is available.
Version: 2.09
License: GPL

US Census 2000 TIGER/Line
Homepage: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tigerua/ua_tgr2k.html
FreeGIS-summary on US Census 2000 TIGER/Line ; Last update: 27.08.2002 11:45:29.00 CEST
The TIGER/Line files are a digital database of geographic features, such as roads, railroads, rivers, lakes, political boundaries, census statistical boundaries, etc. covering the entire United States. The data base contains information about these features such as their location in latitude and longitude, the name, the type of feature, address ranges for most streets, the geographic relationship to other features, and other related information. They are the public product created from the Census Bureaus TIGER (Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing) data base of geographic information. TIGER was developed at the Census Bureau to support the mapping and related geographic activities required by the decennial census and sample survey programs.
License: Public Domain

gen2shp
Homepage: http://intevation.de/~jan/gen2shp/gen2shp.html
FreeGIS-summary on gen2shp ; Last update: before 20th July 2001
gen2shp is a simple C-Progam which can read the format required by the ESRI ArcInfo generate command.
Version: 0.3.1
License: GPL

Gen2shp
Homepage: http://www.info-scoop.com/free/
FreeGIS-summary on Gen2shp ; Last update: 01.03.2003 16:57:13.00 CET
Implemented in Avenue, can be directly incorporated into AV projects. Converts 2D or 3D ASCII data from one or more generate format text files to one or more (multi-part) shapefiles. Available as Extension or just Scripts.
Version: 5.0
License: LGPL

JEEPS
Homepage: ftp://ftp.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk/pub/ajb/jeeps/
FreeGIS-summary on JEEPS ; Last update: 25.07.2001 14:11:49.00 CEST
The JEEPS library is intended as both a library and a development system for GPS and related software. It consists of documented C functions for communication with GARMIN GPS devices and for post-processing of the information received. The library also contains functions for conversion of datums using Molodensky and cartesian methods and mapping functions including transverse mercator projections. The UTM coordinate system is implemented as are other more parochial systems including the UK Ordnance Survey national grid (with map codes). Eighteen map projections and their inverses are given. NMEA data capture routines are included. An application (program) is distributed with the library in order to show the library functionality and how to use it.
Version: 0.1.3
License: LGPL

KFlog
Homepage: http://kflog.org/
FreeGIS-summary on KFlog ; Last update: 03.05.2003 19:28:01.00 CEST
A soaring-pilot-software for KDE. It is used to display, analyze and evaluate flights logged with a gps-logger. Different values of a flight-point can be displayed in the map, like altitude, cycling, speed and vario. There is a maproom-page where you can download Aeronautical, Ground- and terrain- and additional data for maps.
Version: 2.1.0
License: GNU GPL

NCAR Graphics
Homepage: http://ngwww.ucar.edu/ng4.2/
FreeGIS-summary on NCAR Graphics ; Last update: 01.04.2002 16:14:57.00 CEST
NCAR Graphics Software is comprised of a library containing Fortran/C utilities for drawing contours, maps, vectors, streamlines, weather maps, surfaces, histograms, X/Y plots, annotations, an ANSI/ISO standard version of GKS, a math library containing a collection of 1,2,3-D interpolators and approximators, applications for displaying, editing, and manipulating graphical output, map databases, many FORTRAN and C examples.
Version: 4.2.3
License: GPL

MapIt!
Homepage: http://www.mapit.de/index.en.html
FreeGIS-summary on MapIt! ; Last update: 19.04.2002 15:53:27.00 CEST
MapIt! is a web application that allows to navigate on rastermaps, zoom in and out, and to choose and identifiy objects (points of interest).
Version: 1.0.2
License: LGPL

Frida
Homepage: http://frida.intevation.org/
FreeGIS-summary on Frida ; Last update: 30.05.2003 20:26:41.00 CEST
This project developed a Free Dataset offering detailed geographic vector information for Osnabrück, Germany.
Version: 1.0
License: GNU General Public License

JCS (JCS Conflation Suite)
Homepage: http://www.vividsolutions.com/jcs/
FreeGIS-summary on JCS ; Last update: 21.04.2004 18:22:37.00 CEST
The JCS Conflation Suite is an API and set of interactive tools which perform conflation on spatial datasets.
Version: 1.0.1

JUMP (JUMP Unified Mapping Platform)
Homepage: http://www.jump-project.org/
FreeGIS-summary on JUMP ; Last update: 29.01.2005 13:01:02.00 CET
The Unified Mapping Platform (JUMP) is a GUI-based application for viewing and processing spatial data. It includes many common spatial and GIS functions. It is also designed to be a highly extensible framework for developing and running custom spatial data processing applications.

See also the Jump Pilot Project which tries to foster JUMP use.
Version: 1.1.2
License: GNU GPL

PMS (Practical Map Server)
Homepage: ftp://freegis.org/freegis/misc/
FreeGIS-summary on PMS ; Last update: 26.10.2001 12:06:05.00 CEST
Practical Map Server (PMS) delivers geographic content to web browsers and other compatible clients. PMS is written in Java. One source archive is temporarily available from the FreeGIS ftp Server.
Version: 20011026snap
License: GPL

OpenMap
Homepage: http://openmap.bbn.com/
FreeGIS-summary on OpenMap ; Last update: 19.02.2004 20:57:16.00 CET
OpenMap is a Java Beans based toolkit for building applications and applets needing geographic information. Using OpenMap components, you can access data from legacy applications, in-place, in a distributed setting. At its core, OpenMap is a set of Swing components that understand geographic coordinates. These components help you show map data, and help you handle user input events to manipulate that data. OpenMap comes with built-in support for VPF (including VMAP and DCW), RPF (including CADRG and CIB), DTED (levels 0, 1 and some distributions of 2), Shape, Nexrad and MIF. It can process raster (like ETOPO) and vector data.
Version: 4.6
License: OpenMap License

Vis5D
Homepage: http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/vis5d.html
FreeGIS-summary on Vis5D ; Last update: before 20th July 2001
Vis5D is a system for interactive visualization of large 5-D gridded data sets such as those produced by numerical weather models. One can make isosurfaces, contour line slices, colored slices, volume renderings, etc of data in a 3-D grid, then rotate and animate the images in real time. There is also a feature for wind trajectory tracing, a way to make text anotations for publications, support for interactive data analysis, etc. GRASS can import and export Vis5D raster data.
Version: 5.2
License: GPL

Vis5D+
Homepage: http://vis5d.sourceforge.net/
FreeGIS-summary on Vis5D+ ; Last update: 12.11.2001 16:01:08.00 CET
Vis5d+ is intended as a central repository for enhanced versions and development work on Vis5d.
Version: 1.2.1
License: GPL

PostGIS
Homepage: http://postgis.refractions.net/
FreeGIS-summary on PostGIS ; Last update: 20.01.2005 10:03:06.00 CET
PostGIS adds support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL object-relational database. In effect, PostGIS "spatially enables" the PostgreSQL server, allowing it to be used as a backend for GIS.

PostGIS/PostgreSQL includes the following functionality:

  • Simple Features as defined by the OpenGIS Consortium (OGC)
  • Support for Well-Known Text and Well-Known Binary representations of GIS objects
  • Fast spatial indexing using GiST
  • Geospatial analysis functions
  • PostgreSQL JDBC extension objects corresponding to the geometries
  • Support for OGC access functions as defined by the Simple Features Specification

Version: 1.0.0-rc1
License: GNU GPL

GeoTools
Homepage: http://geotools.sourceforge.net/
FreeGIS-summary on GeoTools ; Last update: 22.02.2005 09:04:04.00 CET
GeoTools is a Java based mapping toolkit that allows Maps to be viewed interactively on web browsers without the need for dedicated server side support.
Version: Stable: 2.0.0 Development: 2.1.M3
License: GNU LGPL

GFC (Geographic Foundation Class)
Homepage: http://remotesensing.org/download/g.php3#GFC
FreeGIS-summary on GFC ; Last update: 01.04.2002 22:37:48.00 CEST
GFC library is a set of C++ classes defining basic geographic data types, including points, lines, rectangles, circles, polylines, rings, complex polygons, rasters, and other atomic data types such as integer, real, varchar. GFC also features abstractions of timestamps and time series which are useful in capturing the dynamics of spatiotemporal data. The R-tree spatial indexing is supported through the GRtree and related classes. Several commonly used map projections are also provided in this library. A number of utility classes such as GXMLProcessor (for parsing XML files which are well-suited for transfering spatial meta data) and ESRI Shapefile reader are very useful for writing GIS applications.
Version: 0.9.1
License: GPL

EDBS_extra
Homepage: http://www.rinners.de/edbs/
FreeGIS-summary on EDBS_extra ; Last update: before 20th July 2001
EDBS_extra is a ANSI-C program to process EDBS orders with ATKIS data. All data are stored in a "readable" format. EDBS is an exchange format primarily used in Germany.
Version: 2.0
License: GPL

Geoserver
Homepage: http://geoserver.sourceforge.net/
FreeGIS-summary on Geoserver ; Last update: 22.09.2004 18:11:18.00 CEST
The GeoServer project is a full transactional Java (J2EE) implementation of the OpenGIS Consortiums Web Feature Server (WFS) specification. Additionally a OGC Web Map Server (WMS) is realised.
Version: 1.2.2
License: GNU GPL

wayp2shp
Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/jt_taylor.geo/wayp2shp.html
FreeGIS-summary on wayp2shp ; Last update: 25.07.2001 15:57:50.00 CEST
A simple C-Program which can read a Waypoint+ file. The data in this file will be converted to shapefile format.
Version: 1.2
License: GPL

GEO
Homepage: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/anton.helm/garnix.html
FreeGIS-summary on GEO ; Last update: 01.04.2002 16:24:22.00 CEST
GEO is a scriptable coordinate conversion tool. GEO converts lon/lat, ECEF und TM (Gauss-Krüger) coordinate systems and is fully configurable. A library called LIBGEO belongs to it.
Version: 13.0
License: GPL

BBBike
Homepage: http://bbbike.sourceforge.net
FreeGIS-summary on BBBike ; Last update: 07.08.2004 22:17:52.00 CEST
A route-finder for cyclists in Berlin and Brandenburg (Germany). BBBike can be run as a stand-alone program (using tk) or as a simpler web based component ( here is an example (»German)).
Version: 3.13
License: GPL

TARDEM
Homepage: http://www.engineering.usu.edu/dtarb/tardem.html
FreeGIS-summary on TARDEM ; Last update: before 20th July 2001
TARDEM is a suite of programs for the Analysis of Digital Elevation Data and mapping channel networks and watersheds.
Version: 4
License: GPL

g3DGMV (3D Graphical Map Viewer)
Homepage: http://g3dgmv.sourceforge.net/index.html
FreeGIS-summary on g3DGMV ; Last update: 13.09.2001 16:04:52.00 CEST
The g3DGMV program was designed as a free viewer for Digital Elevation Model (DEM ) and Digital Line Graphs (DLG ) maps. These maps are rendered by g3DGMV as 3D images that can be manipulated by the user and view from different angles.
Version: 0.60
License: GPL

