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GeoVistaStudio
Mon, 14 Mar 2005 09:38:18 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ This is a programming environment that allows users to quickly build applications for geocomputation and geographic visualization. ]

OGR
Mon, 14 Mar 2005 09:28:06 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updates from 1.2.5 to 1.2.6.

[ 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. ]

GDAL
Mon, 14 Mar 2005 09:27:30 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updates from 1.2.5 to 1.2.6.

[ 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. ]

DCW (Digital Charts of the World) im Manifold-Format
Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:09:37 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Added an alternative homepage since the previous one seems to be invalid.

[ The company Manifold offers the DCW data as free downloadable data files which are only readable with proprietary Microsoft/Manifold programs.

An alternative (but unclear regarding licensing) is: http://www.maproom.psu.edu/dcw/ ]

GRASS
Thu, 10 Mar 2005 14:59:48 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updates from 5.7.0 to 6.0.0.

[ 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) ]

Geometry Engine Open Source
Mon, 07 Mar 2005 14:16:02 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updated from 1.0.0 to 2.1.1.

[ 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(). ]

Mapyrus
Fri, 04 Mar 2005 18:37:13 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New homepage (previous was: http://www.chenery.id.au/mapyrus)

[ 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. ]

Mapyrus
Fri, 04 Mar 2005 18:36:25 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updated version from 0.50 to 0.52. Changes: Add display of geo-referenced images with .tfw "worlds" file. Add Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format output.

[ 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. ]

mapnik
Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:42:43 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

gvSIG
Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:23:44 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

libral
Thu, 24 Feb 2005 14:58:16 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

MapWindow GIS
Wed, 23 Feb 2005 15:49:30 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

MapLink
Wed, 23 Feb 2005 15:35:58 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updates from 0.2b to 0.3a.

[ 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. ]

uDig
Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:08:05 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updates from 0.7 to 0.8.

[ 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. ]

GeoTools
Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:04:04 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updated development release from 2.1.M2 to 2.1.M3. This release features the long awaited change over to the new GeoAPI standard Coordinate Reference System API.

[ 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. ]

SaVi
Wed, 16 Feb 2005 23:25:24 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

PocketGPSLib
Fri, 11 Feb 2005 19:14:00 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Added the missing URL of the homepage.

[ 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. ]

WikiPedia: GIS
Fri, 11 Feb 2005 19:06:54 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Added link for german version.

[ Description of the term Geographic Information System. ]

GRASS
Fri, 11 Feb 2005 09:23:56 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updated link to german GRASS literature.

[ 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) ]

GLOBE
Fri, 11 Feb 2005 09:06:58 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New (better) homepage, previous was http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/topo/globe.shtml

[ GLOBE is an internationally designed, developed, and independently peer-reviewed global digital elevation model (DEM), at a latitude-longitude grid spacing of 30 arc-seconds. The ongoing project makes use of several data sources to attain high data quality. Important parts were taken from GTOPO30, but there are also additional contributions not part of GTOPO30. GLOBE provides data sets of two levels of quality: G.O.O.D. (Globally Only Open-access Data, unrestricted use) and B.A.D. (Best Available Data, restricted use for some regions). More information on these issues and the data set in general can be obtained from Online Documentation v1.0. ]

GeoClass for PHP
Mon, 31 Jan 2005 22:24:40 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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). ]

GeoCon
Mon, 31 Jan 2005 21:19:41 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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 ]

PocketGPSLib
Mon, 31 Jan 2005 20:57:33 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

JUMP
Sat, 29 Jan 2005 13:01:02 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Added hint on Jump Pilot Project.

[ 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. ]

libgeotiff
Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:53:27 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updated version from 1.1.4 to 1.2.2. New homepage (previous was: http://www.remotesensing.org/docs/geotiff-ht/geotiff.html)

[ Libgeotiff is a library normally hosted on top of libtiff for reading, and writing GeoTIFF information tags. The library offers a standard C API. ]

uDig
Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:02:38 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updates from 0.4 to 0.7.

[ 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. ]

GeoTools
Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:00:15 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Development release updated from 2.1.M1 to 2.1.M2.

[ 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. ]

gpx2shp
Thu, 20 Jan 2005 17:01:44 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ A converter from the GPS Exchange Format(*.gpx) to ESRI/shape format(*.shp). ]

ext_shapelib
Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:06:36 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

NavSys MapEditor
Thu, 20 Jan 2005 10:56:57 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updates from 0.0.1 to 0.0.6. New homepage (previous was: http://www.navsys.org).

[ The MapEditor application allows you to load tracks generated by NavSys and use these tracks to create streetmaps of your area. ]

SAGA
Thu, 20 Jan 2005 10:27:52 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Removed Acronym entry, as it was not the acronym, but the full name.

[ 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. ]

Mapyrus
Thu, 20 Jan 2005 10:21:58 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New homepage (previous was http://www.chenery.id.au/mapyrus). Updates from 0.49 tp 0.50.

[ 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. ]

PostGIS
Thu, 20 Jan 2005 10:03:06 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updated from 0.8.2 to 1.0.0-rc1.

[ 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

Debrief
Sat, 08 Jan 2005 15:39:41 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: Changed current release to 2003 Release 2 which was released on the 7th of January 2005; release focus: Minor feature enchancements.

[ Military training java application used to analyse ship and submarine tracks in 2 and 3 dimensions. ]

OSSIM
Sat, 08 Jan 2005 03:21:17 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updates from 1.4.0 to 1.5.6.

[ 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. ]

geonetwork
Sat, 08 Jan 2005 03:11:04 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Update from 1.2.0 to 1.2.1.

[ 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. ]

GeoTools
Sat, 08 Jan 2005 03:07:30 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updated version from 2.0RC1 to 2.0.0 stable and 2.1M0 to 2.1M1 development.

[ 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. ]

DCMMS
Sat, 08 Jan 2005 02:49:53 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updates from 1.0.1 to 1.0.2.

[ 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. ]

Thuban
Thu, 23 Dec 2004 15:49:55 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updated from 1.0.0 to 1.0.1. Changelog reads: Translations Updated: Spanish, French, Russian and German New: Hungarian and Brazillian Portuguese Extensions Updated gns2shp: Changes include fix for RT#2453. New experimental extension: svgexport to export map and legend in svg format Thuban now remembers directories during a session. E.g. if you open a shape file Thuban remembers the directory it was loaded from and the next time you open a shapefile the dialog will start in the same directory. This also works for projections. The PostGIS interface was improved substantially compared to 1.0.0. However, there are some limitations in Thubans PostGIS support that can not be fixed in the 1.0.x series without introducing incompatible file format changes (one such limitation is the requirement for a column called "gid"). The PostGIS changes in more detail: Added support for LINESTRING geometries· Added some support for tables with an explicit SRID. Thuban 1.0.0 used to allow tables with multiple geometry columns in some cases. Those cases worked only by accident. 1.0.1 gives an error message when such tables are opened. Real support for tables with multiple geometry columns is available in 1.1.x (currently only in CVS). Fix a printing bug. The region of the map to be printed was a bit off so that some parts were not drawn sometimes (RT#2692) Other fixed issues: RT#2237 EPSG projection with unsupported (by the dialog) parameters causes exception RT#2239 (only the session tree part) RT#2245 Thuban do not start, unhandled exception RT#2482 (partly) NameError: name "wx" is not defined RT#2549 exception when trying to generate one class

[ 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. ]

QGIS
Wed, 22 Dec 2004 15:43:20 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updates from 0.5 to 0.6. The changelog reads: GEOS support in the OGR provider to refine selection of features via identify. This improves over the previous method of feature selection which used a simple MBR intersection check. PostGIS editing support in provider Vector dialog redesign to improve usability Improvement in project handling (loading and saving) Scale dependent rendering User option to load layers with out drawing them, thus allowing you to set scale dependency, etc without waiting for the initial draw to complete Interrupt drawing of features by hitting ESC Attribute actions - the ability to run an external program based on the contents of an attribute field in a layer Create new vector layer (shapefile) for editing Windows installer Mac OSX binary New options in the graticule builder plugin Enhancements to the GPS plugin Man page Save delimited text as shapefile Improved Delimited Text plugin, including preview of text file Improved SPIT handling of PostgreSQL reserved words and shapefiles with multiple geometry types Display SQL query used to create a PostGIS layer PostgreSQL query builder Ability to redefine the query used for PostgreSQL layers from the layer properties dialog North arrow, scalebar, and copyright plugins save their state in the project file Datasets with UTF8, Kanjii and CJK filenames now load properly

[ 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. ]

dxfscope
Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:13:01 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

GPSMan
Fri, 10 Dec 2004 11:14:39 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updated from 6.2 to 6.2.1.

[ 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. ]

iGeoPortal
Thu, 02 Dec 2004 11:13:01 +0100 (silke)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

GDAL
Thu, 25 Nov 2004 09:15:47 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updated version from 1.2.4 to 1.2.5.

[ 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. ]

OGR
Thu, 25 Nov 2004 09:14:27 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updated from 1.1.8 to 1.2.5. New homepage (previous was:http://gdal.velocet.ca/projects/opengis/).

[ 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. ]

Mapyrus
Fri, 19 Nov 2004 09:36:56 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updates from 0.46 to 0.49 Changes: Add display of GIS data provided by ogrinfo program (part of OGR library). Add gradientfill command to draw polygons with gradient fill pattern. Add ellipse command, wedge command to draw pie slices. Add more examples to manual. Add option to enable existing output files to be updated.

[ 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. ]

HidroSIG
Thu, 11 Nov 2004 22:35:31 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

SimpleMapServer
Thu, 11 Nov 2004 22:24:40 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

MapServer
Thu, 11 Nov 2004 15:44:22 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updated from 4.2.4 to: stable: 4.2.5 development: 4.4.0beta2

[ 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. ]

edbsilon
Wed, 10 Nov 2004 15:06:18 +0100 (silke)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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). ]

GDAL
Mon, 08 Nov 2004 23:31:49 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updated from 1.2.2 to 1.2.4.

[ 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. ]

JUMP
Mon, 08 Nov 2004 17:06:56 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updated version from 1.1 to 1.1.2.

[ 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. ]

PROJ
Sun, 31 Oct 2004 16:15:42 +0100 (silke)

Changelog: update from 4.4.8 to 4.4.9 release notes: - Win32 build uses proj.dll by default now. - Added accessor functions for the datums, ellps, prime_meridians, units and main projection definition lists [...] - Added JNI (Java Native Interface) support within the jniwrap directory [...]. - Added the proj=stereoa and proj=geos projections [...] - A few other bug fixes.

[ 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. ]

GPSMan
Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:32:04 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Updates from 6.1.2 to 6.2.

[ 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. ]

CCM
Wed, 20 Oct 2004 22:42:55 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ River and Catchment Database for Europe: CCM stands for Catchment Characterisation and Modelling. Available themes: riversegments, catchments, sea outlets, wet. ]

uDig
Wed, 20 Oct 2004 22:20:21 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

QC2SKY
Wed, 20 Oct 2004 21:46:37 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ QC2SKY is a software which can be used to graphically display the qc plot files from teqc in azimuth/elevation sky plots. ]

GEOTRANS
Wed, 20 Oct 2004 21:17:55 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Update from 2.2.4 to 2.2.5.

[ 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. ]

MapLink
Wed, 20 Oct 2004 20:53:17 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Updated from 0.1b to 0.2b.

[ 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. ]

MapServer
Mon, 18 Oct 2004 21:25:54 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Updated version from 4.0 to 4.2.4.

[ 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. ]

QGIS
Mon, 11 Oct 2004 20:23:45 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Update from 0.4 to 0.5 and including now Windows as supported Operating System.

[ 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. ]

Visual Basic GIS
Thu, 07 Oct 2004 10:23:55 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

ircmaker
Tue, 05 Oct 2004 18:31:39 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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". ]

STARS
Mon, 04 Oct 2004 18:14:45 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

Fulcrum
Mon, 04 Oct 2004 17:57:39 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

GMT
Mon, 04 Oct 2004 16:05:20 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New Version: 3.4.5 replaces 3.4.4 and new stable 4.0 replaces development 4.0b.

[ 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. ]

Python Cartographic Library
Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:40:37 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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

Geoserver
Wed, 22 Sep 2004 18:11:18 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Updates from 1.2.0 to 1.2.2.

[ 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. ]

GDAL
Mon, 20 Sep 2004 10:39:54 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Updates from 1.2.0 to 1.2.2. New homepage, previous was: http://www.remotesensing.org/gdal/

[ 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. ]

GeoTools
Sat, 18 Sep 2004 14:00:07 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Version updates from 0.8. to stable: 2.0rc1, development: 2.1M0

[ 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. ]

DCMMS
Mon, 06 Sep 2004 09:49:05 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Updates from 1.0.0 to 1.0.1.

[ 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. ]

Mapyrus
Wed, 01 Sep 2004 23:22:52 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Updates from 0.32 to 0.46. Changes: Add roundedbox, triangle commands for drawing shapes. Add parallelpath command for parallel line linestyles. Add flowlabel command for labels following streets, rivers, etc. Add interpolate function for interpolating sizes, colors, etc. from attribute values. Add optional display of frequency of each item shown in legend. Add manual example demonstrating how to display histograms on map.

[ 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. ]

GEOTRANS Library
Thu, 19 Aug 2004 10:30:35 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Added note, that the package is not further maintained since the original now offers what this one added

[ 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. ]

GEOTRANS
Thu, 19 Aug 2004 10:27:38 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Updated from 2.2.3 to 2.2.4. New homepage. Previous was: http://164.214.2.59/GandG/geotrans/geotrans.html

[ 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. ]

SimpleMapClient
Thu, 19 Aug 2004 00:22:20 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ A browser aplication for OGC WMS servers. ]

GPStk
Thu, 19 Aug 2004 00:20:28 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ Algorithms and frameworks supporting the development of processing and analysis applications in navigation and global positioning. ]

geonetwork
Wed, 11 Aug 2004 22:59:07 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

TerraView
Wed, 11 Aug 2004 22:51:45 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Cahnged homepage again. This seems the most useful one.

[ A geographical application that serves the Brazilian community of geographical data users. In particular, social scientists, and health and education public sectors are targetted. ]

TerraLib
Wed, 11 Aug 2004 22:49:02 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Updated version from 2.0 to 3.0.

