Awesome GIS

Awesome GIS is a collection of geospatial related sources, including cartographic tools, geoanalysis tools, developer tools, data, conference & communities, news, massive open online course, some amazing map sites, and more.

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Table Of Contents:

• Open Books
• Geographic Information System Software
• Remote Sensing Software
• 3D Applications
• Web Map Servers
• Front-end Framework
• Spatial Database
• Mobile Develop Tools
• Deep Learning
  • Deep Learning Framework for Geospatial
  • Deep Learning Datasets
• Map Render Engine
• Geospatial Library
  • C
  • C++
  • Clojure
  • Crystal
  • C Sharp
  • CSS
  • Delphi
  • Elixir
  • Fortran
  • Go
  • Groovy
  • Haskell
  • IDL
  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • Julia
  • Kotlin
  • Lisp
  • Lua
  • Perl
  • PHP
  • Python
  • R
  • Ruby
  • Rust
  • Scala
  • Swift
• Open Standards
• Cloud Service
  • DaaS
  • SaaS
• Conference & Communities
• Data
• News Sites
• Awesome-Awesome
• Amazing Map Sites
• Other
  • Data Formats
  • Design Materials
  • Geospatial Start-ups And Companies
  • MOOC
  • PODCASTS
  • DEFUNCT GEOSPATIAL PODCASTS
• Reference

Open Books

• Geospatial Data Science with Julia - Open book on geospatial data science with the Julia programming language.

Geographic Information System Software

• ArcGIS Desktop: Extendable desktop suite to manage, visualize and analyze GIS data in 2D and 3D, including image processing. Includes ArcGIS Pro, ArcMap, ArcCatalog, and ArcGIS Online.
• DIVA-GIS - DIVA-GIS is a free geographic information system software program used for the analysis of geographic data, in particular point data on biodiversity.
• GeoDa - A free and open source software tool that serves as an introduction to spatial data analysis.
• GISInternals - Povidesdaily build packages and software development kits for the GDAL and MapServer
• Global Mapper - An easy-to-use, robust, and genuinely affordable GIS application that combines a wide array of spatial data processing tools with access to an unparalleled variety of data formats.
• GRASS GIS - A free and open source GIS software suite used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics and maps production, spatial modeling, and visualization.
• gvSIG - A powerful, user-friendly, interoperable GIS.
• JUMP GIS - An open source GIS written in Java
• MapInfo Pro - A full-featured desktop solution to prepare data for web mapping applications and create presentation quality maps that combines data analysis, visual insights, and map publishing.
• Marble - A virtual globe and world atlas.
• OpenOrienteering Mapper - A software for creating maps for the orienteering sport.
• QGIS :star2: - A free and open source GIS.
• SAGA - Open source system for automated geoscientific analyses.
• SharpMap - An easy-to-use mapping library for use in web and desktop applications
• TileMill - An open source map design studio, developed by a community of volunteer open source contributors
• uDig - An open source (EPL and BSD) desktop application framework, built with Eclipse Rich Client (RCP) technology.
• Whitebox GAT - An open source desktop GIS and remote sensing software package for general applications of geospatial analysis and data visualization.
• DIVA-GIS - DIVA-GIS is a free geographic information system software program used for the analysis of geographic data, in particular point data on biodiversity.
• Abc-Map - A lightweight and user-friendly Web GIS. Create, import data from various sources, export maps or share them online freely and easily.

Remote Sensing Software

• eCognition - A powerful development environment for object-based image analysis.
• ENVI :star2: - A geospatial imagery analysis and processing software.
• ERDAS IMAGINE :star2: - A geospatial imagery analysis and processing software.
• Google Earth - A computer program that renders a 3D representation of Earth based on satellite imagery.
• Google Earth Studio - An animation tool for Google Earth’s satellite and 3D imagery.
• GRASS GIS - A free and open source GIS software suite used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics and maps production, spatial modeling, and visualization.
• Opticks - An expandable remote sensing and imagery analysis software platform that is free and open source.
• Orfeo toolbox - An open-source project for state-of-the-art remote sensing, including a fast image viewer, apps callable from Bash, Python or QGIS, and a powerful C++ API.
• PANOPLY- Panoply plots geo-referenced and other arrays from netCDF, HDF, GRIB, and other datasets.
• PCI Geomatica - A remote sensing desktop software package for processing earth observation data.
• SNAP - A common architecture for all Sentinel Toolboxes.

