Open Source GIS Software

GeoTools is an open source (LGPL) Java code library which provides standards compliant methods for the manipulation of geospatial data. GeoTools is an Open Source Geospatial Foundation project. The GeoTools library data structures are based on Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) specifications.

NASA World Wind is a graphically rich 3D virtual globe for use on desktop computers running Windows. It combines NASA imagery generated from satellites that have produced Blue Marble, Landsat 7, SRTM, MODIS and more.

An offline map viewer for the Desktop based on OsmAnd.

Earth3D is a program to display the earth as a 3D globe (including heightfields) in real-time. One can zoom until cities become visible. It uses huge datasets that are loaded on demand over the internet. It is possible to embed dynamic data into the view

Ycad is a library of CAD functions in Java. Currently only DXF is supported for reading, viewing and writing. The DXF drawing may be rendered to a Graphics object for printing or imaging.

NaviPOWM is planned to be a car navigation system capable of running on a variety of operating systems. Only OSM based map data is supported. Realtime routing engine is planned in a later version. Geocaching and city guide functionality are also planned.

Shape.Net is a .Net forms custom control for the reading and display of ESRI Shapefiles.

GeOxygene aims at providing an open framework which implements OGC/ISO specifications for the development and deployment of geographic (GIS) applications. It is a open source contribution of the COGIT lab. at the IGN (the French National Mapping Agency).

WW2D allows you to explore Earth using satellite imagery, topographic maps and image from other data sources also providing large placenames and boundaries database and allowing you to install community-made add-ons for even more info about our planet.

CAVOR is an engine for building apps that involve both graphic and text/numeric data. Primarily GIS is the initial focus, but consider also CAD, CASE, project management (eg PERT charts), and others. Built-in scripting, C API, also supports Tcl and Java.

A Map Server, Viewer & Editor partially implementing the W3 standards for GML & SVG with some extensions to aid in designing and maintaining the PSTN cable networks (and other networks) in city scale.

Ertha is an open source GIS whose main focus is to guarantee easy extensibility and straightforward integration of custom modules. It provides basic geographic rendering and topologic analysis and exposes the main data structures loaded from shapefiles.

FlightTrack is a 2D/3D GPS track viewing software for light aviation pilots using MacOS X.

This project contains Visual Studio .NET 2.0 Classes that implement the Google Earth API version 2.1. These classes do not use the Google Earth COM libraries, but rather generate KML based on the documented API at http://earth.google.com/kml

This is the project to create a GPS car navigator. This is something more than a typical "moving map" that you can do with Ozi, fmaps, Gnomad and others. The project aim is made route calculation, but not in a static way, as is doing by some web sites

Important information!!! The Mapbender project moved under the roof of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation at http://www.osgeo.org/. All downloads and information are linked from the project site at http://www.mapbender.org/

Put a Map in your App! MyMaps makes it easy for Java developers to add maps to Swing applications. With access to WMS, Shapefile, Tiger and other free formats, you can add maps while avoiding the restrictive Terms of Use of those online mapping sites.

NPGPX is a Qt-based Netscape plugin that displays GPX files (GPS eXchange) with waypoints, routes, and tracks embedded in a webpage, with optional background maps.

This program views calibrated bitmap maps (moving maps) on PocketPC/WinCE platform. Additionaly it supports using GPS device to retrieve user position and show it (with other marks) in map - making it very handy for geocaching.

A navigation system that displays street maps and tracks a vehicle using GPS. Specific locations can be selected by street address. Routes and tracks can be created, edited, and saved in GPX format. Runs on most POSIX systems, the iPAQ, and the Zaurus.

A webtool for publishing mapinfo MIF files with attributes to the web, based on html, php, vml, jvascript and mysql database.

Visor de Imagenes Satelitales en programado con C++, glade y GTKmm

monoGIS will be a complete GIS suite for the Mono platform. The current milestone release includes an internet mapserver, OGC WMS implementation and some tools like spatial format conversion. For other projects using monoGIS see mdwglib and Appomattox.

Viewpix allows the user to load all eleven bands of a Landsat 8 Level 1 data set into memory concurrently. You can scroll and view each band at full resolution. Change bands instantly with a single key press. Band 8 is 15 meters resolution, all other bands are 30m resolution. A 30m resolution gray scale scene is generated by Viewpix and is presented as band 12. Each Landsat 8 scene is roughly 190 X 180 kilometers. Viewpix was originally written as a simple platform to test GPU software on low end computer systems. This is the "lite" version of Viewpix as it has no cuda filters installed. Viewpix is written in C. It is tested on Ubuntu and Centos. It should work with most current Linux distributions. Viewpix runs efficiently on computers with modest CPU's such as low power mini-ITX boards. It is known to work nicely on Intel NUC, AMD A6 SOC , and NVIDIA TX2. A multiple core cpu, 8 GB ram, and a large capacity hard drive are suggested.

This is software for display geographical maps, written on C++. It's small and simple library, which allow to use it on PDA (like Palm and Windows Mobile) and desktop.