A Concise Guide to Open Source GIS Software
From Wildsong
This page does not exist because it's impossible to create one.
How about an attempt all the same? This covers only projects that I am interested in.
Perhaps I should draw this as a MAP
Map servers
| name | requires | url |
| ArcIMS (for comparison) |
http://www.esri.com/ | |
| GeoServer | ||
| MapGuide | FDO | http://mapguide.osgeo.org/ |
| MapServer | proj4 |
Map server front ends
| name | frontend for |
| mapbender | mapserver |
| cartoweb | mapserver |
OpenLayers is a JavaScript front end that works with WMS and WFS servers. So it's not tied to one server.
Database Backends
MySQL PostgreSQL/Postgis
Desktop GIS
ArcGIS (for comparison) um. The Spanish one? It's called... um. The Brazillian one? ... QGIS what else
Other SDK's and Toolkits
| name | language | requires |
| FDO | ||
| OGR/GDAL | C | Proj4 |
| GeoTools | Java | JTS |
| Grass | C | |
| JTS | Java | |
| Proj4 | C | |
| SharpMap | C# |