3D Applications

• ArcGIS Earth - Allows you to explore any part of the world. Work with a variety of 3D and 2D map data formatt, including KML. Display data, sketch placemarks, measure and perform interactive analysis, and add annotations.
• CityEngine - Advanced 3D modeling software.
• DEM Net Elevation API - 3D terrain model generation online from open data (DEM, OSM) and imagery, exports to STL and glTF.
• Earth Enterprise - the open source release of Google Earth Enterprise, a geospatial application which provides the ability to build and host custom 3D globes and 2D maps.
• Google Earth - A computer program that renders a 3D representation of Earth based on satellite imagery.
• Skyline - 3D desktop and web-based applications, enabling an enterprise to build, edit, navigate, query, and analyze realistic 3D environments.
• World Wind - An SDK (software development kit) that software engineers can use to build their own applications

Web Map Servers

• ArcGIS Server - A GIS server for enterprise application.
• Baremaps - Apache Baremaps is a toolkit and a set of infrastructure components for creating, publishing, and operating online maps.
• deegree - An open source software for spatial data infrastructures and the geospatial web
• GeoDjango - A GIS server built with python web framework -- django
• geomajas - An open source platform to create Web GIS applications
• GeoMOOSE - A Web Client JavaScript Framework for displaying distributed cartographic data
• GeoNode - Open Source Geospatial Content Management System.
• GeoServer - An open source server for sharing geospatial data
• GeoTrellis - A geographic data processing engine for high performance applications that uses Spark to work with raster data.
• GeoWebCache - A java web application used to cache map tiles coming from a variety of sources such as OGC WMS in order to accelerate and optimize map image delivery.
• Google Earth Enterprise - the open source release of Google Earth Enterprise, a geospatial application which provides the ability to build and host custom 3D globes and 2D maps.
• mapbender3 - Publishing spatial data infrastructure services on the Symfony 2 PHP
• MapFish - A framework for building rich web-mapping applications built with Pylons Python web framework
• MapGuide - A Web Client JavaScript Framework for displaying distributed cartographic data
• Mapnik - An open source mapping toolkit written in C++ for desktop-based and server-based map rendering
• MapServer - Publishing spatial data and interactive mapping applications to the web
• MapTiler Server - Map server for self-hosting of vector tiles, satellite imagery, own geodata and data from PostGIS database.
• Nanocubes - An in-memory data structure for spatiotemporal data cubes. Github Link
• NextGIS Web - An open source framework for storage, visualization and permissions management of all kinds of geospatial data.
• OpenTileServer - This script is for building a basic tile server with OpenStreetMap data.
• QGIS Server - a FastCGI/CGI application written in C++ that works together with a webserver.
• SuperMap iServer - A Cloud GIS application server based on high-efficiency cross-platform GIS kernel, having the functions like 2D & 3D integration service publishing, management and cluster, providing multi-layer extension development abilities.

Front-end Framework

• ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript - Build high-performing 2D and 3D mapping applications supported by Esri.
• CesiumJS - An open source JavaScript library for world-class 3D globes and maps
• Clockwork Micro - Geospatial tools to create vector tile endpoints from postgis databases and full web maps.
• CMV - The Configurable Map Viewer (CMV) is an open source mapping framework that works with ESRI JavaScript API, ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS Online, and more.
• d3-carto-map - A library for creating layer-based maps using D3
• d3-geomap - A library for creating geographical maps based on D3.js.
• D3.js - A JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data
• Echarts - A user-friendly data visualisation library supported by Baidu
• geomajas-client javascript - Open source JavaScript mapping API for cool maps and apps
• Google Maps Javascript API - A JavaScript api for google map
• jVectorMap - A vector-based, cross-browser and cross-platform component for interactive geography-related data visualization on the web. Github Link
• L7 - Large-scale WebGL-powered Geospatial Data Visualization By Ant Financial
• Leaflet - Open source javaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
• Leaflet-Geoman - A poweful leaflet plugin for drawing and editing geometry layers
• Mapbox GL JS - A JavaScript & WebGL library that renders interactive maps from vector tiles and the Mapbox GL Style Specification
• MapLibre GL - Is a community led fork derived from Mapbox GL JS prior to their switch to a non-OSS license
• maptalks.js - A light and plugable JavaScript library for integrated 2D/3D maps.
• Mapv - A library of geography visualization
• OpenGlobus - JavaScript 3D maps and geospatial data visualization engine library. It uses the pure WebGL technology.
• OpenLayers - Open source JavaScript map viewing library
• OpenMapTiles - Set of open-source tools for self-hosting of OpenStreetMap maps in more than 50 languages. It provides both raster as well as vector tiles, WMS and WMTS services for GIS programs, support for JavaScript viewers and mobile SDK.
• Polymaps - A JavaScript library for image- and vector-tiled maps using SVG
• SuperMap iClient JavaScript - Cloud GIS web client development platform supported by