GIS = Geographical Information System

This is the page where suggstions 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.

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/]

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

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]

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

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