GIS = Geographical Information System

For users

Your Ubuntu Dapper is ready for GIS daily work.

You can find and easily install on your machine (through Synaptic or apt-get install program-name ) the following GIS applications:

• GRASS (grass) is a Geographic Resource Analysis Support System, it has dozens of functions.

For developers

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

• [http://grass.itc.it/ GRASS GIS 6.0]

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

• drawmap

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

• [http://www.gdal.org/ GDAL]

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

• gmt
• gnuplot

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

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

Currently in Debian

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

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

Packaged but currently only in Debian-GIS repository

• [http://www.vividsolutions.com/jts/jtshome.htm 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://postgis.refractions.net/ postgis] - GIS extension for PostgreSQL

Packages been worked on in the Debian-GIS project

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

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

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

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

Packaged but not in official Debian

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

• [http://www.arq.net/%7Ekasten/demtools/ Demtools] - 3d landscapes to VRML

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

Currently not packaged for Debian/Ubuntu

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

• [http://www.zalf.de/home_samt-lsa/parser/parser.html APR Parser] - Arcview 3.x project file parser

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• [http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/gdas/gx_announce.Html geodas] - NOAA app (license? source?)

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

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

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

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

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

• [http://grads.iges.org/grads/ grads] - matlab-style scientific analysis tool for geographical data

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• [http://www.ossim.org/tiki-index.php OSSIM] - System for remote sensing, image processing , geographical information systems and photogrammetry

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

• [http://www.primagis.fi/ primagis] - Collaborative web mapping application for Plone. PrimaGIS builds on top of Mapserver, Python Cartographic Library (PCL) and Cartographic Objects for Zope (ZCO).

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

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]

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

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/

Note these are i386 only. Also try using the Dapper repositories first as several of these packages are now available there.

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 6.0.4 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.

PostGIS tutorials

• http://postgis.refractions.net/support/wiki/index.php?PostgisOnUbuntu · John Taber wrote this good howto recently, so it should be quite easy to install from source the very latest version of PostGIS (even CVS!).

• http://www.stambouliote.de/projects/howto_postgis.html

• http://fsiu.uwc.ac.za/gis/index.php?module=wiki&action=wikilink&pagename=PostGisInstallUbuntu

Quantum GIS (QGIS) tutorials and packages

["BuildingQuantumGisFromSource"] · This good and detailed HOWTO deals with compiling QuantumGIS on Ubuntu making the very best use of packages for all dependancies. Works for the SVN version, too!

Trial Ubuntu packages from current SVN version ( work only with dapper!):

• http://qgis.org/uploadfiles/

Packages in the above directory are date marked so just pick the most recent one.

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