VTP (Virtual Terrain Project)
Homepage: http://vterrain.org/
FreeGIS-summary on VTP ; Last update: 21.06.2002 09:15:43.00 CEST
The goal of VTP is to foster the creation of tools for easily constructing any part of the real world in interactive, 3D digital form. This goal will require a synergetic convergence of the fields of CAD, GIS, visual simulation, surveying and remote sensing. VTP gathers information and tracks progress in areas such as procedural scene construction, feature extraction, and rendering algorithms. VTP writes and supports a set of software tools (VTP Toolbox) and an interactive runtime environment (VTP Enviro).
Version: June 13, 2002
License: MIT

kdem
Homepage: http://www.mindspring.com/~jamoyers/kdem/
FreeGIS-summary on kdem ; Last update: before 20th July 2001
kdem is a program for displaying United States Geological Survey (USGS) Digital Elevation Models (DEMs). It offers a number if interesting features.
Version: 1.1.1
License: kdem License

OGDI (Open Geographic Datastore Interface)
Homepage: http://ogdi.sourceforge.net/
FreeGIS-summary on OGDI ; Last update: 28.05.2002 14:58:06.00 CEST
OGDI is an application programming interface (API) that uses a standardized access methods to work in conjunction with GIS software packages (the application) and various geospatial data products. OGDI uses a client/server architecture to facilitate the dissemination of geospatial data products over any TCP/IP network, and a driver-oriented approach to facilitate access to several geospatial data products/formats. The OGDI core includes a C client library, a server, and drivers for RPF, VPF, ADRG and DTED file formats.
Version: 3.1.1
License: MIT

GIS Viewer
Homepage: http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/gis/
FreeGIS-summary on GIS Viewer ; Last update: 25.07.2002 17:23:22.00 CEST
GIS Viewer is a web-based Java tool for displaying and manipulating layers of geographical points and vectors, and raster data such as maps and images.
Version: 4.0
License: GIS Viewer license (a simple, permissive Free Software license)

MapLab
Homepage: http://www.maptools.org/maplab
FreeGIS-summary on MapLab ; Last update: 07.08.2004 22:43:33.00 CEST
MapLab is a suite of effective and intuitive web-based tools to create and manage MapServer web mapping applications and map files. It consists of three components: MapEdit, MapBrowser and GMapFactory.
Version: 2.2
License: MIT

SDTS++ (SDTSxx)
Homepage: http://mcmcweb.er.usgs.gov/sdts/sdtsxx/
FreeGIS-summary on SDTS++ ; Last update: 25.07.2001 14:38:49.00 CEST
SDTS++ is a C++ toolkit that programmers can use to write applications that can read or write SDTS datasets. Application developers can use SDTS++ library classes to work with the logical structure of these datasets without having to worry about the physical details of each dataset.
Version: 1.3.1a
License: Public Domain

basic-wms2.py
Homepage: http://www.intl-interfaces.net/cookbook/WMS/
FreeGIS-summary on basic-wms2.py ; Last update: before 20th July 2001
A OpenGIS WMS compilant web mapping server built around gnu/linux, python, apache and netpbm.
Version: -
License: MIT

shapelib
Homepage: http://shapelib.maptools.org/
FreeGIS-summary on shapelib ; Last update: 03.12.2003 11:08:57.00 CET
Shapelib is a simple C API for reading and writing ESRI ArcView Shapefiles. Simple sample tools are included. Python and Perl bindings are available.
Version: 1.2.10
License: LGPL (optional MIT)

gpspoint
Homepage: http://gpspoint.dnsalias.net/gpspoint2/
FreeGIS-summary on gpspoint ; Last update: 18.03.2004 10:47:26.00 CET
Program to download and upload waypoints, routes, and tracks to and from your GPS device. Upload and download is possible via the GARMIN interface. Current position obtainable via the NMEA Interface, supported by most GPS devices.
Version: 2.030521
License: GPL

libgeotiff
Homepage: http://www.remotesensing.org/geotiff/geotiff.html
FreeGIS-summary on libgeotiff ; Last update: 21.01.2005 16:53:27.00 CET
Libgeotiff is a library normally hosted on top of libtiff for reading, and writing GeoTIFF information tags. The library offers a standard C API.
Version: 1.2.2
License: MIT

E00compr
Homepage: http://avce00.maptools.org/e00compr/index.html
FreeGIS-summary on E00compr ; Last update: 03.01.2004 01:57:43.00 CET
E00compr is an ANSI C library that reads and writes Arc/Info compressed E00 files. Both "PARTIAL" and "FULL" compression levels are supported.
Version: 0.5
License: E00compr License

e00pg
Homepage: http://e00pg.sourceforge.net
FreeGIS-summary on e00pg ; Last update: 18.02.2002 10:51:55.00 CET
e00ps translates e00 tables to sql scripts suitable to be run in a PostGIS-enabled PostgreSQL database. e00pg does not support raster grids. Polygon topology is not formed in output features. The PAL section is copied "as is". All arcs come output as LINESTRING geometries.
Version: 1.0
License: GPL

tkgeomap
Homepage: http://tkgeomap.sourceforge.net
FreeGIS-summary on tkgeomap ; Last update: 02.01.2004 11:00:36.00 CET
Tkgeomap is a set of Xlib extensions to Tcl/Tk for drawing and interacting with geographic maps.
Version: 2.3
License: GNU GPL

AVECE00
Homepage: http://avce00.maptools.org/avce00/index.html
FreeGIS-summary on AVECE00 ; Last update: 03.01.2004 01:59:44.00 CET
AVCE00 is an ANSI C library that makes Arc/Info binary coverages appear as ASCII E00. It can be used to read existing binary coverages or create new ones. The library has been designed in a way that it can be easily plugged into an existing E00 translator that you want to extend to support binary coverages.
Version: 1.2.0
License: MIT

DGNLib
Homepage: http://dgnlib.maptools.org/
FreeGIS-summary on DGNLib ; Last update: 19.09.2003 09:16:39.00 CEST
DGNLib is a simple C library for reading vector data from Microstation DGN files (also sometimes known as ISFF format).
Version: 1.8
License: MIT

MITAB
Homepage: http://mitab.maptools.org/
FreeGIS-summary on MITAB ; Last update: 24.07.2003 11:04:26.00 CEST
MITAB is a C++ library to read and write MapInfo .TAB (binary) and .MIF/MID files. It is based on the OGR library which is an implementation of the Open GIS Consortium Simple Feature specification.
Version: 1.2.4
License: MIT

gpsutils
Homepage: http://www.wombat.ie/gps/
FreeGIS-summary on gpsutils ; Last update: before 20th July 2001
The gpsutils package covers some small applications to capture and convert data from a Garmin GPS receiver. These are based on a included more general GPS library (in C).
Version: 0.4.0
License: GPL

GPSMan (GPS Manager)
Homepage: http://www.ncc.up.pt/gpsman/
FreeGIS-summary on GPSMan ; Last update: 10.12.2004 11:14:39.00 CET
GPS Manager (GPSMan) is a graphical manager of GPS data that makes possible the preparation, inspection and edition of GPS data in a friendly environment. GPSMan supports communication with both Garmin and Lowrance receivers and real-time support for any receiver using NMEA-0183. GPSMan can also be used in command-line mode.
Version: 6.2.1
License: GNU GPL

GPStrans
Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gpstrans
FreeGIS-summary on GPStrans ; Last update: before 20th July 2001
GPStrans is a program which allows track, route, and waypoint data to be transferred to and from various Garmin GPS. (Orig. site: ftp://ftp.mayko.com/pub/gpstrans, old homepage: http://www.aac.uc.pt/~seabra/)
Version: 0.39
License: GPL

Atlas
Homepage: http://atlas.sourceforge.net/
FreeGIS-summary on Atlas ; Last update: before 20th July 2001
Atlas aims to produce and display high quality charts of the world for users of FlightGear, an open source flight simulator. This is achieved through two main parts: The map creator and the Atlas viewer. The map creator can also be used as a stand alone program that produces beautiful bitmaps. The Atlas viewing application can be used for browsing your maps but can also connect directly to FlightGear and display your aircrafts current location on a moving map display.
Version: 0.1.0
License: GPL

GPS3D
Homepage: http://www.mgix.com/gps3d/
FreeGIS-summary on GPS3D ; Last update: 25.07.2001 10:04:47.00 CEST
gps3d is a set of utilities that lets you manipulate your GPS from your Linux/Win32 box, and visualize the output in 3D. At the moment, it only supports NMEA capable devices. If you do not own a GPS device, you can still use gps3d to play interactively with a 3D texture mapped model of earth.
Version: 1.16
License: Public Domain

JaGo
Homepage: http://deegree.sourceforge.net/
FreeGIS-summary on JaGo ; Last update: 22.04.2004 18:05:06.00 CEST
JaGo has been renamed to deegree. Deegree offers the substantial building blocks for the building of a Spatial Data Infrastructure by implementing the standards of the Open GIS Consortium (OGC) and ISO/TC 211. Deegree components can be used to either develop a standalone desktop mapping solution to be locally installed on a users machine, or to set up a highly distributed and service-based infrastructure.
Version: 0.7.7
License: LGPL

QGIS (Quantum GIS)
Homepage: http://qgis.sourceforge.net/
FreeGIS-summary on QGIS ; Last update: 22.12.2004 15:43:20.00 CET
Quantum GIS (QGIS) is designed to be a Geographic Information System (GIS) built for Linux/Unix. QGIS offers support for vector and raster formats. Currently QGIS supports many common vector and raster formats shapefiles and PostgreSQL/PostGIS layers. It is based on the GUI tookit Qt.
Version: 0.6
License: GNU GPL

Thuban
Homepage: http://thuban.intevation.org/
FreeGIS-summary on Thuban ; Last update: 23.12.2004 15:49:55.00 CET
Thuban is an interactive geographic data viewer. Main features are its cross-plattform GUI, extensability and flexibility for deriving individual GIS applications.
Thuban is implemented with wxPython which allows its GUI to blend in with desktop on different platforms.
Version: 1.0.1
License: GPL

Grid
Homepage: http://www.water.hut.fi/pub/Grid/
FreeGIS-summary on Grid ; Last update: 25.07.2001 15:16:00.00 CEST
Grid is a perl extension for raster-based GIS work. The tool is developed to support hydrologic and water resources GIS work.
Version: 0.0.9
License: GPL (optional Artistic License)

GARNIX
Homepage: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/anton.helm/garnix.html
FreeGIS-summary on GARNIX ; Last update: 27.06.2002 09:34:28.00 CEST
GARNIX is a communication program that provides data interface between an MS-DOS computer and a GARMIN GPS device. GARNIX interfaces with GEO for coordinate conversion and is configurable for various GARMIN GPS receivers.
Version: v15
License: GPL

retep Graph
Homepage: http://www.retep.org.uk/mapping/
FreeGIS-summary on retep Graph ; Last update: before 20th July 2001
Little Java library to create on screen and printed maps using vector based data. Primarily astronomically biased but can be used for any maps.
Version: Beta from 14 Sep 1999
License: LGPL

OSSIM (Open Source Software Image Map)
Homepage: http://www.ossim.org/
FreeGIS-summary on OSSIM ; Last update: 08.01.2005 03:21:17.00 CET
The OSSIM (Open Source Software Image Map) project will leverage existing algorithms/tools/packages from the open source community in construction of the ultimate Remote Sensing/Image Processing/GIS package.
Version: 1.5.6
License: GPL (libraries LGPL)

Geometry Engine Open Source (geos)
Homepage: http://geos.refractions.net/
FreeGIS-summary on Geometry Engine Open Source ; Last update: 07.03.2005 14:16:02.00 CET
GEOS (Geometry Engine - Open Source) is a C++ port of the Java Topology Suite (JTS). As such, it aims to contain the complete functionality of JTS in C++. This includes all the OpenGIS "Simple Features for SQL" spatial predicate functions and spatial operators, as well as specific JTS topology functions such as IsValid().
Version: 2.1.1
License: LGPL

Hugo
Homepage: http://www.hsge.de/geo-spatial/software/index.html
FreeGIS-summary on Hugo ; Last update: 23.08.2001 12:34:24.00 CEST
Hugo can view maps in simple raster (XPM), vector, and TIFF formats. ESRI shape file support is in progress but not yet useful. TIFF format maps can use GeoTIFF tags, TFW (world) files, or user calibration for georeferencing. Other map types allow user calibration. Hugo also allows real time GPS tracking, through the use of the gpsd helper daemon.
Version: 1.2
License: QPL

Gstat
Homepage: http://www.gstat.org/
FreeGIS-summary on Gstat ; Last update: 25.07.2001 10:32:47.00 CEST
Gstat is a program for the modelling, prediction and simulation of geostatistical data in one, two or three dimensions.
Version: 2.3.5
License: GPL

APR-Parser
Homepage: http://www.zalf.de/grano/parser.html
FreeGIS-summary on APR-Parser ; Last update: 15.08.2003 23:02:56.00 CEST
Perl script to extract infos from ArcView apr files into a database to ease indexing and searching. Documents the apr format.
Version: 0.9
License: LGPL

GRASS Handbuch
Homepage: http://grass.itc.it/gdp/handbuch/
FreeGIS-summary on GRASS Handbuch ; Last update: 07.06.2003 12:00:22.00 CEST
A german manual for GRASS written by Markus Neteler in 2000 and updated 2003.
Version: 1.1
License: GNU FDL

MIT OrthoServer
Homepage: http://tull.mit.edu/orthoserver/
FreeGIS-summary on MIT OrthoServer ; Last update: before 20th July 2001
The MIT OrthoServer is a set of components that serve large collections of geo-image libraries online, in a seamless, multi-resolution fashion.
Version: -
License: GPL

PyGarmin
Homepage: http://pygarmin.sourceforge.net/
FreeGIS-summary on PyGarmin ; Last update: before 20th July 2001
PyGarmin is a set of Python classes which implement the protocol used by Garmin GPS receivers to talk to each other and to other machines. It is based on the official protocol specification.
Version: 0.6
License: GPL

TerraGear
Homepage: http://terragear.sourceforge.net/
FreeGIS-summary on TerraGear ; Last update: before 20th July 2001
Converts a variety of geographic databases into triangle list scenery that is suitable for worldwide 3D viewing. The resulting database can be directly used by the Atlas package.
Version: 0.0.4
License: GPL/LGPL

Terravision
Homepage: http://www.tvgeo.com/
FreeGIS-summary on Terravision ; Last update: 01.11.2002 11:20:56.00 CET
TerraVision is a real-time multi-threaded 3D terrain visualization system. It can browse massive terrain and other data sets that are streamed over the Web. It also supports overlaying rich 3D models on the terrain to represent buildings, icons, etc.
Version: 5.5
License: MPL 1.1

ZMapServer
Homepage: http://zmapserver.sourceforge.net/
FreeGIS-summary on ZMapServer ; Last update: 21.05.2004 17:43:31.00 CEST
ZMapServer is a product for Zope that provides a framework for web mapping applications using MapServer. The essential web mapping components are included: maps, legends, scale bars, labels, data layers and layer styles. These components are managed through Zope, helping to maintain separation between GIS content and its presentation.
Version: 0.7.5
License: X11-Style

edbsilon
Homepage: http://edbsilon.intevation.org/
FreeGIS-summary on edbsilon ; Last update: 10.11.2004 15:06:18.00 CET
edbsilon is a converter for data coming in EDBS or BZSN. After reading the EDBS- resp. BZSN-files the converter writes somw SQL-scripts to import the data in a geodatabase (currentyl Oracle Spatial).
Version: 0.8
License: GNU GPL

iGeoPortal
Homepage: http://deegree.sourceforge.net/src/demos.html#client
FreeGIS-summary on iGeoPortal ; Last update: 02.12.2004 11:13:01.00 CET
iGeoPortal is the client/portal component of deegree. It is a modular client which configuration is based on OGC Web Map Context specification/document. Different modules can offer web map client functionality as well as functions for gazetteer clients, catalog clients or WFS clients. The deegree iGeoPortal is able to handle layers from more than one WMS and offeres the opportunity to store the current state of the client in a Web Map Context compliant XML document.
Version: 1.0.1
License: LGPL

mapEditor
Homepage: http://software-dkplan.carlbro.dk/mapEditor/index.html
FreeGIS-summary on mapEditor ; Last update: 23.09.2002 14:47:54.00 CEST
This package is an editor for UMN MapServer mapfiles.
Version: 0.9.1
License: GNU LGPL

sdts2dem
Homepage: http://www.cs.arizona.edu/topovista/sdts2dem.html
FreeGIS-summary on sdts2dem ; Last update: 15.08.2001 10:43:56.00 CEST
This program dumps SDTS DEM modules to a data file which is supposed to reconstruct the original dem source file.
Version: 0.014
License: Public Domain

shp2svg
Homepage: http://www.carto.net/projects/shp2svg/
FreeGIS-summary on shp2svg ; Last update: before 20th July 2001
shp2svg is a script that can be run from within the ESRI desktop GIS product ArcView to export a views contents to Scaleable Vector Graphic format.
Version: -
License: GPL

DEM2GeoEG
Homepage: http://www.ai.sri.com/~reddy/geovrml/dem2geoeg/
FreeGIS-summary on DEM2GeoEG ; Last update: before 20th July 2001
DEM2GeoEG is a program to convert USGS Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data into a VRML .wrl file that uses the GeoVRML 1.0 GeoElevationGrid.
Version: 1.2
License: Public Domain

tsmApi
Homepage: http://www.tsmapi.com/
FreeGIS-summary on tsmApi ; Last update: before 20th July 2001
The Tile Set Manager (TSM) Application Programming Interface (API) is an Open Source library of high level C functions for reading, writing, and processing the terrain data used by the TerraVision terrain visualization application.
Version: 2.1
License: Apache License

HADES-2000
Homepage: http://www.siliconcavings.org/
FreeGIS-summary on HADES-2000 ; Last update: 27.09.2002 11:09:33.00 CEST
HADES-2000 is a program for digitising and editing cave data. The data can be visualised in 2D and 3D. SURFER 6 files can be read. Furthermore it is possible to create direction diagramms. The data can be exported to DXF and the Visual Topo format. HADES-2000 is programmed in Delphi. With Kylix it runs also on a GNU/Linux system.
Version: 3.03a
License: GPL

Feral
Homepage: http://www.stauber.org/
FreeGIS-summary on Feral ; Last update: before 20th July 2001
Feral is a map projection and datum transformation utility. It is implemented in C, binaries for MS platforms are also available.
Version: 0.901 alpha
License: GPL

CycleAtlas
Homepage: http://cycleatlas.sourceforge.net/
FreeGIS-summary on CycleAtlas ; Last update: 23.05.2004 12:18:46.00 CEST
CycleAtlas is a cycling diary based on a road atlas. It permits to create and store planimetry, profile and route time table of rides.
Version: 1.0devel
License: GPL

RoadMap
Homepage: http://roadmap.digitalomaha.net/
FreeGIS-summary on RoadMap ; Last update: 10.06.2004 22:06:07.00 CEST
A street navigation system using the US Census maps and GPS. RoadMap works also for GNU/Linux PDAs such as Zaurus and iPaq. It can use either GTK or QT.
Version: 1.0.6
License: GNU General Public License

gpsd
Homepage: http://www.russnelson.com/gpsd/
FreeGIS-summary on gpsd ; Last update: 06.05.2003 12:09:25.00 CEST
Gpsd is a user land daemon acting as a liason between a gps or Loran-C receiver and clients. The receiver is expected to generate position information as NMEA-0183 sentences, or Rockwell binary format, although that can be changed.
Version: 1.07
License: GPL

Cavor
Homepage: http://www.cavor.org/
FreeGIS-summary on Cavor ; Last update: 23.06.2002 19:29:59.00 CEST
CAVOR is an engine for building applications that involve modeling and retrieving graphical and textual data. Examples of such applications include GIS, CAD and several others. The Cavor Vector Viewer (CVV) might be of interest for GIS users. The project is in an early state.
Version: 0.1.5
License: GPL/LGPL

Chameleon
Homepage: http://www.maptools.org/chameleon
FreeGIS-summary on Chameleon ; Last update: 31.12.2003 13:03:07.00 CET
Chameleon is a distributed, highly configurable, environment for developing Web Mapping applications. It is built on OpenGIS Consortium standards for Web Mapping Services (WMS) and WMT Viewer Contexts. Chameleon incorporates the ability to quickly set up new applications from a common pool of widgets that can be placed in an HTML template file. These widgets provide a fixed piece of functionality, but the representation of the widget is normally highly configurable. Chameleon is also extendable. Developers can create their own custom widgets and then use them in mapping applications. The system is impemented in PHP.
Version: Stable: 1.0.5; Development: 1.1alpha3
License: X11-Style

FMaps
Homepage: http://FMaps.sourceforge.net/
FreeGIS-summary on FMaps ; Last update: before 20th July 2001
The authors hope this to be "the ultimate GIS/RS Gnome Project". It is developed with GTK+/Gnome using Glade with C.
Version: 0.0.2
License: GPL

Localis
Homepage: http://localis.org/
FreeGIS-summary on Localis ; Last update: 16.10.2002 15:32:49.00 CEST
Localis is a phpmapscript implementation (i.e. based on the UMN MapServer) intended to provide easy end-user workspace and frontend to manage points of interest by several users. It links a MySQL database and classic GIS files (.df, .shp and geotiff).
Version: 0.3b
License: GPL

WikiPedia: GIS
Homepage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIS
FreeGIS-summary on WikiPedia: GIS ; Last update: 11.02.2005 19:06:54.00 CET
Description of the term Geographic Information System.
Version: -
License: GNU FDL

Xtraceroute
Homepage: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d3august/xt/
FreeGIS-summary on Xtraceroute ; Last update: before 20th July 2001
Xtraceroute is a graphical version of the traceroute program, which traces the route your IP packets travel to their destination. This version shows that on a globe, as a series of yellow lines between "sites", shown as small balls of different colors. You can zoom, rotate, and move the globe around.
Version: 0.9.0
License: GPL

gar2rnx
Homepage: http://artico.lma.fi.upm.es/numerico/miembros/antonio/async/
FreeGIS-summary on gar2rnx ; Last update: before 20th July 2001
A tool to receive more than just coordinates from GPSs using undocumented commands.
Version: 1.2
License: LGPL

DEMViewer
Homepage: http://www.geogr.uni-jena.de/~p6taug/demviewer/
FreeGIS-summary on DEMViewer ; Last update: before 20th July 2001
DEMViewer (written in Java) is a digital elevation model viewer for ArcGrid ASCII export files. With DEMViewer you can visualize digital elevation models generated by ArcInfo and combine it with data (in the same ArcGrid ASCII export format and/or Jpeg/Gif images).
License: GPL

