Overview of Free & Open source Desktop GIS (FOS-GIS)
below you can find links to two tables that should give an overview of
free Desktop GIS and projects.
Desktop GIS means thereby that we did not inlcude map web server tools
or basic GIS libraries.
Please be aware that this listing is probably not
comprehensive.
- OS Desktop GIS - general overview table
- OS Desktop GIS - functionality table
- GIS software that does not qualify for the tables above
The tables can be altered on request. Please write to
sstein[-at-]geo.uzh.ch - and preferably add the
tables with your changes (use for instance word doc + track changes
mode)
We also wrote an article that provides some more information on the
desktop GIS projects and additionally
contains an introduction on open source licenses and FOSGIS
organizations.
Acknowledgments:
I have to thank numerous people
of the different projects for contributing information: GRASS: Markus
Neteler, Otto Dassau, Marco Hugentobler and Stefan Holl; KOSMO: Manuel
Navarro; MapWindow: Daniel Ames, uDig: Jody Garnet and Jesse Eichar,
SAGA: Olaf Conrad; ILWIS: Martin Schouwenburg; OpenJUMP: Michaël
Michaud, DeeJUMP: Andreas Schmitz; PirolJUMP: Arnd Kielhorn; SkyJUMP:
Larry Becker; gvSIG: Mario Carrera; and OrbisGIS: Erwan Bocher. I
would like to thank Ralf Tauscher, Jan-Oliver Wagner and others for
comments and suggestions on foregoing presentation slides and first
manuscript versions. Finally many thanks to Gary Sherman for hosting
this page.
last change: 24 April 2008 - added link to article.
Stefan S.