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Table Of Contents:

Desktop Application
3D Application
Web Map Server
Front-end Framework
iOS & Android
Geospatial Library (non-web)
Spatial Database
Map Render Engine
Data Format
Saas
Data
Conference & Communities
News Site
Amazing Map Site
MOOC
Related Resources
Geospatial Start-ups And Companies

Desktop Application

ArcGIS - A enterprise level desktop GIS software published by Ersi
QGIS - A cross-platform free and open-source desktop GIS software
GeoDa - An Introduction to Spatial Data Analysis
GRASS GIS - Used for geospatial data management and analysis, as a founding member of OSGEO
uDig - An open source desktop application framework built with Eclipse
gvSIG - A powerful, user-friendly, interoperable geomatics professionals
Marble - A virtual globe and world atlas
SharpMap - An mapping library in web and desktop applications built in .NET
JUMP GIS - An open source GIS written in Java
Whitebox GAT - Software package for geospatial analysis and data visualization
TileMill - Creating beautiful interactive maps with CartoCSS. Github Link
Global Mapper - A geographic information system (GIS) software package currently developed by Blue Marble Geographics that runs on Microsoft Windows
OpenOrienteering Mapper - A software for creating maps for the orienteering sport.

3D Application

Skyline - A glimpse into Skyline's cutting-edge 3D geospatial visualization products, and their potential to transform the way your organization makes decisions, shares information and manages its assets
CityEngine - Transform 2D GIS Data into Smart 3D City Models
ArcGIS Earth - Display data, sketch placemarks, measure distances and areas, and add annotations at any part of the world
World Wind - Providing features for displaying with geographic data
Google Earth - Bringing a earth view for global mapping

Web Map Server

ArcGIS Server - A GIS server for enterprise application
MapServer - Publishing spatial data and interactive mapping applications to the web
GeoServer - An open source server for sharing geospatial data
QGIS Server - a FastCGI/CGI application written in C++ that works together with a webserver.
deegree - An open source software for spatial data infrastructures and the geospatial web
GeoDjango - A GIS server built with python web framework -- django
Mapnik - An open source mapping toolkit written in C++ for desktop-based and server-based map rendering
geomajas - An open source platform to create Web GIS applications
GeoMOOSE - A Web Client JavaScript Framework for displaying distributed cartographic data
mapbender3 - Publishing spatial data infrastructure services on the Symfony 2 PHP
MapFish - A framework for building rich web-mapping applications built with Pylons Python web framework
MapGuide - A Web Client JavaScript Framework for displaying distributed cartographic data
~~MapBuilder~~ - This project has been retired in 2008
Nanocubes - An in-memory data structure for spatiotemporal data cubes. Github Link
GeoTrellis - A geographic data processing engine for high performance applications that uses Spark to work with raster data.
NextGIS Web - An open source framework for storage, visualization and permissions management of all kinds of geospatial data.
OpenMapTiles Map Server - Map server running in Docker container to create vector maps and GIS applications

Front-end Framework

Leaflet - Open-source javaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
Mapbox GL JS - A JavaScript & WebGL library that renders interactive maps from vector tiles and the Mapbox GL Style Specification
OpenLayer - Open-source javascript map viewing library
three.js - A javascript 3D library which makes WebGL simpler
CesiumJS - An open-source JavaScript library for world-class 3D globes and maps
webglearth2 - Open-source virtual planet web application running in any web browser with support for WebGL HTML5 standard
ArcGIS API for JavaScript - Creating high-performing apps and smarter visualizations supportted by ERSI
D3.js - A javascript library for manipulating documents based on data
Echarts - A user-friendly data visualisation library supported by Baidu
geomajas-client javascript - Open source javascript mapping API for cool maps and apps
Google Maps Javascript API - A javascript api for google map
d3-carto-map - A library for creating layer-based maps using D3
turf.js - Advanced geospatial analysis for browsers and node supported by Mapbox
Polymaps - A JavaScript library for image- and vector-tiled maps using SVG
jVectorMap - A vector-based, cross-browser and cross-platform component for interactive geography-related data visualization on the web. Github Link
Tangram - A JavaScript library for rendering 2D & 3D maps live in a web browser with WebGL
Mapv - A library of geography visualization
maptalks.js - A light and plugable JavaScript library for integrated 2D/3D maps.
OpenMapTiles - Set of open-source tools for self-hosting of OpenStreetMap maps in more than 50 languages. It provides both raster as well as vector tiles, WMS and WMTS services for GIS programs, support for JavaScript viewers and mobile SDK.
CMV - The Configurable Map Viewer (CMV) is an open source mapping framework that works with ESRI JavaScript API, ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS Online, and more.