Xrmap
Homepage: http://frmas.free.fr/li_1.htm
FreeGIS-summary on Xrmap ; Last update: 19.05.2003 16:30:05.00 CEST
Xrmap is a program running under X that can interactively display portions of the Earth, using the huge CIA World Data Bank II. It features political boundaries, major and minor rivers, glaciers, lakes, canals, etc.A rather comprehensive data set of world cities and locations - about 20000 cities are listed can also be used. Eight projections are implemented, and all features can be interactively set from the GUI. The earlier Xrmap-1.x was originally derived from the rmap console utility.
Version: 2.29
License: GPL

PDFMap
Homepage: http://www.librelogiciel.com/software/PDFMap/action_Presentation
FreeGIS-summary on PDFMap ; Last update: 27.07.2004 22:42:34.00 CEST
Python library and command line tool to generate maps in PDF format an place objects on them.
Version: 2.00
License: GPL

dlgvu
Homepage: http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/oddsends/dlgvu/
FreeGIS-summary on dlgvu ; Last update: before 20th July 2001
An interactive viewer for DLG (Digital Line Graph) vector files. It works under unix, is programmed in "icon" and offer an alternative to the USGS dlgv32.
Version: 1.0
License: Public Domain

tgrmap
Homepage: http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/oddsends/tiger/
FreeGIS-summary on tgrmap ; Last update: 17.01.2002 11:47:34.00 CET
tgrmap is the main application of the icon TIGER package: The TIGER package contains a suite of programs for creating maps from Census Bureau data. Several programs and scripts extract, reformat, and optimize the data for display by the tgrmap.icn program. Icon is a procedural programming language which can be found at the same site.
Version: 1.0 (July 29, 2000)
License: Public Domain

GISToolkit
Homepage: http://gistoolkit.sourceforge.net/
FreeGIS-summary on GISToolkit ; Last update: 30.10.2003 11:38:48.00 CET
The GISToolkit software is a java toolkit for building spatially enabled applications. There is an editor as a demonstration application to help test the capabilities of the toolkit.
Version: 2.0 (Server); 2.8.1 (Editor)
License: LGPL

dlgv32
Homepage: http://mcmcweb.er.usgs.gov/viewers/
FreeGIS-summary on dlgv32 ; Last update: before 20th July 2001
A viewer for DLG (Digital Line Graph) vector files running on Win32, developed by the USGS. Hint: The source is available from their ftp server, check the FAQ.
Version: 3.7
License: Public Domain

AiToi
Homepage: ftp://freegis.org/freegis/misc/
FreeGIS-summary on AiToi ; Last update: 12.05.2003 10:34:03.00 CEST
Browse Mexico City, Guadalajara or Monterrey, with 3 levels of zoom. Download the (proprietory) maps from the Internet as you navigate, keeping a permanent copy in your disk. Back and forward history buttons, like a web browser. Direct entry, navigation buttons or clickable view window make a very intuitive browsing. Much faster than the original site, providing a frontend for the search system too. The last known source is temporarily available from the FreeGIS ftp Server.
Version: 0.8
License: GPL

OpenEV
Homepage: http://openev.sourceforge.net/
FreeGIS-summary on OpenEV ; Last update: 28.04.2004 11:06:34.00 CEST
A library and reference application for viewing and analysing raster and vector geospatial data. Aims to be crossplatform with 2d and 3d view. Written in C and python. Build upon OpenGL, GTK+, GDAL and PROJ.4.
Version: 1.7.0 (official) and 1.7.2 (FW)
License: LGPL

gmap
Homepage: http://academy.cas.cz/~gis/
FreeGIS-summary on gmap ; Last update: before 20th July 2001
gmap is a map viewer with support for temporary data (time bounded data) and work with them. By enhancing the capability of the viewer, it approaches GIS (Geographic Information System).
Version: 1.1.2
License: GPL

phpGIS
Homepage: http://www.phpgis.org/
FreeGIS-summary on phpGIS ; Last update: 28.03.2003 16:27:39.00 CET
phpGIS is a php framework around the UMN MapServer.
Version: 2.0.0-beta1
License: GNU General Public License

wxapt
Homepage: ftp://intevation.de/freegis/misc/wxapt/
FreeGIS-summary on wxapt ; Last update: 08.03.2003 17:47:52.00 CET
This is an APT satellite weather image decoder for Linux. It can decode APT images direct from the receivers audio o/p via the computers soundcard or from a file of recorded APT signal samples. Currently wxapt supports the NOAA-type and Meteor-type APT formats. wxapt automatically sets up the sound card and the mixers recording/capture volume to the correct level and then determines the type of satellite form the signature of its sync pulse train. wxapt is a simple non-interactive command line tool for the console and was designed to be efficient and suitable for running on low power machines using simpler processors like the Intel StrongArm and similar. For this reason wxapt uses only integer arithmetic for all processing and does not require linking to math libraries for calculations.

There is also a GTK+-based user interface available which is called xwxapt.
Version: 1.1
License: GNU GPL

zipdy
Homepage: http://www.cryptnet.net/fsp/zipdy/
FreeGIS-summary on zipdy ; Last update: 06.08.2001 17:53:33.00 CEST
Zipdy is a program for calculating the distance between two zip codes and finding all the records in a RDBMS with a zip code with x miles of another zip code.
Version: 2.0.0
License: GPL

Mapyrus
Homepage: http://mapyrus.sourceforge.net
FreeGIS-summary on Mapyrus ; Last update: 04.03.2005 18:37:13.00 CET
Mapyrus is software for creating plots of points, lines, polygons and labels to PostScript, PDF and web image output formats. The software combines the following three components: A Logo or turtle graphics language, reading of GIS datasets and RDBMS tables, running as a stand-alone program or as a web-server.
Version: 0.52
License: GNU GPL

TerraView
Homepage: http://www.dpi.inpe.br/terraview/english/index.html
FreeGIS-summary on TerraView ; Last update: 11.08.2004 22:51:45.00 CEST
A geographical application that serves the Brazilian community of geographical data users. In particular, social scientists, and health and education public sectors are targetted.
Version: 3.0
License: GNU GPL

uDig
Homepage: http://udig.refractions.net/
FreeGIS-summary on uDig ; Last update: 22.02.2005 09:08:05.00 CET
UDIG is a spatial data viewer/editor, with special emphasis on the OGC standards for internet GIS, the Web Map Server and Web Feature Server standards. UDIG will provide a common Java platform for building spatial applications with open source components.
Version: 0.8
License: GNU LGPL

GPLIGC
Homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gpligc
FreeGIS-summary on GPLIGC ; Last update: 08.04.2003 23:03:32.00 CEST
GPLIGC is a program to analyze IGC flight data from GNSS flight data recorders used by glider pilots. It uses Perl/Tk and gnuplot. The openGLIGCexplorer (written in C++) allows one to view the data in 3D with OpenGL, and can also be used as a digital elevation model terrain viewer.
Version: 1.1
License: GPL

xastir ( X Amateur Station Tracking and Information Reporting)
Homepage: http://www.xastir.org/
FreeGIS-summary on xastir ; Last update: 28.11.2003 16:43:28.00 CET
A client using amateur radio APRS protocol. It provides messaging and realtime tracking of stations w/map plotting via radio and Internet data streams.
Version: stable: 1.2.0, development: 1.2.1
License: GNU GPL

Fulcrum
Homepage: http://fulcrum.traversetechnologies.com/
FreeGIS-summary on Fulcrum ; Last update: 04.10.2004 17:57:39.00 CEST
Fulcrum is a Java library that includes user interface components, data models, and utilities useful to Java developers building distributed mapping applications. While the Fulcrum libraries may be useful for other purposes, it is currently targeted at creating applications that need to consume map data over a network.
Version: 0.2.2
License: GNU LGPL

IVICS
Homepage: http://www.nsstc.uah.edu/ivics/
FreeGIS-summary on IVICS ; Last update: 01.07.2002 10:46:30.00 CEST
IVICS is a general purpose visualization system which supports several common satellite and remote sensing data formats. The Generalized Satellite Format (GSF) was developed to support IVICS.
Version: 1.1.2a
License: GPL

NRDB View
Homepage: http://www.nrdb.co.uk/nrdbview.html
FreeGIS-summary on NRDB View ; Last update: 19.04.2003 19:18:33.00 CEST
NRDB View is a tool for displaying and editing of spatial data stored in shapefiles.
Version: 0.1
License: GNU General Public License

Population Mapper
Homepage: http://popmap.sourceforge.net/
FreeGIS-summary on Population Mapper ; Last update: 09.07.2002 20:39:23.00 CEST
The project maps the population of certain areas. The software loads a file with the information of the position of the sites (Using coordinates) and the population in every site, and plots them using Mapquest.
Version: 1.1
License: GPL

PyOGCLib
Homepage: http://pyogclib.sourceforge.net/
FreeGIS-summary on PyOGCLib ; Last update: 23.10.2003 16:32:12.00 CEST
PyOGCLib aims to develop and distribute a Python based library for the implementation of the OpenGIS specifications, notably Web Map Server (WMS) and Web Feature Server (WFS).
Version: 0.1
License: MIT

Python Cartographic Library
Homepage: http://users.frii.com/sgillies/projects/PCL/mapping.html
FreeGIS-summary on Python Cartographic Library ; Last update: 29.09.2004 14:40:37.00 CEST
A different API for drawing map images, based on UMN MapServer. Basic aims are:
  • Same mapping capabilities as MapServer
  • More natural, Python-ic, behavior for objects
  • Refactor bloated mapscript classes
  • More explicit programming, less mapfile meta-programming
  • Replace mapserver classes and styles with stylesheets

Version: 0.3
License: MIT style

SimpleMapClient
Homepage: http://glmapclient.sourceforge.net/
FreeGIS-summary on SimpleMapClient ; Last update: 19.08.2004 00:22:20.00 CEST
A browser aplication for OGC WMS servers.
Version: 0.631
License: GNU GPL

Therion
Homepage: http://therion.speleo.sk/
FreeGIS-summary on Therion ; Last update: 09.06.2003 19:43:22.00 CEST
Therion aids the process of drawing up cave surveys (maps). Drawings are done over scans and can be distorted to fit the centreline data. Output is in single plan or atlas style in PDF files. All data is stored in text files and a Tcl/Tk map editor (xtherion) is provided to aid in the creation of the files. It is compatible with Survex and uses it for the centreline processing. TeX and metapost are used to generate the images.
Version: 0.2.10
License: GNU GPL

dxfscope
Homepage: http://wildspark.com/dxfscope/
FreeGIS-summary on dxfscope ; Last update: 16.12.2004 15:13:01.00 CET
DXFscope is a viewer for DXF drawings. DXFscope tries to be light and fast. It has no strange library dependencies. DXFscope does not yet fully support the DXF spec. It supports the most commonly used entities.
Version: 0.2
License: GNU GPL

geonetwork
Homepage: http://geonetwork.sourceforge.net/
FreeGIS-summary on geonetwork ; Last update: 08.01.2005 03:11:04.00 CET
GeoNetwork is a web based Geographic Metadata Catalog System developed by FAO-UN and WFP-UN. The system implements the ISO 19115 Geographic Metadata and ISO 23950 (Z39.50) standards.
Version: 1.2.1
License: GNU LGPL

inlineWMS
Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/inlinewms/
FreeGIS-summary on inlineWMS ; Last update: 03.07.2003 10:11:40.00 CEST
A simple, cross-browser, OGC WMS client that may be included into any HTML page that might be enhanced by dynamic rendering of geo-spatial data. It is written in JavaScript.

