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• JTS Topology Suite (JTS)
  Homepage: http://tsusiatsoftware.net/jts/main.html
  Last update: 2009-02-19 08:33:14
  
  A Java API of spatial predicates and functions. The goal is to provide a complete, consistent, robust implementation of fundamental 2D spatial algorithms. It should conform to the Simple Features Specification for SQL.
• MapServer Workbench
  Homepage: http://msworkbench.sourceforge.net
  Last update: 2001-07-20 14:00:00
  
  MapServer Workbench is a suite of cooperative tools to build MapServer applications. The tools are written in Tcl/Tk, and use the Mapscript/Tcl interface.
• deegree
  Homepage: http://www.deegree.org/
  Last update: 2009-02-19 09:26:39
  
  Deegree offers the substantial building blocks for the building of a Spatial Data Infrastructure by implementing the standards of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and ISO/TC 211. Deegree components can be used to either develop a standalone desktop mapping solution to be locally installed on a users machine, or to set up a highly distributed and service-based infrastructure.
• geos (Geometry Engine Open Source (GEOS))
  Homepage: http://geos.refractions.net/
  Last update: 2009-03-20 09:29:36
  
  GEOS (Geometry Engine - Open Source) is a C++ port of the Java Topology Suite (JTS). As such, it aims to contain the complete functionality of JTS in C++. This includes all the OpenGIS "Simple Features for SQL" spatial predicate functions and spatial operators, as well as specific JTS topology functions such as IsValid().
• JEEPS
  Homepage: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~ajb/jeeps/
  Last update: 2007-04-05 21:32:08
  
  The JEEPS library is intended as both a library and a development system for GPS and related software. It consists of documented C functions for communication with GARMIN GPS devices and for post-processing of the information received. The library also contains functions for conversion of datums using Molodensky and cartesian methods and mapping functions including transverse mercator projections. The UTM coordinate system is implemented as are other more parochial systems including the UK Ordnance Survey national grid (with map codes). Eighteen map projections and their inverses are given. NMEA data capture routines are included. An application (program) is distributed with the library in order to show the library functionality and how to use it.
• uDig
  Homepage: http://udig.refractions.net/
  Last update: 2008-10-31 20:32:31
  
  uDig is a spatial data viewer/editor, with special emphasis on the OGC standards for internet GIS, the Web Map Server and Web Feature Server standards. uDig provides a common Java/Eclipse platform for building spatial applications with open source components.
• 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).
• Gen2shp
  Homepage: http://arcscripts.esri.com/details.asp?dbid=10606
  Last update: 2006-06-25 22:59:55
  
  Implemented in Avenue, can be directly incorporated into AV projects. Converts 2D or 3D ASCII data from one or more generate format text files to one or more (multi-part) shapefiles. Available as Extension or just Scripts.
• GeoTools
  Homepage: http://www.geotools.org/
  Last update: 2008-10-09 22:02:05
  
  GeoTools is Java code library which provides standards compliant methods for the manipulation of geospatial data, for example to implement Geographic Information Systems. The GeoTools library implements OGC specifications as they are developed, in close collaboration with the GeoAPI and GeoWidgets projects.
• GeoTools
  Homepage: http://www.geotools.org/
  Last update: 2005-08-02 12:31:49
  
  GeoTools is a Java based mapping toolkit that allows Maps to be viewed interactively on web browsers without the need for dedicated server side support.
• 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.
• MapGuide Open Source
  Homepage: http://mapguide.osgeo.org/
  Last update: 2008-02-29 21:10:57
  
  MapGuide Open Source is a web mapping platform to develop develop and deploy spatial applications.
• retep Graph
  Homepage: http://www.retep.org.uk/mapping/
  Last update: 2001-07-20 14:00:00
  
  Little Java library to create on screen and printed maps using vector based data. Primarily astronomically biased but can be used for any maps.
• SpatiaLite
  Homepage: http://www.gaia-gis.it/spatialite/index.html
  Last update: 2008-10-17 23:22:31
  
  The SpatiaLite extension enables SQLite to support spatial data conformant to OGC specifications.
• TerraGear
  Homepage: http://terragear.sourceforge.net/
  Last update: 2001-07-20 14:00:00
  
  Converts a variety of geographic databases into triangle list scenery that is suitable for worldwide 3D viewing. The resulting database can be directly used by the Atlas package.
• mapEditor
  Homepage: http://software-dkplan.carlbro.dk/mapEditor/index.html
  Last update: 2002-09-23 14:47:54
  
  This package is an editor for UMN MapServer mapfiles.
• APR-Parser
  Homepage: http://www.zalf.de/grano/parser.html
  Last update: 2003-08-15 23:02:56
  
