GIS = Geographical Information System

This is the page where suggestions and software lists for a professional "out of the box" Ubuntu based GIS workstation should be collected.

GIS software is used in a wide variety of businesses, ranging from waterworks over dispatch centers to archeologists, the target is, to build a nice platform for these people and to make ubuntu attractive to GIS ISVs

There exists a [http://pkg-grass.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl Debian-GIS project]. Packaging new software or updating existing packages should be coordinated with this project to not duplicate efforts. The Debian-GIS mailing list can be found at [http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-grass-general]

Please add software suggestions here or express your will to participate.

Most of the packages listed below can be found for download as either source or binary from the UbuntuGIS project on AVOIR.

Software List

• a preconfigured and easy to install mapserver [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/] extension for apache2 (already in debian). MapServer is an OpenSource development environment for constructing spatially enabled Internet-web applications. The software builds upon other popular OpenSource or freeware systems including Shapelib, FreeType, Proj.4, GDAL/OGR

• data conversion tools to read shape files from proprietary tools
• gpsd a daemon to parse GPS data from NMEA-compatible GPSes (and make it available to multiple clients)
• gnuplot - portable command-line driven interactive data and function plotting utility
• gpsdrive is a car (bike, ship, plane) navigation system
• gpsman - graphical manager of GPS

currently in Ubuntu/Debian

• grass 6.0 [http://grass.itc.it/]

• qgis is a desktop GIS with support for many formats, including grass and postgis [http://qgis.org]

• drawmap

• opencv - [http://www.intel.com/research/mrl/research/opencv/]

• gdal - [http://www.gdal.org/]

• php{3/4}-gd - [http://www.boutell.com/gd/]

• gmt
• gnuplot

• gpsbabel [http://gpsbabel.sourceforge.net/]

• gpsdrive is a car (bike, ship, plane) navigation system
• gpsman - graphical manager of GPS
• gpstrans
• grace
• gts
• ircmarkers
• kflog

Currently in Debian

• Batik - SVG toolkit. Possibly more for development - [http://xml.apache.org/batik/]

• mapserver - [http://packages.debian.org/unstable/misc/mapserver-bin]

Packaged but currently only in Debian-GIS repository

• jts - Java Topology Suite is a Java API of 2D spatial predicates and functions - [http://www.jump-project.org/]

• jump - Java Unified Mapping Platform (JUMP) is a GUI-based application for viewing and processing spatial data - [http://www.jump-project.org/]

• postgis - GPL GIS extension for PostgreSQL [http://postgis.refractions.net/]

Packages been worked on in the Debian-GIS project

If you wanna help please write to the Debian-GIS mailing list.

• Deegree - Java framework for OGC Services - [http://deegree.sourceforge.net/]

• iGeoPortal - needs deegree - [http://deegree.sourceforge.net/]

• JGrass - Java based framework for the GRASS Geographic Information System - [http://www.hydrologis.com/html/jgrass/jgrass_en.html]

Packaged but not in official Debian

• Demeter - C++ library that renders 3D terrains using OpenGL - [http://www.terrainengine.com/] - [http://lpnotfr.free.fr/debianpkgs.shtml]

• Demtools - 3d landscapes to VRML - [http://www.arq.net/%7Ekasten/demtools/] - [http://ftp2.debian.cz/debian-local/demtools/] (binary only)

• gpspint - program to get position, down and up-load Waypoints, Routes and Tracks from your GPs to your Computer. - http://gpspoint.dnsalias.net/gpspoint2/download/debian/

Currently not packaged for Debian/Ubuntu

• 3map - Free geospatial virtual reality engine [http://www.ping.com.au/]

• ArcView APR Parser - [http://www.zalf.de/home_samt-lsa/parser/parser.html]

• AVCE00 - [http://avce00.maptools.org/avce00/]

• BBBike - information system for cyclists in Berlin and Brandenburg (Germany) - [http://bbbike.sourceforge.net/] - [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=210245]

• BRL-CAD - [http://sourceforge.net/projects/brlcad/] - [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=289632] - [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=289684]