inlineWMS before Version 1.0.1 was not Free Software.
Version: 1.0.1
License: NCSA-Type license

seagis
Homepage: http://seagis.sourceforge.net/
FreeGIS-summary on seagis ; Last update: 12.03.2002 15:49:21.00 CET
Seagis is an implementation of a subset of the OpenGIS Coordinate Transformation Services Specification. A second Seagis goal is to ensure interoperability with standard Java packages like Java2D and Java Advanced Imaging. Seagis extends existing Java classes like Format for parsing and formatting angles, and ImageReader for reading ASCII and binary files.
Version: alpha-0.5
License: LGPL

DCMMS (DC Maintenance Management System)
Homepage: http://dcmms.sourceforge.net/
FreeGIS-summary on DCMMS ; Last update: 08.01.2005 02:49:53.00 CET
A web-based maintenance management system for water and wastewater networks. Allows to store customer complaints and issue workorder sheets. Rather than using street names, maps and landmarks are used for navigation.
Version: 1.0.2
License: GNU GPL/GNU LGPL

TerraLib
Homepage: http://www.terralib.org/
FreeGIS-summary on TerraLib ; Last update: 11.08.2004 22:49:02.00 CEST
TerraLib is a GIS classes and functions library, allowing a collaborative environment and its use for the development of multiple GIS tools. Its main aim is to enable the development of a new generation of GIS applications, based on the technological advances on spatial databases.
Version: 3.0
License: GNU LGPL

GNU GaMa
Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/gama/
FreeGIS-summary on GNU GaMa ; Last update: 27.07.2004 23:44:31.00 CEST
GNU GaMa is a package for adjustment of geodetic networks (acronym GaMa is formed from words geodesy and mapping) GaMa currently supports only adjustment in a local carthesian coordinate system. C interface to essential C++ GaMa classes is also available.

Apart from C++ library of classes and functions GaMa comes with a command line program gama that adjusts a given set of observations and prints adjustment results as a series of formatted tables.

Rocinante is a GUI for GNU GaMa based on Qt.
Version: 1.6.2 (stable), 1.7.10 (development)
License: GPL

GPStk
Homepage: http://gpstk.sourceforge.net/
FreeGIS-summary on GPStk ; Last update: 19.08.2004 00:20:28.00 CEST
Algorithms and frameworks supporting the development of processing and analysis applications in navigation and global positioning.
Version: 1.0.1
License: GNU LGPL

GeoClass for PHP
Homepage: http://www.multimediamotz.de/GeoClass/
FreeGIS-summary on GeoClass for PHP ; Last update: 31.01.2005 22:24:40.00 CET
GeoClass for PHP provides classes to handle georeferenced data. Features are: circumference search in (relational) databases, handlers for NIMA-DB and openGeoDB, distance calculation, creation of maps from .e00 or .ovl files and more (rdf, soap, etc).
Version: 0.3.1
License: GNU GPL / GNU LGPL

MapBender
Homepage: http://www.mapbender.org/
FreeGIS-summary on MapBender ; Last update: 01.12.2003 11:55:27.00 CET
Mapbender is 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.
Version: 1.0.1
License: GNU GPL

Mobilmaps
Homepage: http://www.mobilemaps.com/
FreeGIS-summary on Mobilmaps ; Last update: 04.03.2004 00:08:29.00 CET
Mobilemaps is a nearby engine, which lets users physically locate information. One important use of the nearby engine is to find relevant local Web pages and plot their positions on a map of the local area. For example, entering "Los Angeles airport hotel" returns a map of Los Angeles with visual links to all Web pages that match the keywords "airport" and "hotel".
Version: -
License: GNU GPL

MySQL Spatial Extensions
Homepage:
FreeGIS-summary on MySQL Spatial Extensions ; Last update: 17.11.2003 19:36:59.00 CET
In release 4.1 MySQL introduces spatial extensions, which allow generating, storing and analysing of geographic features. Functions that test spatial relationships between geometries are not yet implemented.
Version: 4.1
License: GNU GPLhttp://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Spatial_extensions_in_MySQL.html

SaVi
Homepage: http://savi.sourceforge.net/
FreeGIS-summary on SaVi ; Last update: 16.02.2005 23:25:24.00 CET
SaVi allows to simulate satellite orbits and coverage, in two and three dimensions. SaVi is particularly useful for simulating satellite constellations such as Iridium and Teledesic.
Version: 1.2.6
License: BSD

Survex
Homepage: http://www.survex.com/
FreeGIS-summary on Survex ; Last update: 24.11.2001 15:20:47.00 CET
Survex is very powerful cave survey software. It is still actively developing into a complete cave visualisation package. It has a nice frontend with windows and menus (aven), but does not offer a totally integrated environment.
Version: 0.99 pre 7
License: GPL

dem3d
Homepage: http://craterlake.wr.usgs.gov/dem3d.html
FreeGIS-summary on dem3d ; Last update: 23.09.2002 14:31:08.00 CEST
dem3d is a simple viewer that operates on USGS native-format DEM files. Its purpose is data preview. It is not a general purpose image viewer, nor is it a substitute for geographic information system (GIS) software.

Sources and docs available at ftp://ftpmcmc.er.usgs.gov/release/viewers/dem3d.

The pages are currently not accesible. The sources (perhaps slightly outdated) are available here: ftp://intevation.de/freegis/misc/dem3dsrc.tar.gz.
Version: 2.0a
License: Public Domain

rmap
Homepage: http://www.reza.net/rmap/
FreeGIS-summary on rmap ; Last update: before 20th July 2001
rmap is a package that will allow you to generate images of the earth from a distance or fairly zoomed in. The code is a small C binary that reads a datafile of vectors to generate the image. The actual image is generated from the libgd library, which will either generate a gif, png, or jpeg based on the version of libgd and auxiliary libs you have.
Version: 1.2
License: GPL

rwgps
Homepage: ftp://intevation.de/freegis/misc/rwgps/
FreeGIS-summary on rwgps ; Last update: 08.03.2003 17:55:24.00 CET
A serial-port driver/interface application for Rockwells Microtracker LP(tm) GPS Receiver module. rwgps can read some of the "Messages" transmitted by Microtracker LP and display them in a ncurses screen. It can also send some command Messages to the receiver to set parameters or initialize the receiver.
Version: 0.4 beta
License: GNU GPL

Debrief
Homepage: http://www.debrief.info
FreeGIS-summary on Debrief ; Last update: 08.01.2005 15:39:41.00 CET
Military training java application used to analyse ship and submarine tracks in 2 and 3 dimensions.
Version: 2003 Release 2
License: LGPL

sunclock
Homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sunclock/
FreeGIS-summary on sunclock ; Last update: 25.07.2001 11:22:52.00 CEST
Sunclock is a sophisticated clock for the X Window system. It displays a map of the Earth and shows which portion is illuminated by the sun. In addition to providing local time for the default timezone, it also displays GMT time, legal and solar time of major cities, their latitude and longitude, sunrise and sunset, and the mutual distances of arbitrary locations on Earth. Sunclock can display meridians, parallels, tropics, and arctic circles. It has builtin functions that accelerate the speed of time and show the evolution of seasons.
Version: 3.46
License: GPL

GPSBabel
Homepage: http://gpsbabel.sourceforge.net/
FreeGIS-summary on GPSBabel ; Last update: 13.02.2004 09:42:24.00 CET
GPSBabel reads and writes GPS waypoints in a variety of forms. Backends include GPX, Magellan and Garmin serial protocols, Geocaching.com *.loc, GPSMan, Garmin Mapsource *.mps, Magellan Mapsend *.wpt, and many others.
Version: 1.2.1
License: GNU GPL

MapLink
Homepage: https://sourceforge.net/projects/maplink/
FreeGIS-summary on MapLink ; Last update: 23.02.2005 15:35:58.00 CET
MapLink is a web based client for OGC Web Map Servers (WMS), php/mapscript and spatial enabled databases (PostGIS). It provides an HTML / javascript interface for querying wms servers/mapscript and querying/inserting/updating features in PostGreSQL/PostGIS.
Version: 0.3a
License: GPL

NavSys
Homepage: http://www.navsys.org
FreeGIS-summary on NavSys ; Last update: 12.05.2004 12:15:02.00 CEST
The NavSys application is a combined OGG player / GPS application to be used as a navigation system and audio integrated system in a vehicle.
Version: 0.0.9
License: GPL

gvSIG
Homepage: http://www.gvsig.gva.es
FreeGIS-summary on gvSIG ; Last update: 28.02.2005 11:23:44.00 CET
gvSIG is a tool for handling geographical information. It has a friendly interface, is capable to access several (raster and vector) formats. It will integrate in a single view both local and remote data through WFS (WMS planned).

The homepage is in spanish.
Version: 0.3
License: GNU GPL

2002 National Transportation Atlas Data
Homepage: http://www.bts.gov/gis/download_sites/ntad02/newusdownloadform.html
FreeGIS-summary on 2002 National Transportation Atlas Data ; Last update: 04.11.2003 15:54:08.00 CET
Shapefile download site of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS). There are various data set for the US offered for download. You should definitely look at the metadata first in order to learn about the use policy. Some of the datasets are public domain, some are non-free.
Version: -
License: Partly Public Domain

GISWiki
Homepage: http://webgis.dyndns.org:8080/giswiki/Wiki.jsp
FreeGIS-summary on GISWiki ; Last update: 30.05.2003 13:59:33.00 CEST
GISWiki is a german WikiWikiWeb which focused on GIS. There is no specific focus on Free GIS Software.
Version: -
License: GNU FDL

MapWindow GIS
Homepage: http://www.mapwindow.com/
FreeGIS-summary on MapWindow GIS ; Last update: 23.02.2005 15:49:30.00 CET
MapWindow is a "Programmable Geographic Information System" that supports manipulation, analysis, and viewing of geospatial data and associated attribute data in several standard GIS data formats.
Version: 4.0.3
License: MPL 1.1

Position
Homepage: http://www.gnustep.it/enrico/position/
FreeGIS-summary on Position ; Last update: 12.02.2004 22:20:39.00 CET
Position is a GPS navigation project using gnustep and maps from the world wide web.
Version: 0.3
License: GNU GPL

STARS
Homepage: http://stars-py.sourceforge.net/
FreeGIS-summary on STARS ; Last update: 04.10.2004 18:14:45.00 CEST
STARS (Space Time Analysis of Regional Systems): Combines a suite of geocomputational and dynamic visualization modules for the exploratory analysis of data measured for spatial and temporal units.
Version: 0.7.2a
License: GNU GPL

Viking
Homepage: http://gpsmaps.org/viking/
FreeGIS-summary on Viking ; Last update: 29.06.2003 20:01:05.00 CEST
Viking is a program to manage GPS data. You can import and plot tracks and waypoints, show Terraserver maps under it, add coordinate lines, make new tracks and waypoints, hide different things, etc.
Version: 0.05pre4
License: GNU GPL

ircmaker
Homepage: http://www.df7cb.de/projects/ircmarkers/
FreeGIS-summary on ircmaker ; Last update: 05.10.2004 18:31:39.00 CEST
IrcMarkers takes a map in .png or .jpg format and a list of coordinates and labels in xplanet format and places markers on the map. It was written to generate user maps of IRC channels. GnuPG/PGP key ids can be associated with each marker, to create "maps of trust".
Version: 0.5
License: GNU GPL

mdb2shapefile
Homepage: http://www.consultoria.eti.br/enus/download.php?file=3
FreeGIS-summary on mdb2shapefile ; Last update: 17.10.2003 13:07:43.00 CEST
mdb2shapefile is a GUI for exporting data of an Access table to a ShapeFile table(DBF).
Version: 1.1.2
License: GNU GPL

pySDE
Homepage: http://hobu.stat.iastate.edu/pysde/
FreeGIS-summary on pySDE ; Last update: 10.05.2003 18:31:48.00 CEST
pysde is a Python wrapper for the ESRI SDE server. It allows you to program with the SDE API using Python rather than with just the straight C library that ESRI provides.
Version: 0.2
License: MIT

rez
Homepage: http://www.ping.com.au/3map/rez/
FreeGIS-summary on rez ; Last update: 24.02.2003 18:12:03.00 CET
Free Software framework and tools for translating terrain data and images to different formats and generating multiresolution versions optimised for online broadband delivery.
Version: -
License: GNU LGPL

3D-IGC
Homepage: http://hubble.physik.uni-konstanz.de/jkrueger/software/readme.html#3DIGC
FreeGIS-summary on 3D-IGC ; Last update: 03.12.2001 17:20:01.00 CET
3D-IGC visualizes flight data in IGC (International Gliding Commission) format. It allows the user to swivel/rotate/zoom the flight in a 3D box.
Version: 1.0.1
License: GPL

CCM
Homepage: http://agrienv.jrc.it/activities/catchments/ccm.html
FreeGIS-summary on CCM ; Last update: 20.10.2004 22:42:55.00 CEST
River and Catchment Database for Europe: CCM stands for Catchment Characterisation and Modelling. Available themes: riversegments, catchments, sea outlets, wet.
Version: -
License: CCM License

Census 2000 TIGER/Line Data
Homepage: http://www.esri.com/data/download/census2000_tigerline/index.html
FreeGIS-summary on Census 2000 TIGER/Line Data ; Last update: 04.11.2003 16:26:04.00 CET
Users can download Census 2000 TIGER/Line Data in shapefile format for an area of interest that is selected through a web mapping application.
Version: -
License: Public Domain

DEMTools
Homepage: http://www.arq.net/~kasten/demtools/
FreeGIS-summary on DEMTools ; Last update: 02.10.2001 09:27:22.00 CEST
This package is useful for previewing DEM data sets and wandering around in virtual representations of various places on the planet. The DEM tools package contains a DEM to VRML conversion program.
Version: 0.9.5
License: GPL

DGPSIP
Homepage: http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/gps/dgps-ip.html
FreeGIS-summary on DGPSIP ; Last update: 07.08.2001 16:53:59.00 CEST
A methodology to send differential GPS correction data over the internet.
Version: 1.32
License: GPL

DSpatial
Homepage: http://dspatial.sourceforge.net/
FreeGIS-summary on DSpatial ; Last update: 31.12.2003 16:52:22.00 CET
DSpatial is a library of tools for the use, manipulation, and visualization of spatial data for a Delphi/Kylix framework.
Version: 0.2.2
License: MPL 1.1

E-FOTO
Homepage: http://e-foto.sourceforge.net/
FreeGIS-summary on E-FOTO ; Last update: 13.11.2002 16:53:41.00 CET
This project aims to develop and manage an educational photogrammetric softcopy kit. One main principles is a self-teaching approach.
Version: 0.0.2
License: GNU GPL

EDBSjavaReader
Homepage: ftp://intevation.de/freegis/misc/EDBSjavaReader-1.0.0.tar.gz
FreeGIS-summary on EDBSjavaReader ; Last update: before 20th July 2001
Routines to read EDBS format (ATKIS). Java and Oracle is required.
Version: 1.0.0
License: GPL

ESRI World Basemap Data
Homepage: http://www.esri.com/data/download/basemap/index.html
FreeGIS-summary on ESRI World Basemap Data ; Last update: 04.11.2003 16:28:31.00 CET
Users can download World Basemap Data in shapefile format for an area of interest that is selected through a web mapping application
Version: -
License: Public Domain

Free-Open Source GIS Suite (FGS)
Homepage: http://maxine.harmeny.com/twiki/bin/view/Fgs
FreeGIS-summary on Free-Open Source GIS Suite ; Last update: 07.08.2004 23:04:12.00 CEST
FGS is a project pulling together various other projects (most of them are listed on freegis.org) into an easily redistributable package. First target platform is Linux on intel x86 architecture. Second target will be windows.

FreeFS (Free Feature Server)
Homepage: http://freegis.org/details.de.html?name=Geoserver
FreeGIS-summary on FreeFS ; Last update: 30.01.2002 19:13:00.00 CET
This project merged with Geoserver

FreeFS is an implementation of the OpenGIS Consortiums Web Feature Server v0.0.13 (WFS) specification. FreeFS aspires to be the primary translator between the current cacophony of geographic storage formats and Geography Markup Language (GML) for vector-based geographic data.
Version: 0.9a
License: GPL

FreeGIS Tutorial
Homepage: http://freegis.org/freegis_tutorial/
FreeGIS-summary on FreeGIS Tutorial ; Last update: 23.11.2001 11:10:48.00 CET
The main intention of the FreeGIS Tutorial is to show the possibilities of solving tasks around GIS, surveying, and remote sensing by using free software under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation. Currently the Turorial is in German only, but translations are aspired (support wanted).
Version: 0.2.0
License: FDL

GEOTRANS Library
Homepage: http://ftp.intevation.de/freegis/misc/libgeotrans/
FreeGIS-summary on GEOTRANS Library ; Last update: 19.08.2004 10:30:35.00 CEST
Reorganized, but unmodified sources of GEOTRANS here available with GNU build environment (autoconf, ...) as a library for programmers. The newer Version of GEOTRANS now build shared libraries. Therefore this package is not maintained further.
Version: 2.03-2
License: GEOTRANS License

GML4J
Homepage: http://gml4j.sourceforge.net/
FreeGIS-summary on GML4J ; Last update: before 20th July 2001
GML4J is a Java API for facilitating work with the Geography Markup Language. GML is an XML-based framework for encoding geography information adopted as a recommendation paper by OGC.
Version: 1.01 beta
License: Apache

gps-console (GPS Console Data Manager)
Homepage: http://gps-console.sourceforge.net/
FreeGIS-summary on gps-console ; Last update: 03.04.2002 09:12:34.00 CEST
GPS Console is a program for retrieving, storing and manipulating GPS and other coordinate data in conjunction with GIS and Remote Sensing. It is designed for geologists, but easy enough to use that anyone will be able to enjoy it.
Version: -
License: GPL

GPSylon
Homepage: http://gpsmap.sourceforge.net
FreeGIS-summary on GPSylon ; Last update: 12.09.2003 11:15:27.00 CEST
GPSylon is a Java application that is able to display maps like in an atlas and show your position by the use of a gps device. It may track your path, load overlays (e.g. shape files), download maps from mapblast or expedia servers.
Version: 0.4.15-pre6
License: GNU LGPL

GeoCon
Homepage: http://www.mycgiserver.com/~amri/geocon.cocoon.xml
FreeGIS-summary on GeoCon ; Last update: 31.01.2005 21:19:41.00 CET
GeoCon (in C# for .NET) is a tool for creating Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and Geography Markup Language (GML 2.0) documents from GIS files (ArcView Shapefiles and MapInfo MIF files). Download page: http://www.mycgiserver.com/~amri/download.cocoon.xml
Version: 1.00
License: GNU LGPL

GeoGratis
Homepage: http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/frames.html
FreeGIS-summary on GeoGratis ; Last update: 09.07.2002 20:17:46.00 CEST
GeoGratis is a web and ftp site that distributes geospatial data of Canada.

GeoTypes
Homepage: http://people.initd.org/rjt/
FreeGIS-summary on GeoTypes ; Last update: 18.05.2004 16:15:03.00 CEST
GeoTypes is a python library that implements both the OpenGIS/Postgis and standard Postgresql geometry types, it integrates with the psycopg python/Postgresql interface.
Version: 0.2.0a5
License: LGPL

GeoVistaStudio
Homepage: http://www.geovistastudio.psu.edu/jsp/index.jsp
FreeGIS-summary on GeoVistaStudio ; Last update: 14.03.2005 09:38:18.00 CET
This is a programming environment that allows users to quickly build applications for geocomputation and geographic visualization.
Version: 1.2
License: GNU LGPL

Grules
Homepage: http://grules.sourceforge.net/
FreeGIS-summary on Grules ; Last update: 28.06.2002 15:14:37.00 CEST
Grules is a buggy piece of code which allows you to easily(?) show your nifty geographical maps over the web. Its most useful feature is the possibility to link graphical properties (colours, textures, labels) of the objects in your maps to values in remote databases.

Support are GRASS formats, Shapefiles, TIFF and for values various SQL databases.
Version: 1.0 beta
License: GPL

HidroSIG
Homepage: http://cancerbero.unalmed.edu.co/~hidrosig/ingles/
FreeGIS-summary on HidroSIG ; Last update: 11.11.2004 22:35:31.00 CET
HidroSIG is a GIS that supports raster and vectorial maps with modules oriented to the hydrological analysis, time series, remote sensing and more. It has been made 100% in java using VisAD for data visualization and using MySQL to storage all data.
Version: 3.1.0 beta2
License: GNU GPL

Hoko
Homepage: http://hoko.intevation.org/
FreeGIS-summary on Hoko ; Last update: 12.05.2004 10:01:26.00 CEST
Hoko provides a middleware for location based services (LBS): It covers connection modules to operators Mobile Location Services (MLS) and a database concept to store locations. The core of Hoko is a control unit to run queries from client software on either location updates or analysis functions in an asynchronous mode.
Version: CVS
License: GPL (GeoLocationServer), LGPL (C++-API)

KLIMB
Homepage: ftp://klimb:klimb@ip46.softbook.com/klimb.html
FreeGIS-summary on KLIMB ; Last update: 01.03.2003 17:43:23.00 CET
KLIMB is program which allows you to plan bike routes interactively on topographical maps of the San Francisco Bay Area. You create a route by clicking on nodes marking key intersections or on the links between the nodes. As you are building the route, it will then tell you the total distance and climbing. At any time, with a press of the button, you can get a distance and altitude profile of the route or a detailed description of the route.
Version: 1.0
License: BSDish

MB-System
Homepage: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/MB-System/
FreeGIS-summary on MB-System ; Last update: 30.07.2001 17:35:32.00 CEST
MB-System is a package for the processing and display of bathymetry and backscatter imagery data derived from multibeam, interferometry, and sidescan sonars.
Version: 5.0.beta05
License: GPL

