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• Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS)
  Homepage: http://grass.osgeo.org/
  Last update: 2009-09-23 11:23:53
  
  GRASS GIS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) is a Free Software Geographical Information System (GIS) with raster, topological vector, image processing, volume voxel management/visualization, 2D/3D vector engine with vector network analysis and graphics production functionality that operates on various platforms through shell and a graphical user interface.

  Books about GRASS:
  Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach by Markus Neteler and Helena Mitasova (new: 2007)

• Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL)
  Homepage: http://www.gdal.org
  Last update: 2008-12-12 10:41:50
  
  GDAL is a translator library for raster geospatial data formats. As a library, it presents a single abstract data model to the calling application for all supported formats.
• Quantum GIS (QGIS)
  Homepage: http://qgis.org/
  Last update: 2010-03-02 15:55:08
  
  Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Geographic Information System (GIS). QGIS supports vector, raster, and database formats. It supports many common spatial data formats. QGIS supports plugins to do things like display tracks from GPS or served online spatial data as OGC-compliant WMS or WFS.
• GIS-Python Laboratory (gispython)
  Homepage: http://gispython.org/
  Last update: 2007-12-09 12:40:21
  
  Home for several web mapping and GIS projects based on PROJ.4, GEOS, GDAL/OGR, MapServer, and the etree XML interface, like PrimaGIS, PCL and OwsLib. The goal is a new coherent and modular core for geospatial programming with Python.
• InteProxy
  Homepage: http://inteproxy.wald.intevation.org
  Last update: 2008-07-15 22:52:34
  
  InteProxy is a tool that adds secure transmission via SSL a well as user authentication to those OWS-based applications that that do not support these security features.
• Thuban
  Homepage: http://thuban.intevation.org/
  Last update: 2009-09-23 11:11:50
  
  Thuban is an interactive geographic data viewer. Main features are its cross-plattform GUI, extensability and flexibility for deriving individual GIS applications. Thuban is implemented with wxPython which allows its GUI to blend in with desktop on different platforms.
• MapIt!
  Homepage: http://www.mapit.de/index.en.html
  Last update: 2002-04-19 15:53:27
  
  MapIt! is a web application that allows to navigate on rastermaps, zoom in and out, and to choose and identifiy objects (points of interest).
• edbsilon
  Homepage: http://edbsilon.intevation.org/
  Last update: 2007-09-04 19:28:55
  
  edbsilon is a converter for data coming in EDBS or BZSN. After reading the EDBS- resp. BZSN-files the converter exports into various format, such as Oracle, PostGIS, Shapefiles and many others.
• SAGA
  Homepage: http://www.saga-gis.uni-goettingen.de/html/index.php
  Last update: 2007-10-21 12:48:48
  
  You can understand SAGA as a geographic information system (GIS), with a special "Application Programming Interface" (API) for geographic data processing. The SAGA API supports grid data like digital terrain models and satellite images, vector data, and tables. Since the release of SAGA there is a growing collection of SAGA-Modules, in areas of digital terrain analysis, geo-statistics, image processing and process simulation.
• basic-wms2.py
  Homepage: http://www.intl-interfaces.net/cookbook/WMS/
  Last update: 2001-07-20 14:00:00
  
  A OpenGIS WMS compilant web mapping server built around gnu/linux, python, apache and netpbm.
• Python Cartographic Library (PCL)
  Homepage: http://trac.gispython.org/projects/PCL/wiki
  Last update: 2006-11-08 11:59:56
  
  The Python Cartography Library, or PCL, is a package of modules for rendering GIS data from a variety of backends into maps. Its mission is to be the best possible Python interface to open source GIS software such as PROJ.4, GEOS, GDAL, OGR, and MapServer, and to be easy to use with Python web application frameworks as well as with matplotlib.
• Cartographic Objects for Zope (ZCO)
  Homepage: http://zmapserver.sourceforge.net/ZCO/
  Last update: 2007-11-23 21:23:04
  
  ZCO is a Framework for mapping applications and cartographic object management systems.

  Cartographic Objects for Zope, or ZCO, is the first application using the Python Cartographic Library. ZCO compares to ZMapServer as the PCL compares to MapServer's mapscript module; more powerful, more flexible, and better suited to developing production mapping services and cartographic workflows.