iOS & Android

iOS
- ArcGIS Runtime SDK for iOS - Build mapping apps for iOS devices
- Google Maps API for iOS
- Mapbox iOS SDK Includes APIs for static maps, directions, and navigation.
- NextGIS iOS SDK - An open source library for iOS geo applications.
Android
- ArcGIS Runtime SDK for Android - Build native mapping apps for Android devices
- Google Maps API for Android
- Mapbox Android SDK Includes APIs for static vector and raster maps, camera use, navigation, and custom marker drawing.
- NextGIS Android SDK - An open source library for Android geo applications.
- TileView - Asynchronously display tile-based images, with additional functionality for 2D map.
- OpenOrienteering Mapper - A software for creating maps for the orienteering sport.
Cross-Platform
- ArcGIS Runtime SDK for Xamarin - Build native mapping apps for Android and iOS in C# (Quartz Beta)

Geospatial Library (non-web)

GDAL - A translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats
Proj.4 - A library for cartographic projection
Pyproj - python interface to PROJ4 library for cartographic transformations
Shapely - A library for manipulation and analysis of geometric objects in the Cartesian plane
Fiona - IO for GIS Data writted by Python
Rasterio - A library for reads and writes geospatial raster data
Rtree - A wrapper of libspatialindex providing spatial indexing features
GeoTools - An open source Java library that provides tools for geospatial data
Orfeo toolbox - An open-source C++ library for remote sensing images processing
GeoPandas - Python tools for geographic data
GISInternals - Provide daily build packages and software development kit for GDAL and Mapserver.
sf - R tools for geographic data.
OSMnx - Python package that lets you download spatial geometries and construct, project, visualize, and analyze street networks from OpenStreetMap's APIs.

Spatial Database

PostGIS based on PostgreSQL - Most advanced open source database
Oracle Spatial - Oracle-based advanced spatial data analysis
Spatialite based on SQLite - Lightweight SQL library to support fully spatially capability
MSSQL - A high-preformance database support by Microsoft
MBtiles - A specification for storing tiled map data in SQLite databases
mySQL - the world's most popular open source database
mongoDB - An open-source, document database designed for ease of development and scaling
GeoMesa - An open-source, distributed, spatio-temporal database built on a number of distributed cloud data storage systems, including Accumulo, HBase, Cassandra, and Kafka.
MapD - SQL engine that leverages the parallel processing power of GPUs to query billions of rows in milliseconds.

Map Render Engine

mapnik - Mapnik combines pixel-perfect image output with lightning-fast cartographic algorithms, and exposes interfaces in C++, Python, and Node
mapbox-gl-native - A library for embedding interactive, customizable vector maps into native applications on multiple platforms
tangram-es - A C++ library for rendering 2D and 3D maps from vector data using OpenGL ES, and mainly focused on mobile and embedded devices.
Skia - Skia is a complete 2D graphic library for drawing Text, Geometries, and Images.