• Buddyspace - IM with GIS stuff - [http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/buddyspace/]

• Cavor - app. builder engine - [http://www.cavor.org/]

• CGAL - Computational Geometry Algorithms Library - [http://www.cgal.org/] - [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=251885]

• Chameleon - mapping of some kind. looks good. BSD style licence - [http://www.dmsolutions.ca/technology/chameleon.html]

• community mapbuilder - allows communities to build maps - [http://mapbuilder.sourceforge.net/]

• DCMMS - water managerment app - [http://dcmms.sourceforge.net/]

• dlgvu - dlg map viewer - [http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/oddsends/dlgvu/]

• atkis/edbs - data and viewer. German only - [http://www.rinners.de/edbs/]

• efoto - Educational Digital Photogrammetric Workstation - [http://e-foto.sourceforge.net/index-e.html]

• fmaps - mapping app. - [http://sourceforge.net/projects/fmaps/]

• fulcrum - Java network mapping library - [http://fulcrum.traversetechnologies.com/]

• garnix - interface with garmin gps - [http://homepage.ntlworld.com/anton.helm/garnix.html]

• geo - coordinate conversion tool - [http://homepage.ntlworld.com/anton.helm/garnix.html]

• geocoder - not supported search - [http://dan.egnor.name/google.html]

• geodas - NOAA app - [http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/gdas/gx_announce.Html]

• geoserver - java gis server - [http://geoserver.sourceforge.net/html/index.php] - [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=283409]

• geotools - Java GIS toolkit - [http://www.geotools.org/]

• gistoolkit - Java Gis toolkit - [http://gistoolkit.sourceforge.net/]

• gml4j - the Java API for facilitating work with Geography Markup Language (GML) - [http://gml4j.sourceforge.net/]

• gps3d - Opengl visualization - [http://www.mgix.com/gps3d/] [http://lists.debian.org/debian-wnpp/2005/01/msg00097.html]

• gstat - multivariable geostatistical modelling, prediction and simulation [http://www.gstat.org/]

• hidrosig - [http://cancerbero.unalmed.edu.co/~hidrosig/ingles/]

• lignumCAD - furniture 3D cad - [http://lignumcad.sourceforge.net/doc/en/HTML/index.html]

• igmt [http://www.seismology.harvard.edu/%7Ebecker/igmt/]

• ipw image processing workbench [http://www.crseo.ucsb.edu/%7Eipw2/]

• ivics visualization tool to facilitate selection of training samples from satellite images[http://www.nsstc.uah.edu/ivics/]

• jeeps - development platform for GPS software [ftp://ftp.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk/pub/ajb/jeeps/]

• jgridshift - software for NTv2 transformation [http://jgridshift.sourceforge.net/index.html]

• kdem United States Geological Survey (USGS) Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) [http://www.mindspring.com/%7Ejamoyers/kdem/]

• mapbender - WebGIS [http://www.mapbender.org/]

• mapit - another web interface to gis data [http://www.mapit.de/index.en.html] [http://lists.debian.org/debian-wnpp/2002/05/msg00417.html]

• mapryus - line drawing program [http://mapyrus.sourceforge.net/]

• mobilemaps - "local" search engine [http://www.mobilemaps.com/download/download.html]

• nrdb - Natural resources database - [http://www.nrdb.co.uk/]

• ogdi - Open Geographic Datastore Interface - [http://ogdi.sourceforge.net/]

• openEV Python! library and reference app for viewing data - [http://openev.sourceforge.net/]

• OSSIM is a high performance software system for remote sensing, image processing , geographical information systems and photogrammetry. The name OSSIM is a contrived acronym (Open Source Software Image Map) that is pronounced “awesome” – the acronym was established by our first government customer [http://www.ossim.org/tiki-index.php]

• plonemap - mapping for plone - [http://plonemap.makina-corpus.org/]

• primagis - PrimaGIS is a collaborative web mapping application for Plone. PrimaGIS was originally inspired by plonemap and incorporates many of the ideas from it. PrimaGIS builds on top of Mapserver, Python Cartographic Library (PCL) and Cartographic Objects for Zope (ZCO) - [http://www.primagis.fi/]