[ 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. ]

TerraView
Wed, 11 Aug 2004 22:48:04 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Updated from Version 2.0 to 3.0. Changed homepage link (previous was http://www.terralib.org/applications.html).

[ A geographical application that serves the Brazilian community of geographical data users. In particular, social scientists, and health and education public sectors are targetted. ]

Free-Open Source GIS Suite
Sat, 07 Aug 2004 23:04:12 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

MapLab
Sat, 07 Aug 2004 22:43:33 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: - update from 2.0.1 to 2.2 - new homepage

[ 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. ]

MapLab
Sat, 07 Aug 2004 22:41:29 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: update from 2.0.1 to 2.2:

[ 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. ]

BBBike
Sat, 07 Aug 2004 22:17:52 +0200 (bernhard)

Changelog: updated version from 3.12 to 3.13 (released 2004-01-17). From the CHANGES: Mature MapServer support. ptk frontend: many improvements data improvements BBBikeDraw: support for SVG::GD new: GPS::MPS, GPS::WaypointPlus BBBikeGPS:better graph and route output optional support for faster C-A*-2 algorithm wapbbbike: major overhaul

[ 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)). ]

Geoserver
Wed, 04 Aug 2004 10:39:02 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: 1.2.0-rc1 -> 1.2.0 release notes reads: The focus of this release is useability, centered around a web based administration tool, which allows GeoServer to be completely configured from any web browser. Oracle and ArcSDE have been much more extensively tested [...]. Other additions include an innovative validation engine [...] as well as increased speed and an added GetFeatureInfo operation for the WMS.

[ 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. ]

GPSMan
Sat, 31 Jul 2004 12:33:07 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Improved description text.

[ 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. ]

GEOTRANS Library
Thu, 29 Jul 2004 18:11:45 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: The last homepage (http://pweb.jps.net/~egm2/libgeotrans/) went offline unnoticed. If anyone wants to further maintain this library you are welcome. Note however, that there is also another version of GEOTRANS entry in FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

GNU GaMa
Tue, 27 Jul 2004 23:44:31 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Updates from 1.3.31 to 1.6.2 (stable)/1.7.10 (development). Improved german description.

[ 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. ]

GPSMan
Tue, 27 Jul 2004 23:28:10 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Updates from 6.1.0 to 6.1.2.

[ 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. ]

PDFMap
Tue, 27 Jul 2004 22:42:34 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Updates from 1.60 to 2.00. New hompage (previous was: http://pdfmap.sourceforge.net).

[ Python library and command line tool to generate maps in PDF format an place objects on them. ]

DIME
Thu, 08 Jul 2004 12:57:09 +0200 (bernhard)

Changelog: Updated to new URL from http://www.coin3d.org/Dime/about.php.

[ 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. ]

QGIS
Thu, 08 Jul 2004 08:49:46 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: update from v 0.3 to v 0.4: release note reads: This release adds: Features Map Overview Preliminary printing support Menu cleanups User interface improvements Icon Themes (only default theme currently available) Capture point to clipboard [...]

[ 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. ]

SAGA
Tue, 29 Jun 2004 13:42:58 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

GRASS
Tue, 29 Jun 2004 13:13:18 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: Updated version of GRASS from 5.0.3 to 5.7.0: Major changes (abstracted from the announcement): * Geometry management: GRASS 5.7.0 comes with a completely overhauled vector engine which is extended to manage 2D and 3D topological vector data. Many analysis tools ar implemented such as network analysis, overlays etc. * Attribute management: The new vector engine includes full and flexible integration of database management systems (DBMS) for attribute management . * User interface: A graphical user interface (GUI) for every module is now generated on the fly. Among another enhancements, a completely new graphical tool for digitizing has been implemented. * Multi-session: Users can now run concurrent GRASS 5.7 sessions. * Generating new GRASS LOCATIONs: New LOCATIONs with automatically set projection information can be generated by EPSG code number from the start-up screen. Within a GRASS session, LOCATIONs can be automatically created from existing datasets (raster data as well as vector data). * Data Import/Export: GRASS 5.7.0 is integrated with the GDAL/OGR library to support an extensive range of raster and vector formats. * Enhancements included from 5.3.0: This release bundles the new vector capabilities with all the improvements from GRASS 5.3.0. The raster capabilities of 5.7.0 are identical with those of 5.3.0.

[ 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) ]

edbs2wkt
Wed, 16 Jun 2004 15:47:10 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: Added project homepage.

[ 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). ]

edbs2wkt
Wed, 16 Jun 2004 15:43:20 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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). ]

RoadMap
Thu, 10 Jun 2004 22:06:07 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Version updated from 1.0rc3 to 1.0.6. New homepage (previous was: http://roadmap.saignon.net/).

[ 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. ]

Image_GIS
Thu, 10 Jun 2004 14:54:19 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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). ]

GPSMan
Fri, 04 Jun 2004 17:23:05 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Version updated from 6.0 to 6.1.

[ 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. ]

JUMP
Thu, 03 Jun 2004 14:18:27 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New homepage. Previous was: http://www.vividsolutions.com/jump/

[ 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. ]

QGIS
Tue, 01 Jun 2004 11:16:38 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: v 0.2 -> v 0.3 From release note: This release adds: - Features * Raster pyramids * Scale display * Map units can be specified (meters, feet, decimal degrees) * Desktop icons (installed in share/qgis/images/icons) * Mac OS X vector support now works - Core Plugins * New North Arrow plugin * Improved GPS tools plugin * New Copyright plugin * Improved Grass plugin with raster and vector loaders - Contributed Plugins (available from community.qgis.org) * HTTP server (simple map server implementation)

[ 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. ]

pyshapelib
Tue, 01 Jun 2004 10:26:13 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ pyshapelib is a python wrapper for shapelib, a free software library for reading and writing ESRI shapefiles. ]

MapLink
Tue, 01 Jun 2004 10:01:27 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

PostGIS
Fri, 28 May 2004 16:50:24 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: Update from 0.8.1 to 0.8.2: News reads: PostGIS 0.8.2 is an important maintainance release, including the following new features: * PostgreSQL 7.5 Support * PostgreSQL 7.5 Statistics Integration * Optional Experimental Light-weight Geometry (LWGEOM) o Faster queries o Smaller databases o Four dimensional geometry * New functions The release also includes numerous small bug fixes, for different platforms and high load use cases. Update from 0.8.0 to 0.8.1: News reads: PostGIS 0.8.1 is a bug fix release with some fixes to memory handling and the interface with GEOS.

[ 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

CycleAtlas
Sun, 23 May 2004 12:18:46 +0200 (bernhard)

Changelog: version update: from 0.6 to 1.0devel.

[ CycleAtlas is a cycling diary based on a road atlas. It permits to create and store planimetry, profile and route time table of rides. ]

WMS Adapter
Fri, 21 May 2004 17:51:01 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

ZMapServer
Fri, 21 May 2004 17:43:31 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

GeoTypes
Tue, 18 May 2004 16:15:03 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ GeoTypes is a python library that implements both the OpenGIS/Postgis and standard Postgresql geometry types, it integrates with the psycopg python/Postgresql interface. ]

NavSys MapEditor
Wed, 12 May 2004 12:16:31 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: New homepage of NavSys MapEditor.

[ The MapEditor application allows you to load tracks generated by NavSys and use these tracks to create streetmaps of your area. ]

NavSys
Wed, 12 May 2004 12:15:02 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: New homepage of NavSys.

[ The NavSys application is a combined OGG player / GPS application to be used as a navigation system and audio integrated system in a vehicle. ]

Hoko
Wed, 12 May 2004 10:01:26 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

PROJ
Tue, 04 May 2004 10:40:32 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: v 4.4.7 -> 4.4.8 changes (adapted from RELEASE notes) - Updated epsg file to EPSG 6.5, added other.extra pseudo-EPSG WMS definitions. - Made significant fixes to prime meridian support. - Substantially changes on pj_datum_transform() and new function pj_get_release() function. - Changes on pj_transform() and Geocentric_To_Geodetic(). - Various other bug fixes.

[ 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. ]

OpenEV
Wed, 28 Apr 2004 11:06:34 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: Version FW updated from 1.7.1 to 1.7.2

[ 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. ]

QGIS
Tue, 27 Apr 2004 08:54:56 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: update from version 0.1 to 0.2 The new version adds lots of new features among them: - Simple and graduated SVG marker symbols - Raster statistics - Internationalization for several languages - Snapshot mode - GPS importer plugin - Grass plugin

[ 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. ]

Geoserver
Mon, 26 Apr 2004 09:53:52 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: 1.1.0 -> 1.2.0-rc1 Introduces web based administration tool, innovative validation suite, improved WMS rendering, and major refactoring. Much of the work was done by Refractions for their Validating Web Feature Service project.

[ 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. ]

JaGo
Thu, 22 Apr 2004 18:05:06 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: Updated description of deegree, since neither the keywords OGC nor OpenGIS have been used. Also increased importance to reflect its importance in the GDI-context.

[ 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. ]

JCS
Wed, 21 Apr 2004 18:22:37 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ The JCS Conflation Suite is an API and set of interactive tools which perform conflation on spatial datasets. ]

OpenEV
Wed, 14 Apr 2004 22:25:35 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Upgraded from 1.4.1 to 1.7.0/1.7.1_FW.

[ 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. ]

GDAL
Tue, 13 Apr 2004 13:53:45 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Updated from 1.1.9 to 1.2.0.

[ 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. ]

Mapyrus
Thu, 01 Apr 2004 12:04:10 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Updated version from 0.32 to 0.42. Changes: Added Java API, legend display, better labelling and some geometric functions from Vivid Solutions "Java Topology Suite".

[ 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. ]

gpspoint
Thu, 18 Mar 2004 10:47:26 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updated version from 2.02.0505 to 2.030521. New homepage (previous was http://scampi.physik.uni-konstanz.de/~tschank/gpspoint/).

[ 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. ]

GpsDrive
Fri, 05 Mar 2004 10:36:23 +0100 (silke)

Changelog: 2.08 -> 2.09: some enhancements in use of Expedia maps some bug fixes and minor enhancements (see changelog)

[ 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. ]

Mobilmaps
Thu, 04 Mar 2004 00:08:29 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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". ]

Geometry Engine Open Source
Fri, 27 Feb 2004 11:02:05 +0100 (silke)

Changelog: added homepage

[ 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(). ]

Geometry Engine Open Source
Fri, 27 Feb 2004 11:00:59 +0100 (silke)

Changelog: Added english description

[ 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(). ]

Geometry Engine Open Source
Fri, 27 Feb 2004 10:59:59 +0100 (silke)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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(). ]

SAMT
Thu, 26 Feb 2004 19:33:25 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: Pointed URL directly to the documentation. It also has the download links below.

[ SAMT was designed to combine landscape modeling with GIS-data (grids). The main focus is the integration of fuzzy-models and spatial simulation. ]

GpsDrive
Wed, 25 Feb 2004 17:01:41 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: Version update: v2.07 -> 2.08

[ 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. ]

QGIS
Wed, 25 Feb 2004 15:14:39 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: Version updated: 0.1pre1 -> 0.1

[ 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. ]

QGIS
Tue, 24 Feb 2004 18:39:50 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: v 0.0.13 -> 0.1pre1 From the announcement: This release adds: 1. support for raster layers 2. Symbology support for creating single, graduated, and continuous rendering on vector layers 3. Buffer plugin for PostGIS layers 4. Improved user interface 5. Help files in HTML and PDF

[ 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. ]

SAMT
Thu, 19 Feb 2004 22:56:37 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ SAMT was designed to combine landscape modeling with GIS-data (grids). The main focus is the integration of fuzzy-models and spatial simulation. ]

OpenMap
Thu, 19 Feb 2004 20:57:16 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updates from 4.5.4 to 4.6.

[ 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. ]

GPSBabel
Fri, 13 Feb 2004 09:42:24 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Added category file-format conversions.

[ 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. ]

GPSBabel
Thu, 12 Feb 2004 23:10:12 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

Position
Thu, 12 Feb 2004 22:20:39 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ Position is a GPS navigation project using gnustep and maps from the world wide web. ]

Geoserver
Tue, 20 Jan 2004 07:29:44 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updated version from 1.0.1 to 1.1.0. This release contains a number of improvements, including greater efficiency and speed, integrated WMS, ArcSDE support and automatic detection and support for Postgis with GEOS.

[ 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. ]

GpsDrive
Mon, 19 Jan 2004 11:22:50 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: v2.06 -> 2.07 from the Changelog: many bug fixes and some enhancements.

[ 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. ]

GMT
Wed, 14 Jan 2004 07:06:58 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updated version from 3.4.3 to 3.4.4 (stable) and 4.0b (development). Also added MaxOS X as support opertating system.

[ 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. ]

Mapyrus
Fri, 09 Jan 2004 09:37:22 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

AVECE00
Sat, 03 Jan 2004 01:59:44 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: New homepage, old one was: http://pages.infinit.net/danmo/e00/index-avce00.html

[ 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. ]

E00compr
Sat, 03 Jan 2004 01:57:43 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: New hompage. Old homepage was: http://pages.infinit.net/danmo/e00/index-e00compr.html.

[ E00compr is an ANSI C library that reads and writes Arc/Info compressed E00 files. Both "PARTIAL" and "FULL" compression levels are supported. ]

tkgeomap
Fri, 02 Jan 2004 11:00:36 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: v2.0 -> 2.3

[ Tkgeomap is a set of Xlib extensions to Tcl/Tk for drawing and interacting with geographic maps. ]

GpsDrive
Fri, 02 Jan 2004 10:55:43 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: v2.05 -> 2.06 from the changelog: Build in limits to 180/90 degree positions. acpi-temperature support added tooltips for battery level and temperature display tripinfo values are now updated added new program "gpsreplay" which replays stored tracks

[ 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. ]

WikiPedia: GIS
Thu, 01 Jan 2004 13:26:50 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ Description of the term Geographic Information System. ]

DSpatial
Wed, 31 Dec 2003 16:52:22 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ DSpatial is a library of tools for the use, manipulation, and visualization of spatial data for a Delphi/Kylix framework. ]

Thuban
Wed, 31 Dec 2003 15:44:58 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updates from 1.0rc to 1.0.0.

