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.
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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
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iOS
- ArcGIS Runtime SDK for iOS - Build mapping apps for iOS devices
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Android
- ArcGIS Runtime SDK for Android - Build native mapping apps for Android devices
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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
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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
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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
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Conference
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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 ApplicationsandCapstone: 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
| Name | Category | City | Country | Founded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3D Robotics | Drones | San Diego, CA | US | 2009 |
| ADCi | Maps | Appleton, WI | US | 1988 |
| Admoove | LBMarketing | Paryż | France | 2010 |
| Airsage | Location Big Data | Atlanta, GA | US | 2000 |
| Altergeo | Maps | Moscow | Russia | 2008 |
| Apple | Maps | Cupertino, CA | US | 1976 |
| Autodesk | GIS | San Rafael, CA | US | 1982 |
| Beacify | LBMarketing | Chicago, IL | US | 2013 |
| Bentley Systems | GIS | Exton, PA | US | 1984 |
| BlackSky Global | Remote Sensing | Seattle, WA | US | 2013 |
| Blue Sense Networks | LBMarketing | Reading | UK | 2013 |
| Boni | LBMarketing | Chicago, IL | US | 2011 |
| Boundless Spatial | GIS | New York, NY | US | 2002 |
| ByteLight | Indoor | Boston, Ma | US | 2011 |
| CartoDB | Maps | New York, NY | US | 2012 |
| CE-Traffic | Traffic | Prague | Czech Republic | 2008 |
| Citymapper | Transit | London | UK | 2011 |
| Citymaps | Maps | New York | US | 2010 |
| deCarta | Maps | San Jose, CA | US | 1996 |
| Digital Globe | Remote Sensing | Longmont, CO | US | 1992 |
| DJI | Drones | Shenzhen | China | 2006 |
| DroneDeploy | Drones | San Francisco, CA | US | 2013 |
| Esri | GIS | Redlands, CA | US | 1969 |
| Estimote | LBMarketing | Kraków | Poland | 2012 |
| Factual | Location Big Data | Los Angeles, CA | US | 2008 |
| Fatmap | Maps | London | UK | 2014 |
| Foursquare | Local discovery | New York, NY | US | 2009 |
| Garmin | Navigation | Olathe, KS | US | 1989 |
| Geofeedia | LBMarketing | Chicago, IL | US | 2011 |
| Geoloqi | Maps | Portland, OR | US | 2010 |
| GIS Cloud | GIS | London | UK | 2008 |
| Maps | Mountain View, CA | US | 1998 | |
| Here | Maps | Berlin | Germany | 2012 |
| Hivemapper | Drones | Burlingame, CA | US | 2014 |
| Hudway | Navigation | Marina Del Rey, CA | US | 2013 |
| ifinity | LBMarketing | Warsaw | Poland | 2013 |
| Indoo.rs | Indoor | Brunn Am Gebirge | Austria | 2010 |
| IndoorAtlas | Indoor | Palo Alto, CA | US | 2012 |
| Inrix | Traffic | Kirkland, WA | US | 2004 |
| Intergraph | GIS | Madison, AL | US | 1969 |
| Kontakt.io | LBMarketing | Kraków | Poland | 2013 |
| Life360 | LBS | San Francisco, CA | US | 2008 |
| Locaid | Location Big Data | Carlsbad, CA | US | 2005 |
| Location Labs | Location Big Data | Emeryville, CA | US | 2002 |
| Locationary | Location Big Data | Toronto, ON | Canada | 2009 |
| Locomizer | Location Big Data | London | UK | 2013 |
| Magellan | Navigation | San Francisco, CA | US | 2001 |
| Mapbox | Maps | Washington, DC | US | 2010 |
| Mapillary | Maps | Malmo | Sweden | 2013 |
| Mapita | Location Big Data | Helsinki | Findland | 2012 |
| Mapjam | Maps | San Francisco, CA | US | 2012 |
| Maponics | Maps | White River Junction, VT | US | 2001 |
| Mapquest | Maps | Denver, CO | US | 1996 |
| Maps.me | Maps | Zurich | Switzerland | 2011 |
| Maps4news | Maps | Eindhoven | Netherlands | 2008 |
| Mapsense | Maps | San Francisco, CA | US | 2013 |
| Maptia | Maps | Seattle, WA | US | 2012 |
| Maptiks | Maps | British Columbia | Canada | 2014 |
| Mapzen | Maps | New York | US | 2013 |
| Media mobile | Traffic | Paris | France | 2005 |
| Micello | Indoor | Santa Clara, CA | US | 2007 |
| Moovit | Transit | Ness Ziona | Israel | 2011 |
| Navigine | Indoor | Wilmington | US | 2011 |
| Navmii | Navigation | San Francisco, CA | US | 2010 |
| Nextome | Indoor | Valenzano | Italy | 2013 |
| Nofity Nearby | LBMarketing | New York, NY | US | 2015 |
| Pitney Bowes | GIS | Stamford, CT | US | 1920 |
| Placeable | Location Big Data | Denver, CO | US | 1996 |
| PlaceIQ | Location Big Data | New York, NY | US | 2010 |
| Planet Labs | Remote Sensing | San Francisco, CA | US | 2010 |
| Plazes | Local discovery | Berlin | Germany | 2006 |
| Point Inside | LBMarketing | Bellevue, WA | US | 2009 |
| Pozzey | Indoor | Adelaide | Australia | 2014 |
| PrecisionHawk | Drones | Raleigh, NC | US | 2011 |
| Redbird | Remote Sensing | Paris | France | 2013 |
| Roximity | LBMarketing | Denver, CO | US | 2012 |
| Satellogic | Remote Sensing | Palo Alto, CA | US | 2010 |
| SenseFly | Drones | Cheseaux-Lausanne | Switzerland | 2009 |
| SenseWhere | Indoor | Edinburgh | UK | 2009 |
| Shopkick | LBMarketing | Redwood City, CA | US | 2009 |
| Skybox Imaging | Remote Sensing | Mountain View, CA | US | 2009 |
| Skyhook Wireless | Location Big Data | Boston, MA | US | 2003 |
| SparkGeo | Maps | Prince George, BC | US | 2010 |
| Street Light Data | Location Big Data | San Francisco, CA | US | 2010 |
| Sygic | Navigation | Bratislava | Slovakia | 2004 |
| Telenav | Navigation | Sunnyvale, CA | US | 1999 |
| Tesla Motors | Maps | Palo Alto, CA | US | 2003 |
| Thinknear | Location Big Data | Los Angeles, CA | US | 2011 |
| TomTom | Maps | Amsterdam | Netherlands | 1991 |
| Topcon | Surveying | Livermore, CA | US | 1994 |
| Trimble | Surveying | Sunnyvale, CA | US | 1978 |
| Tripadvisor | Local discovery | Needham, MA | US | 2000 |
| Uber | Transit | San Francisco, CA | US | 2009 |
| Ubisense | Indoor | Cambridge | UK | 2006 |
| UrtheCast | Remote Sensing | Vancouver, BC | Canada | 2010 |
| Valarm | LBS | Thousand Oaks, CA | US | 2012 |
| Venuelabs | LBMarketing | Bellevue, WA | US | 2009 |
| Waytag | Maps | Cape Town | South Africa | 2009 |
| Waze | Navigation | Palo Alto, CA | US | 2007 |
| what3words | Maps | London | UK | 2013 |
| WiFi Slam | Location Big Data | Palo Alto, CA | US | 2011 |
| Yelp | Local discovery | San Francisco, CA | US | 2004 |