OSGeoLive

An Open Source Geospatial GNU/Linux Distribution

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This OSGeoLive Lightning Overview, originally compiled by Cameron Shorter is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. It is derived from OSGeoLive Project Overviews, which are authored by the numerous OSGeoLive authors as referenced in the credits page at the end of this presentation, and also at http://live.osgeo.org.

We have created this presentation in the hope that it will help increase the awareness and uptake of the breadth of quality GeoSpatial Open Source Software.

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What is OSGeoLive?

50+ Open Source Geospatial Applications
Sample Datasets
Consistent Overviews & Quickstarts
Translations

DVD / USB / Virtual Machine

Quality Criteria

Established, stable, working software
Active community
http://live.osgeo.org/en/metrics.html

Production & Marketing Pipeline

OSGeo-Live provides a production and marketing pipeline, providing value to a whole range of user groups.

Developers who package and support testing of their applications on OSGeo-Live get their applications marketed at conferences, workshops and on the web.

Document writers get their documentation reviewed, translated into multiple languages and published.

Translators are provided with quality source documentation, and a publish through OSGeo web pages.

Conference organisors welcome presentations which explain the breadth of Geospatial Open Source, often having a VIP present a derivative of the OSGeo-Live during keynote presentations, and adding value to delegates by giving away an OSGeo-Live DVD or USB.

Geospatial educators and workshop presenters use the stable OGeo-Live Virtual Machine or USB for practical class room settings.

Which all leads to Architects and Developers discovering, and then incorporating Open Source Geospatial software in their projects.

New in 9.0?

Code moved to git
64bit version available

Open Source Geospatial
Foundation (OSGeo)

Since 2006 A Non Profit Umbrella for:

GeoSpatial Free and Open Source Software
Education
Open Data

OGC Standards

Interoperability
Future Proof
Return on Investment

Desktop GIS

General GIS viewing, editing, and analysis on the desktop

QGIS	GRASS GIS	gvSIG	uDig
Kosmo	OpenJUMP	SAGA

QGIS - Desktop GIS

GRASS GIS

GRASS GIS provides powerful raster, vector, and geospatial processing. It includes tools for spatial modeling, visualization of raster and vector data, management and analysis of geospatial data, and the processing of satellite and aerial imagery. It also provides the capability to produce sophisticated presentation graphics and hardcopy maps.

It includes over 400 built-in analysis modules and 100 community supplied modules and toolboxes.

With over 30 years of continuous development, GRASS is both the oldest and largest Open Source GIS available. It is capable of very powerful analysis, but may not be as simple to get started with as other offerings with more of a geodata viewer focus. Many Open Source projects make use of GRASS's algorithms.

gvSIG - Desktop GIS

uDig: User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS

OpenJUMP GIS

Kosmo - Desktop GIS

SAGA - Desktop GIS

Browser Facing GIS

General GIS viewing, editing and analysis in the browser

OpenLayers	Leaflet	Cesium	Geomajas
Mapbender	GeoMOOSE	Cartaro	GeoNode

OpenLayers - Browser Mapping Library

Leaflet - Mobile Friendly
Interactive Maps

Cesium - 3D globes and 2D maps in a browser

Geomajas - Browser GIS Client

Mapbender - Geoportal
Framework

GeoMoose - Web GIS Portal

Cartaro - Geospatial CMS

GeoNode - Geospatial CMS

Web Services

Publishing spatial data to the internet

GeoServer	MapServer	deegree	ncWMS
EOxServer	GeoNetwork	pycsw	MapProxy
QGIS Server	52North WPS/SOS	TinyOWS	Zoo Project

GeoServer - Web Services

MapServer - Web Services

deegree - Web Services

ncWMS - Web Map Service

EOxServer - Web Coverage Service

GeoNetwork - Metadata
Catalogue

pycsw - Metadata Catalogue

MapProxy - Proxy WMS & tile services

QGIS Server - Web Map Service

52°North WPS - Web
Processing Service

52°North SOS - Sensor
Observation Service

ZOO Project - Web Processing Service

Data Stores

Storing spatial data

PostGIS	SpatialLite
rasdaman	pgRouting

PostGIS - Spatial Database

PostGIS spatially enables the popular PostgreSQL object-relational database, allowing it to be used as a back-end database for geographic information systems and web-mapping applications in the same manner as Oracle Spatial enables the Oracle database.

