Projects tagged ‘mapping’ and ‘maps’

OpenLayers is a web mapping framework, allowing users to pull in disparate sources of data and display them in an AJAX mapping interface.

OpenStreetMap is a free editable map of the whole world. It is made by people like you. OpenStreetMap allows you to view, edit and use geographical data in a collaborative way from anywhere on Earth.

Commonly referred to as GRASS, this is a Geographic Information System (GIS) used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics/maps production, spatial modeling, and visualization. GRASS is currently used in academic and ... [More] commercial settings around the world, as well as by many governmental agencies and environmental consulting companies. [Less]

JOSM is an editor for OpenStreetMap written in Java 1.5. The current version supports stand alone GPX tracks, GPX track data from the OSM database and existing nodes, line segments and metadata tags from the OSM database.

World Wind, an open source 3D interactive world viewer, was created by NASA's Learning Technologies project, and released in mid-2004. It is now developed by NASA staff and open source community developers. At its simplest you can think of World ... [More] Wind as a desk globe, however World Wind is not a simple desk globe. World Wind allows any user to zoom from outer space into any place on Earth. World Wind uses satellite imagery and elevation data to allow users to experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, just as if they were really there. World Wind can also be expanded to include additional imagery and data.. There have already been a number of add-ons created, from Norway's Prehistoric Hillforts to additional planets. [Less]

GeoNetwork opensource is a standardized and decentralized spatial information management environment, designed to enable access to geo-referenced databases, cartographic products and related metadata from a variety of sources, enhancing the spatial ... [More] information exchange and sharing between organizations and their audience, using the capacities of the internet. This approach of geographic information management aims at facilitating a wide community of spatial information users to have easy and timely access to available spatial data and to existing thematic maps that might support informed decision making. [Less]

SharpMap is an easy-to-use mapping library for use in web and desktop applications. It provides access to many types of GIS data, enables spatial querying of that data, and renders beautiful maps.

User-level sandboxes within the main OpenLayers source code repository. The trunk is recorded as its own entry.

Fusion is a web-mapping application development framework for MapGuide OS and MapServer built primarily in JavaScript. It allows non-spatial web developers to build rich mapping applications quickly and easily. Using widgets, developers are able to ... [More] add, remove, or modify functionality using standard-compliant HTML and CSS. Fusion does not require any proprietary browser plug-ins and works in all the major browsers on Windows, Mac, and Linux. [Less]

MapSys was designed to manage information about the "Pontos de Cultura", project from Culture Ministery in Brazil, and to allow public collaboration to build a database of government sponsored projects. First version was based on TikiWiki, but ... [More] v2.0 is being build from scratch, with a core based on mapping relations between people and projects, geografical location of them, and combination with regional social development information from public recognized sources. [Less]

A port of JTS to .Net, rewritten to take advantage of CLR constructs, as well as remove some of the legacy issues in JTS.

Marble is a desktop globe program and a generic geographical map widget and framework. Marble shows the Earth as a sphere but doesn't need any hardware acceleration (no OpenGL needed). It's meant to be small, fast and light weight.

Support library for development of GRASS GIS modules with aim on distributed computing and dynamic languages.

OpenJUMP is an open source GIS software written in Java. It is based on JUMP GIS by Vivid Solutions. It is a Vector GIS that can read rasters as well. It is not just another free demo viewer, but you can edit, save, analyze etc. with OpenJUMP. It ... [More] works, even with medium size datasets, and with professional touc. It provides a GIS API with a flexible plugin structure, so that new features are relatively easy to develope around the sound mapping platform. It utilises standards like GML, WMS and WFS. It is already translated in several languages. [Less]

Perl extension for generating cartograms, maps in which the sizes of the enumeration units have been rescaled according to an attribute they posses rather than their actual size. Resizing a map's regions in a way that keeps the map recognizable is ... [More] a difficult problem. Michael Gastner proposed a method and made available a C program to generate cartograms. By now, Geo::Cartogram simply takes a map in ESRI's shapefile format (.shp) and a user-defined function to generate the files needed for Gastner's program to run. [Less]

Mapstraction is a library that provides a common API for various javascript mapping APIs to enable switching from one to another as smoothly as possible. Developers can code their applications once, and then easily switch mapping provider based on ... [More] project needs, terms and conditions, and new functionality. Users can switch maps as desired based on personal taste and quality of maps in their local area. Various tools built on top of Mapstraction allow users to easily integrate maps into their own sites, and configure them with different controls, styles, and provider. [Less]

TouchGraph is a set of interfaces for graph visualization using spring-layout and focus+context techniques. Current applications include a utility for organizing links, a visual Wiki Browser, and a Google Graph Browser which uses the Google API.

Library for accessing common GIS formats for use primarily with MySQL.

Mapper is a geographical mapping tool, that can be used to view maps, display your position with a GPS device, handle POIs, use OpenStreetMap data and can create and export GPX tracks. It runs on handhled devices like the Nokia Internet Tablets (770 ... [More] , N800 and N810) as well as on normal Linux desktops. Mapper has it's roots in the highly popular maemo-mapper. These days it's almost a rewrite. Main feature is to make it easier to create and use OpenStreetMap data. [Less]

YM4R (Yellow Maps for Ruby) has a Rails plugin for Google Maps (YM4R/GM), a plugin for Mapstraction (YM4R/Mapstraction), a gem with ruby helpers for geocoding and the Yahoo! Maps Building Block APIs and tools to generate tiles for custom Google Maps.

Dapple makes it easy to find and visualize massive quantities of geoscientific data available on the Internet. * View geoscience data, satellite imagery, remote sensing data, geology maps, geophysical data, and many other earth data sets of ... [More] interest to geoscientists. * Save an earth view and share your view with colleagues. * Add new Geosoft DAP and WMS servers of interest. * View GeoTIFF files. [Less]

The OSM Library is a collection of Ruby modules and classes to handle data from the OpenStreetMap project.

Debrief has been created to perform a variety of functions related to maritime tactical analysis, ranging from detailed analysis requiring accurate calculation and presentation of bearing and bearing rates, through the collation of graphical ... [More] information to produce a plot for insertion into an analysis report, to the recording of animated dynamic sequences for replay in a presentation. The tool was originally produced to support submarine analysis, but has been expanded in the last 8 years to support surface and airborne analysis. In it's current version Debrief provides little support for analysis of land-based exercises. [Less]

Libchamplain is a C library aimed to provide a map widget to display rasterized maps. It is written using Clutter. It can be used inside a pure Clutter application or as a Gtk+ widget.

Facilitates the quick and easy inclusion of Google Maps in your Rails views.

GeoPress adds geographic tagging of your posts and pages. You can enter an address, points on a map, or enter latitude & longitude using the post interface. You can also include the post location within the body itself to make it easy to geotag using ... [More] emailed posts and desktop clients. Maps can be Google, Microsoft, OpenStreetMap, 3D globe, or any major mapping provider by using the Mapstraction mapping library. Makes your feeds GeoRSS compatible, and also adds KML for viewing in Google Earth. [Less]