Reseñas FOSS4G
En este artículo se organiza el texto de las reseñas para los Cuadernos de Tecnologías para el Desarrollo.
Plantilla
Esta plantilla necesita ser validada, se trata de los datos que cada reseña incluirá para cada proyecto.
- Nombre y web principal del proyecto
- Versión (tal vez con la fecha de la última release)
- Licencia
- Descripción corta (1 línea)
- Descripción larga (entre 2 y 3 párrafos)
Proyecto de ejemplo
- http://www.osgeo/org
- Versión estable: 1.1
- Licencia: GNU Public License 2.5
- ¿OSGeo?: No
- Descripción corta: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
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Bases de datos geoespaciales
- MySQL
- PostGIS
Servidores de mapas y geometrías
deegree
- http://deegree.org
- Versión estable: ???
- Licencia: GNU Lesser General Public License 2.1
- ¿OSGeo?: ???
- Descripción corta: a Java Framework offering the main building blocks for Spatial Data Infrastructures.
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- FeatureServer (??)
- GeoServer
- MapGuide Open Source
- TileCache
- UMN Mapserver
Servidores y herramientas de metadatos
- GeoNetwork Open Source
- CatMDEdit
Clientes ligeros
- Ka-Map!
- MapBender
- MapFish
- OpenLayers
Clientes de escritorio
- GRASS
- gvSIG
- QGis
- OpenJUMP
Feature Data Objects (FDO)
- http://fdo.osgeo.org
- Versión estable: ???
- Licencia: GNU Lesser General Public License 2.1
- ¿OSGeo?: ???
- Descripción corta: Feature Data Objects (FDO) is an API for manipulating, defining, and analyzing geospatial information regardless of where it is stored. FDO uses a provider-based model for supporting a variety of geospatial data sources, where each provider typically supports a particular data format or data store.
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Quantum GIS
- http://qgis.org
- Versión estable: ???
- Licencia: GNU General Public License 2.0
- ¿OSGeo?: ???
- Descripción corta: Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS) that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows. QGIS supports vector, raster, and database formats. QGIS is licensed under the GNU General Public License. QGIS lets you browse and create map data on your computer. It supports many common spatial data formats (e.g. ESRI ShapeFile, geotiff).
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GeoTools
- http://geotools.org
- Versión estable: ???
- Licencia: GNU Lesser General Public License 2.1
- ¿OSGeo?: ???
- Descripción corta: GeoTools is an open source (LGPL) Java code library which provides standards compliant methods for the manipulation of geospatial data, for example to implement Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The GeoTools library implements Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) specifications as they are developed, in close collaboration with the GeoAPI and GeoWidgets projects.
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GEOS
- http://geos.refractions.net/
- Versión estable: ???
- Licencia: GNU Lesser General Public License 2.1
- ¿OSGeo?: ???
- Descripción corta: GEOS (Geometry Engine - Open Source) is a C++ port of the Java Topology Suite (JTS). As such, it aims to contain the complete functionality of JTS in C++. This includes all the OpenGIS "Simple Features for SQL" spatial predicate functions and spatial operators, as well as specific JTS topology functions such as IsValid().
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Community MapBuilder
- http://communitymapbuilder.org/
- Versión estable: ???
- Licencia: GNU Lesser General Public License 2.1
- ¿OSGeo?: ???
- Descripción corta: MapBuilder is a powerful, standards compliant geographic mapping client which runs in a web browser.
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Sextante
- http://sextantegis.com
- Versión estable: ???
- Licencia: GNU General Public License 2.0
- ¿OSGeo?: ???
- Descripción corta: A library of free geospatial analysis tools
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gvSIG
- http://www.gvsig.gva.es
- Versión estable: ???
- Licencia: GNU General Public License 2.0
- ¿OSGeo?: ???
- Descripción corta: gvSIG is a tool oriented to manage geographic information. It is characterized by a user-friendly interface, with a quick access to the most usual raster and vector formats. In the same view it includes local as well as remote data through a WMS, WCS or WFS source.
It is aimed at users of geographic information, whether professionals or civil servants (city councils, councils, regional councils or ministries) from any part of the world (its interface is in several languages), in addition to being free.
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GDAL
- http://www.gdal.org
- Versión estable: ???
- Licencia: MIT License
- ¿OSGeo?: ???
- Descripción corta: GDAL is a translator library for raster geospatial data formats. The related OGR library (which lives within the GDAL source tree) provides a similar capability for simple features vector data.
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TileCache
- http://tilecache.org/
- Versión estable: ???
- Licencia: BSD-ish License
- ¿OSGeo?: ???
- Descripción corta: TileCache provides a Python-based WMS/TMS server, with pluggable caching mechanisms and rendering backends. In the simplest use case, TileCache requires only write access to a disk, the ability to run Python CGI scripts, and a WMS you want to be cached. With these resources, you can create your own local disk-based cache of any WMS server, and use the result in any WMS-C supporting client, like OpenLayers, or any TMS supporting client, like OpenLayers and worldKit.
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MapGuide Open Source
- http://mapguide.osgeo.org
- Versión estable: ???
- Licencia: GNU Lesser General Public License 2.1
- ¿OSGeo?: ???
