Subject: ‘Open Source’
| February 6, 2012 TileMill: Open Source Mapping Now for WindowsSoftware, Web MappingTileMill is built on open source libraries (Mapnik, node.js, backbone.js,express and CodeMirror) and uses CSS styling with its map styling language Carto to render beautiful online maps. For an idea of what you can do with TileMill, the Chicago Tribune demonstrated some of its capabilities in its Making Maps series using PostGIS, Mapnik, TileMill, and Google Maps. Demos of TileMill in action ... read more December 1, 2011 Fabric Engine: 3D LiDAR Rendering Via Web BrowsersData, Internet MappingFabric Engine enables developers to create compute-intensive web applications with comparable performance to native, multi-threaded applications. Fabric Engine achieves this by tapping into all of the processing power of the user’s computer – something that normal web-based applications cannot do. For the GIS market, this means that any web programmer can develop solutions for visualizing ... read more October 9, 2011 Making Maps with RProgramming, SoftwareR language is a commonly used programming language and open source software that can be utilized by statisticians for statistical and data analysis. Licensed under GNU, R can be downloaded and installed on Linux, MacOS, and Windows platforms. More about what R is here. R can also be used for geographic data visualization and there are ... read more September 30, 2011 WhatWasThere – Augmented RealityData, FeaturesWhatWasThere is a growing online database of geolocated historical photos. You can search for photos nearby a location or upload and geotag your own historical photos. The database is in its early stages, there are over 10,000 photos covering the United States and a few spots in Canada and Latin America, and over 1,000 photos covering ... read more April 29, 2011GIS Software ResourcesSoftwareGIS Software Packages Summary of commercial GIS software currently on the market. Find out about the commercial applications available for all operating systems. Open Source GIS and Freeware GIS Applications Learn about what open source GIS applications are available. What is the GeoCloud? A new term is emerging to describe GIS data and analytical capabilities via cloud computing. Macintosh Resources for ... read more October 12, 2009Walk Score To Go Open SourceSoftwareWalk Score is preparing to go open source which they announced on their blog and in a press release.. At walksource.org the source code will be made publicly available. For now, interested parties can sign up their email addresses to be notified when the open source site will be ready. The walk source algorithm is ... read more July 17, 2009GRASSLink LibraryGeographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) is a GIS software application under a GNU GPL license originally developed by the US Government. Official GRASS Site Headquarters site of GRASS. Find download sites, and supporting documentation about GRASS. GRASS Wiki Wiki in support of GRASS. Find information about GRASS or contribute your own knowledge about this open source ... read more |