[ 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. ]

Chameleon
Wed, 31 Dec 2003 13:03:07 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

GpsDrive
Mon, 22 Dec 2003 11:12:29 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: v2.04 -> 2.05 From the Changelog: Various fixes, less CPU loaded without alpha channel, timezone will be stored

[ 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. ]

QGIS
Fri, 12 Dec 2003 22:42:04 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updated from 0.0.12 to 0.0.13. Changes: New build system (uses GNU Autoconf) Improvement to sorting in attribute table Persistent selections (shapefiles only) Display order can be changed by dragging a layer to a new position in the legend Export QGIS view as a Mapserver map file Fix for crash on SuSE 9.0 when moving mouse in legend area

[ 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. ]

MapLab
Thu, 04 Dec 2003 12:35:20 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: Updated version number from 2.0rc3 to 2.0.1 (which was released Jun 5 2003).

[ 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. ]

Thuban
Wed, 03 Dec 2003 14:43:53 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updates from 0.9.0 to 1.0rc1.

[ 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. ]

shapelib
Wed, 03 Dec 2003 11:08:57 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Changed homepage (previous was: http://gdal.velocet.ca/projects/shapelib/index.html).

[ Shapelib is a simple C API for reading and writing ESRI ArcView Shapefiles. Simple sample tools are included. Python and Perl bindings are available. ]

MapBender
Mon, 01 Dec 2003 11:55:27 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

xastir
Fri, 28 Nov 2003 16:43:28 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ A client using amateur radio APRS protocol. It provides messaging and realtime tracking of stations w/map plotting via radio and Internet data streams. ]

DCMMS
Thu, 27 Nov 2003 22:16:55 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updates from 0.9.2-1 to 1.0.0.

[ 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. ]

PostGIS
Tue, 25 Nov 2003 14:13:25 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Update from 0.7.5 to 0.8.0. Some infos on the new release: Among the (many) new SFSQL functions we have added are: - Contains(), Within(), Touches(), Disjoint(), - Overlaps(), Intersects(), Crosses(), Relate() - Intersection(), GeomUnion(), Buffer(), Difference() - ConvexHull(), SymmetricDifference() Also some non SFSQL functions, inspired by the spec: - Aggregates: GeomUnion() in-memory geometry aggregate - Aggregates: MemGeomUnion() memory-safe slower aggregate Version 0.8.0 also includes support for the recently released PostgreSQL version 7.4.

[ 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

MySQL Spatial Extensions
Mon, 17 Nov 2003 19:36:59 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updated URL (previous was http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/GIS_spatial_extensions_in_MySQL.html).

[ 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. ]

TerraView
Tue, 11 Nov 2003 16:49:44 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ A geographical application that serves the Brazilian community of geographical data users. In particular, social scientists, and health and education public sectors are targetted. ]

JUMP
Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:57:07 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

JTS
Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:29:17 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updates from 1.3 to 1.4.

[ A Java API of spatial predicates and functions. The goal is to provide a complete, consistent, robust implementation of fundamental 2D spatial algorithms. It should conform to the Simple Features Specification for SQL. ]

GRASS
Thu, 06 Nov 2003 16:14:15 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updates from 5.0.2 to 5.0.3. See here for the changes: http://grass.itc.it/grass5/source/NEWS.html

[ 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) ]

DCMMS
Thu, 06 Nov 2003 09:48:45 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Added Windows as operating system.

[ 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. ]

Geoserver
Wed, 05 Nov 2003 10:47:07 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updated from 1.0 to 1.0.1: A bugfix-release plus some experimental support for Postgis with GEOS.

[ 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. ]

DCMMS
Tue, 04 Nov 2003 18:49:16 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

ESRI World Basemap Data
Tue, 04 Nov 2003 16:28:31 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ Users can download World Basemap Data in shapefile format for an area of interest that is selected through a web mapping application ]

Census 2000 TIGER/Line Data
Tue, 04 Nov 2003 16:26:04 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ Users can download Census 2000 TIGER/Line Data in shapefile format for an area of interest that is selected through a web mapping application. ]

2002 National Transportation Atlas Data
Tue, 04 Nov 2003 15:54:08 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

GISToolkit
Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:38:48 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updated version from "Production 2" to "2.0 (Server); 2.8.1 (Editor)".

[ 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. ]

Geoserver
Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:26:05 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updates from 0.9 to 1.0.

[ 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. ]

TerraLib
Fri, 24 Oct 2003 14:52:13 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Updates from 1.1 to 2.0.

[ 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. ]

dbf2info
Fri, 24 Oct 2003 13:38:19 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Changed URL (previous was http://www.epa.gov/r10earth/dbf2info.html). EPA stopped maintenance of the web- and ftp-site for dbf2info. The new link refers to what we received from EPA on special request.

[ 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). ]

PyOGCLib
Thu, 23 Oct 2003 16:32:12 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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). ]

mdb2shapefile
Fri, 17 Oct 2003 13:07:43 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New homepage (previous was http://www.linkgeo.com.br/enus/download.php?file=3).

[ mdb2shapefile is a GUI for exporting data of an Access table to a ShapeFile table(DBF). ]

veloce
Sat, 20 Sep 2003 23:17:23 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: added hint for alternative access method.

[ 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 ]

DGNLib
Fri, 19 Sep 2003 09:16:39 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Update from 1.0 to 1.8. New homepage (previous was http://gdal.velocet.ca/projects/dgn/index.html).

[ DGNLib is a simple C library for reading vector data from Microstation DGN files (also sometimes known as ISFF format). ]

BBBike
Mon, 15 Sep 2003 10:52:45 +0200 (bernhard)

Changelog: Version updated: 3.11 > v3.12

[ 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)). ]

WMS.py
Fri, 12 Sep 2003 16:18:14 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

KStars
Fri, 12 Sep 2003 11:24:01 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

GPSylon
Fri, 12 Sep 2003 11:15:27 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

WKB4J
Wed, 10 Sep 2003 17:40:39 +0200 (bernhard)

Changelog: New project homepage (was: http://wkb4j.etudier-online.com/ before).

[ 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

GNS
Wed, 10 Sep 2003 10:58:29 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: new entry on FreeGIS.

[

• The GEOnet Names Server (GNS) provides access to the National Imagery and Mapping Agencys (NIMA) and the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (US BGN) database of foreign geographic feature names. The database is the official repository of foreign place-name decisions approved by the US BGN. Approximately 20,000 of the databases features are updated monthly.
• Geographic Area of Coverage: Worldwide excluding the United States and Antarctica. For names in the U.S. and Antarctica, visit the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) web site.
• The GNS contains 3.95 million features with 5.42 million names (approximate).
• The coordinate system for data served by GNS is WGS84.
• The online database is updated on a bi-weekly schedule.

QGIS
Mon, 08 Sep 2003 10:57:18 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Updated from 0.0.11 to 0.0.12.

[ 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. ]

GpsDrive
Mon, 08 Sep 2003 10:23:24 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: 2.03 -> 2.04 Better Kismet support

[ 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. ]

Thuban
Tue, 02 Sep 2003 17:20:07 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Updated from 0.8.1 to 0.9.0. See ChangeLog for details.

[ 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. ]

WKB4J
Mon, 01 Sep 2003 09:14:23 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Updated from versin 0.2 to 1.0RC1.

[ 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

APR-Parser
Fri, 15 Aug 2003 23:02:56 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Update from 0.8 (2000-02-24) to 0.9.

[ Perl script to extract infos from ArcView apr files into a database to ease indexing and searching. Documents the apr format. ]

Debrief
Wed, 13 Aug 2003 13:13:32 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Updates from D2002 28 Oct 2002 to 2003. The new release includes a new high resolution worldwide gridded depth-database and a 3d view of bathymetric data.

[ Military training java application used to analyse ship and submarine tracks in 2 and 3 dimensions. ]

GpsDrive
Wed, 13 Aug 2003 09:31:58 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: v2.02 -> v2.03 a few bug fixes and minor enhancements

[ 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. ]

GeoTools
Tue, 12 Aug 2003 17:09:29 +0200 (bernhard)

Changelog: Geotools had changed from GNU GPL to GNU LGPL in the second half of 2001.

[ 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. ]

MapServer
Tue, 12 Aug 2003 08:50:20 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: v3.6.6 -> v4.0: A new major release version with (among others) the following changes (From the HISTRORY.TXT): * added WFS support * added support for several raster and vector outputformats * support for GD 2.0, dropped GD 1.x * joins are working again * numerous bug fixes

[ 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. ]

GpsDrive
Mon, 11 Aug 2003 08:56:09 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: Update from version 2.01 to 2.02 New homepage

[ 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. ]

tkgeomap
Wed, 06 Aug 2003 11:30:51 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: 1.7 -> 2.0 2.0 does not add any significant new abilities. But the increment in the major version implies incompatibilities with version 1.7 and earlier since tkgeomap has been redesigned. Now it is smaller, simpler, looks more like the rest of Tcl, and follows the coding standards of Tcl. The licence has been changed from LGPL to X11 style. Complete details about the changes are in the Changelog in the source distribution.

[ Tkgeomap is a set of Xlib extensions to Tcl/Tk for drawing and interacting with geographic maps. ]

GpsDrive
Mon, 28 Jul 2003 08:51:51 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: v2.00 -> v2.01 Some minor bug fixes.

[ 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. ]

MITAB
Thu, 24 Jul 2003 11:04:26 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Updates from 1.1.2 to 1.2.4. Furthermore, the homepage changed (previous was http://pages.infinit.net/danmo/e00/index-mitab.html).

[ 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. ]

GpsDrive
Tue, 22 Jul 2003 23:18:20 +0200 (bernhard)

Changelog: v1.32 -> v2.00 v2.00 uses GTK+-2.2, unicode and UDP for the friends mode. There is also a freshly released v1.33 version.

[ 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. ]

MapServer
Mon, 21 Jul 2003 17:53:33 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Updated version from 3.6.5 to 3.6.6.

[ 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. ]

quickWMS
Thu, 03 Jul 2003 10:55:23 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

inlineWMS
Thu, 03 Jul 2003 10:11:40 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

Thuban
Wed, 02 Jul 2003 10:04:55 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Updates from 0.8.0 to 0.8.1.

[ 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. ]

GDAL
Mon, 30 Jun 2003 08:38:41 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: Updates from 1.1.8 to 1.1.9.

[ 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. ]

Viking
Sun, 29 Jun 2003 20:01:05 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

sealevel
Thu, 26 Jun 2003 23:05:05 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ A little program to create some images about coastlines at various water levels. ]

Thuban
Thu, 26 Jun 2003 10:41:29 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Updates from 0.2.0 to 0.8.0. This release covers major new features such as Legend, Table Management, Raster Images, Projection Management and automatic classifications.

[ 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. ]

QGIS
Mon, 23 Jun 2003 18:18:23 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Updates from 0.0.10 to 0.0.11.

[ 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. ]

MySQL Spatial Extensions
Thu, 12 Jun 2003 22:45:12 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

zRoute
Tue, 10 Jun 2003 22:17:14 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ A GPS-based route finding and directing software for the Sharp Zaurus. This project is still in its planning phase. ]

Therion
Mon, 09 Jun 2003 19:43:22 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

GRASS
Sat, 07 Jun 2003 12:07:37 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Updated from 5.0.1 to 5.0.2.

[ 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) ]

GRASS Handbuch
Sat, 07 Jun 2003 12:00:22 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ A german manual for GRASS written by Markus Neteler in 2000 and updated 2003. ]

JaGo
Tue, 03 Jun 2003 11:24:53 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New homepage (previous was http://katla.giub.uni-bonn.de/jago/). Updated version from 0.6.5 to 0.7.7.

[ 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. ]

JTS
Tue, 03 Jun 2003 10:08:47 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Updated from 1.1 to 1.3.

[ A Java API of spatial predicates and functions. The goal is to provide a complete, consistent, robust implementation of fundamental 2D spatial algorithms. It should conform to the Simple Features Specification for SQL. ]

Frida
Fri, 30 May 2003 20:26:41 +0200 (bernhard)

Changelog: Description improved.

[ This project developed a Free Dataset offering detailed geographic vector information for Osnabrück, Germany. ]

GISWiki
Fri, 30 May 2003 13:59:33 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ GISWiki is a german WikiWikiWeb which focused on GIS. There is no specific focus on Free GIS Software. ]

Frida
Tue, 27 May 2003 21:16:31 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ This project developed a Free Dataset offering detailed geographic vector information for Osnabrück, Germany. ]

QGIS
Wed, 21 May 2003 17:37:01 +0200 (bernhard)

Changelog: version update: 0.0.9 -> 0.0.10. Announced changes: Fixes to project save/open support Enhancements to plugin tests Fixes to build system

[ 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. ]

Xrmap
Mon, 19 May 2003 16:30:05 +0200 (bernhard)

Changelog: version update 2.28 -> 2.29.

[ 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. ]

LX-Viewer
Tue, 13 May 2003 19:50:24 +0200 (bernhard)

Changelog: Version update v0.98a -> 0.98b.

[ 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. ]

iGMT
Tue, 13 May 2003 09:42:13 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Changed homepage again (was: igmtrocks.org). Updated version from 1.2-20020206 to 1.2-20021106.

[ 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. ]

AiToi
Mon, 12 May 2003 10:34:03 +0200 (bernhard)

Changelog: The orginal homepage http://mezcal.dyndns.org/~arturo/AiToi/index_en.html seems to have vanished. Pointing to a temporary URL for the last source tarball.

[ 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. ]

Xrmap
Mon, 12 May 2003 10:08:02 +0200 (bernhard)

Changelog: version update v2.27 -> 2.28. Download from ftp://ftp.ac-grenoble.fr/ge/geosciences/xrmap/ if they are not linked from the main page.

[ 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. ]

pySDE
Sat, 10 May 2003 18:31:48 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

RoadMap
Tue, 06 May 2003 16:25:01 +0200 (bernhard)

Changelog: Version update v1.0rc2 -> 1.0rc3.

[ 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. ]

NavSys
Tue, 06 May 2003 12:11:16 +0200 (bernhard)

Changelog: Updated version 0.0.7 > 0.0.9.

