- GRASS โ Originally developed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, open source: a complete GIS
- SAGA GIS โ System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses- a hybrid GIS software. SAGA has a unique Application Programming Interface (API) and a fast growing set of geoscientifc methods, bundled in exchangeable Module Libraries.
- Quantum GIS โ QGIS is a user friendly Open Source GIS that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, and Windows.
- MapWindow GIS โ Free, open source GIS desktop application and programming component.
- ILWIS โ ILWIS (Integrated Land and Water Information System) integrates image, vector and thematic data.
- uDig
- gvSIG โ Open source GIS written in Java.
- JUMP GIS / OpenJUMP โ (Open) Java Unified Mapping Platform (the desktop GIS OpenJUMP, SkyJUMP, deeJUMP and Kosmo emerged from JUMP; see
- Kalypso (software) โ Kalypso is an Open Source GIS (Java, GML3) and focuses mainly on numerical simulations in water management.
- TerraView โ GIS desktop that handles vector and raster data stored in a relational or geo-relational database, i.e. a frontend for TerraLib.
- PostGIS โ Spatial extensions for the open source PostgreSQL database, allowing geospatial queries.
- H2Spatial for H2_(DBMS)
- SpatialLite for SQLite
- MySQL Spatial
- TerraLib is more than a spatial DBMS as it provides also adavanced functions for GIS analysis.
- GeoTools โ Open source GIS toolkit written in Java, using Open Geospatial Consortium specifications.
- OpenMap
- GDAL / OGR
- Proj.4
- MapFish A web 2.0 mapping development framework.
- OpenLayers โ open source AJAX library for accessing geographic data layers of all kinds, originally developed and sponsored by MetaCarta
- Geomajas โ Open source web toolkit with full vectorial and attribute editing capabilities and support for complex relation models (1 to n, n to 1, inheritance, ...). Built on top of the Dojo AJAX framework.
- FIST โ FIST (Flexible Internet Spatial Template)is a MapServer/PHP framework with several advanced functions, optionally use PostGIS in the backend so your users can edit and save shapes and attributes.
- Chameleon โ Environments for building applications with MapServer.
- GeoNetwork opensource โ A catalog application to manage spatially referenced resources
- OpenMap
- MapGuide Open Source โ Web-based mapping server.
- Xastir A special purpose Open Source GIS application used as an APRS client by Amateur radio operators, written in C for X Window environments.
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