UbuntuGIS

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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

Currently in Debian

Packaged but currently only in Debian-GIS repository

Packages been worked on in the Debian-GIS project

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

Packaged but not in official Debian

Currently not packaged for Debian/Ubuntu

To support mapserver

Spatial MySQL extension

No Linux version or unknown

Need commercial app

Websites

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/ 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 6.0.1 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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PostGIS tutorials


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Building Quantum GIS (QGIS) from source


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