Welcome to MapTools.org
a resource for users and developers in the open source mapping community, and a home to many open source projects. The projects that are hosted here offer essential services including: latest downloads, CVS repositories for source code, bug lists, community mailing lists, and project documentation.

Some of the links here are to selected open source projects hosted elsewhere that are related to the projects hosted on MapTools.org.

Other Resources

FreeGIS.org

FreeGIS.org maintains an extensive listing of free software, data and documents with additional infos and search opportunities.

OpenSourceGIS.org

OpenSourceGIS.org attempts to build a complete index of Open Source / Free GIS related software projects.

OSGeo.org

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation's goal is to support and build the highest quality open source geospatial software.

RemoteSensing.org

RemoteSensing.org hosts and supports various open source software projects related to remote sensing, GIS, mapping and advanced image processing.

Project News

GDAL 1.5.1

Mar 20, 2008 GDAL 1.5.1 is now available. See the announcement for the list of changes.

QGIS 0.9.1

Jan 2, 2008 Quantum GIS 0.9.1 is now available. See the announcement for the list of changes.

Mapbender 2.4.4

Dec 21, 2007 Mapbender 2.4.4 is now available. Changes are detailed here.

Steve Lime wins Sol Katz Award

Sept 27, 2007 Steve Lime was honored with the Sol Katz award during the FOSS4G2007 conference, for his dedication to the MapServer project.

MapServer 5.0

Sept 17, 2007 MapServer 5.0 is now available. See the announcement for the list of changes.

GRASS 6.2.2

July 16, 2007 GRASS 6.2.2 is now available. See the announcement for the list of many changes.

MS4W 2.2.4

June 8, 2007 MapServer For Windows 2.2.4 is now available. Changes include MapServer 4.10.2 and GDAL 1.4.1.

FWTools 1.3.2

June 1, 2007 FWTools 1.3.2 is now available. Changes include support for "multi tile" AIGRID files.

 

Support MapTools.org!
Ralph Lauren, Chrisian Dior, Hugo Boss ... what do they all have in common? They don't support MapTools.org. Visit our store and show your support!
http://www.cafepress.com/maptools

Packaged Tools and Utilities

FGS Linux Installer

Installs MapServer and all of its dependencies on your Linux system.

FWTools

A package of Open Source GIS binaries for Windows and Linux, which includes OpenEV, GDAL/OGR, PROJ.4, and others.

Mandriva Linux FOSS4G Toolkit

This ISO image includes a simple installer for GRASS, QGIS, and other Open Source geospatial packages.

MS4W

MapServer for Windows - A preconfigured Web Server environment including MapServer for Microsoft Windows platforms.

Web Tools

CartoWeb

A comprehensive framework for building MapServer-based Web mapping applications using SOAP Web services.

Chameleon

A highly customizable and adaptable environment for deploying and managing Web mapping applications.

Fusion

An application development framework for both MapServer and MapGuide Open Source built primarily in JavaScript.

ka-Map

ka-Map is an Open Source package that provides a javascript API for developing highly interactive web-mapping interfaces. It has been developed to work with MapServer, but can be easily integrated with other software packages.

Mapbender

A client suite for managing spatial data services. It provides interfaces for displaying, navigating and querying OWS services (e.g. OGC WMS, WFS).

MapBuilder

A powerful, standards compliant geographic mapping client which runs in a web browser.

MapServer

An open source development environment for building spatially enabled Internet applications.

MapStorer

A web-based tool that simplifies the creation and management of MapServer .map files.

OpenLayers

A pure JavaScript library for displaying map data in most modern web browsers, with no server-side dependencies. OpenLayers implements a JavaScript API for building rich web-based geographic applications.

OWTChart

A CGI program that produces GIF images of virtually any type of chart from a set of input parameters.

PHP MapScript

A PHP dynamically loadable module that makes MapServer's MapScript functions and classes available in a PHP environment.

Desktop Tools

GRASS

An open source GIS with raster, topological vector, image processing, and graphics production functionality.

OpenEV

A library and reference application for viewing and analysing raster and vector geospatial data.

Quantum GIS

An open source GIS that uses the OGR and GDAL libraries to view several vector and raster formats, and includes support for PostGIS tables and GRASS digitizing.

uDig

An open source viewer/editor that brings together internet, database, and file-based spatial data.

Utilities and Libraries

AVCE00

A C library that makes Arc/Info (binary) vector coverages appear as ASCII E00 files.

DGNLib

DGNLib is a small C/C++ library for reading and writing DGN files.

GDAL

A translator library for raster geospatial data formats.

GeoTiff

A TIFF based interchange format for georeferenced raster imagery.

MITAB

A C++ library to read and write MapInfo .TAB (binary) and .MIF/MID files.

OGR

A C++ open source library (and commandline tools) providing read (and sometimes write) access to a variety of vector file formats.

Proj 4

A Cartographic Projections library. Proj 4 provides a set of command-line utilities and an API used by several GIS and mapping packages to handle reprojection of coordinates.

Shapelib

A C library for reading and writing ESRI Shapefiles.