Packaged Tools and Utilities
 MS4W
MapServer for Windows - A preconfigured Web Server environment that includes MapServer and other useful utilities, specifically for Microsoft Windows. (now hosted on ms4w.com)
OSGeo-Live
A self-contained bootable DVD, USB thumb drive or Virtual Machine, that allows you to try a wide variety of Open Source geospatial software without installing anything.
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.
Dracones
A higher-level component framework for MapServer, to help in building rich Python and JavaScript-based mapping applications.
Fusion
An application development framework for both MapServer and MapGuide Open Source built primarily in JavaScript.
GeoEXT
A JavaScript toolkit that brings together the powers of OpenLayers and the EXT JS framework.
GeoMOOSE
A JavaScript Web client application built on OpenLayers and MapServer, with customizable tools and services.
ka-Map
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).
MapFish
An easy-to-use and extensible web 2.0 mapping application framework based on OpenLayers.
MapServer
An open source development environment for building spatially enabled Internet applications.
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.
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