OSGeo Mashup :A practical look at 5 Open Source GIS applications

GRASS/QGIS, GDAL/OGR, POSTGIS, MAPSERVER, GMT

Presented at OSCON 2006 by Aaron Racicot – GIS Programmer, Ecotrust

aaronr@ecotrust.orgJuly 27th, 2006

A Citizen of Salmon Nation

GIS – Geographic Information Systems

GIS

Maps – Print / Electronic

Cartography

Spatial Data Creation/Collection

Spatial Processing

Spatial Modeling

Spatial Analysis

Reasoning with a Sense of Place

Ecotrust - Salmon Nation

OSGeo – Open Source Geospatial Foundation

Board of Directors

Website Committee

Fundraising Committee

Incubation Committee

Promotion and Visibility Committee

Public Geospatial Data Committee

Education and Curriculum Committee

System Administration Committee

Voting Members

General Members

OSGeo – Open Source Geospatial Foundation

OSGeo Mission StatementTo support the development of open source geospatial software, and promote its

widespread use.

OSGeo Goals•To provide resources for foundation projects - eg. infrastructure, funding, legal. •To promote freely available geodata - free software is useless without data. •To promote the use of open source software in the geospatial industry (not just foundation software) - eg. PR, training, outreach. •To encourage the implementation of open standards and standards-based interoperability in foundation projects. •To ensure a high degree of quality in foundation projects in order to build and preserve the foundation "brand". •To make foundation and related software more accessible to end users - eg. binary "stack" builds, cross package documentation. •To provide support for the use of OSGeo software in education via curriculum development, outreach, and support. •To encourage communication and cooperation between OSGeo communities on different language (eg. Java/C/Python) and operating system (eg. Win32, Unix, MacOS) platforms. •To support use and contribution to foundation projects from the worldwide community through internationalization of software and community outreach. •To operate an annual OSGeo Conference, possibly in cooperation with related efforts (eg. EOGEO). •To award the Sol Katz award for service to the OSGeo community.

OSGeo – Open Source Geospatial Foundation

Mapbuilder GDAL/OGR

GeoToolsGRASS

MapServer OSSIM

MapGuide Open Source

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Mapbender

OSGIS Software Stacks… Desktop

Generic Stack FOSS4G Stack Grouping

Application QGis, Grass, OSSIM, JUMP, UDig

User Interface

Application Dev. Environment

Eclipse, QT, OpenGL, Tkl/Tk

High Level Utilities GeoTools, Postgresql, PostGIS

Data Serving

High Level Scripting Languages

PHP, PERL, Python

Low Level Utilities Shplib, GEOS, OGR/GDAL, R-Statistics, GMT

Data Processing

Low Level Languages

C, C++, Java, Fortran System Software

Operating System

Linux, Darwin, Cygwin

Hardware Drivers

32-64 bit processor drivers

Desktop Software Stack

OSGIS – Desktop Applications

GRASS GIS

OSGIS Software Stacks... ServerWeb-based Software

StackGeneric Stack FOSS4G Stack Grouping

Client Side Browser Firefox, Safari, Netscape User Interface

Client Side Scripting

Java Script, Java Applets

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Server Side Application

Chameleon, Cartoweb3, MapGuide, Mapbender,

Mapbuilder, Custom

Data Serving

High Level Utilities Mapserver, MapGuide,

Low Level Utilities Shplib, GEOS, OGR/GDAL, PostGIS, R-

Statistics, GMT

Data Processing

High Level Scripting Languages

PHP, PERL, Python

Low Level Languages

C, C++, Java, Fortran System Software

Operating System/Drivers

Linux, Darwin, Cygwin

Hardware Drivers 32-64 bit processor drivers

OSGIS - Server Tools

GRASS GIS

GDAL/OGR

R-Statistics

Desktop Raster/Vector Processing

GRASS/GDAL/OGR - Data Crunching Both Raster and Vector support Very powerful tool set (similar to ArcINFO/ArcGRID) Traditionally Poor GUI, but getting better Very fast Cross platform

QGIS/GDAL/OGR – Data Viewing/Editing Both Raster and Vector support Nice GUI Cross platform QGIS can integrate with GRASS

GRASS-Raster

Grass Raster Processing

GDAL

GRASS-Vector

OGR

Grass Vector Processing

QGIS

QGis 0.7.4

QGis 0.8.0pre1

Web-Based Interface

AJAX-User Based Data Filter

GMT generate

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Chameleon

Mapserver

framework

PostGIS Spatial Data

Web-Based Interface – Google Like

Where to go for more infoOSGIS

OSGeo - http://www.osgeo.org Maptools - http://www.maptools.org FreeGIS - http://freegis.org/ Open Source GIS - http://opensourcegis.org/

Standards OGC - http://www.opengeospatial.org/

Desktop GRASS - http://grass.itc.it/ QGIS - http://qgis.org/ UDIG - http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/UDIG/Home JUMP – http://jump-project.org/ OSSIM - http://www.ossim.org/Welcome.html OpenEV - http://openev.sourceforge.net/

Server/Web Mapserver - http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/ MapBender - http://www.mapbender.org MapBuilder - http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAP/Home MapGuide OS - https://mapguide.osgeo.org/

Tools PostGIS - http://postgis.refractions.net/ Remote Sensing - http://remotesensing.org/tiki-index.php GDAL/OGR - http://gdal.maptools.org/index.html PROJ.4 - http://proj.maptools.org/ R-Statistics - http://www.r-project.org/ GMT - http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/