• GeoDjango
  Homepage: http://geodjango.org/
  Last update: 2008-11-01 12:27:36
  
  GeoDjango is a geographic web framework, it's an official branch of Django. Django development revolves around "MTV:" Models, Templates, and Views. Models describe your data, and GeoDjango extends Django models with geographic fields that correspond to OGC geometries. GeoDjango requires no knowledge of SQL, as both the creation and querying of spatial databases are fully automated through the use of Django’s object-relational mapper (ORM). Spatial queries enable the developer to explore relationships among their models. Views are regular Python functions that act as the logic of the web application and feed parameters to templates for generation of web output. Using the Python ctypes library, GeoDjango provides built-in "pythonic" APIs to GEOS and GDAL free software geographic libraries. The interfaces include functionality for manipulating, examining, and importing spatial data. For example, the LayerMapping utility uses the OGR capabilities of GDAL for automatic importation and transformation of spatial data formats (e.g., shapefiles) into GeoDjango models.
• PyGarmin
  Homepage: http://pygarmin.org/
  Last update: 2008-06-24 09:17:19
  
  PyGarmin is a set of Python classes which implement the protocol used by Garmin GPS receivers to talk to each other and to other machines. It is based on the official protocol specification.
• PrimaGIS
  Homepage: http://www.primagis.fi/
  Last update: 2006-02-22 11:22:51
  
  PrimaGIS is a collaborative Web mapping application for Plone that is built on top of MapServer, Python Cartographic Library (PCL), and Cartographic Objects for Zope (ZCO). In addition to supporting traditional spatial data sources (e.g. shapefiles, PostGIS databases, raster images, and WMS/WFS services), it allows users to combine data from a content management system (Plone) within the maps.
• GeoCanvas
  Homepage: http://geocanvas.sourceforge.net/
  Last update: 2006-03-20 22:41:26
  
  The Geocanvas project aims to provide a very small and simple set of APIs to assist the developer in creating geographically referenced canvas applications within the GTK/Gnome environment.
• PyWPS
  Homepage: http://pywps.wald.intevation.org
  Last update: 2008-11-07 08:50:42
  
  PyWPS (Python Web Processing Service) is implementation of Web Processing Service (WPS) standard from Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). PyWPS has been written with native support for GRASS GIS, however, GRASS GIS is not required. Access GRASS modules via web interace should be as easy as possible. Processes can be written using GRASS GIS, but usage of other programs, like R package, GDAL or PROJ tools, is possible as well.
• mapnik
  Homepage: http://mapnik.org
  Last update: 2008-05-15 12:59:17
  
  Mapnik is a C++/Python toolkit for developing GIS applications. At the core is a C++ shared library providing algorithms/patterns for spatial data access and visualization.
• gpsd
  Homepage: http://gpsd.berlios.de/
  Last update: 2005-10-27 19:23:28
  
  Gpsd is a userland daemon acting as a liaison between a GPS or Loran-C receiver and clients. The receiver is expected to generate position information in either NMEA-0183 sentences or the binary formats associated with SiRF, Garmin USB, or Rockwell chipsets. Client libraries in C and Python are included.
• mezoGIS
  Homepage: http://www.mezogis.org/
  Last update: 2007-02-05 15:33:19
  
  mezoGIS is a desktop GIS application operating on external PostGIS databases. The goal of mezoGIS is to provide a tool for geo-spatial analysis with PostGIS, through on-the-fly SQL queries as well as through larger, external plugin scripts.
• libLAS
  Homepage: http://liblas.org/
  Last update: 2008-10-26 13:16:11
  
  libLAS is a C/C++ library for reading and writing ASPRS LAS version 1.0 and 1.1 data. LAS-formatted data is heavily used in LiDAR processing operations, and the LAS format is a sequential binary format used to store data from sensors and as intermediate processing storage by some applications.
• TileCache
  Homepage: http://www.tilecache.org/
  Last update: 2008-01-07 10:00:20
  
  TileCache is an implementation of a WMS-C compliant server. TileCache provides a Python-based WMS/TMS server, with pluggable caching mechanisms and rendering backends. With TileCache, you can create your own local disk-based cache of any WMS server, and use the result in any WMS-C supporting client or any TMS supporting client.
• PDFMap
  Homepage: http://www.librelogiciel.com/software/PDFMap/action_Presentation
  Last update: 2004-07-27 22:42:34
  
  Python library and command line tool to generate maps in PDF format an place objects on them.
• Shapely
  Homepage: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Shapely/
  Last update: 2008-11-02 13:29:05
  
  Shapely is a Python package for programming with geospatial geometries. It is based on GEOS. Shapely is ignorant about coordinate and reference systems. Projection responsibility is left to specific applications.
• OpenEV
  Homepage: http://openev.sourceforge.net/
  Last update: 2005-06-24 15:51:06
  
  A library and reference application for viewing and analysing raster and vector geospatial data. Aims to be crossplatform with 2d and 3d view. Written in C and python. Build upon OpenGL, GTK+, GDAL and PROJ.4.
• PyGpsWeb
  Homepage: http://www.ufoot.org/pygpsweb
  Last update: 2005-11-22 00:37:19
  
