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• Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS)
  Homepage: http://grass.osgeo.org/
  Last update: 2009-09-23 11:23:53
  
  GRASS GIS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) is a Free Software Geographical Information System (GIS) with raster, topological vector, image processing, volume voxel management/visualization, 2D/3D vector engine with vector network analysis and graphics production functionality that operates on various platforms through shell and a graphical user interface.

  Books about GRASS:
  Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach by Markus Neteler and Helena Mitasova (new: 2007)

• Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS)
  Homepage: http://grass.itc.it/
  Last update: 2007-10-21 12:21:51
  
  GRASS GIS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) is a Free Software Geographical Information System (GIS) with raster, topological vector, image processing, volume voxel management/visualization, 2D/3D vector engine with vector network analysis and graphics production functionality that operates on various platforms through shell and a graphical user interface.

  Books about GRASS:
  Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach by Markus Neteler and Helena Mitasova (2004)

• Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS)
  Homepage: http://grass.itc.it/
  Last update: 2007-11-30 15:09:22
  
  GRASS GIS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) is a Free Software Geographical Information System (GIS) with raster, topological vector, image processing, volume voxel management/visualization, 2D/3D vector engine with vector network analysis and graphics production functionality that operates on various platforms through shell and a graphical user interface.

  Books about GRASS:
  Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach by Markus Neteler and Helena Mitasova (2007) with OSGeo Edu data set download

• Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL)
  Homepage: http://www.gdal.org
  Last update: 2008-12-12 10:41:50
  
  GDAL is a translator library for raster geospatial data formats. As a library, it presents a single abstract data model to the calling application for all supported formats.
• OGR
  Homepage: http://www.gdal.org/ogr
  Last update: 2007-12-12 21:29:24
  
  The OGR Simple Features Library is a C++ open source library (and commandline tools) providing read (and sometimes write) access to a variety of vector file formats including ESRI Shapefiles, and Mapinfo mid/mif and TAB formats.
• Quantum GIS (QGIS)
  Homepage: http://qgis.org/
  Last update: 2010-03-02 15:55:08
  
  Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Geographic Information System (GIS). QGIS supports vector, raster, and database formats. It supports many common spatial data formats. QGIS supports plugins to do things like display tracks from GPS or served online spatial data as OGC-compliant WMS or WFS.
• gen2shp
  Homepage: http://intevation.de/~jan/gen2shp/gen2shp.html
  Last update: 2001-07-20 14:00:00
  
  gen2shp is a simple C-Progam which can read the format required by the ESRI ArcInfo generate command.
• Gen2shp
  Homepage: http://arcscripts.esri.com/details.asp?dbid=10606
  Last update: 2006-06-25 22:59:55
  
  Implemented in Avenue, can be directly incorporated into AV projects. Converts 2D or 3D ASCII data from one or more generate format text files to one or more (multi-part) shapefiles. Available as Extension or just Scripts.
• edbs2wkt
  Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/edbs2wkt
  Last update: 2007-09-04 19:26:47
  
  Konverting the GIS-Format EDBS to Spatial-Database PostGIS and other using the Well Known Text-Interface. EDBS is a German Fileformat from ALK (Automatisierte Liegenschaftskarte).
• edbsilon
  Homepage: http://edbsilon.intevation.org/
  Last update: 2007-09-04 19:28:55
  
  edbsilon is a converter for data coming in EDBS or BZSN. After reading the EDBS- resp. BZSN-files the converter exports into various format, such as Oracle, PostGIS, Shapefiles and many others.
• wayp2shp
  Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/jt_taylor.geo/wayp2shp.html
  Last update: 2007-11-29 21:56:43
  
  A simple C-Program which can read a Waypoint+ file. The data in this file will be converted to shapefile format.
• Open Geographic Datastore Interface (OGDI)
  Homepage: http://ogdi.sourceforge.net/
  Last update: 2005-06-28 23:09:12
  
  OGDI is an application programming interface (API) that uses a standardized access methods to work in conjunction with GIS software packages (the application) and various geospatial data products. OGDI uses a client/server architecture to facilitate the dissemination of geospatial data products over any TCP/IP network, and a driver-oriented approach to facilitate access to several geospatial data products/formats. The OGDI core includes a C client library, a server, and drivers for RPF, VPF, ADRG and DTED file formats.
• SDTSxx (SDTS++)
  Homepage: http://mcmcweb.er.usgs.gov/sdts/sdtsxx/
  Last update: 2001-07-25 14:38:49
  
  SDTS++ is a C++ toolkit that programmers can use to write applications that can read or write SDTS datasets. Application developers can use SDTS++ library classes to work with the logical structure of these datasets without having to worry about the physical details of each dataset.
• E00compr
  Homepage: http://avce00.maptools.org/e00compr/index.html
  Last update: 2007-09-04 19:16:41
  
