Awesome GIS

Awesome GIS is for collecting the geographic information system (GIS) related sources, including cartographer tools, geoanalysis tools, developing tools, data, conference & communities, news, MOOC‘s course, some amazing map site, etc.

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Inspired by Awesome Python.

Table Of Contents:

• Desktop Application
• Web Map Server
• Front-end Framework
• iOS & Android
• Geospatial Library (non-web)
• Spatial Database
• Map Render Engine
• Saas
• Data Format
• Data
• Conference & Communities
• News Site
• Amazing Map Site
• MOOC
• Geospatial Start-ups And Companies

Desktop Application

• ArcGIS - A enterprise level desktop GIS software published by Ersi
• QGIS - A cross-platform free and open-source desktop GIS software
• GRASS GIS - Used for geospatial data management and analysis, as a founding member of OSGEO
• uDig - An open source desktop application framework built with Eclipse
• gvSIG - A powerful, user-friendly, interoperable geomatics professionals
• Marble - A virtual globe and world atlas
• SharpMap - An mapping library in web and desktop applications built in .NET
• JUMP GIS - An open source GIS written in Java
• World Wind -  Providing features for displaying with geographic data
• Google Earth - Bringing a earth view for global mapping
• Whitebox GAT - Software package for geospatial analysis and data visualization

Web Map Server

• ArcGIS Server - A GIS server for enterprise application
• MapServer - Publishing spatial data and interactive mapping applications to the web
• GeoServer - An open source server for sharing geospatial data
• deegree - An open source software for spatial data infrastructures and the geospatial web
• GeoDjango - A GIS server built with python web framework -- django
• Mapnik - An open source mapping toolkit written in C++ for desktop-based and server-based map rendering
• geomajas - An open source platform to create Web GIS applications
• GeoMOOSE - A Web Client JavaScript Framework for displaying distributed cartographic data
• 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
• MapBuilder - This project has been retired in 2008
• Nanocubes - An in-memory data structure for spatiotemporal data cubes. Github Link

Front-end Framework

• Leaflet - Open-source javaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
• OpenLayer3 - Open-source javascript map viewing library
• three.js - A javascript 3D library which makes WebGL simpler
• cesiumjs - An open-source JavaScript library for world-class 3D globes and maps
• ArcGIS API for JavaScript - Creating high-performing apps and smarter visualizations supportted by ERSI
• 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
• d3-carto-map - A library for creating layer-based maps using D3
• turf.js - Advanced geospatial analysis for browsers and node supported by Mapbox
• Polymaps - A JavaScript library for image- and vector-tiled maps using SVG
• jVectorMap - A vector-based, cross-browser and cross-platform component for interactive geography-related data visualization on the web. Github Link

iOS & Android

• iOS
  • ArcGIS Runtime SDK for iOS - Build mapping apps for iOS devices
• Android
  • ArcGIS Runtime SDK for Android - Build native mapping apps for Android devices
• Cross-Platform
  • ArcGIS Runtime SDK for Xamarin - Build native mapping apps for Android and iOS in C# (Technical Preview)

Geospatial Library (non-web)

• GDAL - A translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats
• Proj.4 - A library for cartographic projection
• Shapely - A library for manipulation and analysis of geometric objects in the Cartesian plane
• Fiona - IO for GIS Data writted by Python
• Rtree - A wrapper of libspatialindex providing spatial indexing features
• GeoTools - An open source Java library that provides tools for geospatial data
• Orfeo toolbox - An open-source C++ library for remote sensing images processing

Spatial Database

• PostGIS based on PostgreSQL - Most advanced open source database
• Oracle Spatial - Oracle-based advanced spatial data analysis
• Spatialite based on SQLite - Lightweight SQL library to support fully spatially capability
• MSSQL - A high-preformance database support by Microsoft
• MBtiles - A specification for storing tiled map data in SQLite databases
• mySQL - the world‘s most popular open source database
• mongoDB - An open-source, document database designed for ease of development and scaling