[ The NavSys application is a combined OGG player / GPS application to be used as a navigation system and audio integrated system in a vehicle. ]

gpsd
Tue, 06 May 2003 12:09:25 +0200 (bernhard)

Changelog: Updated version from 1.06 to 1.07 which was published sep 2002.

[ 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. ]

KFlog
Sat, 03 May 2003 19:28:01 +0200 (bernhard)

Changelog: v2.0.7 > 2.1.0 From the release information: several enhancements, for example more flight-recorders like Filser and Garmin-GPS are supported. It is possible to optimize flights according to the OLC-rules and upload the flight to the OLC-server. KFLog can download maps from our map-server and install them automaticly.

[ 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. ]

PostGIS
Fri, 02 May 2003 16:10:39 +0200 (bernhard)

Changelog: v0.7.4 -> 0.7.5 From the changelog: - Bug Fixes - shp2pgsql - Z coordinate handling - M coordinate handling - Ring handling fixed in some cases - Support for large numbers in attribute tables - Some obscure operators fixed - Some cygwin build improvements

[ 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

Xrmap
Mon, 28 Apr 2003 19:19:53 +0200 (bernhard)

Changelog: v2.26 -> 2.27: From changelog: New degree-minute-second mode and theming.

[ 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. ]

GMT
Fri, 25 Apr 2003 23:05:48 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Updates from 3.4.2 to 3.4.3.

[ 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. ]

DIME
Wed, 23 Apr 2003 11:47:13 +0200 (bernhard)

Changelog: Taken out of BaseGIS category.

[ 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. ]

NRDB View
Sat, 19 Apr 2003 19:18:33 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ NRDB View is a tool for displaying and editing of spatial data stored in shapefiles. ]

RoadMap
Sat, 19 Apr 2003 18:58:56 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

shapelib
Tue, 08 Apr 2003 23:59:48 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Updated from 1.2.9 to 1.2.10.

[ Shapelib is a simple C API for reading and writing ESRI ArcView Shapefiles. Simple sample tools are included. Python and Perl bindings are available. ]

GPLIGC
Tue, 08 Apr 2003 23:03:32 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Added categories GPS and Interactive Viewing. Added Windows as Operating System. Added Language Perl (aktually it is Perl/Tk that is used). Updated Version from 0.21 to 1.1.

[ 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. ]

PROJ
Mon, 31 Mar 2003 17:42:33 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Update from 4.4.6 to 4.4.7.

[ 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. ]

Xrmap
Mon, 31 Mar 2003 14:48:21 +0200 (bernhard)

Changelog: v2.25 -> v2.26 from the ChangeLog: Smart placement of labels Drawing of grid coordinates.

[ 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. ]

MapServer
Fri, 28 Mar 2003 17:49:53 +0100 (silke)

Changelog: v3.6.4 -> v 3.6.5: a few bug fixes

[ 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. ]

PROJ
Fri, 28 Mar 2003 16:46:08 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updates from 4.4.5 to 4.4.6.

[ 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. ]

phpGIS
Fri, 28 Mar 2003 16:27:39 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ phpGIS is a php framework around the UMN MapServer. ]

PostGIS
Thu, 20 Mar 2003 21:22:47 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: v0.7.3 -> v0.7.4: From the Changelog: - Bug Fixes - Several shp2pgsql enhancements and bugs. - Cleaner compile, fewer warnings. - Better undef support. - Fixed stateplane/feet proj definitions. - New Things - Support for PostgreSQL 7.3 - Optional spatial index selectivity system

[ 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

TerraLib
Wed, 19 Mar 2003 23:04:04 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Update from version 1.0 to 1.1. New homepage. Previous was http://terralib.dpi.inpe.br/

[ 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. ]

gpsmanshp
Wed, 19 Mar 2003 16:42:20 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

Thuban
Mon, 17 Mar 2003 14:08:28 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Update from 0.1.3 to 0.2.0. Most striking new feature is classifications.

[ 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. ]

rwgps
Sat, 08 Mar 2003 17:55:24 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Unfortunately, the official homepage went offline (was: http://www.qsl.net/5b4az/). The software archives are available from the given freegis ftp site.

[ 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. ]

wxapt
Sat, 08 Mar 2003 17:47:52 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Unfortunately, the official homepage went offline (was: http://www.qsl.net/5b4az/). The software archives are available from the given freegis ftp site.

[ 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. ]

GPSMan
Fri, 07 Mar 2003 20:06:22 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updated from 5.4.2. to 6.0. New homepage (previous was http://www.ncc.up.pt/~mig/gpsman.html).

[ 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. ]

GISAR
Fri, 07 Mar 2003 16:21:05 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: GISAR is no more Free Software. Older version of course still are.

[ 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. ]

shapetools
Thu, 06 Mar 2003 23:31:03 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Added missing license info.

[ This is a very simple tool to convert from ARCINFO EXPORT (.E00) to ESRI ShapeFile. Actually there are two tools, e002shp and mysql2shp ]

shapetools
Thu, 06 Mar 2003 23:23:26 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ This is a very simple tool to convert from ARCINFO EXPORT (.E00) to ESRI ShapeFile. Actually there are two tools, e002shp and mysql2shp ]

KLIMB
Sat, 01 Mar 2003 17:43:23 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

Gen2shp
Sat, 01 Mar 2003 16:57:13 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New homepage. Previous was: http://warden.www.cistron.nl/geo/

[ 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. ]

GEOTRANS
Fri, 28 Feb 2003 17:13:10 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updates from 2.2.1 to 2.2.3.

[ 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. ]

veloce
Thu, 27 Feb 2003 11:26:15 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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 ]

rez
Mon, 24 Feb 2003 18:12:03 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ Free Software framework and tools for translating terrain data and images to different formats and generating multiresolution versions optimised for online broadband delivery. ]

CycleAtlas
Fri, 14 Feb 2003 12:27:24 +0100 (silke)

Changelog: Added GNU/Linux as Operating System

[ CycleAtlas is a cycling diary based on a road atlas. It permits to create and store planimetry, profile and route time table of rides. ]

Xrmap
Fri, 14 Feb 2003 09:27:37 +0100 (silke)

Changelog: v2.24 -> v2.25 From the release information: - The printing routines can now produce PostScript output in vector format, leading to considerable improvements in printing quality. - The CIA factbook data has been upgraded to the 2002 edition.

[ 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. ]

AVPython
Tue, 11 Feb 2003 22:41:22 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: Version update: 1.2a -> 1.2d

[ AVPython embeds the Python programming language within ArcView GIS. ]

QGIS
Tue, 11 Feb 2003 22:33:46 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: Version update 0.0.6a -> 0.0.9.

[ 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. ]

vhclmaps
Tue, 11 Feb 2003 22:24:56 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: Webpage now at ivtools.org, was vectport.com.

[ 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). ]

OSSIM
Tue, 11 Feb 2003 22:22:58 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: Updated version: 1.1.6 > 1.4.0

[ 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. ]

OSSIM
Tue, 11 Feb 2003 22:22:14 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: (no changelog information)

[ 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. ]

GLOBE
Thu, 06 Feb 2003 23:12:48 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Version 2.0 has been taken from the ftp site. In a personal communication it was said that Version 2.0 will be released later this year and that the version that was available for some time was not the final one. Therefore the version info is downgraded to 1.0.

[ GLOBE is an internationally designed, developed, and independently peer-reviewed global digital elevation model (DEM), at a latitude-longitude grid spacing of 30 arc-seconds. The ongoing project makes use of several data sources to attain high data quality. Important parts were taken from GTOPO30, but there are also additional contributions not part of GTOPO30. GLOBE provides data sets of two levels of quality: G.O.O.D. (Globally Only Open-access Data, unrestricted use) and B.A.D. (Best Available Data, restricted use for some regions). More information on these issues and the data set in general can be obtained from Online Documentation v1.0. ]

mdb2shapefile
Thu, 30 Jan 2003 17:09:11 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Homepage changed. Previous link was: http://www.scopotecnologia.com.br/download.php?file=17

[ mdb2shapefile is a GUI for exporting data of an Access table to a ShapeFile table(DBF). ]

GRASS
Tue, 28 Jan 2003 16:38:27 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updates from 5.0.0 to 5.0.1. See http://grass.itc.it/grass5/source/NEWS.html for Changes.

[ 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) ]

GpsDrive
Tue, 28 Jan 2003 09:46:59 +0100 (silke)

Changelog: update from v1.31 to v1.32

[ 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. ]

NavSys MapEditor
Wed, 15 Jan 2003 11:02:14 +0100 (silke)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ The MapEditor application allows you to load tracks generated by NavSys and use these tracks to create streetmaps of your area. ]

NavSys
Tue, 14 Jan 2003 17:01:45 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: Version number update v0.0.5 -> v0.0.7

[ The NavSys application is a combined OGG player / GPS application to be used as a navigation system and audio integrated system in a vehicle. ]

wxapt
Fri, 10 Jan 2003 17:31:28 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updates from 1.0 to 1.1. Now the command line tool is accompanied by a GTK+-based user interface.

[ 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. ]

MapServer
Thu, 09 Jan 2003 11:10:56 +0100 (silke)

Changelog: 3.6.3 -> 3.6.4 Some bugfixes for WMS and PostGIS support and in the configure script as well as a few enhancements for PostGIS support and PHP Mapscript.

[ 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. ]

LX-Viewer
Wed, 08 Jan 2003 13:47:38 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: More precise comment on the proprietory restrictions brought in by the library.

[ 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. ]

CycleAtlas
Tue, 07 Jan 2003 11:32:45 +0100 (silke)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ CycleAtlas is a cycling diary based on a road atlas. It permits to create and store planimetry, profile and route time table of rides. ]

dxflib
Sun, 05 Jan 2003 01:37:52 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

Debrief
Sun, 05 Jan 2003 01:20:39 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: updated version 2002 -> D2002 28 Oct 2002

[ Military training java application used to analyse ship and submarine tracks in 2 and 3 dimensions. ]

OGR
Sun, 22 Dec 2002 15:01:18 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updates from 1.1.7 to 1.1.8.

[ 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. ]

GDAL
Sun, 22 Dec 2002 14:59:51 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updates from 1.1.7 to 1.1.8.

[ 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. ]

GRASS
Fri, 20 Dec 2002 15:39:52 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updated links to GRASS Books

[ 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) ]

Xrmap
Tue, 10 Dec 2002 10:16:14 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: v2.22 -> 2.24 From the Changelog: Version 2.24, December 09, 2002 - allowing to link a PDF map - Minor bug fixes - Updated Spanish dialogs - Corrected several French/Spanish peak coordinates Version 2.23, July 10, 2002 - Improvements and bug fixes in draw_location()and draw_string() - improvements to the editkit package

[ 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. ]

GpsDrive
Mon, 09 Dec 2002 12:22:54 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: v1.30 -> 1.31 Software Changes include: waypoint improvments bug fixes and manpage updates

[ 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. ]

PostGIS
Wed, 04 Dec 2002 22:49:52 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updated from 0.7 to 0.7.3.

[ 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

QGIS
Mon, 02 Dec 2002 10:07:24 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updates from 0.0.1-alpha to 0.0.6a.

[ 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. ]

MapLab
Fri, 29 Nov 2002 16:40:36 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Added Windows as supported operating system.

[ 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. ]

LX-Viewer
Thu, 28 Nov 2002 00:02:15 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Added hint on the problem of a required and restrictive proprietary library.

[ 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. ]

GRASS
Wed, 27 Nov 2002 23:10:36 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updated homepage (previous was http://grass.itc.it/index2.html).

[ 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) ]

LX-Viewer
Sun, 24 Nov 2002 18:10:11 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Version 0.997c -> Version 0.98a New features in 0.98a: * latest Qt3 and OpenDWG support * Single/multiple drawing auditing and reporting * Accepts multiple command line parameters when starting the program * internal command line with command history * Postscript printer resolution increased from 72dpi to 600dpi * Added text and picture previews to the open file dialog * Viewer now stores a bitmap preview picture with the drawing file * Drawing is sniffed prior to load looking for corrupt data * XPM file output replaced with Portable Network Graphics files (PNG) * Standard install: ./configure, make and make install working 100%. * many other misc improvements.......

[ 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. ]

rwgps
Fri, 22 Nov 2002 18:22:02 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: V0.4beta -> V0.6beta. New homepage (replacing http://leonardo.spidernet.net/Copernicus/22420/).

[ 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. ]

wxapt
Fri, 22 Nov 2002 18:18:16 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: V0.4beta -> V1.0 New homepage (replacing http://leonardo.spidernet.net/Copernicus/22420/).

[ 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. ]

Thuban
Tue, 19 Nov 2002 19:31:36 +0100 (bh)

Changelog: v0.1.2 -> 0.1.3 Requires Python 2.1 now. Extensible with Python modules. Easier to use as the basis for custom applications A small test suite Attribute editing

[ 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. ]

GpsDrive
Mon, 18 Nov 2002 17:31:35 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: slightly improved description

[ 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. ]

GpsDrive
Mon, 18 Nov 2002 16:11:48 +0100 (silke)

Changelog: 1.29 -> 1.30 from the changelog: 11/16/2002 Version 1.30. Added support for "kismet", a WLAN detection tool. Added icons for some waypoint types in SQL mode.

[ 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. ]

MapLab
Mon, 18 Nov 2002 15:31:36 +0100 (silke)

Changelog: Update from version 2.0rc1 to version 2.0rc3

[ 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. ]

OpenMap
Sun, 17 Nov 2002 16:01:23 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Update from 4.5.3 to 4.5.4.

[ 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. ]

GpsDrive
Fri, 15 Nov 2002 12:34:31 +0100 (silke)

Changelog: 1.28 -> 1.29 from changelog: 11/03/2002 Version 1.29 Added SQL support. Currently it supports MySQL. A script to feed the MySQL database with waypointfile is provided (wp2sql). Its not possible to delete waypoints from the SQL database in the GpsDrive GUI. Please read README.SQL.

[ 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. ]

E-FOTO
Wed, 13 Nov 2002 16:53:41 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ This project aims to develop and manage an educational photogrammetric softcopy kit. One main principles is a self-teaching approach. ]

TerraLib
Wed, 13 Nov 2002 16:31:05 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

KGIS
Tue, 12 Nov 2002 19:00:33 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ KGIS is a planned to be a GIS application for KDE. Note: Project language is spanish. ]

Terravision
Fri, 01 Nov 2002 11:20:56 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

SINFO
Wed, 30 Oct 2002 16:37:46 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

GPLIGC
Tue, 29 Oct 2002 14:26:56 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updated version from 0.15 to 0.21. Previous homepage http://karl.min.uni-bremen.de/kruegerh/GPLIGC/GPLIGC.html might disappear soon.