NTXShape
Homepage: http://ntxshape.sourceforge.net/
FreeGIS-summary on NTXShape ; Last update: 19.06.2002 08:36:36.00 CEST
Converts files from the CARIS NTX format into widely supported shapefiles, preserving virtually all features and attributes. Supports points, lines, polygons, text, spot heights and soundings. Includes a batch utility, an API, and an ArcView extension.
Version: 1.4
License: MPL 1.1

Ncview
Homepage: http://meteora.ucsd.edu/~pierce/ncview_home_page.html
FreeGIS-summary on Ncview ; Last update: 09.07.2002 19:31:27.00 CEST
Ncview is a visual browser for netCDF format files. Typically you would use ncview to get a quick and easy, push-button look at your netCDF files. You can view simple movies of the data, view along various dimensions, take a look at the actual data values, change color maps, invert the data, etc.
Version: 1.92c
License: GPL

OpenSVGMapServer
Homepage: http://www.carto.net/projects/open_svg_mapserver/
FreeGIS-summary on OpenSVGMapServer ; Last update: 11.01.2002 09:30:22.00 CET
OpenSVGMapServer is a set of scripts that, run on a web server, will dynamically generate vector map files from spatial data in a database. The scripts are in the PHP scripting language and are designed for use with a MySQL database. The data generated are in scaleable vector graphic (SVG) format, with attribute data in the form of ecmascript/Javascript arrays. The files can be viewed through the Internet Explorer web browser with the SVG Viewer (a gratis browser plug-in from Adobe). Also included in is a script that will export geographic information system (GIS) data and associated formatting information from the desktop GIS software application ArcView into a MySQL format suitable for use with OpenSVGMapServer.
Version: 1.01
License: GPL

R
Homepage: http://www.r-project.org/
FreeGIS-summary on R ; Last update: 27.11.2001 12:09:12.00 CET
Comprehensive statics package including several support modules for geospatial analysis, among them an interface for GRASS.
Version: 1.3.1
License: GPL

SAGA
Homepage: http://geosun1.uni-geog.gwdg.de/saga/html/index.php
FreeGIS-summary on SAGA ; Last update: 20.01.2005 10:27:52.00 CET
You can understand SAGA as a geographic information system (GIS), with a special "Application Programming Interface" (API) for geographic data processing. The SAGA API supports grid data like digital terrain models and satellite images, vector data, and tables. Since the release of SAGA there is a growing collection of SAGA-Modules, in areas of digital terrain analysis, geo-statistics, image processing and process simulation.
Version: 1.1
License: GPL, LGPL

SAMT (Saptial Analysis and Modeling Tool)
Homepage: http://www.zalf.de/lsad/persweb/wieland/welt/samt1.html
FreeGIS-summary on SAMT ; Last update: 26.02.2004 19:33:25.00 CET
SAMT was designed to combine landscape modeling with GIS-data (grids). The main focus is the integration of fuzzy-models and spatial simulation.
Version: 0.3
License: GNU GPL

SRTM (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission)
Homepage: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/cbanddataproducts.html
FreeGIS-summary on SRTM ; Last update: 23.09.2002 12:44:54.00 CEST
Global digital elevation data information, mainly as raw images.
Version: -
License: Public Domain

SimpleMapServer
Homepage: http://glmapserver.sourceforge.net/
FreeGIS-summary on SimpleMapServer ; Last update: 11.11.2004 22:24:40.00 CET
A java WMS map server. OGC WMS 1.0.0/1.1.1 compliant. Simple and fast, usefull to publish raster images. It can be run as a servlet or included in an application.
Version: 0.611
License: GNU GPL

Spherekit
Homepage: http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/pubs/spherekit/
FreeGIS-summary on Spherekit ; Last update: 15.08.2001 10:24:01.00 CEST
Spherekit is an integrated toolkit for spatial interpolation and comparison of spatial interpolation algorithms. It is UNIX-based and includes a complete graphical user interface (GUI). It uses Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) for display of interpolated fields.
Version: v1
License: Public Domain

Terraform
Homepage: http://terraform.sourceforge.net/
FreeGIS-summary on Terraform ; Last update: 07.08.2001 16:13:30.00 CEST
Terraform is an interactive height field generation and manipulation program, giving you the ability to generate random terrain and transform it.
Version: 0.8.2

Visual Basic GIS
Homepage: http://www.visualbasicgis.com/
FreeGIS-summary on Visual Basic GIS ; Last update: 07.10.2004 10:23:55.00 CEST
Visual Basic.NET GIS is a library for Visual Basic .NET for implementing GIS into your applications. The library runs on top of UMN MapServer. A virtual CGI environment is designed so that one can have access to the UMN MapServer functionality just being required to handle UMN MapServer .map-files. The goal is to provide an alernative to MapObjects or other proprietary GIS libraries.
Version: 10-06-2004
License: GNU GPL

WMS Adapter
Homepage: http://zmapserver.sourceforge.net/wmsadapter/
FreeGIS-summary on WMS Adapter ; Last update: 21.05.2004 17:51:01.00 CEST
The WMS Adapter is a product that provides a Zope-friendly interface to imagery from map servers that conform to versions 1.0.0-1.1.1 of the OGC WMS specification.
Version: 0.8
License: X11-Style

WMS.py
Homepage:
FreeGIS-summary on WMS.py ; Last update: 12.09.2003 16:18:14.00 CEST
This is a Python module implementing the OGC WMS specification version 1.1.1. It is presently geared towards ZMapServer, but can be adapted to other uses.
Version: 0.1
License: MIT

ext_shapelib
Homepage: http://nona.net/software/ext_shapelib/
FreeGIS-summary on ext_shapelib ; Last update: 20.01.2005 11:06:36.00 CET
ext_shapelib is an extension for PHP, enabling PHP scripts to access shapefiles (*.shp/*.shx/*.dbf) as used in many GIS applications. Ext_shapelib is a wrapper around the C shapelib, and makes a subset of the Shapelib API available to PHP scripts.
Version: 0.0.1
License: GNU GPL

gpsmanshp
Homepage: http://www.ncc.up.pt/gpsmanshp/
FreeGIS-summary on gpsmanshp ; Last update: 19.03.2003 16:42:20.00 CET
A set of Tcl commands that provide the means for creating and reading files in the ESRI Shapefile format for keeping 2 or 3 dimensional points and polylines.
Version: 1.0.2
License: GNU General Public License

gpsutil
Homepage: http://www.cs.uakron.edu/~hennings/gpsutil/
FreeGIS-summary on gpsutil ; Last update: 06.05.2002 10:57:30.00 CEST
GPSUTIL is a program to communicate with a GPS unit. It supports several NMEA (National Marine Electronics Association) v2.1 messages. GPSUTIL also supports downloading, uploading, and deleting waypoints from a Magellan GPS.
Version: 0.10
License: GPL

libral
Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/libral/
FreeGIS-summary on libral ; Last update: 24.02.2005 14:58:16.00 CET
libral is a C library for raster algebra, which is an algebra of two dimensional rasters, often associated with GIS. libral contains general raster algebra functions and functions for terrain analysis.
Version: 0.21
License: GNU GPL

magvar
Homepage: http://www.best.com/~williams/
FreeGIS-summary on magvar ; Last update: 15.08.2001 15:15:18.00 CEST
Computes magnetic variation anywhere on (or above) the earths surface, using either the WMM or IGRF reference models.
Version: -
License: GPL

mapnik
Homepage: http://mapnik.berlios.de
FreeGIS-summary on mapnik ; Last update: 28.02.2005 11:42:43.00 CET
Mapnik is a C++/Python toolkit for developing GIS applications. At the core is a C++ shared library providing algorithms/patterns for spatial data access and visualization.
Version: 0.1
License: GNU GPL

mumil
Homepage: http://www.triplexware.huckfinn.de/contweber.html
FreeGIS-summary on mumil ; Last update: 11.03.2002 18:18:43.00 CET
Map contouring routine which delivers polygon strikes for each intersection height.
Version: -
License: MPL 1.1

quickWMS
Homepage: http://www.inovagis.org/quickwms/
FreeGIS-summary on quickWMS ; Last update: 03.07.2003 10:55:23.00 CEST
JavaScript classes for creating Web Map clients and interfacing WMS servers according to OpenGIS Web Map Service Specification (versions 0.7 to 1.1). The goal of this project is to enable the fast creation of web mapping clients using javascript.
Version: 0.2
License: LGPL

sealevel
Homepage: http://douweosinga.com/projects/sealevel
FreeGIS-summary on sealevel ; Last update: 26.06.2003 23:05:05.00 CEST
A little program to create some images about coastlines at various water levels.
Version: -
License: GNU GPL

sfcorba2java
Homepage: http://katla.giub.uni-bonn.de/sfjava/
FreeGIS-summary on sfcorba2java ; Last update: before 20th July 2001
This project aimes at a Java implementation of the OGC Simple Features Specification for CORBA. A Java shapefile-reader is included as well.
Version: -
License: LGPL

shapetools
Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/shapetools
FreeGIS-summary on shapetools ; Last update: 06.03.2003 23:31:03.00 CET
This is a very simple tool to convert from ARCINFO EXPORT (.E00) to ESRI ShapeFile. Actually there are two tools, e002shp and mysql2shp
Version: -
License: GNU General Public License

shptrans
Homepage: http://gisdeveloper.tripod.com/shptrans.html
FreeGIS-summary on shptrans ; Last update: 30.09.2002 17:41:44.00 CEST
A fast, high-precision projection utility which reads and writes shapefiles and supports Canadian NTv2 datum transformation.
Version: 1.1b-pre
License: shptrans license

veloce
Homepage: ftp://gps.polito.it/lidar/gnu/veloce/
FreeGIS-summary on veloce ; Last update: 20.09.2003 23:17:23.00 CEST
Veloce is a fortran package for laser scanning data processing. Based on a simple database structure, veloce can perform data classification, segmentation and clustering, DTM extraction.

Alternative access: ftp on gps.polito.it (user: anonymous, password: e-mail) and cd to /TRSData/lidar/gnu/veloce
Version: -
License: GNU GPL

vhclmaps
Homepage: http://www.ivtools.org/vhclmaps/
FreeGIS-summary on vhclmaps ; Last update: 11.02.2003 22:24:56.00 CET
vhclmaps (formerly ivmaps and vhclserv) is a package of map viewers and spatial data servers that work with map databases like these from the USGS: Digital Chart of the World Edition 1 (DCW) (in Vector Product Format [VPF]), Digital Line Graphs (DLG) 1:2M and 1:100K scale, Digital Elevation Models (DEM) 1 degree (1:250K) and 7.5 minute (1:24K).
Version: 0.7.5
License: vhclmaps License

zRoute
Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/zroute/
FreeGIS-summary on zRoute ; Last update: 10.06.2003 22:17:14.00 CEST
A GPS-based route finding and directing software for the Sharp Zaurus. This project is still in its planning phase.
Version: -
License: GNU GPL

PocketGPSLib
Homepage: http://www.iter.dk/software/PocketGpsLib/
FreeGIS-summary on PocketGPSLib ; Last update: 11.02.2005 19:14:00.00 CET
This library, being implemented in C#, supports to implement a GPS receiver in .NET Compact Framework applications. Supported are all GPRMC, GPGGA, GPGSA, GPGLL, GPGSV and PGRME NMEA sentences. The library runs in its own thread, ensuring the dataprocessing is not clogging up an interface.
Version: -
License: GNU GPL

SINFO (Suite INformatica FOrestal)
Homepage: http://sinfo.sourceforge.net/index.htm
FreeGIS-summary on SINFO ; Last update: 30.10.2002 16:37:46.00 CET
SINFO is a software suite for Forest Engineering and forestry-related works, including applications for hydrological analysis, fire prediction and fighting, forest management or crop harvesting, among others. Te SINFO project is not only comprised of computer programs, but also of full written documentation about models used, distributed under the same free scheme (i.e. free text books), so it can be useful for professionals as well as for students of Forest Engineering and similar disciplines.

