Wednesday, November 23, 2005

opensource gis desktop clients

Recently some opensource (free) desktop GIS clients came to my attention.

Basic clients

openEv is a basic gis-viewer by frank warmerdam (http://fwtools.maptools.org/ )

development environments

Lots of groups offer platfoms in which you can easily build your own desktop gis client.

http://www.geovistastudio.psu.edu

http://www.vividsolutions.com/jts/jtshome.htm

http://openmap.bbn.com

Free clients
- the guys at http://www.tatukgis.com created a Delphi.net environment in wich you can build your own viewer with a few clicks. But they also offer e simple viewer for free. Tatuk manages to put all gis-functionality in just a tiny 10mb application.

soon to come
- At http://fmaps.sourceforge.net they are coding to bring a decent gis-client to the linux-platform. They use postgis to store data.

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