A high-level overview of some of the key players in the open source geospatial landscape. Already dated by now.

1. Open Source Geospatial Ready for Prime Time Mark Leslie LISAsoft www.lisasoft.com

2. Open Source Geospatial Foundation “ Created to support and build the highest-quality open source geospatial software. Our goal is to encourage the use and collaborative development of community-led [geospatial] projects.” 14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial http://www.osgeo.org/

3. Open Geospatial Consortium “… an international industry consortium of 366 companies, government agencies and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available interface specifications.” 14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial http://www.opengeospatial.org/

4. Open Source SDI Architecture 14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial

5. Database 14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial

7. Basic topology and curved geometry

9. Simple Features for SQL compliant Image Copyright : William Scot

11. Supports geometric index on default storage engine

12. Range of analytical functionality

13. Relational operators support BBox only 14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial

14. 14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial

16. MapServer

17. MapGuide OS

18. TileCache

19. deegree 14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial

21. Very strong documentation

23. Flexible security model

25. WMS, WFS, WCS, SOS service

26. Thematic mapping using logical/regex classes

27. Advanced labelling engine 14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial

29. Includes Fusion development framework

30. Highly scalable design

31. Connection-oriented, role-based security 14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial

33. Extremely modular and highly decoupled

34. OGC reference implementation for WMS and WCS

35. WMS, WCS, WFS and security modules 14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial

37. Portal/catalogue components of SDI 1.0

38. Manage and public metadata

39. Supports multiple metadata standards

40. New standard supported by XSLT transform

41. Robust user/group security model 14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial

43. Highly scalable, high speed

44. Can be a dynamic cache, or pre-cached

45. Supports WMS-C and TMS specifications

46. Pluggable rendering backends

47. Pluggable caching mechanisms 14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial

48. 14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial

50. GRASS

51. QGIS

52. gvSig

53. uDig 14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial

55. Written as a GUI for data integration algorithms

56. OpenJUMP forked in 2004

57. Advanced analytical and data integration capabilities available as plugins

58. Memory resident feature processing 14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial

59. 14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial

61. Now includes vector analysis capabilities

62. Powerful command line interface

63. Input: GDAL, OGR, PostGIS 14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial

64. 14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial

66. Rapidly grew to a fully featured GIS app

67. GPS Integration

68. Print composer

69. Digitising tools

70. Spatial bookmarks 14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial

71. 14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial

73. Goal of moving the CIT to open source

75. Modularity

77. Interoperable

78. Subject to Standards

79. 14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial

81. Designed as an internet based client

82. Full streaming rendering and processing

83. Highly extensible plugin architecture

84. Mature feature manipulation tools 14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial

85. 14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial

86. 14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial

88. MapBuilder

89. Mapbender 14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial

92. Requires JS know-how Image Copyright: Luca Galuzzi

94. Provides authentication and authorisation functionality and management interfaces

95. Provides Geo-Content Management 14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial

96. 14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial

98. GRASS 14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial

99. Open Source SDI Architecture 14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial

100. Questions? Mark Leslie [email_address] Image Copyright : Mark Leslie