Note that the whole documentation is only available in spanish.
Version: -
License: GPL

NavSys MapEditor
Homepage: http://www.navsys.org/mapeditor/
FreeGIS-summary on NavSys MapEditor ; Last update: 20.01.2005 10:56:57.00 CET
The MapEditor application allows you to load tracks generated by NavSys and use these tracks to create streetmaps of your area.
Version: 0.0.6
License: GNU GPL

WKB4J
Homepage: http://wkb4j.sourceforge.net/
FreeGIS-summary on WKB4J ; Last update: 10.09.2003 17:40:39.00 CEST
WKB4J is a small Java toolkit designed to parse the WKB format and convert the data into Java objects. It is portable and can work with different Java geographical toolkits. Right now, WKB4J supports the following toolkits:
  • OpenMap,
  • JTS,
  • PostGIS

Version: 1.0-RC1
License: Apache Software Licence

LX-Viewer
Homepage: http://lx-viewer.sourceforge.net/
FreeGIS-summary on LX-Viewer ; Last update: 13.05.2003 19:50:24.00 CEST
Linux Drawing Viewer. Program to open, view and save AutoCad DWG and DXF files.

Note: This tool depends on a proprietary library that, e.g. restricts the commcerial uses of lx-viewer linked to that library.
Version: 0.98b
License: GPL

DIME (DXF Import, Manipulation, and Export library)
Homepage: http://www.coin3d.org/Coin3D/file_format_libs/Dime/
FreeGIS-summary on DIME ; Last update: 08.07.2004 12:57:09.00 CEST
Dime is a C++ class library for reading, constructing, manipulating, and writing (AutoCADs) DXF file data. A small example program that converts DXF files to VRML files (only the polygon data) is included.
Version: Available as snapshots (the changelog of
License: GPL (v2)

dxflib (DXF library)
Homepage: http://dxflib.sourceforge.net/
FreeGIS-summary on dxflib ; Last update: 05.01.2003 01:37:52.00 CET
A C++ library for reading and writing (planned) AutoCAD (R) DXF files. Currently very simple, providing functionality to read the basic entities of a DXF file.
Version: 0.1.2
License: LGPL

GSLIB (Geostatistical Software Library)
Homepage: http://www.gslib.com
FreeGIS-summary on GSLIB ; Last update: before 20th July 2001
GSLIB (Geostatistical Software LIBrary) is a collection of geostatistical Fortran77 programms developed at Stanford University during the last 15 years.
Version: 2.0
License: GSLIB License

KGIS
Homepage: http://kgis.sourceforge.net/main.html
FreeGIS-summary on KGIS ; Last update: 12.11.2002 19:00:33.00 CET
KGIS is a planned to be a GIS application for KDE. Note: Project language is spanish.
Version: 0.0.1
License: GPL

VRS (Modeling and Animation Machine and Virtual Rendering System)
Homepage: http://www.vrs3d.org/
FreeGIS-summary on VRS ; Last update: 02.05.2002 17:38:11.00 CEST
The Modeling and Animation Machine MAM and the Virtual Rendering System VRS form the basic components of a 3-D visualization and graphics library developed at the Department of Computer Science of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. MAM/VRS can be used as a platform for implementing visualization software.
Version: 3.0.-beta1
License: LGPL

edbs2wkt
Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/edbs2wkt
FreeGIS-summary on edbs2wkt ; Last update: 16.06.2004 15:47:10.00 CEST
Konverting the GIS-Format EDBS to Spatial-Database PostGIS and other using the Well Known Text-Interface. EDBS is a German Fileformat from ALK (Automatisierte Liegenschaftskarte).
Version: 1.1
License: BSD Licence

AVPython (Python Language Support for ArcView GIS)
Homepage: http://avpython.sourceforge.net/
FreeGIS-summary on AVPython ; Last update: 11.02.2003 22:41:22.00 CET
AVPython embeds the Python programming language within ArcView GIS.
Version: 1.2d
License: AVPython License (MIT-like)

InovaGIS Applications
Homepage: http://www.inovagis.org/freeware/
FreeGIS-summary on InovaGIS Applications ; Last update: before 20th July 2001
A collection of mostly IDRIS-like applications for VB, Delphi and Excel. Note:Several proprietary/non-free products are required.
Requirements: A MS OS + VB, Excel, Delphi + InovaGIS 2.0 library.
Version: -
License: MIT

LIMP
Homepage: http://www.remotesensing.org/docs/limp-ht/
FreeGIS-summary on LIMP ; Last update: before 20th July 2001
The goal of LIMP is to move as much complex code for applying arbitrary computations to large datasets ("large" in this case meaning too big to fit into memory) as possible into a library, leaving a simple yet powerful way of dealing with images from a users code. The library is accompanied with a useful tool: imgview.
Version: 0.1
License: LGPL

MetApps (Meteorological Applications)
Homepage: http://unidata.ucar.edu/projects/metapps/index.html
FreeGIS-summary on MetApps ; Last update: 30.07.2001 18:03:16.00 CEST
The MetApps Project aims to develop a new suite of platform-independent analysis applications for the atmospheric sciences.
Version: April 5, 2001
License: LGPL

SVG Toolkit
Homepage: http://sis.cmis.csiro.au/svg/
FreeGIS-summary on SVG Toolkit ; Last update: 25.07.2001 12:15:30.00 CEST
SVG or Scalable Vector Graphics is a language for describing two-dimensional graphics in XML. SVG is currently being developed as a standard for web-based display of vector data such lines and polygons as well as images and text. About the SVG Toolkit The authors interest is in the applicability of SVG to geospatial applications. The software is implemented in Java.
Version: 20001211
License: SVG Toolkit license

IPW (Image Processing Workbench)
Homepage: http://www.crseo.ucsb.edu/~ipw2/
FreeGIS-summary on IPW ; Last update: before 20th July 2001
IPW is a UNIX-based image processing system. It includes several UNIX filter programs which can be pipe-lined together to form complex and powerful image processing algorithms. IPW includes a development environment for creating new IPW shell scripts and programs in C.
Version: 1.1
License: IPW License

dbf2info
Homepage: ftp://freegis.org/freegis/misc/dbf2info.zip
FreeGIS-summary on dbf2info ; Last update: 24.10.2003 13:38:19.00 CEST
This package is a set of utilities for translating data between dBASE dbf, ASCII, and ARC/INFO formats. Most of the programs run either as ARC commands or as system commands independent of ARC/INFO.

The package has no active maintainer. The link points to the last available archive (less than 400 KByte).
Version: 5.7
License: Public Domain

mapbuilder (Community Map Builder)
Homepage: http://mapbuilder.sourceforge.net/index.shtml
FreeGIS-summary on mapbuilder ; Last update: 06.05.2002 10:21:25.00 CEST
The Community Map Builder allows users to enter geographic features in a web browser, save it to a server along with other features, then present the features back as a map layer in a web browser.

Coposys (Community Positioning System)
Homepage: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/coposys/
FreeGIS-summary on Coposys ; Last update: 26.07.2001 12:01:20.00 CEST
This project allow easy geographical representation of world wide members of one or more communities (like Debian or FSF) using xplanet.
Version: 0.1
License: GPL

GISAR
Homepage: http://gisar.sourceforge.net/ENG/Index.htm
FreeGIS-summary on GISAR ; Last update: 07.03.2003 16:21:05.00 CET
IMPORTANT NOTE: FreeGIS was informed on March 7th 2003 by the author that he has withdrawn the Free Software license and that GISAR is now proprietary Software. At least release Release_300302 GISAR was under GPL.

GISAR is a 2D,3D dynamic model of real objects (streets, houses, telephones, etc), that may be used for development any functional and visual models of real system. At present it used for automate working of telecommunication station.
Version: Release_300302
License: GPL

GeoVRML
Homepage: http://www.geovrml.org/
FreeGIS-summary on GeoVRML ; Last update: before 20th July 2001
The full source code for the GeoVRML 1.0 sample implementation (Java). NOTE: depends on non-free module "GeoTransform"!
Version: 1.0
License: Apache License/non-free

Image_GIS
Homepage: http://www.sebastian-bergmann.de/en/image_gis.php
FreeGIS-summary on Image_GIS ; Last update: 10.06.2004 14:54:19.00 CEST
Image_GIS creates maps based on geographical data in the Arcinfo/E00 format. The packages provides renderers to produce images using GD or Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).
Version: 1.1.0
License: PHP licence

Inside Idaho
Homepage: http://www.insideidaho.org/
FreeGIS-summary on Inside Idaho ; Last update: 16.06.2002 16:55:23.00 CEST
Various datasets for Idaho (USA)
Version: -
License: -

Xplanet
Homepage: http://xplanet.sourceforge.net
FreeGIS-summary on Xplanet ; Last update: 26.07.2001 11:49:20.00 CEST
Xplanet was inspired by Xearth, which renders an image of the earth into the X root window. Azimuthal, Mercator, Mollweide, orthographic, or rectangular projections can be shown as well as a window with a globe the user can rotate interactively using OpenGL or Mesa. The other planets and some satellites may also be displayed.
Version: 0.83
License: GPL

pyshapelib
Homepage: http://ftp.intevation.de/users/bh/pyshapelib/
FreeGIS-summary on pyshapelib ; Last update: 01.06.2004 10:26:13.00 CEST
pyshapelib is a python wrapper for shapelib, a free software library for reading and writing ESRI shapefiles.
Version: 0.3
License: LGPL

Whatsit GIS Formats
Homepage: http://www.wotsit.org/search.asp?s=gis
FreeGIS-summary on Whatsit GIS Formats ; Last update: 24.09.2002 12:18:04.00 CEST
Link and download list for information/specifications of GIS file formats.
Version: -
License: -

KStars
Homepage: http://edu.kde.org/kstars/index.php
FreeGIS-summary on KStars ; Last update: 12.09.2003 11:24:01.00 CEST
KStars provides an accurate graphical simulation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, at anydate and time. The display includes 40,000 stars, 13,000 deep-sky objects, all 8 planets, the Sun and Moon, and thousands of comets and asteroids.
Version: cvs20030407
License: GNU GPL

Visible Earth Project
Homepage: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/
FreeGIS-summary on Visible Earth Project ; Last update: 11.04.2002 09:53:54.00 CEST
The purpose of NASAs Visible Earth is to provide a consistently updated, central point of access to the superset of NASAs Earth science-related images, animations, and data visualizations. Amoung these are for example the Blue Marble (highres true-color image of the earth) or city lights.
License: Public Domain

gpx2shp
Homepage: http://gpx2shp.sourceforge.jp/
FreeGIS-summary on gpx2shp ; Last update: 20.01.2005 17:01:44.00 CET
A converter from the GPS Exchange Format(*.gpx) to ESRI/shape format(*.shp).
Version: 0.68
License: GNU GPL

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