Stefan Steiniger
Version: 24 March 2008 (updated MapWindows
data)
Note: this page contains two tables first and
exhaustive functionality table and below a short overview table.
Help on missing information is appreciated (e.g. download the word doc
version and use Word’s „track-changes“ modus)
Functionality
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Desktop GIS |
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QGIS* (Quantum GIS) |
uDig* |
gvSIG (Generalitat Valenciana, Sistema
d'Informació Geogrŕfica) |
SAGA (System for Automated GeoScientific Analysis) |
JUMP Family |
ILWIS |
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uDig |
JGrass |
DivaGIS |
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FOCUS |
Spatial analysis and
scientific visualization |
Viewing, Editing GRASS-Graphical User
Interface |
Viewing (OGC standards) Application Framewor |
Raster Analysis based on
GRASS |
Analyze and document potato genotypes |
replacing
ArcView |
Analysis, modelling, visualisation (focus on raster) |
Editing
& Data conflation |
Editing
& Vector Analysis |
Editing |
Editing
& Vector Analysis |
Editing
& OGC standards |
(Raster) Analysis entries incomplete |
ArcView substitute for advanced users |
Providing
core GIS and GUI functions, developing Decision Support Systems |
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Data Import/ Export |
Reading - Raster/Images |
All GDAL
supported formats, also
voxel support |
All GDAL
supported formats |
Yes (1.1.0 is limited to memory) |
Yes (through GRASS and Geotools) |
Yes (Through Geotools) |
ECW, MrSID, JPEG,jpg, jp2, TIF, geoTIFF, PNG, GIF, img,
bmp, jpeg2000 |
All GDAL
supported formats and more |
jpg, tif, geoTIFF, png, ecw(p) |
jpg, tif, geoTIFF, png, ecw(p), MrSID(p) |
jpg, MrSID |
jpg, tif, geoTIFF, png, ecw(p),
MrSID(p) |
jpg, tif, geoTIFF, png, ecw(p),
MrSID(p) |
uses GDAL |
ECW, MrSID, geoTIFF, JPEG, jpg,
jpg2, TIF, png, gif, img, bmp, jpeg2000 |
All GDAL supported
formats + BGD, and others. |
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Reading – Vector |
Yes (through OGR) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Shp,
DXF, DGN, DWG, GML |
SHP and more |
Shp, FME GML, JML, WKT, DXF(P),
MIF(P) |
Shp, FME GML, JML, WKT, DXF(P),
MIF(P) |
Shp, FME GML, JML, WKT, DXF(P),
MIF(P) |
Shp, FME GML, JML, WKT, DXF(P),
MIF(P) |
Shp, FME GML, JML, WKT, DXF(P),
MIF(P), deegree GML3, deegree shp |
At least: SHP, DXF |
Shp, DXF, DGN, DWG, CSV |
At least:
SHP, DXF(P). CSV(P) |
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Reading tabular data |
Yes (CSV + many more) |
Yes |
No |
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CSV, DBF, ODBC, HSQLDB, MySQL,
PostgreSQ, Oracle |
DBF, TXT, CSV, ODBC |
No |
CSV |
No |
CSV |
CSV |
??? |
CSV, DBF, MDB |
DBF, CSV(P), MDB(P) |
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Reading – Databases |
PostGIS, PostgreSQL, ODBC, MySQL,
SQLite, Oracle |
PostGIS |
PostGIS, Oracle, DB2, ArcSDE |
PostGIS, Oracle, DB2, ArcSDE |
PostGIS, Oracle, DB2, ArcSDE |
PostGIS, HSQLDB, MySQL, Oracle Spatial |
Intended |
PostGIS,
Oracle(p), ArcSDE(p) |
PostGIS,
Oracle(p), ArcSDE(p) |
PostGIS, Oracle(p), ArcSDE |
PostGIS,
Oracle(p), ArcSDE(p) |
PostGIS,
Oracle(p) ArcSDE(p) |
no |
PostGIS, Oracle Spatial/ Locator MYSQL |
PostGIS(p) |
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Writing – Raster/Images |
All GDAL-formats |
no |
yes |
yes |
yes |
GeoTIFF, ecw, jpeg, jpeg2000 |
All GDAL
supported formats and more |
jpg, png |
jpg, png |
jpg, png |
jpg, png, tif(p) |
jpg, png |
uses GDAL |
jpg, png, tif, gif, bmp |
All GDAL
supported formats and more |
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Writing – Vector |
All OGR-formats |
Yes
(Shape) (through OGR) |
Yes (Shape) |
Yes (Shape) |
Yes (Shape) |
Shp, dxf, GML |
SHP and more |
Shp, FME GML, JML, WKT, MIF(p),
DXF(p) |
Shp, FME GML, JML, WKT, MIF(p),
DXF(p) SVG (without attributes) |
Shp, FME GML, JML, WKT, MIF(p),
DXF(p) |
Shp, FME GML, JML, WKT, MIF(p),
DXF(p) SVG (without attributes) |
Shp, FME GML, JML, WKT, MIF(p),
DXF(p), deegree
GML3, deegree Shp, SVG (without attributes) |
At least: SHP, DXF |
Shp, Dxf, |
At
least: SHP |
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Writing tabular data |
CSV |
no |
no |
no |
no |
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DBF, TXT, CSV |
copy to Excel table possible |
copy to Excel table possible |
copy to Excel table possible |
copy to Excel table possible |
copy to Excel table possible |
??? |
Excel |
copy to Excel table
possible |
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Writing - Databases |
PostGIS (p, limited) |
PostGIS |
PostGIS, Oracle, DB2, ArcSDE |
PostGIS, Oracle, DB2, ArcSDE |
PostGIS, Oracle, DB2, ArcSDE |
Postgis, Oracle Spatial |
Intended |
PostGIS (p;limited) |
PostGIS (p;limited) |
PostGIS (p;limited) |
PostGIS (p;limited) |
PostGIS (p;limited) |
no |
MySQL, Oracle, Postgres |
PostGIS(p), MDB(p) |
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Vector Data Creation and Editing |
Drawing and Editing tools (Points, Lines, Polygons) |
yes, also 3D vector support |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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Attribute Calculator |
yes,
via SQL |
No |
no |
no |
no |
yes |
yes |
No |
Yes (limited) |
No |
Yes (limited) |
Yes (limited) |
??? |
yes |
Yes |
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Q/A: Quality Assurance Tools |
yes |
No |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Yes (lines) |
no |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
??? |
yes |
no |
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Join tables |
In database (GRASS 6.3 v.db.join) |
No |
no |
no |
no |
yes |
yes |
No |
yes |
No |
yes |
No |
??? |
yes |
no |
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Others |
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