  Perl script to extract infos from ArcView apr files into a database to ease indexing and searching. Documents the apr format.
• iGeoPortal
  Homepage: http://deegree.sourceforge.net/src/demos.html#client
  Last update: 2004-12-02 11:13:01
  
  iGeoPortal is the client/portal component of deegree. It is a modular client which configuration is based on OGC Web Map Context specification/document. Different modules can offer web map client functionality as well as functions for gazetteer clients, catalog clients or WFS clients. The deegree iGeoPortal is able to handle layers from more than one WMS and offeres the opportunity to store the current state of the client in a Web Map Context compliant XML document.
• shp2svg
  Homepage: http://www.carto.net/papers/svg/utils/shp2svg/
  Last update: 2006-09-07 22:43:53
  
  shp2svg is a converter from Shapefile format to Scaleable Vector Graphic format (SVG).
• LibreDWG
  Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/libredwg/
  Last update: 2010-05-31 15:31:45
  
  GNU LibreDWG is a free C library to handle DWG files. It aims to be a free replacement for the OpenDWG libraries. DWG is the native file format of AutoCAD.
• 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.
• gar2rnx
  Homepage: http://artico.lma.fi.upm.es/numerico/miembros/antonio/async/
  Last update: 2001-07-20 14:00:00
  
  A tool to receive more than just coordinates from GPSs using undocumented commands.
• Fulcrum
  Homepage: http://fulcrum.traversetechnologies.com/
  Last update: 2007-09-04 20:35:38
  
  Fulcrum is a Java library that includes user interface components, data models, and utilities useful to Java developers building distributed mapping applications. While the Fulcrum libraries may be useful for other purposes, it is currently targeted at creating applications that need to consume map data over a network.
• Cavor
  Homepage: http://www.cavor.org/
  Last update: 2007-12-30 11:48:22
  
  CAVOR is an engine for building applications that involve modeling and retrieving graphical and textual data. Examples of such applications include GIS, CAD and several others. The Cavor Vector Viewer (CVV) might be of interest for GIS users. The project is in an early state.
• GISToolkit
  Homepage: http://gistoolkit.sourceforge.net/
  Last update: 2003-10-30 11:38:48
  
  The GISToolkit software is a java toolkit for building spatially enabled applications. There is an editor as a demonstration application to help test the capabilities of the toolkit.
• monoGIS
  Homepage: http://www.monogis.org/
  Last update: 2007-01-26 12:11:57
  
  A GIS for the mono platform. Currently implements WMS and WCS and support a number of geodata formats.
• 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.
• Kalypso-Simulation-Platform (Kalypso)
  Homepage: http://www.kalypso-simulation-platform.org/
  Last update: 2006-09-18 23:26:18
  
  The Kalypso-Simulation-Platform is a user friendly tool for modelling and simulation of GML-based models.
• Mapyrus
  Homepage: http://mapyrus.sourceforge.net
  Last update: 2009-02-19 09:19:02
  
  Mapyrus is software for creating plots of points, lines, polygons and labels to PostScript, PDF and web image output formats. The software combines the following three components: A Logo or turtle graphics language, reading of GIS datasets and RDBMS tables, running as a stand-alone program or as a web-server.
• seagis
  Homepage: http://seagis.sourceforge.net/
  Last update: 2002-03-12 15:49:21
  
  Seagis is an implementation of a subset of the OpenGIS Coordinate Transformation Services Specification. A second Seagis goal is to ensure interoperability with standard Java packages like Java2D and Java Advanced Imaging. Seagis extends existing Java classes like Format for parsing and formatting angles, and ImageReader for reading ASCII and binary files.
• TF.NET
  Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/tf-net/
  Last update: 2008-04-29 21:20:32
  
  TF.NET (Topology Framework .NET) represents a topology manipulation API capable of handling managed objects representation of topological entities based on other popular APIs, exposing it's JTS-based common topology manipulation core to them.
• GeoClue
  Homepage: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/GeoClue
  Last update: 2008-07-08 23:01:42
  
  Geoclue is a modular geoinformation service built on top of the D-Bus messaging system. Geoclue defines a set of geoinformation APIs, but it also includes some providers that implement those APIs. Services include Position, Address, Velocity, Geocode and ReverseGeocode.
• TerraLib
  Homepage: http://www.terralib.org/
  Last update: 2007-04-21 17:34:50
  
  TerraLib is a GIS classes and functions library, allowing a collaborative environment and its use for the development of multiple GIS tools. Its main aim is to enable the development of a new generation of GIS applications, based on the technological advances on spatial databases.
• 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.
• GPStk
  Homepage: http://www.gpstk.org
  Last update: 2007-10-21 16:08:35
  