[ 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. ]

LX-Viewer
Tue, 29 Oct 2002 02:06:02 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updated version from 0.95b to 0.97c.

[ 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. ]

WKB4J
Mon, 21 Oct 2002 09:17:37 +0200 (frank)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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

Localis
Wed, 16 Oct 2002 15:32:49 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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). ]

MapServer
Fri, 11 Oct 2002 09:32:05 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: 3.6.1 -> 3.6.2 Added msTokenizeMap() and map->setFontSet() Some small fixes 3.6.2 -> 3.6.3 Fixes for WMS-Support Some other fixes

[ 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. ]

GLOBE
Fri, 04 Oct 2002 11:40:20 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Updated from 1.0 to 2.0. The homepage does not yet directly link to version 2.0, but at least data are availeble - see files http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/topo/DATATILES/data/elev/*20g.gz

[ GLOBE is an internationally designed, developed, and independently peer-reviewed global digital elevation model (DEM), at a latitude-longitude grid spacing of 30 arc-seconds. The ongoing project makes use of several data sources to attain high data quality. Important parts were taken from GTOPO30, but there are also additional contributions not part of GTOPO30. GLOBE provides data sets of two levels of quality: G.O.O.D. (Globally Only Open-access Data, unrestricted use) and B.A.D. (Best Available Data, restricted use for some regions). More information on these issues and the data set in general can be obtained from Online Documentation v1.0. ]

GMT
Fri, 04 Oct 2002 11:31:11 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Updated from 3.4.1 to 3.4.2. From the announcement: Like the 3.4.1 version, the 3.4.2 release is strictly a bug-fixing release. It is a STABLE release; no new features or enhancements have been added, and it is thus recommended that all users of GMT 3.4.1 upgrade to 3.4.2.

[ 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. ]

shptrans
Mon, 30 Sep 2002 17:41:44 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Corrected license information.

[ A fast, high-precision projection utility which reads and writes shapefiles and supports Canadian NTv2 datum transformation. ]

HADES-2000
Fri, 27 Sep 2002 11:09:33 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

GpsDrive
Wed, 25 Sep 2002 12:39:40 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: 1.27 -> 1.28 from Changelog: 09/24/2002 Version 1.28 Fixed changed URL for map download. Fixed crash in position mode. Updated translations. Gpsd now can read from file.

[ 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. ]

Whatsit GIS Formats
Tue, 24 Sep 2002 12:18:04 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ Link and download list for information/specifications of GIS file formats. ]

shptrans
Mon, 23 Sep 2002 16:47:17 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ A fast, high-precision projection utility which reads and writes shapefiles and supports Canadian NTv2 datum transformation. ]

mdb2shapefile
Mon, 23 Sep 2002 15:00:14 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ mdb2shapefile is a GUI for exporting data of an Access table to a ShapeFile table(DBF). ]

mapEditor
Mon, 23 Sep 2002 14:47:54 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ This package is an editor for UMN MapServer mapfiles. ]

NavSys
Mon, 23 Sep 2002 14:37:27 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ The NavSys application is a combined OGG player / GPS application to be used as a navigation system and audio integrated system in a vehicle. ]

dem3d
Mon, 23 Sep 2002 14:31:08 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: (no changelog information)

[ 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. ]

GISAR
Mon, 23 Sep 2002 12:58:13 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

SRTM
Mon, 23 Sep 2002 12:44:54 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ Global digital elevation data information, mainly as raw images. ]

GpsDrive
Thu, 19 Sep 2002 09:25:20 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: 1.26 -> 1.27 From changelog 09/17/2002 Version 1.27 Bugfix for GPS receivers sending GGA instead of RMC sentences. Bugfix for very large track files.

[ 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. ]

JaGo
Fri, 13 Sep 2002 11:53:26 +0200 (bernhard)

Changelog: JaGo has been renamed to deegree. Webpage of deegree is www.deegree.org.

[ 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. ]

GRASS
Mon, 09 Sep 2002 10:45:57 +0200 (bernhard)

Changelog: v5.0.0pre5 -> 5.0.0, from the Newsfile: Modules fixed/updated d.dm: added PNG snapshot functionality d.vect: fixed that small areas on level1 were not plotted m.in.e00: Added the list= parameter and corrected a format that was invalid for large INFO tables NVIZ: fix for z scale range and remove mask ps.map: pattern support for vector maps added r.info: -r flag added to only print the range r.proj: bordwalk() calls now controlled by -n switch r.to.pg: cats/ID support added CELL driver: fixed crash bug deprecated v.in.shape.pg: use v.in.shape + pg.in.dbf instead Source Code: bugfix for src/libes/edit/ (compile error on some platforms) gcc3.x compliance improved Do not round coordinates for X-Y locations

[ 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) ]

GRASS
Mon, 09 Sep 2002 10:40:34 +0200 (frank)

Changelog: Changed version information: 5.0.0 (final)

[ 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) ]

GpsDrive
Fri, 06 Sep 2002 17:13:38 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: v1.25 -> v1.26 From changelog: 08/31/2002 Version 1.26 Mapblast server works again (they changed the URL). Bugfix for -a option. Added -i option to ignore NMEA checksum (for broken GPS receivers). Added "j" key to switch to next waypoint on route mode.

[ 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. ]

US Census 2000 TIGER/Line
Tue, 27 Aug 2002 11:45:29 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Added URL.

[ 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. ]

GTOPO30
Fri, 26 Jul 2002 15:19:25 +0200 (bernhard)

Changelog: Fixed typos.

[ GTOPO30 is a global digital elevation model (DEM) with a horizontal grid spacing of 30 arc seconds (approximately 1 kilometer). GTOPO30 was derived from several raster and vector sources of topographic information. The data are hosted by the USGS. ]

OpenMap
Fri, 26 Jul 2002 09:50:47 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: v4.5 -> v4.5.3 ChangeLog reads: Added the com.bbn.openmap.tools.dnd package that contains a global application mechanism for handling Drag and Drop events. Added Oliver Hinds OMColorChooser preview panel, so you can see what the color looks with the transparency setting before you hit OK. Incorporated Raj Singhs updates to the WMSPlugIn, which bring it into compliance with WMS specification version 1.1.0, including some error handling and JPEG image quality requests. Incorporated Lonnie Goads updates to the EsriPlugIn, which improved GUI interaction, table interaction, and provided tool tips over OMGraphics on the map that reflect the DBF contents for that graphic. Fixed problems in the com.bbn.openmap.dataAccess.shape package. The ShpOutputStream was putting in the wrong record number (started at 0 instead of 1), and fixed a couple of problems with export, including a problem with handling embedded lists, and translating DrawingAttributes from OMGraphics that were converted to EsriPolygons and EsriPolylines. Added ProgressEvent, ProgressListener and ProgressSupport classes to the com.bbn.openmap.event package. These objects provide a way for a component to let someone else know how much of a task is done. This has been integrated into the MakeToc class in the RPF package. Added a "matted" property in the OMGraphic object. If setMatted(true), then the OMGraphic gets drawn with a thin, 1 pixel black line around it. Makes it more distinctive, especially in busy backgrounds. Changed the graphicLoader package, making it much more significant. The GraphicLoader is an interface, representing an object that creates OMGraphics from some source and sending it to a receiver that will rendering it on a map. The AbstractGraphicLoader is an OMComponent that contains all the basic GraphicLoader functionality, along with the basic ability to use the MapHandler to find objects and being a PropertyConsumer, so its ready to be initialized with properties in the openmap.properties file. The MMLGraphicLoader is additionally prepared to receive MouseEvents. The LOSGraphicLoader is the old GraphicLoader that lets things wander on the map, while keeping track of what objects are in LOS of each other. Made modifications to OMGraphics. Made the OMLine handle arrow heads properly. Made arrow heads bigger. Made OMGrid more consistant and fixed bugs in column and row handling. Added an empty sort() method on OMGraphicList which can be extended with customized sorting criteria. Added a sort action constant mask to OMGraphicConstants. Added setSelected() and isSelected() methods to OMGraphic. Added better trapping for SVGFormatter errors in the FileMenu. Added the OMComponent, which is a MapHandlerChild and a PropertyConsumer, reflective of an object being added to the openmap.components property of the openmap.properties file. LayerHandler was changed to extend it. Modified Environment.java to handle internal frames independently of being in applet mode. Modified the build.xml file. The OpenMap package builds things differently, too. First, all compiled classes are placed in the classes/openmap directory, except for the CORBA classes which are placed in the classes/corba_vb directory. Second, all of the openmap classes are placed in the openmap.jar file.omcontrib.jar and omcore.jar are no longer created. All of the CORBA classes are placed in the omcorba_vb.jar if the corba build target (visibroker) is created. Added Jakarta Ant 1.4.1 to the OpenMap package, making OpenMap pretty much self-compiling. All of the infrastructure for the original Makefiles have been removed, and replaced with Makefiles that call ant. Modified the build.xml file to handle the corba classes better. Created the MakeTocException, and the com.bbn.openmap.layer.rpf.MakeToc class now throws that exception instead of calling System.exit(), in case it is embedded into a GUI. Misc bug fixes in several classes, fixing null pointer exceptions, security access exceptions, etc. Modified the EsriShapeExport class so that a GUI is not brought up to save the files if a file path is provided. Fixed a bug in OMPoly that prevented internal Shape objects from being created if soShapes == false.

[ 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. ]

GIS Viewer
Thu, 25 Jul 2002 17:23:22 +0200 (bernhard)

Changelog: Updated the version number v3 -> v4.

[ 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. ]

QGIS
Thu, 25 Jul 2002 09:33:41 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

US Census 2000 TIGER/Line
Tue, 23 Jul 2002 18:31:51 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

GpsDrive
Tue, 23 Jul 2002 15:32:01 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: 1.24 -> 1.25 From changelog 07/17/2002 Version 1.25 Switching maps in position mode works again. Area to download is now marked as yellow colored area. Added script gpspoint2gpsdrive.pl

[ 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. ]

Debrief
Sun, 21 Jul 2002 21:55:24 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Update from version 1.10 to version 2002.

[ Military training java application used to analyse ship and submarine tracks in 2 and 3 dimensions. ]

BBBike
Mon, 15 Jul 2002 11:55:07 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Update from 3.10 to 3.11.

[ 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)). ]

KFlog
Thu, 11 Jul 2002 16:45:38 +0200 (bernhard)

Changelog: v2.0.6 -> 2.0.7 Compatible with KDE 2.2 and KDE 3 Import capabilities for FlightGear an Gardown files Two map projects selectable Saving and printing of planned tasks Support for printing of flights

[ 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. ]

Xrmap
Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:03:33 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: 2.13 -> 2.22 adapted from the changelog: * Version 2.22, July 9, 2002 - Added code to handle airports and astronomical observatories - Integrated list of 8805 airports and 90 astronomical entries - New "Extra data" section in the help menu * Version 2.21, July 4, 2002 (not officially released) - Improvements in the map edition mode - Bug fixes * Version 2.20, June 30, 2002 (not officially released) - Reorganized a little bit the code into distinct sections - Added a new search item and improved search option in such a way that coordinates can be passed as extra parameters - Corrected minor bug in temporary files handling - Xrmap now includes a syntax for drawing user defined features on the maps - Maps can be saved in .rc format, in such a way that the output can be fed back to `xrmap -rcfile *`. - Improvements in the editkit (the editor now has a scrollbar). - "emx" can be used to render the edited map and to browse the man page. - Added a browsable Documentation section from the menu window - Xrmap no longer complains if the CIA_WDB2.jpd vector data are not found.

[ 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. ]

GpsDrive
Wed, 10 Jul 2002 08:35:03 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: 1.22 -> 1.24 From the changelog: 07/02/2002 Version 1.24: Some bugfixes: ACPI, broken GPS-receivers New position pointer. 06/30/2002 Version 1.23: Now Linux PDAs (iPAQ, Gmate Yopy) are fully supported and binaries are provided. Battery display now supports ACPI (old and new version). Added compass, changed bearing pointer. Added more scripts for multiple maps and route fetching. Battery display also works on FreeBSD now.

[ 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. ]

Population Mapper
Tue, 09 Jul 2002 20:39:23 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Updated from 1.0 to 1.1.

[ 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. ]

GeoGratis
Tue, 09 Jul 2002 20:17:46 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ GeoGratis is a web and ftp site that distributes geospatial data of Canada. ]

Ncview
Tue, 09 Jul 2002 19:31:27 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

OSSIM
Tue, 09 Jul 2002 19:12:00 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Updated version from 1.1.5 to 1.1.6. Currently, the CVS contains some newer versions as tags, but no tar-balls or rpms are made available.

[ 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. ]

IVICS
Mon, 01 Jul 2002 10:46:30 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

Grules
Fri, 28 Jun 2002 15:14:37 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

MapServer
Thu, 27 Jun 2002 09:38:06 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Update from 3.6 to 3.6.1. ChangeLog reads: Fixed a performance problem in msImageFilledPolygon() (bug 162) 3.6.0 was up to 50% slower than 3.5 rendering polygons, and now 3.6.1 is up to 10-20% faster than 3.5. Removed obsolete PHP3 stuff in README files and configure scripts. Fixed color problem with crosshair in reference map. Fixed an issue with "LOCATION TINY" being output in legend label objects. Postgis bug 165: fix dont_force() to allow for POINT shapes Make sure inline symbols (symbols defined in the mapfile) are saved when msSaveMap() is called. They used to be lost.

[ 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. ]

GARNIX
Thu, 27 Jun 2002 09:34:28 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Updated from v12 to v15 and added GNU/Linux as supported OS. ChangeLog for v15 reads: Supports all known GARMIN(TM) GPS devices Device and protocol autodetection Better symbol (icon) handling Platform independent, can easily be ported to other POSIX platforms Supports named tracks Some more predefined grids

[ 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. ]

GRASS
Wed, 26 Jun 2002 14:51:04 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Updated from 5.0.0pre3 to 5.0.0pre5.

