QGIS

I looked for a spatial data browser and found GeoApt Spatial Data Browser. I got interested in adding to it, so I started looking at its internals. I became more curious about QGIS.

Building QGIS from source

http://www.qgis.org/api/INSTALL.html#toc3

First go do this: Building GDAL on Linux

sudo apt-get install qt4-dev-tools libqwt-dev python-qwt5-qt4