Data Format

Vector Formats - GDAL vector formats: ESRI Shapefile, ESRI ArcSDE, ESRI FileGDB, MapInfo, GML, KML, PostGIS, Oracle Spatial, ...
Raster Formats - GDAL raster formats: GeoTIFF, Erdas Imagine, ECW, MrSID, JPEG2000, DTED, NITF, ...
Shapefile
GeoJson - Represent geospatial information by json
TopoJson - Represent geospatial information by json in a smaller side
TileJSON - Represent vector tile provider by json
WKT - A text markup language for representing vector geometry objects on a map
SLD - An XML schema for describing the appearance of map layers.
KMZ/KML - An XML notation for expressing geographic annotation and visualization within Internet-based, two-dimensional maps and three-dimensional Earth browsers.
GeoTIFF - A public domain metadata standard which allows georeferencing information to be embedded within a TIFF file.
MapBox Vector Tile - Packets of geographic data, packaged into pre-defined roughly-square shaped "tiles" for transfer over the web.
MBTiles - A specification for storing arbitrary tiled map data in SQLite databases for immediate usage and for efficient transfer.
[FileGDB]
[DXF]
[ArcInfo Coverage]
[E00 ArcInfo Interchange]
[Esri Grid]
[HDF]

Saas

Mapbox - Helping you design your own map and presenting your data
Cartodb - The easiest way to map and analyze your location data
GIS Cloud - A next generation platform for apps that manage location information
stamen - Data visualization to tell compelling stories for some of the world's most visible companies
citytracking - A two-year project, to change the way people view, talk about, utilize digital city services
worldmap - Building your own mapping portal and publish it to the world
GeoHey - A geographic online one-stop solution (Chinese)
GeoQ - A location intelligence platform (Chinese)
地图慧 - A self-designed map server for customs (Chinese)
地图无忧 - A enterprise-level map service (Chinese)
Factual - A company provides the best location data for mobile advertising, mobile apps, and enterprise solutions.
NextGIS - A cloud geospatial service that allows you to create web GIS right in the browser
Magrit - Thematic cartography, free and open-source.

Data

Data List Site
- a-comprehensive-list-of-all-open-data-portals-around-the-world
- Free GIS Data
- GeoCommons - A community contributed collection of open data from around the world
Data Site
- 199it
- Harvard Dataverse
- WorldPop
- NYC Open Data
- Los Angeles GeoHub
- Global LUCC data (30m)
- Global cities Shapefile data
- NetworkRepository.com - The First Interactive Network Repository with Visual Analytics
- OpenFlights: Airport and airline data
- Gridded Population of the World (GPW), v3 | SEDAC
- Citi Bike Trip Histories
- NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission - Trip Record Data
- T-Drive trajectory data sample
- pm2.5-China
- Remote sensing imge
- metro extracts - City-sized portions of OpenStreetMap
- Geofabrik
- Geo Maps - High Quality GeoJSON maps programmatically generated.

Conference & Communities

Conference
Communities
- OGC - an international not for profit organization committed to making quality open standards for the global geospatial community
- Maptime
- geo community
- GIS stackexchange
- GIS-Lab - informal community of russian-speaking GIS/RS specialists, we get better ourselves and help get better others
- GeoNet - The Esri Community

Blogs

Amazing Map Site

Maps of the Year
Cartography and Geovisualization Group at Oregon State University
snazzymaps - A google map style gallery
Odyssey.js
Amazing Maps
Beijing City Lab
Chinese Bus System
flowingdata
finemapping
thematicmapping
dougmccune
OpenWebGIS is free online GIS
NC STATE UNIVERSITY Center for Geospatial Analytics
CHATTY MAPS - the sounds map of city.
roads to rome - roads to ROME

MOOC

Coursera's GIS Specialization - Including Fundamentals of GIS, GIS Data Formats, Design and Quality, Geospatial and Environmental Analysis, Imagery, Automation, and Applications and Capstone: Geospatial Analysis.
Geospatial Intelligence & the Geospatial Revolution
Maps and the Geospatial Revolution
MongoDB地理数据模块与MongoGIS - Mandarin.

Related Resources

mapskin - a collection of scalable vector icons for geospatial.

Geospatial Start-ups And Companies

Geospatial Start-ups And Companies list

Reference:

List of geographic information systems software

osgeo

AmrEldib's Awesome GIS

brandonxiang's Awesome GIS

list top 100 geospatial start ups companies world

terratenney / awesome-gis Goto Github PK

awesome-gis's Introduction