OSGeo-Live 8.0 Contents

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]
• Kosmo Desktop - [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
• Geomajas - [QuickStart] - Browser GIS Client
• Mapbender - [QuickStart] - Geoportal Framework
• GeoMoose - [QuickStart] - Web GIS Portal
• Cartaro - [QuickStart] - Geospatial CMS
• GeoNode - [QuickStart] - Geospatial Content Management System

Web Services

Publishing spatial data to the internet:

• GeoServer - [QuickStart]
• MapServer - [QuickStart]
• deegree - [QuickStart]
• 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
• 52°North WPS - [QuickStart] - Web Processing Service
• 52°North SOS - [QuickStart] - Sensor Observation Service
• TinyOWS - [QuickStart] - WFS-T 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

• GpsDrive - [QuickStart] - GPS Navigation
• GpsPrune - [QuickStart] - View, Edit and Convert GPS Tracks
• Marble - [QuickStart] - Virtual Globe
• OpenCPN - [QuickStart] - Marine GPS Chartplotter
• OpenStreetMap - [QuickStart] - OpenStreetMap Tools
• Viking - [QuickStart] - GPS Data Analysis and Viewer

Spatial Tools

Specific analysis tools:

• GeoKettle - [QuickStart] - ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) Tool
• GMT - [QuickStart] - Cartographic Rendering
• Mapnik - [QuickStart] - Cartographic Rendering
• TileMill - [QuickStart] - Styling and Publishing
• MapTiler - [QuickStart] - Create Map Tiles
• OSSIM - [Quickstart] - Image Processing
• OTB - [QuickStart] - Image Processing
• R for Spatial Data - [QuickStart] - Statistical Programming

Domain Specific GIS

Applications targeted at a specific domain:

• Sahana Eden - [QuickStart] - Disaster management
• Ushahidi - [QuickStart] - Mapping and Timeline for events
• osgEarth - [QuickStart] - 3D Terrain Rendering
• MB-System - [QuickStart] - Sea Floor Mapping
• zyGrib - [QuickStart] - Weather Forecast Maps

Data

Spatial data sets:

• Natural Earth - Global Data Sets
• OSGeo North Carolina, USA Educational dataset
• OpenStreetMap - Sample extract from OpenStreetMap
• NetCDF Data Set - Time series temperature and precipitation

Geospatial Libraries

• GDAL/OGR - [QuickStart] - Geospatial Data Translation Tools
• JTS Topology Suite (JTS) - Java Topology Suite
• GeoTools - Java GIS Toolkit
• GEOS - C/C++ Spatial Library
• MetaCRS - Coordinate Reference System Transformations
• libLAS - [QuickStart] - LiDAR Data Access
• Iris - [QuickStart] - Meteorology and Climatology

Other software of interest (not available Live)

Available on Microsoft Windows only:

• MapWindow GIS - [QuickStart] - Microsoft Windows based Desktop GIS

Available from prior OSGeo-Live releases:

• MapGuide Open Source - [QuickStart] - Web Service, not included after OSGeo-Live 5.0
• Geopublisher - Catalogue, retired after OSGeo-Live 6.0
• AtlasStyler - Style Editor, retired after OSGeo-Live 6.0
• MapFish - [QuickStart] - Web Mapping Framework, retired after OSGeo-Live 7.9

Windows and Apple Installers

Included on the full OSGeo-Live image:

• Microsoft Windows Installers
• Apple OSX Installers

Metrics

• Project Metrics from Ohloh