[ 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) ]

Population Mapper
Wed, 26 Jun 2002 10:59:01 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

tkgeomap
Tue, 25 Jun 2002 01:12:26 +0200 (bernhard)

Changelog: v1.6.5 -> 1.7: New transparency draw option Layer management to specify the drawing order

[ Tkgeomap is a set of Xlib extensions to Tcl/Tk for drawing and interacting with geographic maps. ]

Cavor
Sun, 23 Jun 2002 19:29:59 +0200 (bernhard)

Changelog: Note: The Cavor Vector Viever is available in version 0.1.5 from sourceforge (since April 15, 2001). The project still is in an early state. However after about 10 month of inactivity some new changelog entries appeared again.

[ 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. ]

VTP
Fri, 21 Jun 2002 09:15:43 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Updated Version from Oct.29 2001 to June 13 2002. Some interesting changes are: fixes to the USGS DEM reader to support all three varieties greatly improved support for international Datums support for Rottgers CLOD algorithm. This is an exciting new option which is much faster than any previous implementation. import buildings (structure layers) from SDTS-DLG "Manmade features" files. added support for reading MicroDEM format DEM files. support in VTBuilder for importing from compressed files. Now when you get a SDTS file which is tard and gzipd, you dont have to uncompress it and hunt for the *CATD.DDF file. Just drag and drop the .tar.gz file(s) right into VTBuilder! upgraded to GDAL version 1.1.7 and libpng 1.2.2

[ 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). ]

Free Geospatial Data in Canada
Fri, 21 Jun 2002 09:05:05 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Updated description.

[ This site is dedicated to the issue of public access to government geospatial data across Canada. It is a place to discuss, issues, educate, coordinate and encourage change. Promotes the idea of free distribution of canadian governmental geographic data. Free in this case basically means at no charge though more comments are being made on the importance of "liberty" as well as "no charge". ]

NTXShape
Wed, 19 Jun 2002 08:36:36 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Update from 1.4rc3 to 1.4. This release includes a source kit that compiles on Solaris/Sparc and Linux/x86 as well as Win32/x86.

[ 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. ]

Inside Idaho
Sun, 16 Jun 2002 16:55:23 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ Various datasets for Idaho (USA) ]

MapLab
Sun, 16 Jun 2002 16:43:15 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

MapServer
Wed, 05 Jun 2002 11:52:07 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: v3.5 -> v3.6 From the MapServer Revision History: (read more in http://www2.dmsolutions.ca/mapserver/dl/mapserver-3.6.0-HISTORY.txt) * MapScript: qitem and qstring params added to layer->queryByAttribute(). * Support for tiled OGR datasets. * PHP 4.1.2 and 4.2.0 support for PHP MapScript. * ROSA applet parameters are now supported via mapserv CGI * New HTML legend templates for CGI and MapScript. * New options and features for Reference Map, CLASS, LAYER, Symbol and MapFile * WMS server now supports query results using HTML query templates instead of just plain/text. * Added support functions for thread safety (--with-thread). * Some additions to PostGIS. * Enhancments to WMS Capabilities XML * Some fixes e.g. to the SWIG interface for clean Java build

[ 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. ]

OpenMap
Tue, 04 Jun 2002 20:19:53 +0200 (bernhard)

Changelog: v4.4.2 -> 4.5 more image export options (JPEG, GIF and SVG) utilities to export OMGraphics to Shape files new code for using OpenMap as a .NET Web Service VPF layer improvements new openmap.tools.j3d package Major overhaul of openmap.omGraphics Improved Corba related packages revived openmap.layer.specialist package, a client-server package that transfers OMGraphic-like objects. Multiple Bug fixes and code improvements

[ 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. ]

JaGo
Fri, 31 May 2002 10:25:47 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Update from 0.4 to 0.6.5. Also added Web-Mapping and Interacrive viewing as categories. Change Info: The Viewer now supports reading and writing ESRI Shape Files, writing GML2 as well as reading Oracle 8.1.7 and 9i databases with spatial extension.

[ 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. ]

Xrmap
Thu, 30 May 2002 10:37:12 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: v2.12 -> v2.13 * Some enhancements to zooming. * Added a lightweight editor (editkit). * Added Spanish messages. * Corrected minor bugs.

[ 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. ]

OpenMap
Tue, 28 May 2002 15:25:11 +0200 (bernhard)

Changelog: Improved description.

[ 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. ]

OGDI
Tue, 28 May 2002 14:58:06 +0200 (bernhard)

Changelog: Actually changed version number to 3.1.1 and improved the description to include the file format already supported by the core package.

[ 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. ]

GPLIGC
Fri, 24 May 2002 09:00:25 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

GpsDrive
Wed, 22 May 2002 17:57:04 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: v1.21 -> v1.22 * Added info about sunrise, sunset etc. * New settings menu. * Changed english and german manpage.

[ 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. ]

AVPython
Wed, 22 May 2002 15:13:23 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Updated from 1.1 to 1.2a. New homepage (previous was http://www.geocities.com/brucedodson.rm/avpython.htm).

[ AVPython embeds the Python programming language within ArcView GIS. ]

NTXShape
Tue, 21 May 2002 09:15:00 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

LX-Viewer
Tue, 21 May 2002 08:32:18 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

GNU GaMa
Fri, 17 May 2002 14:11:10 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Rosinante has been renamed to Rocinante.

[ 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. ]

GpsDrive
Thu, 16 May 2002 09:25:16 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: 1.20 -> 1.21 Added night mode (see settings menue). Display latitude and logitude is now switchable between degrees/minuts/seconds and decimal form. Some bugfixes.

[ 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. ]

Free Geospatial Data in Canada
Mon, 13 May 2002 12:47:40 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New homepage (previous was http://members.home.net/freedata/).

[ This site is dedicated to the issue of public access to government geospatial data across Canada. It is a place to discuss, issues, educate, coordinate and encourage change. Promotes the idea of free distribution of canadian governmental geographic data. Free in this case basically means at no charge though more comments are being made on the importance of "liberty" as well as "no charge". ]

Thuban
Wed, 08 May 2002 19:54:03 +0200 (bh)

Changelog: v0.1.1 -> 0.1.2: Bug fixes, performance improvements and minor GUI enhancements

[ 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. ]

gpspoint
Tue, 07 May 2002 17:25:02 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: 1.010708 -> 2.02.0505 The new version features a more modular design, signal handling, Win32 support, and much more.

[ 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. ]

PostGIS
Mon, 06 May 2002 18:56:28 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Update from 0.6.2 to 0.7. ChangeLog reads: New Things support for PostgreSQL 7.2 GiST index API transform() function provides coordinate reprojection using proj4 library spatial_ref_sys.sql has a complete set of proj4 definitions for each EPSG coordinate system refactoring of source code to separate index support functions from other functions max_distance() function distance_spheroid() function collect() aggregate function xmin(),ymin(),zmin(),xmax(),ymax(),zmax() Bug Fixes several patches to loader/dumper transform() more graceful when grid shifts are missing setsrid() made cachable

[ 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

gpsutil
Mon, 06 May 2002 10:57:30 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

mapbuilder
Mon, 06 May 2002 10:21:25 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

GpsDrive
Mon, 06 May 2002 00:42:36 +0200 (bernhard)

Changelog: v1.19->1.20. from the Changelong: * Added display of the satellite position. * Now you can add a description to the waypoints in a seperate file. * Added hungarian translation and french README.

[ 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. ]

VRS
Thu, 02 May 2002 17:38:11 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New URL (previous was http://wwwmath.uni-muenster.de/informatik/u/mam/). Update from 2.2alpha to 3.0beta1. Name changed from MAM/VRS to VRS.

[ 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. ]

DIME
Thu, 02 May 2002 17:15:25 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Homepage changed (was: http://www.coin3d.org/Dime/about.xml).

[ 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. ]

TopoWest
Thu, 02 May 2002 17:06:53 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Removed a link to an about page that died.

[ Topowest provides scanned topographical maps (currently California, USA) with different resolutions. Maps are available as PNG files (georeferenced by worldfile) and GeoTIFF images. ]

OGDI
Thu, 02 May 2002 11:36:36 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: 3.1.alpha3 -> 3.1.1 3.1.1; Release date: 27. March 2002 Upgraded to ZLIB 1.1.4 to avoid buffer overflow security risk in zlib 1.1.3. Various bugs fixed, and improvements to ogdi_info, and ogdi_import utilities. Fixed problems in cln_CalcCtlPoints() with very small regions Added OGDI_VERSION and OGDI_RELEASEDATE macros in ecs_util.h. 3.1.0; Release date: 16 September 2001 First public production release of OGDI from 3i. Includes layer and server capabilities metadata support as well as numerous bug fixes.

[ 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. ]

GpsDrive
Thu, 02 May 2002 11:29:26 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: 1.18 -> 1.19 From Changelog: Added button to delete waypoint. Fixed miles distance on startup in miles mode. New sat level display colors. Added map coverage display in download window.

[ 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. ]

KFlog
Thu, 02 May 2002 11:24:13 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: 2.0.4 -> 2.0.6 From the changelog: KFLog 2.0.6; Release date: 1 May 2002 Because of some bug in task-planning, a new version had to be released. KFLog 2.0.5; Release date: 28 April 2002 The most important changes in the new release are the task-planning and the possibility to acccess flightrecorders directly from within KFLog Some minor enhancements, like fasten up the animation or improved handling of malformated igc-files, have been made.

[ 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. ]

GpsDrive
Thu, 25 Apr 2002 11:51:16 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: v1.17->v1.18: Now getting good maps for USA from expedia server works: In the URL EUR0809 is changed to USA0409 if longitude is west of 30°W. Much more precise calculation of distance (uses WGS84 elipsoid). Added turkish translation. Added display number of satellites.

[ 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. ]

MapIt!
Fri, 19 Apr 2002 15:53:27 +0200 (silke)

Changelog: Update from 1.0.1 to 1.0.2. Chanlog reads: a new configuration option to output indexed PNG images. This is especially useful if your maps have only a relatively low number of colors. A new script to cut a raster image into tiles, similar to what epscut does for EPS-files.

[ MapIt! is a web application that allows to navigate on rastermaps, zoom in and out, and to choose and identifiy objects (points of interest). ]

OpenEV
Fri, 19 Apr 2002 08:29:31 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Updated version from 1.1.0 to 1.4.1.

[ 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. ]

OGR
Fri, 19 Apr 2002 08:24:31 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Update from 1.1.6 to 1.1.7. ChangeLog reads: Added Arc/Info binary coverage format read support. Added ogrtindex for building MapServer compatible OGR tile indexes. Added default implementation of GetFeature(fid) method on OGRLayer. Shape driver now supports reading and creating free standing .dbf files for layers without geometry. Added utility documentation. Fixed major memory/file handle leak in SDTS access. Added ADSK_GEOM_EXTENT support for OLE DB provider. Ensure shapefiles written with correct polygon ring winding direction plus various other shapefile support fixes. GML read/write working reasonable well, including use of .gfs files.

[ 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. ]

GDAL
Fri, 19 Apr 2002 08:21:22 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Update from 1.1.6 to 1.1.7. ChangeLog reads: Add XPM (X11 Pixmap) format. Added rough ENVI raster format read support. Added --version support (and supporting GDALVersionInfo() function). Special hooks for getting raw record data from sar ceos files and Envisat via the metadata api. Upgraded TIFF/GeoTIFF support to CVS version ... includes new extension API and removes need for private libtiff include files entirely. gdal_translate now has scaling option (-scale). Added utility documentation.

[ 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. ]

PDFMap
Mon, 15 Apr 2002 17:31:47 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Update from 1.50 to 1.60. Changes: Support for web based images, even for the map background. Support for transparent images. possibility to force a color to be rendered as transparent for images which dont have transparency information. Support for arbitrary page sizes. Page sizes can be specified either in centimeters (default), inches or points. Some bug fixes. Please note that ReportLab > 1.13 is required.

[ Python library and command line tool to generate maps in PDF format an place objects on them. ]

GpsDrive
Mon, 15 Apr 2002 12:10:43 +0200 (bernhard)

Changelog: v1.16->v1.17: Some bugfixes, free selectable maps directory, settings entry for simulation mode behavior.

[ 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. ]

Visible Earth Project
Thu, 11 Apr 2002 09:53:54 +0200 (frank)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

GpsDrive
Mon, 08 Apr 2002 10:24:00 +0200 (bernhard)

Changelog: v1.15 -> 1.16; Main changes: New command line options (-b,-c) Interface and configuration improvements Better altitute support Changed to gpsd by Remco Treffkorn Differential GPS or Estimate Error display support.

[ 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. ]

Thuban
Fri, 05 Apr 2002 15:45:44 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

Xrmap
Fri, 05 Apr 2002 08:30:30 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Updated from 2.11 to 2.12.

[ 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. ]

GISToolkit
Fri, 05 Apr 2002 08:23:01 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Updated version from 0.1 beta to "Production 2". Also added category "interactive viewing".

[ 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. ]

gps-console
Wed, 03 Apr 2002 09:12:34 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

Geoserver
Wed, 03 Apr 2002 07:43:47 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Update from 0.85 to 0.90.

[ 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. ]

GFC
Mon, 01 Apr 2002 22:37:48 +0200 (bernhard)

Changelog: updated entry (v0.1->0.9.1).

[ 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. ]

GEOTRANS Library
Mon, 01 Apr 2002 22:29:15 +0200 (bernhard)

Changelog: Updated URL.

[ 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. ]

GEO
Mon, 01 Apr 2002 16:24:22 +0200 (bernhard)

Changelog: Changed current version to be v13.0 and mentioned libgeo. The naming scheme is not entirely clear from the webpage.

[ 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. ]

NCAR Graphics
Mon, 01 Apr 2002 16:14:57 +0200 (bernhard)

Changelog: 4.2.2->4.2.3; from the Changelog: A tar file of the NCAR Graphics documentation has been included on the download page. Some files had to be updated so that NCAR Graphics could be built under RedHat 7.1 using the 2.96 version of the GNU compilers.