  PyGpsWeb is an web-based GPS data editor. It allows to view and edit waypoints, routes, and tracks.
• STARS
  Homepage: http://regal.sdsu.edu/index.php/Main/STARS
  Last update: 2007-01-26 12:33:49
  
  STARS (Space Time Analysis of Regional Systems): Combines a suite of geocomputational and dynamic visualization modules for the exploratory analysis of data measured for spatial and temporal units.
• Open 3D GIS
  Homepage: http://www.open3dgis.org
  Last update: 2005-09-20 09:12:35
  
  The main goal is a simple way to display 3D objects from a Geodatabase on the Web. The core idea is to use a Blender 3D game engine and a PostGIS connection to generate a ".blend" file to the Blender WEB plug-in.
• PloneWorldKit
  Homepage: http://sterngasse.at/ploneworldkit
  Last update: 2005-12-07 13:10:31
  
  PloneWorldKit is an web mapping solution for ZOPE/Plone. It is built around the worldKit flash mapping engine and allows easy annotating.
• pySDE
  Homepage: http://sde.hobu.biz
  Last update: 2006-12-27 23:25:14
  
  pysde is a Python wrapper for the ESRI SDE server. It allows you to program with the SDE API using Python rather than with just the straight C library that ESRI provides.
• Hobutools
  Homepage: http://hobu.biz/software/hobutools/index_html
  Last update: 2008-05-25 21:23:28
  
  Hobutools is a binary distribution of useful GIS Python packages combined into a single Windows installer. Attention: The project vanished. If you know about a new homepage or have the old code, please let the FreeGIS team know.
• GeoTypes
  Homepage: http://initd.org/tracker/psycopg/wiki/GeoTypes
  Last update: 2007-10-21 15:50:37
  
  GeoTypes is a python library that implements both the OpenGIS/Postgis and standard Postgresql geometry types, it integrates with the psycopg python/Postgresql interface.
• SegyPY
  Homepage: http://segymat.sourceforge.net/segypy/
  Last update: 2005-10-21 00:32:37
  
  A Python module to read and write SEG-Y files from Python, implemented using the syntax of the SEG-Y format : SEG-Y revsision 0 (1975) and revision 1 (May 2002). SegyPY aims at being both simple to use to read SEG-Y files, and extensive enough to aid in writing complex seismic data.
• Ncvtk
  Homepage: http://ncvtk.sourceforge.net/
  Last update: 2007-10-21 15:56:15
  
  A program for exploring longitude/latitude based data stored in NetCDF file format. Ncvtk is built on top of the VTK toolbox. Ncvtk has been designed with the aim of offering a high degree of interactivity to scientists who have a need to explore three-dimensional, time-dependent planetary data.
• Pyroute
  Homepage: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Pyroute
  Last update: 2010-06-07 16:01:38
  
  pyroute is a routing application based on pyroutelib, including a mobile phone GUI for maps, GPS, and routing. It will be replaced by Rana.
• Hoko
  Homepage: http://hoko.intevation.org/
  Last update: 2004-05-12 10:01:26
  
  Hoko provides a middleware for location based services (LBS): It covers connection modules to operators Mobile Location Services (MLS) and a database concept to store locations. The core of Hoko is a control unit to run queries from client software on either location updates or analysis functions in an asynchronous mode.
• GeoLocation
  Homepage: http://plone.org/products/geolocation
  Last update: 2006-03-09 09:59:46
  
  GeoLocation is a plone component that provides a Location content type, as well as access to longitude-latitude & possibly IP location information and other related/associated services.
• MapLocation
  Homepage: http://plone.org/products/maplocation/
  Last update: 2006-03-13 16:50:42
  
  MapLocation is a plone product that enables the user to add Google Map Location to a Plone Site.
• WMS Adapter
  Homepage: http://zmapserver.sourceforge.net/wmsadapter/
  Last update: 2007-11-29 22:25:05
  
  The WMS Adapter is a product that provides a Zope-friendly interface to imagery from map servers that conform to versions 1.0.0-1.1.1 of the OGC WMS specification.
• WMS.py
  Homepage: http://trac.gispython.org/projects/PCL/log/OWSLib/trunk/owslib/wms.py
  Last update: 2007-11-29 22:45:07
  
  This is a Python module implementing the OGC WMS specification version 1.1.1. It is presently geared towards ZMapServer, but can be adapted to other uses.
• FeatureServer
  Homepage: http://featureserver.org/
  Last update: 2007-12-09 12:32:15
  
  FeatureServer is an implementation of a RESTful Geographic Feature Service. (Might be patent encumbered, because they have clarified the license to _not_ to grand the use of patents if they had them.)
• CPSGeo
  Homepage: http://www.cps-project.org/sections/projects/cpsgeo_simple_gis_for
  Last update: 2007-12-30 12:12:53
  