  Algorithms and frameworks supporting the development of processing and analysis applications in navigation and global positioning.
• NetTopologySuite (NTS)
  Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/nettopologysuite/
  Last update: 2007-10-21 15:48:08
  
  NetTopologySuite is a C#/.NET port of JTS Topology Suite, a Java library for GIS operations.
• Hibernate Spatial
  Homepage: http://www.hibernatespatial.org/
  Last update: 2009-02-19 09:00:11
  
  Hibernate Spatial is a extension to the Hibernate Object Relational Mapping Java library for handling geographic data. It abstracts away from the specific way a database supports geographic data, and provides a standardized, cross-database interface to geographic data storage and query functions. Hibernate Spatial supports most of the functions of the OGC Simple Feature Specification. Supported databases are: Oracle 10g/11g and Postgresql/Postgis.
• Debrief
  Homepage: http://www.debrief.info
  Last update: 2007-12-30 12:52:03
  
  Military training java application used to analyse ship and submarine tracks in 2 and 3 dimensions.
• 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.
• rez
  Homepage: http://www.ping.com.au/3map/rez/
  Last update: 2003-02-24 18:12:03
  
  Free Software framework and tools for translating terrain data and images to different formats and generating multiresolution versions optimised for online broadband delivery.
• QuikGrid
  Homepage: http://www.perspectiveedge.com/
  Last update: 2005-08-11 08:42:33
  
  This program performs 3-D rendering of a surface represented by scattered data points.
• 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.
• GPSylon
  Homepage: http://gpsmap.sourceforge.net
  Last update: 2003-09-12 11:15:27
  
  GPSylon is a Java application that is able to display maps like in an atlas and show your position by the use of a gps device. It may track your path, load overlays (e.g. shape files), download maps from mapblast or expedia servers.
• sfcorba2java
  Homepage: http://katla.giub.uni-bonn.de/sfjava/
  Last update: 2001-07-20 14:00:00
  
  This project aimes at a Java implementation of the OGC Simple Features Specification for CORBA. A Java shapefile-reader is included as well.
• quickWMS
  Homepage: http://www.inovagis.org/quickwms/
  Last update: 2003-07-03 10:55:23
  
  JavaScript classes for creating Web Map clients and interfacing WMS servers according to OpenGIS Web Map Service Specification (versions 0.7 to 1.1). The goal of this project is to enable the fast creation of web mapping clients using javascript.
• GeoCon
  Homepage: http://www.mycgiserver.com/~amri/geocon.cocoon.xml
  Last update: 2005-01-31 21:19:41
  
  GeoCon (in C# for .NET) is a tool for creating Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and Geography Markup Language (GML 2.0) documents from GIS files (ArcView Shapefiles and MapInfo MIF files). Download page: http://www.mycgiserver.com/~amri/download.cocoon.xml
• GeoVistaStudio
  Homepage: http://www.geovistastudio.psu.edu/jsp/index.jsp
  Last update: 2005-03-14 09:38:18
  
  This is a programming environment that allows users to quickly build applications for geocomputation and geographic visualization.
• InterMap
  Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/intermap/
  Last update: 2005-06-27 13:53:04
  
  An Internet mapping application that allows the user to combine interactive maps from distributed Internet Map Servers in a browser. InterMap supports OpenGIS WMS and ESRI-ArcIMS and can be fully integrated with the GeoNetwork Metadata portal.
• GeoClass for PHP
  Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/geoclassphp/
  Last update: 2006-01-11 18:40:25
  
  GeoClass for PHP provides classes to handle georeferenced data. Features are: circumference search in (relational) databases, handlers for NIMA-DB and openGeoDB, distance calculation, creation of maps from .e00 or .ovl files and more (rdf, soap, etc).
• 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.
• Portfolio Explorer
  Homepage: http://www.extendthereach.com/products/OSGeocoder.srct
  Last update: 2006-05-10 23:00:33
  
  This tool is a data and country independent geocoding engine.
• MsSqlSpatial
  Homepage: http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=MsSqlSpatial
  Last update: 2006-08-21 23:06:24
  
  This project aims to comply OGC Simple Features Specification for SQL Revision 1.1 and provide additional functionalities.
• Postal Address Geo-Coder (PAGC)
  Homepage: http://www.pagcgeo.org/
  Last update: 2006-12-05 21:26:55
  
  The Postal Address Geo-Coder (or PAGC) is a command line program written in ANSI C that uses an address-ranged street network shapefile and an address list (in a dbf format file) to create a point shapefile that provides the longitude/latitude coordinates of each matched address, and maintains the attribute information in the original address database file.
• Marble
  Homepage: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Marble+-+Desktop+Globe?content=55105
  Last update: 2007-04-05 00:02:06
  