Map Render Engine

• Global Mapper
• mapnik - Mapnik combines pixel-perfect image output with lightning-fast cartographic algorithms, and exposes interfaces in C++, Python, and Node
• TileMill the github code link - Creating beautiful interactive maps with CartoCSS
• Mapbox GL vector the github code link - A new framework for live, responsive maps

Saas

• Mapbox - Helping you design your own map and presenting your data
• Cartodb - The easiest way to map and analyze your location data
• GIS Cloud - A next generation platform for apps that manage location information
• stamen - Data visualization to tell compelling stories for some of the world‘s most visible companies
• citytracking - A two-year project, to change the way people view, talk about, utilize digital city services
• worldmap - Building your own mapping portal and publish it to the world
• Geohey - A geographic online one-stop solution (Chinese)
• GeoQ - A location intelligence platform (Chinese)
• 地图慧 - A self-designed map server for customs (Chinese)
• 地图无忧 - A enterprise-level map service (Chinese)

Data Format

• GeoJson - Represent geospatial information by json
• TopoJson - Represent geospatial information by json in a smaller side
• TileJSON - Represent vector tile provider by json
• WKT - A text markup language for representing vector geometry objects on a map

Data

• Data List Site
  • a-comprehensive-list-of-all-open-data-portals-around-the-world
  • Free GIS Data
  • GeoCommons - A community contributed collection of open data from around the world
• Data Site
  • 199it
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • WorldPop
  • NYC Open Data
  • Los Angeles GeoHub
  • Global LUCC data (30m)
  • Global cities Shapefile data
  • NetworkRepository.com - The First Interactive Network Repository with Visual Analytics
  • OpenFlights: Airport and airline data
  • Gridded Population of the World (GPW), v3 | SEDAC
  • Citi Bike Trip Histories
  • NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission - Trip Record Data
  • T-Drive trajectory data sample
  • pm2.5-China
  • Remote sensing imge
  • metro extracts - City-sized portions of OpenStreetMap
  • Geofabrik

Conference & Communities

• Conference
  • Esri International User Conference
  • Esri Developer Summit
  • FOSS4G
• Communities
  • OGC
  • Maptime
  • geo community
  • GIS stackexchange
  • GeoNet - The Esri Community

News Site

• GIS Lounge - Maps and GIS
• The GIS News Tweets Daily
• Geoawesomeness
• GISuser - The GIS And Mapping Professional Resource
• ESRI news
• Directions Magazine - GIS News and Geospatial
• GISCafe
• GIS times
• geospatial pr
• gisgeography
• canadiangis
• MAPCITE

Blogs

• Wiki.GIS.com  - The GIS Encyclopedia
• Geo Blogs
• mastermaps
• Anita Graser
• Charley
• Mike Bostock
• Gretchen Peterson
• KARTO PICS

Amazing Map Site

• Maps of the Year
• Cartography and Geovisualization Group at Oregon State University
• snazzymaps - a google map style gallery
• Odyssey.js
• Amazing Maps
• Beijing City Lab
• Chinese Bus System
• flowingdata
• finemapping
• thematicmapping
• dougmccune
• OpenWebGIS is free online GIS
• NC STATE UNIVERSITY Center for Geospatial Analytics
• CHATTY MAPS - the sounds map of city.

MOOC

• Coursera‘s GIS Specialization - Including Fundamentals of GIS, GIS Data Formats, Design and Quality, Geospatial and Environmental Analysis, Imagery, Automation, and Applications and Capstone: Geospatial Analysis.
• Geospatial Intelligence & the Geospatial Revolution
• Maps and the Geospatial Revolution
• MongoDB地理数据模块与MongoGIS - Mandarin.

Geospatial Start-ups And Companies

Reference:

1. List of geographic information systems software
2. osgeo
3. AmrEldib‘s Awesome GIS
4. brandonxiang‘s Awesome GIS
5. list top 100 geospatial start ups companies world