- Descripción corta: MapGuide Open Source is a web-based platform that enables users to quickly develop and deploy web mapping applications and geospatial web services. MapGuide features an interactive viewer that includes support for feature selection, property inspection, map tips, and operations such as buffer, select within, and measure. MapGuide includes an XML database for managing content, and supports most popular geospatial file formats, databases, and standards. MapGuide can be deployed on Linux or Windows, supports Apache and IIS web servers, and offers extensive PHP, .NET, Java, and JavaScript APIs for application development.
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GeoNetwork opensource
- http://geonetwork-opensource.org/
- Versión estable: ???
- Licencia: GNU General Public License 2.0
- ¿OSGeo?: ???
- Descripción corta: 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 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.
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OpenLayers
- http://openlayers.org/
- Versión estable: ???
- Licencia: New BSD License
- ¿OSGeo?: ???
- Descripción corta: OpenLayers is a web mapping framework, allowing users to pull in disparate sources of data and display them in an AJAX mapping interface.
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GeoServer
- http://www.geoserver.org
- Versión estable: ???
- Licencia: GNU General Public License 2.0
- ¿OSGeo?: ???
- Descripción corta: GeoServer connects your information to the Geospatial Web.
With GeoServer you can publish and edit data using open standards. Your information is made available in a large variety of formats as maps/images or actual geospatial data. GeoServer's transactional capabilities offer robust support for shared editing. GeoServer's focus is ease of use and support for standards.
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ka-map
- http://ka-map.maptools.org
- Versión estable: ???
- Licencia: MapServer License
- ¿OSGeo?: ???
- Descripción corta: ka-Map ("ka" as in ka-boom!) is an open source project that is aimed at providing a javascript API for developing highly interactive web-mapping interfaces using features available in modern web browsers.
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MapFish
- http://trac.mapfish.org/trac/mapfish
- Versión estable: ???
- Licencia: GNU General Public License 3.0
- ¿OSGeo?: ???
- Descripción corta: MapFish is an easy-to-use and extensible web GIS application.
MapFish is composed of two parts: MapFish Client and MapFish Server. MapFish Client is a JavaScript framework based on OpenLayers for the mapping part, and on ExtJs for the GUI (widgets) part. MapFish Server is Python framework based on Pylons.
MapFish is intended to be easy to use either as a standalone application or as an addon to an already existing web application.
As a standalone application, MapFish offers ways to simply configure some parameters and quickly have a working web-GIS. But MapFish can also be simply included in an already existing website such as CMS or Information System oriented applications.
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FeatureServer
- http://featureserver.org/
- Versión estable: ???
- Licencia: BSD-ish License
- ¿OSGeo?: ???
- Descripción corta: FeatureServer is an implementation of a RESTful Geographic Feature Service. Using standard HTTP methods, you can fetch a representation of a feature or a collection of features, add new data to the service, or delete data from the service. Use it as an aggregator -- post your GeoRSS feeds to it, and then browse them using WFS. Use it as a translator: use the OGR DataSource to load a shapefile and open it in Google Earth. Use it in any way you like. This software is made available under an open source license by MetaCarta.
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MapServer
- http://mapserver.osgeo.org
- Versión estable: ???
- Licencia: MapServer License
- ¿OSGeo?: ???
- Descripción corta: MapServer is an Open Source development environment for building spatially-enabled internet applications.
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Mapbender
- http://www.mapbender.org
- Versión estable: ???
- Licencia: GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
- ¿OSGeo?: ???
- Descripción corta: Mapbender is an OSGeo Project about maps. The software is used to implement portal web sites for geo spatial data and maps. Mapbender can upload, manage, combine and request OGC OWS compliant map and feature services like MapServer and GeoServer. Mapbender is used to orchestrate these services in distributed web based architectures.
Mapbender is implemented in PHP, JavaScript, SQL and XML, provides a data model and interfaces for displaying, navigating and querying OGC compliant map services by authenticated and authorized users.
Mapbender is usually deployed in large architectures. Full multi client capability enables to operate Mapbender as a public portal with comprehensive cascading user management hierarchies.
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OpenJUMP
- http://www.openjump.org
- Versión estable: ???
- Licencia: GNU General Public License 2.0
- ¿OSGeo?: ???
- Descripción corta: 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 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.
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OSSIM
- http://www.ossim.org
- Versión estable: ???
- Licencia: GNU Lesser General Public License 2.1
- ¿OSGeo?: ???
- Descripción corta: OSSIM provides advanced geo-spatial image processing for remote sensing, photogrammetry, and Geographic Information Systems. Backed by an active open source software development community, OSSIM solutions have been deployed on a number of critical commercial and government systems.
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deegree
- http://deegree.org
- Versión estable: ???
- Licencia: GNU Lesser General Public License 2.1
- ¿OSGeo?: ???
- Descripción corta: a Java Framework offering the main building blocks for Spatial Data Infrastructures.
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GRASS GIS
- http://grass.osgeo.org
- Versión estable: ???
- Licencia: GNU General Public License 2.0
- ¿OSGeo?: ???
- Descripción corta: 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 commercial settings around the world, as well as by many governmental agencies and environmental consulting companies.
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