Geography Reference
In-Depth Information
to your toolkit. For an introduction to GMT and its capabilities, see
Section 11.1 , GMT , on page 174 .
A.3
Other Tools
As I said earlier, there is a huge selection of OSGIS applications to
choose from. It's also impossible to discuss each of these in detail. Our
survey included some of the major applications available today—and
those that together in some combination form a productive toolkit.
Our survey should have got you started thinking about some of the
tools available. Now it's up to you to carry on the survey if you see fit.
To get you started, here are some links to lists of OSGIS software and
tools that you may want to peruse:
http://www.osgeo.org
http://www.freegis.org
http://opensourcegis.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_GIS_software#Open_source_software
http://maptools.org
For a good survey that includes both open source desktop and web
mapping tools, see “The State of Open Source GIS” by Paul Ramsey. 18
18. http://www.foss4g2007.org/presentations/viewattachment.php?attachment_id=8
 
 
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