  E00compr is an ANSI C library that reads and writes Arc/Info compressed E00 files. Both "PARTIAL" and "FULL" compression levels are supported.
• shapelib
  Homepage: http://shapelib.maptools.org/
  Last update: 2003-12-03 11:08:57
  
  Shapelib is a simple C API for reading and writing ESRI ArcView Shapefiles. Simple sample tools are included. Python and Perl bindings are available.
• libgeotiff
  Homepage: http://geotiff.maptools.org/
  Last update: 2007-07-28 16:44:43
  
  Libgeotiff is a library normally hosted on top of libtiff for reading, and writing GeoTIFF information tags. The library offers a standard C API.
• AVCE00
  Homepage: http://avce00.maptools.org/avce00/index.html
  Last update: 2006-08-22 03:51:07
  
  AVCE00 is an ANSI C library that makes Arc/Info binary coverages appear as ASCII E00. It can be used to read existing binary coverages or create new ones. The library has been designed in a way that it can be easily plugged into an existing E00 translator that you want to extend to support binary coverages.
• DGNLib
  Homepage: http://dgnlib.maptools.org/
  Last update: 2003-09-19 09:16:39
  
  DGNLib is a simple C library for reading vector data from Microstation DGN files (also sometimes known as ISFF format).
• MITAB
  Homepage: http://mitab.maptools.org/
  Last update: 2006-08-15 20:35:00
  
  MITAB is a C++ library to read and write MapInfo .TAB (binary) and .MIF/MID files. It is based on the OGR library which is an implementation of the Open GIS Consortium Simple Feature specification.
• EDBS_extra
  Homepage: http://www.rinners.de/edbs/
  Last update: 2007-09-04 19:32:44
  
  EDBS_extra is a ANSI-C program to process EDBS orders with ATKIS data. All data are stored in a "readable" format. EDBS is an exchange format primarily used in Germany.
• sdts2dem
  Homepage: http://www.cs.arizona.edu/topovista/sdts2dem.html
  Last update: 2001-08-15 10:43:56
  
  This program dumps SDTS DEM modules to a data file which is supposed to reconstruct the original dem source file.
• APR-Parser
  Homepage: http://www.zalf.de/grano/parser.html
  Last update: 2003-08-15 23:02:56
  
  Perl script to extract infos from ArcView apr files into a database to ease indexing and searching. Documents the apr format.
• shp2svg
  Homepage: http://www.carto.net/papers/svg/utils/shp2svg/
  Last update: 2006-09-07 22:43:53
  
  shp2svg is a converter from Shapefile format to Scaleable Vector Graphic format (SVG).
• e00pg
  Homepage: http://e00pg.sourceforge.net
  Last update: 2007-09-04 19:20:20
  
  e00ps translates e00 tables to sql scripts suitable to be run in a PostGIS-enabled PostgreSQL database. e00pg does not support raster grids. Polygon topology is not formed in output features. The PAL section is copied "as is". All arcs come output as LINESTRING geometries.
• DEM2GeoEG
  Homepage: http://www.ai.sri.com/~reddy/geovrml/dem2geoeg/
  Last update: 2001-07-20 14:00:00
  
  DEM2GeoEG is a program to convert USGS Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data into a VRML .wrl file that uses the GeoVRML 1.0 GeoElevationGrid.
• tsmApi
  Homepage: http://www.tvgeo.com/tsmApi/
  Last update: 2005-11-18 01:53:33
  
  The Tile Set Manager (TSM) Application Programming Interface (API) is an Open Source library of high level C functions for reading, writing, and processing the terrain data used by the TerraVision terrain visualization application.
• LibreDWG
  Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/libredwg/
  Last update: 2010-05-31 15:31:45
  
  GNU LibreDWG is a free C library to handle DWG files. It aims to be a free replacement for the OpenDWG libraries. DWG is the native file format of AutoCAD.
• zigGIS
  Homepage: http://gforge2.uwc.ac.za/projects/ziggis
  Last update: 2007-11-23 21:18:23
  
  ESRI ArcGIS connector for connecting to PostGIS.
• wxapt
  Homepage: http://5b4az.chronos.org.uk/pages/apt.html
  Last update: 2007-11-29 23:08:33
  
  This is an APT satellite weather image decoder for Linux. It can decode APT images direct from the receivers audio o/p via the computers soundcard or from a file of recorded APT signal samples. Currently wxapt supports the NOAA-type and Meteor-type APT formats. wxapt automatically sets up the sound card and the mixers recording/capture volume to the correct level and then determines the type of satellite form the signature of its sync pulse train. wxapt is a simple non-interactive command line tool for the console and was designed to be efficient and suitable for running on low power machines using simpler processors like the Intel StrongArm and similar. For this reason wxapt uses only integer arithmetic for all processing and does not require linking to math libraries for calculations.

