Desktop GIS

General GIS viewing, editing, and analysis on the desktop:

QGIS – [QuickStart]

GRASS GIS – [QuickStart]

gvSIG Desktop – [QuickStart]

User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) – [QuickStart]

OpenJUMP GIS – [QuickStart]

SAGA – [QuickStart]

Browser Facing GIS

General GIS viewing, editing and analysis in the browser:

OpenLayers – [QuickStart] – Browser Mapping Library

Leaflet – [QuickStart] – Mobile Friendly Interactive Maps

Cesium – [QuickStart] – 3D globes and 2D maps in a browser

Geomajas – [QuickStart] – Browser GIS Client

Mapbender – [QuickStart] – Geoportal Framework

GeoMoose – [QuickStart] – Web GIS Portal

GeoNode – [QuickStart] – Geospatial Content Management System

Web Services

Publishing spatial data to the internet:

GeoServer – [QuickStart] – OGC Web Services

MapServer – [QuickStart] – OGC Web Services

deegree – [QuickStart] – OGC Web Services

ncWMS – [QuickStart] – Web Map Service

EOxServer – [QuickStart] – Web Coverage Service

GeoNetwork – [QuickStart] – Metadata Catalogue

pycsw – [QuickStart] – Metadata Catalogue

MapProxy – [QuickStart] – Proxy WMS & tile services

QGIS Server – [QuickStart] – Web Map Service

istSOS – [QuickStart] – Sensor Observation Service

۵۲°North SOS – [QuickStart] – Sensor Observation Service

۵۲°North WPS – [QuickStart] – Web Processing Service

ZOO-Project – [QuickStart] – Web Processing Service

Data Stores

Storing spatial data:

PostGIS – [QuickStart] – Spatial Database

SpatiaLite – [QuickStart] – Lightweight Database

Rasdaman – [QuickStart] – Multi-Dimensional Raster Database

pgRouting – [QuickStart] – Routing for PostGIS

Navigation and Maps

GpsPrune – [QuickStart] – View, Edit and Convert GPS Tracks

Marble – [QuickStart] – Virtual Globe

OpenStreetMap – [QuickStart] – OpenStreetMap Tools

iD editor – [QuickStart] – OpenStreetMap Web Editor

JOSM – [QuickStart] – OpenStreetMap Desktop Editor

OpenCPN – [QuickStart] – Marine GPS Chartplotter

Spatial Tools

Specific analysis tools:

GMT – [QuickStart] – Cartographic Rendering

OTB – [QuickStart] – Image Processing

R for Spatial Data – [QuickStart] – Statistical Programming

Mapnik – [QuickStart] – Cartographic Rendering

MapSlicer – [QuickStart] – Create Map Tiles

OSSIM – [Quickstart] – Image Processing

Domain Specific GIS

Applications targeted at a specific domain:

zyGrib – [QuickStart] – Weather Forecast Maps

Data

Spatial data sets:

Natural Earth – Global Data Sets

OSGeo North Carolina, USA Educational dataset

OpenStreetMap (OSM) – Sample extract from OpenStreetMap

NetCDF Data Set – Time series temperature and precipitation

Geospatial Libraries

GDAL/OGR – [QuickStart] – Geospatial Data Translation Tools

GeoTools – Java GIS Toolkit

GEOS – C/C++ Spatial Library

Proj.4 – [QuickStart] – Coordinate Reference System Transformations

libLAS – [QuickStart] – LiDAR Data Access

JTS Topology Suite (JTS) – Java Topology Suite