  The CPSGeo product provides a new geolocation schema for documents, and a lightweight web GIS application for locating and displaying document features cartographically within the content management system CPS. CPSGeo builds upon OGC standards.
• Wintec Tools
  Homepage: http://www.steffensiebert.de/soft/python/wintec_tools.html
  Last update: 2008-07-09 01:14:56
  
  The Wintec tools for the Wintec WBT-201 (G-Rays II) GPS mouse and the Wintec WSG-1000 (G-Trender) GPS receiver are a replacement for the main tasks of the Windows Time machine X application, which is delivered with the devices.
• MapFish
  Homepage: http://www.mapfish.org
  Last update: 2008-11-01 10:55:00
  
  MapFish is an extensible web 2.0 mapping application framework. MapFish is composed of two parts: MapFish Client and MapFish Server. MapFish Client is a JavaScript framework based on OpenLayers for the mapping part, and on ExtJS for the GUI (widgets) part. MapFish Server is responsible for server side treatments and composed of several modules which can be implemented in several languages such as Python, Java, PHP. MapFish can be use as a standalone application or as an add on to an already existing web application.
• Epigrass
  Homepage: http://www.metamodellers.com/epigrass.html
  Last update: 2008-11-29 11:48:07
  
  Epigrass is a simulation platform created to study epidemics and their spatial (geographic) dynamics. It is a software for visualizing, analyzing and simulating of epidemic processes on geo-referenced networks.
• PyEPSGLookup
  Homepage: http://mateusz.loskot.net/software/gis/pyepsglookup
  Last update: 2007-03-28 17:28:01
  
  PyEPSGLookup is a small Python utility complementary to Projection module derived from Thuban project. It provides user with functionality to query epsg file for projection parameters by its number or name.
• Python Language Support for ArcView GIS (AVPython)
  Homepage: http://avpython.sourceforge.net/
  Last update: 2007-03-28 17:54:10
  
  AVPython embeds the Python programming language within ArcView GIS.
• AT Google Maps
  Homepage: http://plone.org/products/atgooglemaps
  Last update: 2006-03-20 10:43:26
  
  ATGoogleMaps is a Plone products to view Google Maps.
• OWSLib
  Homepage: http://trac.gispython.org/projects/PCL/wiki/OwsLib
  Last update: 2008-05-15 12:28:25
  
  OGC Web Service utility library ------------------------------- Python-Package for working with OGC map, feature, and coverage services. OWSLib provides a common API for accessing service metadata and wrappers for GetCapabilities, GetMap, and GetFeature requests.
• GeoJSON Python Library
  Homepage: http://trac.gispython.org/projects/PCL/wiki/GeoJSON
  Last update: 2008-06-24 09:29:20
  
  A reference implementation of the PythonGeoInterface and the GeoJSON draft at http://geojson.org.
• GeoCouch
  Homepage: http://vmx.cx/cgi-bin/blog/index.cgi/geocouch-geospatial-queries-with-couchdb%3A2008-10-26%3Aen%2CCouchDB%2CPython%2Cgeo
  Last update: 2008-11-01 11:20:31
  
  GeoCouch enables geospatial queries with CouchDB. CouchDB (Apache License 2.0) is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database accessible via a RESTful HTTP/JSON API.
• ZMapServer
  Homepage: http://zmapserver.sourceforge.net/
  Last update: 2007-11-23 20:58:08
  
  ZMapServer is a product for Zope that provides a framework for web mapping applications using MapServer. The essential web mapping components are included: maps, legends, scale bars, labels, data layers and layer styles. These components are managed through Zope, helping to maintain separation between GIS content and its presentation.
• pyshapelib
  Homepage: http://ftp.intevation.de/users/bh/pyshapelib/
  Last update: 2004-06-01 10:26:13
  
  pyshapelib is a python wrapper for shapelib, a free software library for reading and writing ESRI shapefiles.
• PyOGCLib
  Homepage: http://pyogclib.sourceforge.net/
  Last update: 2008-05-15 12:26:15
  
  PyOGCLib aims to develop and distribute a Python based library for the implementation of the OpenGIS specifications, notably Web Map Server (WMS) and Web Feature Server (WFS).
• GPS Console Data Manager (gps-console)
  Homepage: http://gps-console.sourceforge.net/
  Last update: 2006-05-10 22:11:19
  
  Attention: This project vanished from the SourceForge site without any further notice. GPS Console is a program for retrieving, storing and manipulating GPS and other coordinate data in conjunction with GIS and Remote Sensing. It is designed for geologists, but easy enough to use that anyone will be able to enjoy it.