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.

Welcome to contribute. Let\’s make it better. Please follow the Contributing Guidelines.

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