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This is an overview of major free GIS software projects. It is a personal selection aiming at listing only those projects that seem to have a stable user community or have potential to establish a wider user base. The content of this page is part of a manuscript that we submit end of January 2012: S. Steiniger and A.J.S. Hunter: ''"The 2012 Free and Open Source GIS Software Map  – A Guide to facilitate Research, Development and Adoption"''.

The categories of software used are based on that presented in Steiniger and Weibel (2010): "GIS software" [http://www.sage-ereference.com/geography/Article_n518.html].

To test some of the software below we recommend the OSGeo Live DVD (http://live.osgeo.org).

last update to this page was made on 13. Jan. 2012
[[File:Projectsmap_v1_150dpi_grey.jpg|300px|thumb|right|A selection of FOS GIS Software Projects 2011]] 

== Desktop GIS ==
major:
* GRASS  - http://grass.osgeo.org
* OpenJUMP  - http://www.openjump.org
* Quantum GIS - http://www.qgis.org
* ILWIS Open - http://www.ilwis.org (see also the page by [https://52north.org/communities/ilwis/ 52 North] for latest releases) 
* uDig - http://udig.refractions.net 
* SAGA - http://www.saga-gis.org
* vgSIG - http://www.gvsig.org , and for the community edition http://www.gvsigce.org
* MapWindow - http://www.mapwindow.org 

others:
* KOSMO - http://www.opengis.es
* Puzzle GIS - http://puzzle-gis.codehaus.org
* iGeoDesktop - http://www.deegree.org
* Orbis GIS - http://www.orbisgis.org
* Whitebox - http://www.uoguelph.ca/~hydrogeo/Whitebox
* Kalypso - http://kalypso.bjoernsen.de
* GearScape - http://gearscape.fergonco.es/
* Spring GIS - (not yet open source) http://www.dpi.inpe.br/spring/ 

== Spatial Data Base Managment Systems ==
major:
* PostGIS for PostgreSQL - http://postgis.refractions.net
* MySQL - http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/GIS_Functions
* SpatiaLite for SQLite - http://gaia-gis.it/spatialite/

others:
* JASPA for PostgreSQL and(!) H2 - http://jaspa.upv.es/blog/)
* Hatbox for H2 - http://hatbox.sourceforge.net
* Hibernate Spatial for Hibernate - http://hibernatespatial.org
* INGRES - http://community.ingres.com/wiki/IngresGeospatial 

NoSQL (see http://nosql-database.org/):
* GeoCouch for CouchDB - http://github.com/couchbase/geocouch
* MongoDB -  http://www.mongodb.or

== Server GIS (OGC WPS)==
* 52 North WPS - http://52north.org/communities/geoprocessing/
* deegree WPS - http://wiki.deegree.org/deegreeWiki/deegree3/ProcessingService
* PyWPS - http://pywps.wald.intevation.org
* Zoo - http://www.zoo-project.org
* GeoServer - http://www.geoserver.or
* WebGEN - http://aci.ign.fr/web_service.php

== Mobile GIS ==
* gvSIG Mobile - http://gvsig.org/web/projects/gvsig-mobile
* Geopaparazzi - see Android Market and http://code.google.com/p/geopaparazzi/

viewers for smart phones:
* gvSIG Mini - http://market.android.com/details?id=es.prodevelop.gvsig.mini&hl=en
* tangoGPS - http://www.tangogps.org
* FoxtrotGPS - http://www.foxtrotgps.org

== Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis Software ==
* OpenGeoDa - http://geodacenter.asu.edu
* STARS - http://geodacenter.asu.edu
* PySAL - http://geodacenter.asu.edu
* R - http://www.r-project.org
* GeoVista Studio - http://geovistastudio.psu.edu

== Remote Sensing Software ==
* OSSIM - http://www.ossim.org
* InterImage - http://www.lvc.ele.puc-rio.br/projects/interimage/
* Opticks - http://www.opticks.org
* GDL for IDL - http://gnudatalanguage.sourceforge.net/
* ILWIS - http://52north.org/communities/ilwis/ 

== Software Libraries and Extensions ==
=== Data input/output and conversion libraries ===

=== Geometry libraries ===

=== Projection libraries ===

=== Geographic data processing and analysis libraries ===

=== Other useful libraries ===
* JAVA Matrix Package (JAVA) - http://math.nist.gov/javanumerics/jama/
* JMathTools (Java) - http://jmathtools.berlios.de
* JGraphT (Java) - http://jgrapht.sourceforge.net
* JFreeChart (Java) - http://www.jfree.org
* GNU Scientific Library (C/C++) - http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/
* Boost (C/C++) - http://www.boost.org

=== General Frameworks for own GIS Development ===
* GeoTools for Java - http://www.geotools.org
* OpenMap for Java - http://openmap.bbn.com
* OpenJUMP GIS for Java & Jython (Python) - http://www.openjump.org
* SharpMap for .NET - http://codeplex.com/SharpMap
* DotSpatial for C++/.NET - by the MapWindow GIS developers, http://dotspatial.codeplex.com
* QGIS for C++ & Python - http://www.gqis.org

== Web Map Server (OGC WMS, WFS etc.) ==

== Web Map Application Development Frameworks ==
=== Map Viewer ===
major:

others:
* ModestMaps
* OpenZoom (image viewer for very large images)

=== General Map Application Development Frameworks ===

=== Tiling ===
* TileMill - XXX