[ 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. ]

JTS
Mon, 01 Apr 2002 16:08:25 +0200 (bernhard)

Changelog: v0.9->v1.1; from the Changelog: Version 1.0 Release Date: 1 February 2002 · Removed some non-compatibilities with Java 1.1 · Fixed bug in constructing buffer outline around inside of angles · In TestBuilder vertices are now displayed with fixed size in view units · Improved code for WKTWriter.writeFormatted() · Fixed bug in constructor for LinearRing · Improved implementation of sweepline intersection algorithm to avoid use of dynamic set. · Fixed bug in ConvexHull.cleanRing() · Refactored RobustLineIntersector and NonRobustLineIntersector Version 1.1 Release Date: 28 March 2002 · added Geometry.isSimple() and Geometry.isValid() methods · improved design of topological data structures · added Geometry.setSRID() method · improved functionality of the Envelope class · added ability to write to an arbitrary java.io.Writer object to WKTWriter · added Validate and Mark Location functionality to TestBuilder

[ A Java API of spatial predicates and functions. The goal is to provide a complete, consistent, robust implementation of fundamental 2D spatial algorithms. It should conform to the Simple Features Specification for SQL. ]

GEOTRANS
Mon, 01 Apr 2002 15:21:05 +0200 (bernhard)

Changelog: NIMA seems to have released a new version last year. Link changed to NIMA page. Indicated that remotesensing.org might have a copy or older versions archives. v2.0.1->2.2.1, as gathered from the Changelog: Many bugfixes Support for GNU g++. Shared library support. Seven new projections. (Azimuthal Equidistant, (Oblique) Gnomonic, Oblique Mercator, Ney´s (Modified Lambert Conformal Conic), Stereographic, British National Grid, and New Zealand Map Grid) Addition of a Java GUI. Inverse flattening added as primiary ellipsoid parameter.

[ 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. ]

iGMT
Mon, 01 Apr 2002 14:29:45 +0200 (bernhard)

Changelog: Linking igmtrocks.org instead of www.seismology.harvard.edu/~becker/igmt. Changing version number to development code release 1.2-20020206. This is not the offical v1.2 release yet, but there was a time when various development releases were just labeled 1.2.

[ 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. ]

GpsDrive
Mon, 01 Apr 2002 12:40:14 +0200 (bernhard)

Changelog: 1.14->1.15: * Waypoint file selection * Added battery meter (for notebooks) * Added new unit "nautical miles". * Updated man pages (en and de). * Changes to default setups and command line switches

[ 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. ]

GpsDrive
Mon, 25 Mar 2002 16:25:29 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: 1.12->1.14: 1.14: Some cosmetic changes. 1.13: * Remembering last position if "setdefaultpos" is set to 0 in "~/.gpsdrive/gpsdriverc". * At program start a dialog asks for start gpsd if no GPS was found. * Added better background for waypoint text, this text has now a bold font.

[ 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. ]

Xrmap
Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:44:04 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: updated version number: 2.0->2.11 updated Description: Xrmap 2.x does not share much code with rmap anymore, offers 8 projections additional information about countries and large POI lists. There have been many changes. Xrmap can use the CIA world factbook data, start a midiplayer for anthems, search the data and more...

[ 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. ]

GpsDrive
Mon, 18 Mar 2002 10:16:00 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: v1.10->v1.12: 1.12: * Adding ability to define routes using existing waypoints. The next waypoint on the route is automagically selected if the waypoint is reached. 1.11: * GpsDrive now stores settings. * Parameter (-w) switchable shadows for all drawn elements on the map. * New parameter (-1) for touchpads.

[ 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. ]

seagis
Tue, 12 Mar 2002 15:49:21 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Update from alpha-0.4 to alpha-0.5. Changelog reads: Bug fixes A more capable CoordinateTransformationFactory Implementation of GeocentricCoordinateSystem and related transformations Implementation of the "Resample" operation in GridCoverageProcessor More Well Know Text (WKT) formatting.

[ 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. ]

GpsDrive
Mon, 11 Mar 2002 21:01:56 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: 1.9->1.10: * Adding ability to set position on the minimap with left-mouse-click. * Viewable satellites with 0db Signal are shown als short red bar. * Added shortcut "x" to set a waypoint at the current position. * Bugfix for loading tracks. * Default download server ist now Expedia. * Italian translation is now true italian...

[ 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. ]

mumil
Mon, 11 Mar 2002 18:18:43 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ Map contouring routine which delivers polygon strikes for each intersection height. ]

seagis
Sat, 02 Mar 2002 16:58:01 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: alpha-0.1 -> alpha-0.4

[ 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. ]

GMT
Fri, 01 Mar 2002 18:02:42 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Update from 3.4 to 3.4.1. The 3.4.1 release is strictly a bug-fixing release. It is a STABLE release; no new features or enhancements have been added.

[ 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. ]

GeoTools
Fri, 01 Mar 2002 14:34:13 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: 0.8 rc2 -> 0.8.0 First stable release since 0.7.9dev1 (Jan 2001). Changes since 0.8 rc2: * Fixed resize bug in Viewer - Joachim Bröckl (saltag) * Re-fixed remove theme (this had been patched in the CVS release) * Modified behaviour of Bin to resolve case where lowerInclusion = upperExclusion - Joachim Bröckl (saltag)

[ 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. ]

KFlog
Fri, 01 Mar 2002 12:53:41 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: 2.0.3->2.0.4 This release adds the animation of flights and a 3D view of the flight. Implementation of the task planning and the waypoint handling has begun.

[ 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. ]

GpsDrive
Fri, 01 Mar 2002 12:38:16 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: 1.7->1.9 From the Changelog: 02/24/2002 Version 1.9: Adding ability to set a waypoint at CURRENT position by CTRL-right mouse click. The "select waypoint" window is now auto-updated and shows every 5 seconds the true distance to the waypoints. Added -ffast-math because of better division by zero handling in code. Also added shortcuts, see help window for usage. 02/18/2002 Version 1.8: Adding ability to set a waypoint by CONTROL-Left-Mouse click. Reread waypoint file way.txt if it is changed from another program.

[ 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. ]

OGR
Fri, 01 Mar 2002 12:29:45 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: 1.1.5 -> 1.1.6 From the development changelog regarding ogr: * ogr/ogrsf_frmts/s57/*: implement fast feature counting and fetching of extents boxes. * ogr/ogr_srs_xml.cpp: added preliminary xml srs support. * ogr/*: Added "morph" functions for ESRI WKT format to map back and forth between ESRI representation and the standard one (ours). * ogr/sfcom_oledb/SFDS.h: added properties required by MapGuide. * ogr/ogrsf_frmts/shape: fixed 3d support when writing shapefiles. * ogr/ogrsf_frmts/dgn: added partial 3D support. * ogr/ogr2ogr.cpp: added untested -where and -spat support. * ogr/ogr_geometry.h: added transform() and transformTo() methods. * ogr/ogr_spatialref.h: added SetFromUserInput() method. * ogr/ogr2ogr.cpp: added -t_srs and -a_srs options.

[ 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. ]

dem3d
Thu, 28 Feb 2002 19:00:09 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

GDAL
Thu, 21 Feb 2002 20:17:09 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: 1.1.5 ->1.1.6 USGS DEM and BSB formats added. A variety of bugfixes and minor feature improvements made.

[ 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. ]

BBBike
Thu, 21 Feb 2002 17:50:43 +0100 (frank)

Changelog: updated entry to current version number 3.06 -> 3.10

[ 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)). ]

e00pg
Mon, 18 Feb 2002 10:51:55 +0100 (frank)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

GPSMan
Thu, 14 Feb 2002 18:42:27 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Update from 5.4.1 to 5.4.2: ChangeLog reads: - there is now a FreeBSD package thanks to David Wolfskill (david@catwhisker.org). - Dutch language support contributed by Rob Buitenhuis (rob@buitenhs.demon.nl). - changing the datum of all the waypoints in a group can now be made from the group window. - conversion parameters for the ``Rijks Driehoeksmeting' datum corrected (thanks to Rob Buitenhuis). - the stereographic projection and the Taiwan grid (description made available by Dan Jacobson, jidanni@yahoo.com.tw) are now supported; descriptions of the Iceland and the Netherlands national coordinates grid inserted in the manual. - a few more definitions of ellipsoids and datums. - coordinates for grids not having zones are now shown with only the easting and northing fields. - A3 paper can now be used, as well as a new date format for, e.g., ``2002-02-01 16:50:40' (suggested by Anto Veldre, anto.veldre@tllapt.ee). - for adventurous users knowing Tcl/Tk: if there is a file named patch.tcl in the GPSMan user directory, it will be loaded just after all the GPSMan source files have been loaded (suggested by Slaven Rezic, slaven.rezic@berlin.de). - enhanced Lowrance support and documentation by Brian Baulch (baulchb@hotkey.net.au). - Garmin support: conversion of floating-point numbers in Tcl/Tk depends on the machine architecture and is now checked, the user being warned if there are problems; this will not be the case with little- or big-endian machines with IEEE standard floating-point numbers; i.e., most of the computers currently in use; problem solved with the help of Dragan Milicic (dragan@math.utah.edu). - last but not least, there is now a separate program to convert the routes listed in HTML pages of the MapsOnUS site into GPSMan files; at its core is code contributed by Frank Kujawski (Frank@Kujawski.org); a better scheme for naming waypoints is being devised.

[ 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. ]

PDFMap
Sun, 10 Feb 2002 20:41:23 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Update from 1.00 1.50. Changes: - PDFMap now works as a CGI script too, allowing you to use it as a simple map server. A default HTML form is included, adapt it to your own needs. - Image shapes can now be downloaded from the Net at runtime: just put double-quoted urls in the configuration file to use this feature. - The complete module documentation, generated with HappyDoc, is now included. - Margins can now be set in centimeters (default), inches, or points. - a .bat script is now included for Windows users. It was successfully tested against Win98 + ReportLab Demo 1.11

[ Python library and command line tool to generate maps in PDF format an place objects on them. ]

KFlog
Tue, 05 Feb 2002 19:49:38 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

GeoTools
Fri, 01 Feb 2002 15:28:29 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: The project released 0.8 rc2. No good summary of the changes from previous versions on the webpages.

[ 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. ]

FreeFS
Wed, 30 Jan 2002 19:13:00 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Added information on project merge with Geoserver.

[ 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. ]

Geoserver
Wed, 30 Jan 2002 18:57:28 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

GpsDrive
Thu, 24 Jan 2002 22:17:50 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: from ChangeLog: 01/11/2002 Version 1.7: The mapservers expedia and mapblast have changed their URL. Gpsdrive map download only works with this version!

[ 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. ]

tgrmap
Thu, 17 Jan 2002 11:47:34 +0100 (frank)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

GRASS
Thu, 17 Jan 2002 09:27:23 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Update from 5.0.0 pre 2 to 5.0.0 pre 3: Please see the News for information on changes.

[ 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) ]

PDFMap
Thu, 17 Jan 2002 08:57:46 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ Python library and command line tool to generate maps in PDF format an place objects on them. ]

tkgeomap
Tue, 15 Jan 2002 18:04:46 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Update from 1.6.1 to 1.6.5: Minor bug fixes and modifications that support future improvements.

[ Tkgeomap is a set of Xlib extensions to Tcl/Tk for drawing and interacting with geographic maps. ]

OpenSVGMapServer
Fri, 11 Jan 2002 09:30:22 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

PROJ
Fri, 11 Jan 2002 09:06:22 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Update from 4.4.4 to 4.4.5. Changelog (by Frank Warmerdam) reads: * src/geocent.c: Fixed serious bug in Convert_Geodetic_To_Geocentric() that essentially ruins all datum shifting (except NAD tables). This bug was introduced just in time for the PROJ 4.4.4 release. * src/proj.def: added pj_strerrno and pj_errno as per request from Bernhard Herzog.

[ 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. ]

OSSIM
Fri, 04 Jan 2002 18:49:05 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Update from 1.1.3 to 1.1.5. Changes read: Redesign of connectable object pipeline, Save State updates, getTile updates, progress interfaces, added New Tile Caching schemes, MPI updates, several minor bug fixes

[ 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. ]

wxapt
Fri, 04 Jan 2002 14:44:29 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: Updated to Version 0.4 beta. Incorporates linear histogram normalization of the APT images produced, on by default but suppressible with the -n option, and 180 degree rotation of the APT images with the -o option. A fix for an >off-by-one< bug in a strcpy() statement, which could affect the auto sound-card mixer level setup, is also incorporated.

[ 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. ]

MapServer
Fri, 04 Jan 2002 09:57:13 +0100 (frank)

Changelog: Version number fixed. MapServer added to MacOS X category.

[ 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. ]

GNU GaMa
Thu, 03 Jan 2002 15:06:30 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

MapServer
Thu, 03 Jan 2002 14:36:45 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: After a long time of intermediate versions: MapServer updates from 3.3.011 to 3.5.

[ 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. ]

JTS
Tue, 18 Dec 2001 17:51:00 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ A Java API of spatial predicates and functions. The goal is to provide a complete, consistent, robust implementation of fundamental 2D spatial algorithms. It should conform to the Simple Features Specification for SQL. ]

wxapt
Tue, 18 Dec 2001 12:05:32 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: added to the Remote Sensing Category

[ 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. ]

GpsDrive
Thu, 06 Dec 2001 19:05:55 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: Updated version info from 1.4 to 1.6. There is now a mailing list. A friends mode has been added.

[ 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. ]

Xrmap
Thu, 06 Dec 2001 18:44:14 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: New version 2.0 announced. The changes from 1.6 include - Xrmap now uses a new JPD data format which only takes about 1/4 of the previous REZ format hard disk space (without data loss, of course). Several changes in the core engine have been necessary to achieve this. The result is a very noticeable increase in speed and responsiveness. - Bigendian/smallendian nature of the CPU is no longer an issue. - Improvements for speed - Improvements in menues especially for searching

[ 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. ]

3D-IGC
Mon, 03 Dec 2001 17:20:01 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

GPSMan
Tue, 27 Nov 2001 12:26:03 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Update from 5.4 to 5.4.1.

[ 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. ]

R
Tue, 27 Nov 2001 12:09:12 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ Comprehensive statics package including several support modules for geospatial analysis, among them an interface for GRASS. ]

OpenMap
Mon, 26 Nov 2001 20:20:27 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: v4.4.2 was released, so updated the version information.

[ 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. ]

Survex
Sat, 24 Nov 2001 15:20:47 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Update from 0.99 pre 5 to 0.99 pre 7.

[ 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. ]

FreeGIS Tutorial
Fri, 23 Nov 2001 11:10:48 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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). ]

DIME
Wed, 21 Nov 2001 01:02:11 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: Hopefully the URL is correct now.

[ 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. ]

APR-Parser
Wed, 21 Nov 2001 00:58:10 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ Perl script to extract infos from ArcView apr files into a database to ease indexing and searching. Documents the apr format. ]

DIME
Tue, 20 Nov 2001 14:05:31 +0100 (frank)

Changelog: Link to web site updated.

[ 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. ]

GpsDrive
Thu, 15 Nov 2001 18:36:37 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

PostGIS
Thu, 15 Nov 2001 18:27:41 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: new release 0.6.2. mostly a bug fix release with fixes for the Shape file loader. There is also a SQL file full of spatial reference definitions to load into the SPATIAL_REF_SYS table. First source bits for raster support (in development). improvements to the loader/dumper and some cygwin bug fixes. 0.6.1 brought

[ 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

rwgps
Mon, 12 Nov 2001 16:36:07 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

wxapt
Mon, 12 Nov 2001 16:25:31 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

Xrmap
Mon, 12 Nov 2001 16:06:15 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Updated from 1.3 to 1.6.

[ 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. ]

Vis5D+
Mon, 12 Nov 2001 16:01:08 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: Update from 1.1 to 1.2.1.

[ Vis5d+ is intended as a central repository for enhanced versions and development work on Vis5d. ]

FreeFS
Mon, 12 Nov 2001 15:47:50 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

DIME
Fri, 09 Nov 2001 18:51:57 +0100 (bernhard)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

VTP
Tue, 30 Oct 2001 11:09:20 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New versions. Also added hint on support of GNU/Linux. The download location is http://vterrain.org/Download/ Here are some of the most recent changes: October 29, 2001 VTBuilder: Correctly hides internal edges in World Map Improved support for ArcInfo BIL files to handle NOAA Globe files Fixed handling of Albers Parameters Added menu option to not display the full paths for Layer filenames Enviro: Allows any number of generic terrains in Data/Terrains Fixed display of Geographic coordinates Fixed skydome for very large Geographic terrains Fixed crash with Geographic terrains and Earth view

[ 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). ]

Survex
Mon, 29 Oct 2001 17:35:41 +0100 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

PMS
Fri, 26 Oct 2001 12:06:05 +0200 (bernhard)

Changelog:

[ 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. ]

PMS
Fri, 26 Oct 2001 12:04:21 +0200 (bernhard)

Changelog: Removed discontinued URL, pointed to temporary one.

[ 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. ]

Debrief
Tue, 16 Oct 2001 12:37:05 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New homepage (previous one was http://debrief.sourceforge.net/)

[ Military training java application used to analyse ship and submarine tracks in 2 and 3 dimensions. ]

JaGo
Wed, 10 Oct 2001 17:25:51 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

seagis
Mon, 08 Oct 2001 10:31:23 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

MapIt!
Thu, 04 Oct 2001 19:52:09 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Update from 1.0 to 1.0.1: Changes: supports different markers for different scales. This is especially useful for having different sizes for different zoom levels Higher zoom levels may cover only part of of the area of lower zoom levels which helps to keep the space required for the tile images down if the markers are mostly concentrated in one relatively small area A configuration variable that lets you choose whether a click should zoom or pan. invisible markers are not included in the client-side image map anymore which can substantially reduce the size of the generated HTML.

[ MapIt! is a web application that allows to navigate on rastermaps, zoom in and out, and to choose and identifiy objects (points of interest). ]

DEMTools
Tue, 02 Oct 2001 09:27:22 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

OSSIM
Mon, 01 Oct 2001 16:33:32 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Update from 1.1.1 to 1.1.2: Changlog reads: * Mon Sep 17 2001 Kenneth Melero -Libtiff Memory leak fix, CCF Head fix, MySQL support, Shapefile support, dbossim-stager app, several minor bug fixes

[ 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. ]

PostGIS
Mon, 01 Oct 2001 16:30:14 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Update from 0.5 to 0.6: The latest release increases OpenGIS standards support, upgrades Mapserver support, and increases the number of accessor functions dramatically.

[ 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

GI-Lexikon
Sat, 22 Sep 2001 15:19:17 +0200 (frank)

Changelog: Improved entry to make sure that we are talking about the online version and not the printed book.

[ A German dictionary on geo-computer science with about 4500 terms and acronyms of a book. The online version seem to offer a subset of the definitions. Usage conditions for the online-version are not clarified. ]

PROJ
Mon, 17 Sep 2001 11:19:14 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Updated from 4.4.3 to 4.4.4. The official Changelog (by Frank Warmerdam): * src/geocent.c: I have modified the Convert_Geodetic_To_Geocentric() function to clamp Latitudes just a little out of the range -PI/2 to PI/2 and to no longer do error checks on Longitudes since they will be auto-wrapped by sin() and cos(). See http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17 * nad/epsg: commited new updates with fixed units for us state plane zones in feet, as reported by Marc-Andre. * src/makefile.vc: improved the setting of PROJ_LIB defaults. * src/pj_open_lib.c: added the pj_set_finder() entry point. * nad/epsg: fixed all LCC projections. The parameters were badly mixed up. * src/proj.c: Generate an error message if +proj=latlong is used with this program. As per bugzilla bug 70. * makefile.vc: emess.c directly linked into mainline programs. * pj_errno.c: added pj_get_errno_ref(). * upraded config.sub and config.guess as per debian bug report 97374.

[ 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. ]

Xrmap
Fri, 14 Sep 2001 15:10:01 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

GRASS
Fri, 14 Sep 2001 11:10:21 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New Hompage: the previous one (http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/index2.html) is now a mirror of the new site in Italy. Update from 5.0.0 pre1 to 5.0.0 pre2: See http://grass.itc.it/announces/announce_grass500pre2.html for the annoumcement.

[ 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) ]

OSSIM
Fri, 14 Sep 2001 11:04:45 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Update from 1.0.0 to 1.1.1: This version includes: -Elevation Intersection -autoload DTED/DEM support -Bug fixes for sensor modeling -RecceVue with sensor model support -CIB/CADRG splitter application -IGEN (Image Generator) application -MPI support for IGEN -Full reading/writing GeoTIFF support -several minor bug fixes

[ 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. ]

g3DGMV
Thu, 13 Sep 2001 16:04:52 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: update from 0.54 to 0.60: Added: 1. real time 3D motion and rotation control routines. 2. ability to load a background bitmap. 3. ability to change water level. 4. ability to change map colors. Documnetation: Some code clean up with better discriptions. Start of user manual.

[ 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. ]

shapelib
Fri, 31 Aug 2001 08:44:28 +0200 (frank)

Changelog: New version 1.2.9 announced on Thu, 30 Aug 2001: Good support for reading and writing NULL fields in .dbf files, good support for NULL shapes and addition of the DBFGetFieldIndex() functions (all contributed by Jim Matthews). An upgraded shputils.c has been contributed by Bill Miller. Daniel Morissette contributed DBFGetNativeFieldType(). Better error checking for disk errors in dbfopen.c. Various other bug fixes and safety improvements.

[ Shapelib is a simple C API for reading and writing ESRI ArcView Shapefiles. Simple sample tools are included. Python and Perl bindings are available. ]

Hugo
Thu, 23 Aug 2001 12:34:24 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: The former homepage was http://www.mayko.com/hugo/ but it went offline with no reason and with no hint on the future of the project. The new (intermediate) homepage collects the remains of Hugo.

[ 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. ]

gpsd
Thu, 23 Aug 2001 12:15:56 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

GISToolkit
Thu, 16 Aug 2001 11:40:11 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

magvar
Wed, 15 Aug 2001 15:15:18 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ Computes magnetic variation anywhere on (or above) the earths surface, using either the WMM or IGRF reference models. ]

sdts2dem
Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:43:56 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ This program dumps SDTS DEM modules to a data file which is supposed to reconstruct the original dem source file. ]

Spherekit
Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:24:01 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

Free Geospatial Data in Canada
Fri, 10 Aug 2001 11:08:58 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Moved from static page into database.

[ This site is dedicated to the issue of public access to government geospatial data across Canada. It is a place to discuss, issues, educate, coordinate and encourage change. Promotes the idea of free distribution of canadian governmental geographic data. Free in this case basically means at no charge though more comments are being made on the importance of "liberty" as well as "no charge". ]

FREEMAP
Fri, 10 Aug 2001 11:04:28 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Moved from static page into database.

[ This efford tries to digitize the streets of Oslo, Norway with GPSs to offer it as Free Geographic Information (planned is GPL as license). The map shows the lines logged by volunteers (each one will have his own color) underlayed with a proprietary map. ]

The Cooperative GIS Project
Fri, 10 Aug 2001 11:01:57 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Moved from static page into database.

[ The aim is to establish a user-driven effort to map the world (or at least parts of it). The result will be free, digital thematic maps containing geographic and temporal data on any land features that people decide to map. This may include natural landmarks, cities or even pubs in your local area. ]

DGPSIP
Tue, 07 Aug 2001 16:53:59 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ A methodology to send differential GPS correction data over the internet. ]

GI-Lexikon
Tue, 07 Aug 2001 16:30:43 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ A German dictionary on geo-computer science with about 4500 terms and acronyms of a book. The online version seem to offer a subset of the definitions. Usage conditions for the online-version are not clarified. ]

Terraform
Tue, 07 Aug 2001 16:13:30 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ Terraform is an interactive height field generation and manipulation program, giving you the ability to generate random terrain and transform it. ]

zipdy
Mon, 06 Aug 2001 17:53:33 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

MetApps
Mon, 30 Jul 2001 18:03:16 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ The MetApps Project aims to develop a new suite of platform-independent analysis applications for the atmospheric sciences. ]

MB-System
Mon, 30 Jul 2001 17:35:32 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ MB-System is a package for the processing and display of bathymetry and backscatter imagery data derived from multibeam, interferometry, and sidescan sonars. ]

Coposys
Thu, 26 Jul 2001 12:01:20 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ This project allow easy geographical representation of world wide members of one or more communities (like Debian or FSF) using xplanet. ]

Xplanet
Thu, 26 Jul 2001 11:49:20 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: New entry at FreeGIS.

[ 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. ]

wayp2shp
Wed, 25 Jul 2001 15:57:50 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: updates from 1.0 to 1.2

[ A simple C-Program which can read a Waypoint+ file. The data in this file will be converted to shapefile format. ]

Grid
Wed, 25 Jul 2001 15:16:00 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: update from 0.0.7 to 0.0.9

[ Grid is a perl extension for raster-based GIS work. The tool is developed to support hydrologic and water resources GIS work. ]

MITAB
Wed, 25 Jul 2001 15:08:42 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: update from 1.0.4 to 1.1.2, see History

[ 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. ]

libgeotiff
Wed, 25 Jul 2001 14:57:01 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: update from 1.1.2 to 1.1.4, see the ChangeLog

[ Libgeotiff is a library normally hosted on top of libtiff for reading, and writing GeoTIFF information tags. The library offers a standard C API. ]

SDTS++
Wed, 25 Jul 2001 14:38:49 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: updates from 1.04 to 1.3.1a.

[ 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. ]

OpenMap
Wed, 25 Jul 2001 14:24:37 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: update from 4.2 to 4.2.1 (a bugfix release)

[ 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. ]

NCAR Graphics
Wed, 25 Jul 2001 14:17:04 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Update from 4.2.1 to 4.2.2, new: Some configuration files were changed so that the source would build better under Linux systems with different compilers.

[ 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. ]

JEEPS
Wed, 25 Jul 2001 14:11:49 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: updated from 0.1.1 to 0.1.3, see ChangeLog

[ 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. ]

OGR
Wed, 25 Jul 2001 14:08:20 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: updated from 1.1.4 to 1.1.5, see the Changelog

[ 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. ]

GDAL
Wed, 25 Jul 2001 13:50:35 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: update from 1.1.4 to 1.1.5, see Changelog

[ 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. ]

SVG Toolkit
Wed, 25 Jul 2001 12:15:30 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: The name has changed from SVG Viewer to SVG Toolkit (where the viewer is a sub-package). The license has changed as well: from BSD (old style) to Apache-like (that means it continous to be non-GPL-compatible). Finally there seems to be a new revisioning scheme: The version updated from 0.8 to 20001211.

[ 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. ]

vhclmaps
Wed, 25 Jul 2001 11:33:19 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: update to 0.7.5 (from 0.7.4)

[ 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). ]

sunclock
Wed, 25 Jul 2001 11:22:52 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: update to 3.46

[ 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. ]

Gstat
Wed, 25 Jul 2001 10:32:47 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: update from 2.3.3 to 2.3.5, from the changelog: Removed a bug, related to reading asciigrid mask maps. This bug was introduced when support for non-square grid cells was built into version 2.3.3. when writing multiple simulations to an ascii file, user-supplied format specification is now applied instead of a default format. Additional upport for writing GRASS site lists

[ Gstat is a program for the modelling, prediction and simulation of geostatistical data in one, two or three dimensions. ]

GPS3D
Wed, 25 Jul 2001 10:04:47 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Update to 1.16, changelog: Added a connection log file to gpsd. Added a replay mode to gpsd (lets you replay gps log file dumped by gps). Added a read-only mode to gpsd (useful if you want to broadcast onthe internet);

[ 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. ]

BBBike
Wed, 25 Jul 2001 09:41:24 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Update from 3.05 to 3.06.

[ 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)). ]

GeoTools
Tue, 24 Jul 2001 18:44:51 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Updated the hompage URL.

[ 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. ]

PostGIS
Mon, 23 Jul 2001 09:38:04 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: update to 0.5 The 0.5 release of PostGIS includes support for the MapServer internet web mapping server from the University of Minnesota (http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu). Many new functions were added and several improvements introduced.

[ 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

gpspoint
Fri, 20 Jul 2001 14:58:56 +0200 (jan)

Changelog: Update to 1.010708: The program will run under MacOS X and other little endian systems now. Alpha based hardware is also supported now. There are more minor fixes - have a look at the changelog file for details.

[ 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. ]