  There is also a GTK+-based user interface available which is called xwxapt.

• GeoJasper
  Homepage: http://www.dimin.net/software/geojasper/
  Last update: 2006-04-26 23:51:18
  
  GeoJasper is a command line transcoder between GeoTiff and GeoJp2™ (GeoJpeg2000).
• exportGge
  Homepage: http://exportgge.sourceforge.net/kml/en
  Last update: 2007-10-16 00:33:36
  
  CartoWeb plugin for Kml, geoRSS and geoJSON export of MapServer layers to Google Earth/Google Maps, Yahoo Maps and Virtual Earth.
• GPSBabel
  Homepage: http://gpsbabel.sourceforge.net/
  Last update: 2006-09-10 00:14:40
  
  GPSBabel reads and writes GPS waypoints in a variety of formats. Backends include GPX, Magellan and Garmin serial protocols, Geocaching.com *.loc, GPSMan, Garmin Mapsource *.mps, Magellan Mapsend *.wpt, SHAPE, and many others.
• rez
  Homepage: http://www.ping.com.au/3map/rez/
  Last update: 2003-02-24 18:12:03
  
  Free Software framework and tools for translating terrain data and images to different formats and generating multiresolution versions optimised for online broadband delivery.
• mdb2shapefile
  Homepage: http://www.webmapit.com.br/enus/download.php?file=3
  Last update: 2005-05-23 15:19:46
  
  mdb2shapefile is a GUI for exporting data of an Access table to a ShapeFile table(DBF).
• dxf2postgis
  Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dxf2postgis/
  Last update: 2007-10-21 16:02:05
  
  A tool to convert DXF files to PostGIS geometry tables. A single DXF file is converted to a PostgreSQL/PostGIS SQL script to create and populate 4 tables, using the AutoCAD information of point, line, polyline, text, circle, insert.
• DEMTools
  Homepage: http://www.arq.net/~kasten/demtools/
  Last update: 2001-10-02 09:27:22
  
  This package is useful for previewing DEM data sets and wandering around in virtual representations of various places on the planet. The DEM tools package contains a DEM to VRML conversion program.
• sfcorba2java
  Homepage: http://katla.giub.uni-bonn.de/sfjava/
  Last update: 2001-07-20 14:00:00
  
  This project aimes at a Java implementation of the OGC Simple Features Specification for CORBA. A Java shapefile-reader is included as well.
• GML4J
  Homepage: http://gml4j.sourceforge.net/
  Last update: 2001-07-20 14:00:00
  
  GML4J is a Java API for facilitating work with the Geography Markup Language. GML is an XML-based framework for encoding geography information adopted as a recommendation paper by OGC.
• gpsmanshp
  Homepage: http://www.ncc.up.pt/gpsmanshp/
  Last update: 2003-03-19 16:42:20
  
  A set of Tcl commands that provide the means for creating and reading files in the ESRI Shapefile format for keeping 2 or 3 dimensional points and polylines.
• NTXShape
  Homepage: http://ntxshape.sourceforge.net/
  Last update: 2002-06-19 08:36:36
  
  Converts files from the CARIS NTX format into widely supported shapefiles, preserving virtually all features and attributes. Supports points, lines, polygons, text, spot heights and soundings. Includes a batch utility, an API, and an ArcView extension.
• shapetools
  Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/shapetools
  Last update: 2003-03-06 23:31:03
  
  This is a very simple tool to convert from ARCINFO EXPORT (.E00) to ESRI ShapeFile. Actually there are two tools, e002shp and mysql2shp
• GeoCon
  Homepage: http://www.mycgiserver.com/~amri/geocon.cocoon.xml
  Last update: 2005-01-31 21:19:41
  
  GeoCon (in C# for .NET) is a tool for creating Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and Geography Markup Language (GML 2.0) documents from GIS files (ArcView Shapefiles and MapInfo MIF files). Download page: http://www.mycgiserver.com/~amri/download.cocoon.xml
• Aequometer
  Homepage: http://www.aequometer.de/
  Last update: 2005-06-27 16:04:57
  
  Only german description available (see there). Also, the whole website and software documentation is in german.
• Uber-Converter
  Homepage: http://scratchcomputing.com/projects/uber-converter/
  Last update: 2005-12-08 00:22:32
  
  The Uber-Converter is a universal vector graphics translator. There is actually no uber-converter program. This project is a collection of interoperable file-conversion programs.
• PostGIS - ArcMap Connector Project (PgArc)
  Homepage: http://pgarc.sourceforge.net/
  Last update: 2006-01-10 12:10:20
  
  This project produces an Extension and VBA module that allows ESRIs ArcMap (v8.x) product to access Open Source Postgresql/PostGIS spatial data tables. Includes importing tables and exporting/updating back to the database.
• GeoClass for PHP
  Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/geoclassphp/
  Last update: 2006-01-11 18:40:25
  
