GIS Stack Exchange
GIS Stack Exchange

Questions tagged [open-source-gis]

Software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed with or without modification.

540 questions
49
votes
4 answers

What are the FOSS equivalents to these ArcGIS products?

I'm a long-term user of ESRI software, and I now have a need to use free and open source software. I've been reading about OpenLayers, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, GeoServer and MapServer but I can't find a good overview stating what each product does, why…
Stephen Lead
  • 21,119
  • 17
  • 113
  • 240
31
votes
6 answers

Convincing organization to move towards Open Source GIS?

After spending the better part of the year on this site I am seeing how big the open source GIS community is. I used to just think it was ESRI and nothing else. That said, how do you begin to nudge or convince others that open source programs might…
Craig
  • 4,570
  • 7
  • 40
  • 71
15
votes
8 answers

Why choose open source software for remote sensing research?

If you judge by the amount of the questions regarding FOSS software that are being asked in GIS SE many users seems to prefer FOSS over proprietary software. I've read some articles - more precisely some personal blogs - supporting this choice.…
nickves
  • 11,519
  • 3
  • 42
  • 75
10
votes
2 answers

Are there any open source mapping APIs/toolkits for drawing axes,labels,graticules etc?

I tried to post a more generic question to meta, but it's my first question, so I didn't have a reputation yet. The first question I have is whether this is an appropriate place to ask questions about the availability of software "components"--APIs…
jhowland
  • 211
  • 1
  • 6
9
votes
2 answers

Looking for a tool for Orthorectification of Archived Air Photos

I was wondering if anyone knows of an open source, perferabily something for QGIS and not GRASS, that can be used for orthorectifying scanned archived air photos. I have looked at OSSIM and a few other packages, but they do not allow (from what I…
Ryan Garnett
  • 9,479
  • 8
  • 61
  • 106
4
votes
1 answer

Create Basemap with custom Data

I am getting trouble with creating a basemap with my own data. I have huge data. So I don't want to use any other basemap platform like leaflet or Mapbox or Google. I have tried with ArcGIS server and successfully complete the process. But Now my…
Devils Dream
  • 3,179
  • 9
  • 44
  • 78
3
votes
0 answers

Open Source True Ortho Software

My work does true ortho rectification. We are looking to transition into a more open source company. One of the processes we are looking to "open source" is true ortho. Does anyone know of a software package (open source) that can perform true…
Ryan Garnett
  • 9,479
  • 8
  • 61
  • 106
2
votes
2 answers

Somebody knows a test to my application using WMS 1.1 (as a client) with OGC Standard?

I need a test to certificate my application with the OGC Standard. Please if somebody knows a site or something in which i can do this please contact me or answer this topic.
user2606
1
vote
0 answers

Overlaying user raster datasets on nasa world wind

Currently I am developing a desktop application with Nasa world wind JDK for 3d visualization of my data sets, but when i overlay my raster data sets those are vertically exaggerating with the default elevation layer.Can anyone help me how i can…
Pradeep
  • 11
  • 1
1
vote
0 answers

free webgis environment solution?

Possible Duplicate: Steps to Start Web Mapping soon I will be trusted to develop a webgis system. This project will take an advantage of a currently developed business system. The business system is using pure PHP, Java and MySQL. The project plan…
Zery
  • 279
  • 1
  • 3
  • 13
1
vote
1 answer

Chosing a GeoCMS server collaboration tool

I have seen a few things about different GeoCms. Researching these, none of them by default to actually seem to be a GeoCMS. Somehow when you hook these up to mapserver they become a GeoCMS. I do not quite understand how this exactly works and I am…
Gravada
  • 11
  • 2
0
votes
1 answer

Equivalents of Esri products in open source for Web Mapping?

I have been using the following licensed products to publish my GIS data on web. web server: windows 2008 R2, GIS desktop: ArcGIS desktop, GIS web server: ArcGIS server, API: ArcGIS API for JS, Database: Oracle with ArcSDE, IDE: Eclipse. But now I…
Zia
  • 1,158
  • 1
  • 11
  • 28
0
votes
1 answer

Developer-friendly Embedded systems GIS library?

Having seen the answer to the smallest GIS library for embedded devices, I'm asking a related question. I want to do simple point-in-polygon and other spatial relationship tests against a shapefile. But I also want to invoke REST calls and so I just…
Phil Penn
  • 260
  • 3
  • 8
-1
votes
2 answers

FAHP/AHP for GIS in free software?

Anyone knows a free GIS software that implements the Analytic Hierarchical Process (or its fuzzy extended version) ? And while asking, have anyone had any experience with a commercial GIS that implements this process, if so, it would be nice to…
Akheloes
  • 688
  • 8
  • 17
-3
votes
2 answers

Can I get some recommendations for an Open Source Trouble Ticket system?

When I research trouble ticket systems a lot of them are for programming. I am interested in something more general purpose. Some things that would be a bonus would be: -Integrated with Drupal -PostgreSQL based -web interface for Clients Opinions…
wilsongis
  • 661
  • 6
  • 11