Over the past few years a growing number of Open Source GIS, Web mapping, and GPS projects has been established with different goals. Most of them are listed at the “FreeGIS portal” Web site3. Smaller projects are usually based on individual developer’s initiative, when the lack of available software for a specific application is solved [...]
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Open Source software and GIS
Posted by goldengr on September 2nd, 2011
Over the past decade, Geographical Information Systems (GIS) have evolved from a highly specialized niche to a technology that affects nearly every aspect of our lives, from finding driving directions to managing natural disasters. While just a few years ago the use of GIS was restricted to a group of researchers, planners and government workers, [...]
PostGIS Geographic Objects for PostgreSQL
Posted by GIS PARK on April 29th, 2011
PostGIS is a project in open source spatial database technology. PostGIS makes PostgreSQL database support to the geographic data storage. In effect, PostGIS "spatially enables" the PostgreSQL server, allowing it to be used as a backend spatial database for geographic information systems (GIS), much like ESRI’s SDE or Oracle’s Spatial extension. PostGIS follows the OpenGIS [...]
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Tags: database, geographic data, Open Source, PostGIS, PostgreSQL 
No Comments »Navit a Car Navigation System
Posted by GIS PARK on April 28th, 2011
Navit is a car navigation system with routing engine. Navit is a modular, support for touch screen car navigation system with GPS tracking, real-time navigation and other functions, supports a variety of formats map data. It’s modular design is capable of using vector maps of various formats for routing and rendering of the displayed map. [...]
Gpredict a real-time satellite tracking and orbit prediction application
Posted by GIS PARK on April 28th, 2011
Gpredict is a real-time satellite tracking and orbit prediction application. It can track an unlimited number of satellites and display their position and other data in lists, tables, maps, and polar plots (radar view). Gpredict can also predict the time of future passes for a satellite, and provide you with detailed information about each pass. [...]
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