  GeoClass for PHP provides classes to handle georeferenced data. Features are: circumference search in (relational) databases, handlers for NIMA-DB and openGeoDB, distance calculation, creation of maps from .e00 or .ovl files and more (rdf, soap, etc).
• cptutils
  Homepage: http://pdfb.wiredworkplace.net/pub/jjg/code/cptutils.html
  Last update: 2007-02-26 21:32:22
  
  cpt is a format for colour gradients used by GMT. The cptutils allow various conversions, gimp, SVG and ArcView Legends among them. For the latter a ODB parser and support library is integrated.
• EDBSjavaReader
  Homepage: ftp://intevation.de/freegis/misc/EDBSjavaReader-1.0.0.tar.gz
  Last update: 2007-09-04 19:31:01
  
  Routines to read EDBS format (ATKIS). Java and Oracle is required.
• ext_shapelib
  Homepage: http://nona.net/software/ext_shapelib/
  Last update: 2007-09-04 19:47:53
  
  ext_shapelib is an extension for PHP, enabling PHP scripts to access shapefiles (*.shp/*.shx/*.dbf) as used in many GIS applications. Ext_shapelib is a wrapper around the C shapelib, and makes a subset of the Shapelib API available to PHP scripts.
• acadmap2pgsql
  Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/acadmap2pgsql
  Last update: 2007-08-22 08:29:13
  
  The program is an converter of Autodesk Map to the PostgreSQL/PostGIS database management system. The function of the program is to convert all geometrical information and the combined object data into SQL-commands and to issue a pgsql-dump.
• Free Feature Server (FreeFS)
  Homepage: http://freegis.org/details.de.html?name=Geoserver
  Last update: 2007-09-04 20:27:39
  
  This project merged with Geoserver

  FreeFS is an implementation of the OpenGIS Consortiums Web Feature Server v0.0.13 (WFS) specification. FreeFS aspires to be the primary translator between the current cacophony of geographic storage formats and Geography Markup Language (GML) for vector-based geographic data.

• SVG2MIF
  Homepage: http://www.geotests.net/beta/svg2mif.zip
  Last update: 2007-04-16 22:46:21
  
  SVG2MIF converts SVG vector drawings to a MIF/MID GIS layer.
• DXF library (dxflib)
  Homepage: http://www.ribbonsoft.com/dxflib.html
  Last update: 2007-10-21 15:10:48
  
  A C++ library for reading and writing AutoCAD (R) DXF files.
• DXF Import, Manipulation, and Export library (DIME)
  Homepage: http://www.coin3d.org/lib/dime
  Last update: 2007-10-21 15:06:20
  
  Dime is a C++ class library for reading, constructing, manipulating, and writing (AutoCADs) DXF file data. A small example program that converts DXF files to VRML files (only the polygon data) is included.
• SVG Toolkit
  Homepage: http://sis.cmis.csiro.au/svg/
  Last update: 2001-07-25 12:15:30
  
  SVG or Scalable Vector Graphics is a language for describing two-dimensional graphics in XML. SVG is currently being developed as a standard for web-based display of vector data such lines and polygons as well as images and text. About the SVG Toolkit The authors interest is in the applicability of SVG to geospatial applications. The software is implemented in Java.
• dbf2info
  Homepage: ftp://freegis.org/freegis/misc/dbf2info.zip
  Last update: 2003-10-24 13:38:19
  
  This package is a set of utilities for translating data between dBASE dbf, ASCII, and ARC/INFO formats. Most of the programs run either as ARC commands or as system commands independent of ARC/INFO.

  The package has no active maintainer. The link points to the last available archive (less than 400 KByte).

• GeoVRML
  Homepage: http://www.geovrml.org/
  Last update: 2007-03-28 18:03:50
  
  GeoVRML is an effort to provide support for representing and visualizing geographic data using standard VRML97 (Virtual Reality Modeling Language). The full source code for the GeoVRML 1.1 sample implementation (Java). NOTE: depends on non-free module "GeoTransform"!
• pyshapelib
  Homepage: http://ftp.intevation.de/users/bh/pyshapelib/
  Last update: 2004-06-01 10:26:13
  
  pyshapelib is a python wrapper for shapelib, a free software library for reading and writing ESRI shapefiles.
• DXFtoShapefile
  Homepage: http://happysquirrel.com/index.php?feature=dxf2shp
  Last update: 2006-02-01 01:09:02
  
  A tool for converting AutoCad DXF (Data eXchange Format) files into ESRI Shapefiles using dxflib.
• gpx2shp
  Homepage: http://gpx2shp.sourceforge.jp/
  Last update: 2007-01-09 21:47:54
  
  A converter from the GPS Exchange Format(*.gpx) to ESRI/shape format(*.shp).