This blog series features the top-performing projects on SourceForge under specific categories. This week, we feature the top 5 GIS Software of the Week available on SourceForge.
GIS or geographic information system is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present spatial or geographic data. It is able to organize layers of information into visualizations like maps and 3D visuals, and present deeper insights into data that can be useful in a myriad of situations and applications. GIS has been incredibly useful in the fields of engineering, planning, transport/logistics, insurance, telecommunications, and business.
Here are the top 5 GIS Software available here at SourceForge, based on weekly downloads:
GeoServer is an open source software server written in Java that allows users to share and edit geospatial data. Designed for interoperability, it publishes data from any major spatial data source using open standards: WMS, WFS, WCS, WPS and REST.
GeographicLib is a small set of C++ classes for converting between geographic, UTM, UPS, MGRS, and geocentric coordinates, for gravity (e.g., EGM2008), geoid, and geomagnetic field (e.g., WMM2010) calculations, and for solving geodesic problems.
SAGA – System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses – is a Geographic Information System (GIS) software with immense capabilities for geodata processing and analysis. SAGA is programmed in the object oriented C++ language and supports the implementation of new functions with a very effective Application Programming Interface (API). Functions are organised as modules in framework independent Module Libraries and can be accessed via SAGA’s Graphical User Interface (GUI) or various scripting environments (shell scripts, Python, R, …).
GeoTools, the Java GIS toolkit is an open source (LGPL) toolkit for working with and mapping geospatial data. It is an Open Source Geospatial Foundation project, and its library data structures are based on Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) specifications.
GPX Editor allows you to load, modify and save your GPX 1.1 files. Add and remove waypoints, edit track and routes, simplify tracks (reducing file’s size), clean recorded data, add and edit GPX metadata, edit waypoint, route and track properties, all with real-time preview.
See and know more of the many other Open Source GIS Software available on SourceForge here.