PostGIS is stable, fast, standards compliant, comes with hundreds of spatial functions and is currently the most widely used Open Source spatial database.

PostGIS is used by diverse organisations from around the world, including risk-averse government agencies and organisations storing terabytes of data and serving millions of web requests per day.

Database administration is available via pgAdmin and other tools. Importing and exporting data is provided by various converter tools and there are numerous desktop and browser GIS clients for viewing PostGIS data.

SpatiaLite - Lightweight Database

Rasdaman - Multi-Dimensional Raster Database

pgRouting - routing for PostGIS

Navigation and Maps

GpsDrive	GpsPrune	Marble
OpenCPN	Open Street Map	Viking

GpsDrive - GPS Navigation

GpsPrune - View, Edit and
Convert GPS Tracks

Marble - Virtual Globe

OpenCPN - Marine GPS
Chartplotter

Open Street Map Tools

Viking - GPS Navigation

Spatial Tools

Specific analysis tools

GeoKettle	GMT	IPython Notebook
Mapnik	TileMill	MapSlicer
OSSIM	ORFEO Toollbox	R

GeoKettle - Extract Transform Load (ETL)

IPython Notebook - Mixing rich media in presentations

GMT - Generic Mapping Tools

Mapnik - Cartographic
Rendering

TileMill - Styling and Publishing

MapSlicer - Create Map Tiles

OSSIM - Image Processing

Orfeo Toolbox: Image
Processing

R - Statistical Programing

R is a powerful, widely-used software environment for statistical computing and graphics which excels at analyzing and processing geographic data sets. Geospatial analysis capabilities provide access to a large number of traditional and state of the art algorithms.

R and its packages are able to process point, line, polygon and grid data. Users can accomplish a broad array of tasks such as: image classification and statistical analysis to infer spatial relationships and patterns of features.

The core R interface is a command line window which provides excellent flexibility and control but tends to lengthen the time required to become a proficient user when compared to a graphical user interface. Fortunately R is well documented which eases the learning process.

Domain Specific GIS

Applications targeted at a specific domain

Sahana	Ushahidi	osgEarth
MB-System	zyGrib

Sahana - Disaster Management

Ushahidi - Mapping and
Timeline for events

osgEarth - 3D Terrain
Rendering

MB-System - Sea Floor
Mapping

zyGrib - Weather Forecast Maps

Data

Spatial data sets

Natural Earth	Open Street Map
North Carolina	netCDF

Natural Earth - Global Data Sets

North Carolina educational dataset

OSM - Sample extract from OpenStreetMap

NetCDF - Time series
temperature and precipitation

Geospatial Libraries

GDAL/OGR	GeoTools	GEOS	MetaCRS Proj4
libLAS	Iris	JTS

GDAL/OGR - Geospatial Data Translation Tools

Java Topology Suite

GEOS - C/C++ Spatial Library

GeoTools

MetaCRS - Coordinate Reference System Transformations

libLAS - LiDAR Data Access

Iris - Meteorology and
Climatology

Other applications

Installers only

MapWindow

MapGuide Open Source

MapGuide - Web Services

MapGuide Open Source is a web-based platform that enables users to develop and deploy web mapping applications and geospatial web services.

MapWindow - Microsoft
Windows based Desktop GIS

Credits

Developers and Translators

Core team: Angelos Tzotsos, Cameron Shorter, Hamish Bowman, Alex Mandel and Brian Hamlin.

OSGeo	LISAsoft	UCD ICE
NTUA	DebianGIS	OSDM
okeanos