  Marble is a generic geographical map widget that is meant to be used by KDE4 applications. It shows the earth as a sphere.
• 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.
• GeoKettle
  Homepage: http://geosoa.scg.ulaval.ca/en/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=17
  Last update: 2008-11-04 08:08:38
  
  GeoKettle is a spatially-enabled version of Pentaho Data Integration (Kettle). Kettle is a metadata-driven ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) tool dedicated to the aggregation of different data sources in datawarehouses.
• GeoWebCache
  Homepage: http://geowebcache.org
  Last update: 2008-12-16 09:35:49
  
  GeoWebCache is a WMS tile cache, meaning it acts as a proxy between the client and the WMS server and stores the image, implemented as a Java HttpServlet. It does automatic matching to the best available tile and supports JCS and file backends.
• GeOxygene
  Homepage: http://oxygene-project.sourceforge.net
  Last update: 2009-02-19 08:45:48
  
  GeOxygene aims at providing an open framework compliant with OGC/ISO specifications for the development and deployment of geographic (GIS) applications.
• ruby-shapelib
  Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ruby-shapelib
  Last update: 2007-01-26 11:10:26
  
  Extension library for Ruby to decode/encode ESRI Shapefile, a data format for geographical information system (GIS). This is a wrapper module of Shapefile C Library for Ruby.
• Modeling and Animation Machine and Virtual Rendering System (VRS)
  Homepage: http://www.vrs3d.org/
  Last update: 2007-08-06 16:19:35
  
  The Modeling and Animation Machine MAM and the Virtual Rendering System VRS form the basic components of a 3-D visualization and graphics library developed at the Department of Computer Science of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. MAM/VRS can be used as a platform for implementing visualization software.
• LIMP
  Homepage: http://www.remotesensing.org/docs/limp-ht/
  Last update: 2001-07-20 14:00:00
  
  The goal of LIMP is to move as much complex code for applying arbitrary computations to large datasets ("large" in this case meaning too big to fit into memory) as possible into a library, leaving a simple yet powerful way of dealing with images from a users code. The library is accompanied with a useful tool: imgview.
• Meteorological Applications (MetApps)
  Homepage: http://unidata.ucar.edu/projects/metapps/index.html
  Last update: 2001-07-30 18:03:16
  
  The MetApps Project aims to develop a new suite of platform-independent analysis applications for the atmospheric sciences.
• Community Map Builder (mapbuilder)
  Homepage: http://mapbuilder.sourceforge.net/
  Last update: 2005-11-27 01:55:31
  
  Mapbuilder is an AJAX, web based mapping client for Open Geospatial Services. In particular, it is a client to a Web Map Service (WMS) and Transactional Web Feature Service (WFS-T). It's modular design allows extra widgets to be easily added or removed.
• AtlasStyler
  Homepage: http://www.geopublishing.org/AtlasStyler
  Last update: 2008-10-26 12:37:07
  
  The OGC Symbology Encoding standard (often called SLD) defines a XML language to define styling rules for geodata. AtlasStyler is a Java/Swing WYSIWYG application which simplifies the creation of these rules. The user can load point, line of polygon features (only ESRI Shape at the moment) and define their appearance. No XML or SLD/SE knowledge is required. Methods like 'classification by unique values' or 'colorization of quantities' are provided. The classbreaks for quantitative data can be set manually or calculated with 'equal interval' or for a given number of quantiles. AtlasStyler is connected to an online database of open-source SLD/SE symbols and the user can save/load his own artwork locally. The latest version of AtlasStyler can always be started via JavaWebStart from the (german-only) web page. AtlasStyler is based on Java 1.6 and Geotools 2.4 The application is localized in German, English and French.
• Atlas-Geopublishing-Framework
  Homepage: http://www.geopublishing.org/Geopublisher
  Last update: 2008-10-26 12:51:35
  
  The Atlas-Geopublishing-Framework is a set of Java applications to simplify the publication of digital, multimedia and multi-language atlases. The Geopublisher application allows to compile geodata and multimedia content to digital atlases, while constantly supporting the creator in translating meta-information into any number of languages.These multi-language atlases can then be exported as readily runnable Java-Web-Start applications. They can be burned to a CD/DVD/USB-stick or published online without any further modifications. Geopublisher targets producers of geoproducts that want to distribute their findings without digging too deep into related IT technologies. Geopublisher is based on Geotools 2.4 and Java 1.6. It supports visualization of large raster images as tiled image pyramids. Regularly updated versions of the Geopublisher application, as well as examples of atlases created with it, can be started directly via JavaWebStart.
• GeoJazzy WMSTileCache
  Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/geojazzy/
  Last update: 2008-11-14 08:53:58
  
  This project is a JEE project. The objective is to increase performance between a WMS Server and clients by Caching in memory and on disk all commonly WMS request.
• 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.