Open Source Geospatial Software on the Internet

Organizations

• GeoNetwork opensource Community website "is a standards based, Free and Open Source catalog application to manage spatially referenced resources through the web."
  
  
• Open Source Geospatial Consortium Inc. (OGC) "is a non-profit, international, voluntary consensus standards organization that is leading the development of standards for geospatial and location based services."
  
  
• Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) "has been created to support and build the highest-quality open source geospatial software."
  
  
• OSBOOTCAMP Open Source Boot Camp (OSBOOTCAMP) is an industry driven mini-conference aimed at outreach and awareness of open source software.
  
  

Software

• Chameleon is an Open Source Solution for "producing a highly customizable and adaptable environment for deploying and managing Web mapping applications."
  
  
• Geoserver " is an Open Source server that connects user information to the Geospatial Web."
  
  
• Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) "is a translator library for raster geospatial data formats."
  
  
• Geo Tools - Java GIS Toolkit " is an open source (LGPL) Java code library which provides standards compliant methods for the manipulation of geospatial data."
  
  
• GRASS GIS "is an open source, free software with raster, vector, image processing, and graphics production functionality."
  
  
• JUMP Unified Mapping Platform "is a GUI-based application for viewing and processing spatial data."
  
  
• Mapbuilder "is a powerful, standards compliant geographic mapping client which runs in a web browser."
  
  
• MAPSERVER "is an Open Source development environment for rendering spatial data (maps, images, and vector data) for the web." MapLab "is a suite of Web-based, open source tools that simplifies the process of deploying MapServer Web mapping applications."
  
  
• PostgreSQL "is a powerful, open source relational database system." PostGIS "adds support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL object-relational database."
  
  
• Quantum GIS (QGIS) " is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS) that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows."
  
  
• Shapefile C Library V1.2 "provides the ability to write simple C programs for reading, writing and updating (to a limited extent) ESRI Shapefiles, and the associated attribute file (.dbf)."
  
  
• User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) "is both a GeoSpatial application and a platform through which developers can create new, derived applications."
  
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