Overview of Free & Open source Desktop GIS

Melihat banyaknya pilihan untuk menggunakan aplikasi FOSS GIS/RS saat ini, sedikit-banyak agak membingungkan calon pengguna untuk memilih yang paling sesuai dengan kebutuhannya. Berikut coba saya share link ke halaman milist Open Forum on Participatory Geographic Information Systems and Technologies yang menyampaikan gambaran umum mengenai sebagian aplikasi FOSS GIS/RS yang telah tersedia untuk dikonsumsi publik. Silahkan klik disini untuk menyimaknya.

Di bawah ini adalah cuplikan informasi dari milist di atas:


...below you can find links to two tables that should give an overview of free Desktop GIS and projects. Desktop GIS means thereby that we did not include map web server tools or basic GIS libraries.Please be aware that this listing is probably not comprehensive.

* OS Desktop GIS - general overview table
o html
o word-doc
* OS Desktop GIS - functionality table
o hmtl
o word-doc
* GIS software that does not qualify for the tables above
o html

The tables can be altered on request. Please write to sstein[-at-]geo.uzh.ch - and preferably add the
tables with your changes (use for instance word doc + track changes mode)

A first manuscript version of a related article should be available towards April/Mai 2008 (it is written,
but I am waiting for comments by friends).


Acknowledgments:

I have to thank numerous people of the different projects for contributing information: GRASS: Markus Neteler, Otto Dassau, Marco Hugentobler and Stefan Holl; KOSMO: Manuel Navarro; MapWindow: Daniel Ames, uDig: Jody Garnet and Jesse Eichar, SAGA: Olaf Conrad; ILWIS: Martin Schouwenburg; OpenJUMP: Michaël Michaud, DeeJUMP: Andreas Schmitz; PirolJUMP: Arnd Kielhorn; SkyJUMP: Larry Becker; gvSIG: Mario Carrera; and OrbisGIS: Erwan Bocher. I would like to thank Ralf Tauscher, Jan-Oliver Wagner and others for comments and suggestions on foregoing presentation slides and first manuscript versions. Finally many thanks to Gary Sherman for hosting this page.


last change: 2 April 2008 - added table with non qualifying software.
Stefan Steiniger!