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Figure A.8: uDig displaying NASA Blue Marble WMS
uDig
uDig is written in Java
and uses the Eclipse
framework.
uDig is the User Friendly Desktop Internet GIS, created by Refractions
Research ( http://udig.refractions.net ) . uDig provides viewing and editing
for a variety of data formats, including the usual file-based layers
(shapefiles and rasters), PostGIS layers, WMS, WFS, Oracle Spatial, and
DB2. That should cover most of your data needs.
uDig provides a fairly complete set of viewing and editing tools. Since
it supports WMS, we can pull in a wide array of free data from the
Internet. In Figure A.8 , you can see uDig displaying the NASA Blue
Marble WMS layer, from the NASA JPL WMS site. 13
uDig is another one of those Swiss Army knife-type applications that
provides a lot of features. You may not use all of them, but there is
something there for pretty much everybody. If you are heavy into anal-
ysis like Alyssa, you'll find it a bit light on that end of things. Otherwise,
it's an easy-to-install and easy-to-use viewer/editor.
13. http://wms.jpl.nasa.gov/wms.cgi
 
 
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