README.md

Nick's Geospatial Software Notes

Services

• Mapbox, a for-profit location data platform

Applications

Desktop GIS Applications

• QGIS
• GRASS GIS

Databases and Database Extensions

• PostGIS

Servers

• GeoNode, a "web-based application and platform for developing geospatial information systems and for deploying spatial data infrastructures."
• deegree, an open source geodata and tile server, implements a number of OSGeo web standards (WFS, CSW, WMS, WMTS, WPS)
• GeoServer, a Java-based web server for sharing geospatial data.

Libraries

Spatial Analytics and Geoprocessing

• GDAL/OGR
• GEOS, Geometry Engine, Open Source. A C++ port of the Java Topology Suite.

Visualization

• GeoMoose, JavaScript framework for displaying "distributed cartographic data."

Organizations

• OSGeo, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation