Open Source Perl GIS Software

NOTE: Code commits were FROZEN on SourceForge in July of 2016, and the project no longer uses sourceforge. All new code is now at <http://github.com/Xastir/Xastir>. The version you can download here has been obsolete for over 10 years, and other than by deleting the project entirely we can't disable the "Download Now" button. Don't download from here. Go to github. Real-time tracking & messaging of stations via radio/internet APRS data streams, w/125 map formats supported. Linux/FreeBSD/Solaris/MacOSX/Windows in any of 7 languages. Can also be used for mobile mapping w/GPS. MAILING LISTS ARE AT: PROJECT->WEB SITE.

EPSILON is a powerful Open Source wavelet image compressor. The project is aimed on parallel and robust image processing.

A bike information system for cyclists in Berlin and Brandenburg (Germany) with a map view and a routing engine. There's a graphical interface (based on Perl/Tk) as well as an Web interface. Source code may be found at Github: https://github.com/eserte/bbbike/

A web atlas using the planetary body renderer, Xplanet. Explore the solar system. Overlay clouds, cities, weather forecasts, and more. Navigate by point and click. Search global databases.

MTKBabel is a Perl program to operate the i-Blue 747 GPS data logger. It should work also with other GPS devices based on the MediaTek MTK chipset. It is free software released under the GPL license.

Gpsdrive is a car (bike, ship, plane) navigation system. Displaying your position on a map and a lot of other functions are implemented. It works with vector maps from http://www.OpenStreetMap.de/

A generic geospatial analysis and viewing capability using Perl scripts that provides the foundation and structure for readily creating KML data files from disparate data sources. KML files can be read and viewed by Google Earth and other tools.

GeoDB is a set of tools and perl modules to store, retrieve and search for information on geocaching and other geographical data sets.

Ozitools project aims to collect/create a set of tools for OziExplorer map processing and convertion to/from open formats (e.g. GeoTiff) appropriate for using in GIS applications.

Beam and it's follow-on I-Beam are sets of programs to produce coverage charts of radio sources. It has been used for RADAR, DME, VOR and various communications sources specific to aviation. However, it is also valid for cell phone, TV and radio towers

ForeRunner X01 toolkit provides an easy access to Forerunner 201/301/305/305E GPS-units. There are multiple command line tools to read data from GPS into database and tools to export data in different formats like gpx and tcx.

G.R.E.A.T. - Google Earth Reporting Engine and Analysis Tool The Goal of this project is to create a basic IDS interface with Google Earth. Currently generates a KML file of traceroute/whois information suitable for use in Google Earth

This module provides functions for calculating the path to a map tile at OpenStreetMap out of geographic coordinates.

Mobilemaps is a Nearby Engine which allows users to find Web pages by location. Extremely fast and capable of scaling to any number of pages, it supports OpenGIS map-servers and uses MySQL, Perl and C.

OSIOSS (Open Source Integrated Observing System Software) is a collection of code which can be used for geospatial observing systems merging data collection, management and products solutions with ocean observing systems (OOS) as an initial focus.

This project is a reference, open source implementation of the coordinate conversion algorithms for the Polish geobotanical grid called ATPOL.

StateVis is a package that allows states (or groups) to create a browsable database of their Landsat holdings.

Serve GPS data from a single GPS device to multiple clients which don't need to parse (or even know the existence of) NMEA. The data is sent from the server to the clients via SOAP.

A gui for Tiles@home written in perl that works under windows. This project provide a pre packaged version ready to install of Tiles@Home (for windows).

Geographic tag manipulator - a simple XSLT-based tool to add, remove, or change tags of OpenStreetMap objects.

graphite: a portable graphics library, written in Java, JOGL and Postscript that allows rapid generation of high-quality graphs using an efficient, compact Java engine.

wfb2sql is a Perl script that extracts information from the CIA World Factbook and creates SQL statements for IBM DB/2, PostgreSQL or MySQL. This data builds a perfect database for learning and teaching SQL.