• saga-gis - System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses - both an extensive GIS API (C++) and a userfriendly GUI especially useful for raster-analyses - [http://www.saga-gis.org/]

• gvSIG is a tool oriented to manage geographic information. It is characterized by a user-friendly interface, with a quick access to the most usual raster and vector formats. In the same view it includes local as well as remote data through a WMS or WFS source. [http://www.gvsig.gva.es]

To support mapserver

• MapServer workbench - [http://msworkbench.sourceforge.net/]

• MapTools (who actually put out mapserver) [http://www.maptools.org/]

• ka-Map - maps.google style - [http://ka-map.maptools.org/]

Spatial MySQL extension

• [http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/spatial-extensions-in-mysql.html]

No Linux version or unknown

• Autorealm - Mapping software, primarily for gamers - [http://autorealm.sourceforge.net/index.php]

• gisar - 2D,3D dynamic model of real objects - [http://gisar.sourceforge.net/ENG/Index.htm]

• GIserver - [http://www.inovagis.org/giserver/index.asp]

• grads - free to distribute, not FLOSS [ttp://grads.iges.org/grads/]

• gslib - unknown licence, looks ancient - [http://www.gslib.com/]

Need commercial app

• Avpython - for Arcgis - [http://gisdeveloper.tripod.com/avpython.html]

• gen2shp - for arcinfo - [http://intevation.de/%7Ejan/gen2shp/]

Websites

• [http://opensourcegis.org/] this seems to be an exhaustive list of apps. But I am not a GIS person

• [http://pkg-grass.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?DebianGis] - Debian GIS group

• [http://software.geocomm.com/translators/] file format translators

• GISKnoppix - [http://www.sourcepole.com/sources/software/gis-knoppix/]

• OReilly Net article [http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2005/06/10/osgeospatial.html]

• UbuntuGIS Project on AVOIR [http://avoir.uwc.ac.za/projects/ubuntugis/]

• [http://www.freegis.org/] is a complete database of free gis/cartography/gps projects

From StevenOttens Tue Apr 19 12:57:07 +0100 2005 From: Steven Ottens Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 12:57:07 +0100 Subject: QGIS and ubuntu Message-ID: <20050419125707+0100@www.ubuntulinux.org>

Several of the qgis devs now work with (k)ubuntu; http://linux-gis.co.uk/ contains CVS-snapshot debs for ubuntu

New repositories

At the repository [http://www.orcaware.com/packages/ubuntu/] many GIS packages can be found, that work on Dapper and Breezy. Just ad the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://www.orcaware.com/packages/ubuntu/ breezy/ deb-src http://www.orcaware.com/packages/ubuntu/ breezy/

The DebianGIS project also builds from time to time some packages of useful CVS applications. GRASS 6.1cvs is one of them, and it's important because it differs slightly from the 6.0.1 version, though being as stable as it.

A minimal plan for a working GIS environment should include:

• GRASS GIS 6.1cvs (powerful analysis)

• QuantumGIS (easy to use, cross-platform, similar to ArcView but better, PostGIS connection and GRASS integration, Just Works (tm) )

• PostgreSQL with PostGIS extension (OpenGIS compliant geodatabase)

• UMN Mapserver (OpenGIS WMS compliant web mapping server, to become Mapserver Cheetah soon)

• PHP Mapscript extension http://www.maptools.org/php_mapscript/

• GDAL/OGR (current version 1.3.1)

• PROJ.4 (current version 4.4.9 already in Ubuntu)

• one or more GPS apps

And don't forget OGC compliance ([http://www.opengis.org Open Geospatial Consortium]) as it is the most important point for FLOSS in the geospatial field.

Other useful reference

http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/drupal/node/96

Here are detailed instructions on how to build a complete GIS working environment on a Debian-based GNU/Linux system. Works well on Ubuntu, too!

Launchpad UbuntuGIS team

Check out also the Launchpad UbuntuGIS team page https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntugis where users can get in touch in a collaborative way, share ideas, make proposals.

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