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AI, agents & MCP for GIS (78)
| Name | Subcategory | Summary | Review |
|---|---|---|---|
| ArcGIS Arcade assistant | Esri AI | Beta assistant for writing Arcade expressions in ArcGIS apps. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS Business Analyst assistant | Esri AI | GA assistant that recommends Business Analyst workflows for business questions. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript AI components | Esri AI | Beta components (arcgis-assistant plus navigation, data-exploration, help and custom agents) for chat-driven web maps. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS Notebooks assistant | Esri AI | Beta assistant that generates, explains and debugs Python in ArcGIS Notebooks. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS Pro assistant | Esri AI | In-app beta assistant in ArcGIS Pro for docs help and writing Arcade/expressions. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS StoryMaps assistant | Esri AI | Preview assistant that turns documents such as PDFs into draft StoryMaps. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS Survey123 assistant | Esri AI | GA assistant that drafts Survey123 forms from a plain-language description. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| arcgis-location-services-mcp (community) | Community ArcGIS MCP servers | Community wrapper exposing ArcGIS Location Platform geocoding and routing as MCP tools. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| arcgis-maps-sdk-js-ai-context | Community ArcGIS MCP servers | Community agent skills/context files for coding with the ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript and Arcade. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| arcgis-mcp-server (Esri Saudi Arabia) | Community ArcGIS MCP servers | MCP server for searching content in ArcGIS Online and Portal for ArcGIS. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGISMCP | Community ArcGIS MCP servers | MCP server that searches and queries ArcGIS Online feature layers. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGISPro.MCP | Community ArcGIS MCP servers | Community MCP integration for ArcGIS Pro (v0.3.0 release seen). | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Arraylake MCP Server | Earth observation MCP servers | Earthmover MCP for browsing Zarr/Icechunk arrays and running OGC EDR queries. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Autonomous GIS (research agenda) | LLM GIS agents & research | Penn State paper framing the next-generation AI-powered GIS with self-generating, self-executing agents. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| AWS Location MCP Server | Vendor/location MCP servers | AWS Labs MCP server for Amazon Location geocoding, place search and routing. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Axion-MCP | Earth observation MCP servers | Earth Engine MCP for indices like NDVI, classification and map outputs. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| CARTO AI Agents | Vendor/location MCP servers | Configurable agents in CARTO that answer spatial questions on maps and workflows, integrated with Google AI tools. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| CARTO MCP Server | Vendor/location MCP servers | Hosted MCP for exploring warehouse data, building CARTO maps, running Workflows and SQL from any assistant. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Cesium AI Integrations | Vendor/location MCP servers | Official Cesium MCP servers and agent skills for CesiumJS and 3D Tiles. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| copernicus-mcp | Earth observation MCP servers | MCP for searching and downloading Sentinel data from the Copernicus Data Space OData API. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| duckdb_mcp (DuckDB community extension) | General GIS MCP servers | DuckDB extension letting DuckDB act as an MCP client or server. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Earth Copilot | LLM GIS agents & research | NASA/Microsoft agentic proof of concept answering questions over NASA Earth science data. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| earthdata-mcp | Earth observation MCP servers | NASA MCP server for discovering Earth science datasets in CMR. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| esri-mcp | Community ArcGIS MCP servers | MCP server for querying and mapping Living Atlas layers, focused on water resources. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| fastgeoapi | General GIS MCP servers | Authenticated wrapper around pygeoapi that also exposes OGC API endpoints as MCP tools. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Felt AI | Vendor/location MCP servers | Natural-language map, app and analysis builder inside Felt. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Felt MCP Server | Vendor/location MCP servers | Hosted MCP with ~30 tools for building Felt maps, running spatial SQL and publishing links. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| FME Flow MCP server | General GIS MCP servers | FME Flow 2026.2 feature that publishes FME workspaces as audited MCP tools. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Foursquare Places MCP | Vendor/location MCP servers | Official MCP server for Foursquare Places search and details. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Fused MCP | Vendor/location MCP servers | Turns Fused Python UDFs into MCP tools for agents. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GDAL MCP | General GIS MCP servers | MCP server for GDAL/Rasterio conversion, reprojection, COG creation and metadata, requiring justification for sensitive choices. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| gee-mcp (Frontier Development Lab) | Earth observation MCP servers | MCP server for Earth Engine dataset discovery, metadata, analysis primitives and GEE code generation. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeoAgent (LLM agent for geospatial data analysis) | LLM GIS agents & research | Research agent pairing LLMs with code interpreter, static analysis and retrieval for geospatial Python tasks. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeoAgent (QGIS plugin, Kshetri/Ojha) | QGIS AI & MCP | QGIS plugin using LLMs to run geospatial analysis and processing from natural-language commands. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeoAI (opengeos) | LLM GIS agents & research | Python toolkit for imagery download, training, inference and QGIS integration, with MCP and agent components. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeoLens MCP | General GIS MCP servers | Read-only MCP for GeoLens catalog search, schemas, GeoJSON output and sandboxed SQL. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeoServer MCP | General GIS MCP servers | MCP server for managing GeoServer workspaces, layers and styles and querying WMS/WFS. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GIS Copilot (SpatialAnalysisAgent) | QGIS AI & MCP | Penn State QGIS plugin that plans and runs spatial analysis from natural-language requests. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GIS MCP Server (gis-mcp) | General GIS MCP servers | MCP server wrapping Shapely, PyProj, GeoPandas, Rasterio and PySAL for geometry, projection, raster and stats tools. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Google Geospatial Reasoning agent | LLM GIS agents & research | Experimental Gemini agent linking Earth AI models, Maps, Earth Engine and Data Commons; offered as an A2A API. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Google Maps Grounding Lite | Vendor/location MCP servers | Google's hosted MCP server (mapstools.googleapis.com) for grounding agents with Maps places and routes data. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Google Maps Platform Code Assist toolkit | Vendor/location MCP servers | Experimental MCP server giving coding agents Google Maps Platform docs and code samples. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| google-earth-engine-mcp | Earth observation MCP servers | Community MCP for natural-language Earth Engine queries, exports and visualization. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| HERE Location Reasoning | Vendor/location MCP servers | HERE's hosted MCP endpoint for geocoding, routing, transit, traffic, isolines and map rendering. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Kue | QGIS AI & MCP | Bunting Labs' paid ($19/mo) AI assistant inside QGIS for symbology, geoprocessing and sharing. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| LLM-Find | LLM GIS agents & research | Penn State autonomous GIS agent framework for finding and retrieving geospatial data. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| LLM-Geo | LLM GIS agents & research | Penn State prototype autonomous GIS that uses an LLM to plan, code and run spatial analysis. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Mapbox MCP Server | Vendor/location MCP servers | Official MCP server for Mapbox geocoding, POI search, routing, isochrones and static maps. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| MapSmith | General GIS MCP servers | MCP server for deterministic geoprocessing (buffers, overlays) with provenance manifests. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| MCP for ArcGIS Location Services | Esri AI | Esri's beta MCP endpoint exposing geocoding, routing, elevation and static-map tools. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| MCP-ArcGISPro | Community ArcGIS MCP servers | MCP bridge letting Claude Desktop control and automate ArcGIS Pro. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| MCP-Server-ArcGIS-Pro-AddIn | Community ArcGIS MCP servers | ArcGIS Pro add-in that hosts an MCP server inside Pro. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| MotherDuck / DuckDB MCP server | General GIS MCP servers | MCP server for running SQL on local DuckDB files or MotherDuck, including the spatial extension. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Mundi | QGIS AI & MCP | Open-source AI-native web GIS from Bunting Labs with LLM-driven geoprocessing and PostGIS connections. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Natural Language Geocoding | LLM GIS agents & research | Element 84 library that uses an LLM to turn place descriptions into polygons. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| open-streetmap-mcp | Vendor/location MCP servers | OSM MCP for geocoding, nearby POIs, directions and neighborhood analysis. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OpenCage Geocoding MCP | Vendor/location MCP servers | Official OpenCage MCP for forward/reverse geocoding with quota checks. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OpenGeoAgent (opengeos GeoAgent) | QGIS AI & MCP | Multimodal agent framework giving geospatial Python packages, map widgets and a QGIS plugin a common LLM tool interface. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| openstreetmap-mcp-server (cyanheads) | Vendor/location MCP servers | MCP for Nominatim geocoding and Overpass queries over STDIO or HTTP. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| osmmcp | Vendor/location MCP servers | OSM MCP server for geocoding, routing, nearby places and EV charging. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Overture Maps MCP Server | General GIS MCP servers | MCP server querying Overture GeoParquet on S3 through DuckDB for buildings, places and land use. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Planet MCP | Earth observation MCP servers | Beta local MCP server for searching, previewing and ordering Planet imagery using Planet SDK credentials. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Planetary Computer Pro MCP tools | Earth observation MCP servers | 35+ MCP tools for Planetary Computer and Pro, delivered for VS Code and GitHub Copilot. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| planetary-computer-mcp | Earth observation MCP servers | Community MCP for searching and downloading imagery from the Planetary Computer STAC API. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| postgis-mcp | General GIS MCP servers | MCP server for connecting to one or more PostGIS databases and running spatial queries. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| QGIS Agent | QGIS AI & MCP | LLM assistant inside QGIS that can also expose its tools via an optional local MCP server. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| QGIS MCP (nkarasiak) | QGIS AI & MCP | QGIS plugin plus MCP server exposing ~118 tools for layers, editing, processing, rendering and layouts. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| qgis_mcp (jjsantos01) | QGIS AI & MCP | Original QGIS socket plugin and MCP server letting Claude manage projects, layers and processing. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| QGIS2OllamaMCP | QGIS AI & MCP | Fork of qgis_mcp by Anita Graser that lets local Ollama models control QGIS. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| QGISGPT plugin | QGIS AI & MCP | QGIS plugin that sends prompts to ChatGPT and runs generated PyQGIS code. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| QgisRemoteMCP / QgisStreamMCP | QGIS AI & MCP | Dockerized QGIS Desktop exposed as an MCP server with noVNC GUI and 1000+ Processing algorithms. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Regrid MCP Server | Vendor/location MCP servers | MCP for querying US/Canada parcels by location, zoning and ownership. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| stac-mcp | Earth observation MCP servers | MCP server for natural-language search across any STAC API. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Stadia Maps MCP Server | Vendor/location MCP servers | Official MCP server for Stadia geocoding, routing, isochrones, static maps and time zones. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Tilebox MCP Server | Earth observation MCP servers | MCP for managing Tilebox geospatial datasets and workflows. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| TomTom Maps MCP Server | Vendor/location MCP servers | Official MCP server for TomTom search, geocoding, routing and traffic. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| valhalla-mcp | Vendor/location MCP servers | MCP server for Valhalla routes, isochrones and matrices. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Wherobots MCP Server | Vendor/location MCP servers | Hosted MCP (16 tools) for catalog exploration and natural-language spatial SQL on WherobotsDB. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
Commercial GIS platforms & APIs (55)
| Name | Subcategory | Summary | Review |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Location Service | AWS | AWS managed maps, places, routes, geofencing and tracking APIs. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS Data Interoperability | Esri ArcGIS | ArcGIS Pro extension embedding FME technology for hundreds of extra formats and spatial ETL. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS Field Maps | Esri ArcGIS | Mobile app for viewing maps, collecting and editing data, and tasks in the field. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS for Microsoft Fabric | Esri ArcGIS | Esri workload bringing ArcGIS maps and GeoAnalytics into Microsoft Fabric. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS GeoAnalytics Engine | Esri ArcGIS | Spatial SQL functions and analysis tools plug-in for Apache Spark clusters (Databricks, EMR, Synapse etc.). | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS Image for ArcGIS Online | Esri ArcGIS | Extension for hosting, streaming and analyzing imagery and raster collections in ArcGIS Online. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS Indoors | Esri ArcGIS | Indoor mapping and space-management system for buildings and campuses. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS Knowledge | Esri ArcGIS | Graph database and link-analysis capability in ArcGIS Enterprise for entities and relationships. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS Location Platform | Esri ArcGIS | Pay-as-you-go developer platform for basemaps, geocoding, routing, places and data hosting. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS Notebooks | Esri ArcGIS | Hosted Jupyter notebooks inside ArcGIS Online/Enterprise with the ArcGIS API for Python preinstalled. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS QuickCapture | Esri ArcGIS | Mobile app for rapid, button-driven field data capture, often from moving vehicles. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS REST API | Esri ArcGIS | HTTP/JSON API exposed by ArcGIS Server, Online and Enterprise for map, feature, image and geoprocessing services. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS REST JS | Esri ArcGIS | Modular JavaScript wrappers for ArcGIS REST endpoints, including auth, geocoding, routing and feature queries. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS Survey123 | Esri ArcGIS | Form-centric data collection app with web and field clients and an XLSForm-based designer. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS Utility Network | Esri ArcGIS | Geodatabase-based network model for electric, gas, water and telecom utilities with tracing and topology. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS Velocity | Esri ArcGIS | Cloud service for ingesting, analyzing and visualizing real-time and big IoT streams. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS Workforce Retired | Esri ArcGIS | Mobile and web app for dispatching and tracking field work assignments. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Atlas.co | Cloud/web GIS & analytics | Browser-based collaborative GIS with AI-assisted mapping and analysis. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| AWS Ground Station | AWS | Managed satellite ground-station antennas for downlinking and processing satellite data. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Azure Maps | Microsoft | Microsoft cloud location APIs for maps, search, routing, weather and geofencing. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Cartegraph | Asset management | Asset management and operations software for local government, now part of OpenGov. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| CARTO | Cloud/web GIS & analytics | Cloud-native spatial analytics platform running on BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks and Redshift. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Cityworks | Asset management | GIS-centric asset and work management system for public works and utilities, built on Esri geodatabases; owned by Trimble. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Civil 3D | Autodesk | Civil engineering design and documentation tool on AutoCAD with surfaces, alignments and corridors. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Development Seed | Open-source EO consultancies | Consultancy that builds open-source EO tooling such as TiTiler, eoAPI, Lonboard and obstore. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| EagleView | Imagery & data vendors | Aerial oblique and orthogonal imagery plus property measurement data, common in county assessment. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Element 84 | Open-source EO consultancies | Geospatial engineering firm behind FilmDrop, stac-server and Earth Search. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| File Geodatabase API | Esri ArcGIS | Esri's C++ (and .NET) library for reading and writing file geodatabases on Windows, macOS and Linux. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| FME Flow | Spatial ETL | Server (formerly FME Server) for scheduling, automating and exposing FME workspaces as services; 2026.2 can host an MCP server. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| FME Flow Hosted | Spatial ETL | Safe Software-managed cloud deployment of FME Flow. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| FME Form | Spatial ETL | Desktop spatial ETL workbench (formerly FME Desktop) for translating and transforming 400+ formats. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Foursquare Places API | Location & mapping APIs | API for POI search and venue details from Foursquare's places dataset. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| FSQ Spatial (Studio, Desktop, Workbench, H3 Hub) | Cloud/web GIS & analytics | Foursquare's spatial product family built from the Unfolded acquisition: Studio, Desktop, Workbench and H3 Hub. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Fused | Cloud/web GIS & analytics | Serverless platform for running Python UDFs over geospatial data and returning tiles or tables. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Geoapify | Location & mapping APIs | Developer APIs for geocoding, places, routing, isolines and map tiles built on open data. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeoMedia | Hexagon | Hexagon's desktop GIS for data management, analysis and map production, strong on Oracle. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GIS Cloud | Cloud/web GIS & analytics | Cloud GIS for mapping and mobile data collection, with an MCP server. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Google Earth AI | Google's suite of geospatial foundation models plus an experimental Gemini geospatial reasoning agent. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas | |
| Google Earth Pro | Free desktop globe for viewing imagery, KML and historical imagery. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas | |
| Google Maps Platform | Google APIs for maps, places, geocoding, routes, elevation and address validation. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas | |
| HERE Location Services | Location & mapping APIs | HERE platform APIs for maps, geocoding, routing, traffic and fleet logistics. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| InfraWorks | Autodesk | Conceptual infrastructure design tool building 3D context models from GIS data. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| iTwin Platform / iTwin.js | Bentley | Infrastructure digital-twin platform; iTwin.js is the open-source library, iTwin Platform the hosted APIs. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Luciad (LuciadRIA, LuciadLightspeed, LuciadFusion) | Hexagon | Hexagon SDK family for high-performance 2D/3D situational-awareness apps and geodata serving, common in defense. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Mapbox | Location & mapping APIs | Location platform for vector tiles, custom map styles, geocoding, navigation and SDKs. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Maps in Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft | Fabric Real-Time Intelligence map item for visualizing streaming and lakehouse geodata. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| MapTiler | Location & mapping APIs | Map hosting and tiling platform with vector basemaps, geocoding and MapTiler Engine tiling software. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OpenCities Map | Bentley | MicroStation-based GIS/CAD application for municipal mapping and Oracle Spatial editing. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OpenRoads Designer | Bentley | Civil design software for roads, corridors, drainage and terrain modeling. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Planet (Planet Insights Platform) | Imagery & data vendors | Daily satellite imagery provider; Insights Platform merges Planet APIs with Sentinel Hub processing. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Precisely (MapInfo Pro, Spectrum) | Location & mapping APIs | Data-integrity company offering MapInfo Pro desktop GIS, Spectrum spatial servers, geocoding and address data. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| TomTom Maps APIs | Location & mapping APIs | TomTom developer APIs for maps, search, routing and live traffic. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Trimble Business Center | Trimble | Survey office software for processing GNSS, total station, scanner and drone data. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Trimble Connect | Trimble | Cloud collaboration platform for sharing BIM, CAD and project files. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Trimble Unity | Trimble | Trimble's cloud suite for asset lifecycle, work and capital-program management for utilities and cities. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
Connections & storage (58)
| Name | Subcategory | Summary | Review |
|---|---|---|---|
| @esri/arcgis-to-geojson-utils | Esri connections & auth | Esri JS utilities for converting between ArcGIS JSON and GeoJSON. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ADBC (Arrow Database Connectivity) | Database drivers | Arrow-native database API and drivers (PostgreSQL, SQLite, Snowflake, Flight SQL) returning columnar results. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Amazon S3 | Object storage | AWS object storage and the de facto S3 API that many stores mimic. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Apache Iceberg (v3 geo types) | Data catalogs with geo support | Open table format whose v3 spec adds native geometry and geography types. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Apache OpenDAL | Object storage | Unified data-access layer for 50+ storage services (S3, Azure, GCS, WebDAV, SFTP, Google Drive, OneDrive...). | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS Pro database connections (Create Database Connection) | Esri connections & auth | ArcGIS Pro tool and UI for creating connections to Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and other enterprise geodatabases. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS security and authentication (OAuth 2.0, API keys) | Esri connections & auth | OAuth 2.0 user and app logins, API keys and tokens for ArcGIS Online, Enterprise and Location Platform. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| arcgis2geojson (Python) | Esri connections & auth | Python port of Esri's converter for turning ArcGIS JSON into GeoJSON, usable as a CLI. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| AWS Glue Data Catalog | Data catalogs with geo support | AWS metadata catalog for tables in S3, used by Athena, which provides geospatial SQL functions. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Azure Blob Storage / ADLS Gen2 | Object storage | Azure object storage, with hierarchical-namespace Data Lake Storage Gen2. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| boto3 | Object storage | AWS SDK for Python, including S3 clients. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Box Platform API | Identity & document stores | REST API and SDKs for files and folders in Box. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Databricks Spatial SQL (GEOMETRY/GEOGRAPHY) | Data catalogs with geo support | Native geospatial types and ST functions in Databricks SQL, governed by Unity Catalog. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Dropbox API | Identity & document stores | REST API and SDKs for Dropbox files and sharing. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| DuckDB httpfs/azure extensions | Data catalogs with geo support | DuckDB extensions for querying Parquet/GeoParquet directly over HTTP, S3, Azure and GCS. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| DVC | Data versioning & Git | Data version control on top of Git for large files and ML pipelines on remote storage. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Esri .sde connection file | Esri connections & auth | Binary file storing an ArcGIS database/enterprise-geodatabase connection (DBMS, instance, auth, version). | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Esri JSON (ArcGIS JSON geometry/feature format) | Esri connections & auth | JSON geometry and feature-set encoding used by ArcGIS REST services. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Esri ST_Geometry | Esri connections & auth | Esri spatial type and SQL functions installed in Oracle/PostgreSQL enterprise geodatabases. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| fsspec | Object storage | Pythonic file-system abstraction with backends for local, HTTP, S3 (s3fs), Azure (adlfs), GCS (gcsfs), SFTP, SMB and more. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GDAL /vsiaz/ and /vsiadls/ | Object storage | GDAL virtual file systems for Azure Blob and ADLS Gen2. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GDAL /vsicurl/ | Object storage | GDAL virtual file system for range-request reads of files over HTTP(S), the basis for COG streaming. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GDAL /vsigs/ | Object storage | GDAL virtual file system for Google Cloud Storage. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GDAL /vsis3/ | Object storage | GDAL virtual file system for reading and writing S3 and S3-compatible objects. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GDAL /vsizip/ and /vsitar/ | Object storage | GDAL virtual file systems for reading inside zip and tar archives without extracting. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GDAL ESRIJSON driver | Esri connections & auth | OGR driver that reads Esri JSON and pages through ArcGIS FeatureServer/MapServer query results. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeoAlchemy2 | Database drivers | SQLAlchemy extension adding spatial types and functions for PostGIS, SpatiaLite and MySQL. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GitHub MCP Server | Data versioning & Git | GitHub's official MCP server giving agents access to repos, issues and PRs. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GitHub REST API | Data versioning & Git | REST API for repositories, files, issues and releases on GitHub. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GitLab REST API | Data versioning & Git | REST API for GitLab projects, files and pipelines. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Google Cloud Storage | Object storage | Google Cloud object storage with an S3-interoperable XML API. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Google Drive API | Identity & document stores | REST API for listing, downloading and uploading files in Google Drive. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Kart | Data versioning & Git | Git-based distributed version control for vector and raster geodata and tables, with diffs and merges. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| keyring (Python) | Identity & document stores | Cross-platform access to OS credential stores (Windows Credential Manager, macOS Keychain, Secret Service). | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| lakeFS | Data versioning & Git | Git-like branching and commits over object storage data lakes. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Microsoft Entra ID (identity platform) | Identity & document stores | Microsoft's cloud identity service (formerly Azure AD) issuing OAuth 2.0/OIDC tokens for Microsoft 365 and Azure. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Microsoft Graph API (SharePoint/OneDrive) | Identity & document stores | Unified Microsoft 365 REST API for files in SharePoint and OneDrive, plus mail, Teams and users. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Microsoft Graph SDK for Python | Identity & document stores | Official Python client for Microsoft Graph. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Microsoft JDBC Driver for SQL Server | Database drivers | Open-source JDBC driver for SQL Server and Azure SQL. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| MinIO | Object storage | Self-hosted S3-compatible object store. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| MSAL for Python | Identity & document stores | Microsoft Authentication Library for getting Entra ID tokens, including device-code and interactive flows. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| mssql-python | Database drivers | Microsoft's newer Python driver for SQL Server that bundles its own ODBC layer. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| object_store (Rust crate) | Object storage | Apache Arrow's async Rust abstraction over S3, Azure, GCS, HTTP and local storage. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| obstore | Object storage | Fast Python bindings to the Rust object_store crate for S3, Azure, GCS and HTTP. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Oracle JDBC (ojdbc) | Database drivers | Oracle's JDBC driver for Java applications. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Paramiko | Network shares & transfer | Python SSHv2 implementation providing SFTP client and server. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| PostgreSQL JDBC Driver (pgJDBC) | Database drivers | Official JDBC driver for PostgreSQL. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| pyesridump (esridump) | Esri connections & auth | CLI and library that dumps all features from an ArcGIS REST layer, working around record limits. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| python-oracledb | Database drivers | Oracle's Python driver (successor to cx_Oracle) with a pure-Python thin mode needing no Instant Client. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| rclone | Object storage | CLI that syncs, copies and mounts 70+ cloud and network storage backends. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Samba | Network shares & transfer | Open-source SMB server and client suite for Linux and Unix. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| SMB/CIFS network shares | Network shares & transfer | Windows file-sharing protocol behind most departmental GIS drives and UNC paths. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| smbprotocol | Network shares & transfer | Pure-Python SMB2/3 client for accessing Windows shares without mounting. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Sno Retired | Data versioning & Git | Koordinates' earlier name for Kart before its 2021 rename. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Terraformer | Esri connections & auth | JS library for converting between GeoJSON, ArcGIS JSON and WKT (successor of Esri/terraformer). | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Unity Catalog (OSS) | Data catalogs with geo support | Open-source data and AI catalog for tables, volumes and models, originally from Databricks. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| unixODBC | Database drivers | ODBC driver manager for Linux and Unix. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| WebDAV | Network shares & transfer | HTTP extension (RFC 4918) for remote file authoring, used by Nextcloud and SharePoint. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
Core libraries & formats (218)
| Name | Subcategory | Summary | Review |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3D Tiles | Point cloud & 3D formats | OGC standard for streaming massive 3D content such as buildings, meshes and point clouds. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| A5 | Discrete global grids & geocodes | Pentagonal equal-area discrete global grid system with JS, Rust and Python implementations. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Apache SIS | Projection & CRS | Java library implementing OGC/ISO standards for CRS, metadata and data stores. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| async-tiff | Data access & IO | Asynchronous TIFF/COG reader for Rust and Python built on object-store. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| BAG (Bathymetric Attributed Grid) | Raster formats | HDF5-based format for gridded bathymetry with uncertainty from ONS-WG. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Bing Maps Tile System (quadkeys) | Discrete global grids & geocodes | Web Mercator tile addressing scheme encoding zoom/x/y as base-4 quadkey strings. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Boost.Geometry | Geometry & topology engines | Header-only C++ library of geometry algorithms, spatial indexes (R-tree) and coordinate systems. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| CF Conventions | Raster formats | Climate and Forecast metadata conventions for NetCDF describing coordinates, units and grids. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| CGAL | Geometry & topology engines | Computational geometry library with exact predicates, triangulations, meshes and polygon operations. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| CGAL Python bindings (cgal-swig-bindings) | Geometry & topology engines | SWIG-based Python bindings for selected CGAL packages. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| CityGML / CityJSON | Vector formats | Data models and encodings (XML and JSON) for semantic 3D city and building models. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Clipper2 | Geometry & topology engines | Polygon clipping and offsetting library for integer and float coordinates. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) | Raster formats | GeoTIFF layout with internal tiling and overviews enabling efficient HTTP range reads. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| COPC (Cloud Optimized Point Cloud) | Point cloud & 3D formats | LAZ 1.4 file organised as a clustered octree for streaming partial reads over HTTP. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| CSV with geometry (WKT/lat-lon) | Vector formats | Delimited text holding geometry as WKT columns or X/Y coordinate columns. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Delaunator | Geometry & topology engines | Fast 2D Delaunay triangulation library, with ports in Rust, C++ and other languages. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| DGGRID | Discrete global grids & geocodes | Command-line tool for generating and working with icosahedral discrete global grids (ISEA, FULLER). | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| dggrid4py | Discrete global grids & geocodes | Python wrapper that drives the DGGRID executable and returns GeoPandas outputs. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| dggridR | Discrete global grids & geocodes | R package wrapping DGGRID for binning data into equal-area hexagonal grids. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| DGN | Vector formats | Bentley MicroStation CAD format; GDAL reads V7 natively and V8 via ODA. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| DTED | Raster formats | Military digital terrain elevation data format in fixed tiles. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| DWG | Vector formats | Autodesk's native binary CAD drawing format. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| DXF | Vector formats | Autodesk's documented CAD exchange format for drawings. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| E57 | Point cloud & 3D formats | ASTM format for 3D imaging data from terrestrial laser scanners. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| earcut | Geometry & topology engines | Polygon triangulation library used for rendering polygons on GPUs. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ecCodes | Raster formats | ECMWF library and tools for decoding and encoding GRIB and BUFR. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ECW | Raster formats | Hexagon wavelet-compressed imagery format read via the ERDAS ECW/JP2 SDK. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Encoded Polyline | Vector formats | Google's compact ASCII encoding of coordinate sequences, used by routing APIs. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ENVI raster format | Raster formats | Flat binary raster with text header used by L3Harris ENVI. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| epsg.io | Projection & CRS | Website and API for searching CRS definitions and transforming coordinates, run by MapTiler. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| EPT (Entwine Point Tile) | Point cloud & 3D formats | Octree-based tiled point cloud layout produced by Entwine. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ERDAS IMAGINE (.img) | Raster formats | Hexagon ERDAS raster format storing multiband imagery with pyramids. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Esri ASCII Grid (AAIGrid) | Raster formats | Plain-text raster grid with header giving extent and cell size. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Esri CRF / MRF | Raster formats | Meta Raster Format (NASA/Esri, open) and Esri's Cloud Raster Format for tiled cloud rasters. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Esri File Geodatabase API | Data access & IO | Esri's free closed-source C++ API for reading and writing File Geodatabases. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Esri Geometry API for Java | Geometry & topology engines | Esri's open Java geometry library supporting relational operations, used by Hive/Spark spatial tools. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Esri Grid (ArcInfo binary grid) Retired | Raster formats | Esri's legacy directory-based binary raster format. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Esri JSON | Vector formats | JSON geometry and feature encoding used by ArcGIS REST services. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Esri layer files (.lyrx) / project files | Metadata & catalog formats | ArcGIS Pro layer and map definition files based on the Cartographic Information Model. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Esri Personal Geodatabase (.mdb) Retired | Vector formats | Legacy Esri geodatabase stored in Microsoft Access files. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Esri Projection Engine / ArcObjects SDK | Data access & IO | Esri's proprietary projection and geometry engines embedded in ArcGIS SDKs. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Esri Shapefile spatial index (.sbn/.qix) | Vector formats | Sidecar spatial index files for Shapefiles from Esri (.sbn/.sbx) and MapServer/GDAL (.qix). | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Esri Tile Package / Compact Cache (TPK/VTPK/Bundle) | Tile formats | Esri tile cache and package formats for raster and vector tiles. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| EWKT / EWKB | Vector formats | PostGIS extensions to WKT/WKB embedding SRID and Z/M dimensions. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ezdxf | Data access & IO | Python library for creating and editing DXF CAD drawings. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| File Geodatabase | Vector formats | Esri's folder-based geodatabase format for vector, raster and topology in ArcGIS. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Fiona | Data access & IO | Pythonic vector IO built on GDAL/OGR for reading and writing features. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Flatbush | Spatial indexing | Static packed Hilbert R-tree for very fast indexing of 2D data in JS. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| FlatGeobuf | Vector formats | Binary FlatBuffers-based vector format with optional packed R-tree index for streaming. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| flatgeobuf (Rust crate) | Data access & IO | Rust implementation of FlatGeobuf reading/writing including HTTP range reads. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GDAL | Data access & IO | Translator library and CLI tools reading and writing hundreds of raster and vector formats. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| gdal (GeoRust) | Data access & IO | Rust bindings to GDAL for raster and vector IO. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GDAL JS (gdal3.js) | Data access & IO | WebAssembly build of GDAL for format conversion in browsers and Node. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GDAL OpenFileGDB driver | Data access & IO | Open-source GDAL driver reading and writing Esri File Geodatabases without the Esri SDK. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GDAL Python bindings (osgeo) | Data access & IO | Official SWIG Python bindings for GDAL/OGR/OSR. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| geo (GeoRust) | Geometry & topology engines | Rust crate of geometry types and algorithms such as area, simplification, boolean ops and distance. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| geo-types (GeoRust) | Geometry & topology engines | Shared Rust geometry primitive types used as the interchange layer across GeoRust crates. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeoArrow | Vector formats | Specification for representing geometries in Apache Arrow memory for zero-copy exchange. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeoArrow (Python geoarrow-pyarrow etc.) | Data access & IO | Python and C implementations of GeoArrow geometry arrays (geoarrow-c, geoarrow-pyarrow). | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| geoarrow-rs / geoarrow (Rust) | Geometry & topology engines | Rust implementation of GeoArrow arrays with geometry ops and Python/JS bindings. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Geodesy (Rust) | Projection & CRS | Experimental Rust platform for geodetic transformations designed as a PROJ successor experiment. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeographicLib | Geometry & topology engines | Accurate geodesic, geoid, magnetic and projection computations on the ellipsoid. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| geographiclib (Python) | Geometry & topology engines | Pure Python implementation of GeographicLib geodesic routines. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Geohash | Discrete global grids & geocodes | Base-32 string encoding of latitude/longitude into a Z-order grid for prefix-based proximity. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| geohash (GeoRust) | Discrete global grids & geocodes | Rust crate for encoding and decoding geohashes and neighbours. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeoJSON | Vector formats | JSON encoding of features and geometries in WGS84 coordinates. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| geojson (GeoRust) | Data access & IO | Rust crate for parsing and serialising GeoJSON. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeoJSONSeq / newline-delimited GeoJSON | Vector formats | Sequence of GeoJSON texts separated by record separators or newlines for streaming. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeometryOps.jl / ArchGDAL.jl | Geometry & topology engines | Julia geometry operations and GDAL bindings within the JuliaGeo ecosystem. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeoPackage | Vector formats | SQLite-based OGC container for vector features, tile pyramids and attributes in one file. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeoPandas | Data access & IO | Extends pandas with geometry columns and spatial operations for vector data. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeoParquet | Vector formats | Specification for storing geometry columns and CRS metadata in Apache Parquet. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GEOS | Geometry & topology engines | C/C++ geometry engine for predicates, overlays, buffers and validity checks, ported from JTS. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| geos (Rust bindings) | Geometry & topology engines | Rust bindings to the GEOS C API. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeoTIFF | Raster formats | TIFF image extended with tags describing georeferencing and CRS. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| geotiff.js | Data access & IO | JavaScript parser for TIFF/GeoTIFF and COG with HTTP range reads. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeoTools | Data access & IO | Java toolkit implementing OGC standards with data stores, rendering and CRS support. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeoZarr | Raster formats | Draft OGC specification adding geospatial conventions (CRS, multiscales) to Zarr. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| geozero | Data access & IO | Rust zero-copy reading and writing of many geo formats via a streaming processor API. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| glTF | Point cloud & 3D formats | Khronos runtime 3D asset format used inside 3D Tiles. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GML | Vector formats | XML grammar for geographic features used by WFS and many national datasets. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| go-geom | Geometry & topology engines | Go library for efficient geometry types with WKB/WKT/GeoJSON encoders. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| go-pmtiles / pmtiles CLI | Tile formats | CLI and server for creating, inspecting, extracting and serving PMTiles archives. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GPX | Vector formats | XML format for GPS waypoints, tracks and routes. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| gpx (GeoRust) | Data access & IO | Rust crate for reading and writing GPX files. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GRIB / GRIB2 | Raster formats | WMO binary format for gridded meteorological data such as forecasts. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| H3 | Discrete global grids & geocodes | Hexagonal hierarchical global grid system from Uber for indexing and aggregating locations. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| h3-js | Discrete global grids & geocodes | Official JavaScript bindings for H3. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| h3-py | Discrete global grids & geocodes | Official Python bindings for H3. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| h3o | Discrete global grids & geocodes | Pure Rust implementation of the H3 grid system. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| h5py | Data access & IO | Python interface to HDF5 files using NumPy arrays. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| HDF4 / HDF-EOS | Raster formats | Older HDF format and NASA EOS profile used by legacy MODIS and other satellite products. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| HDF5 | Raster formats | Hierarchical binary container for large scientific datasets used by many satellite products. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| HDF5 library | Data access & IO | Reference library for the HDF5 hierarchical data format. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| HEALPix | Discrete global grids & geocodes | Equal-area hierarchical pixelisation of the sphere from astronomy, usable for global geodata. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| i_overlay | Geometry & topology engines | Rust polygon boolean operations library, used as the backend for geo's boolean ops. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| I3S (Scene Layer Package) | Point cloud & 3D formats | Esri-originated OGC community standard for streaming 3D scene layers. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Interlis / NAS / ALKIS / SOSI | Vector formats | National exchange standards (Swiss, German, Norwegian) for cadastral and topographic data. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ISO 19115 / 19139 | Metadata & catalog formats | ISO geographic metadata model and XML encoding used in catalogs and CSW. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| JPEG 2000 / GMLJP2 | Raster formats | Wavelet-compressed image format with embedded GML georeferencing, used by Sentinel-2. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| JSTS | Geometry & topology engines | JavaScript port of JTS for geometry predicates and overlay operations in browsers and Node. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| JTS Topology Suite | Geometry & topology engines | Reference Java library for 2D planar geometry operations, spatial predicates and indexing. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| KDBush | Spatial indexing | Static KD-tree index for 2D points in JavaScript. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Kerchunk / VirtualiZarr | Raster formats | Python tools that build virtual Zarr references over existing NetCDF/HDF5/GRIB files. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| KML / KMZ | Vector formats | XML language for placemarks, styles and overlays originating in Google Earth. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| LAS | Point cloud & 3D formats | ASPRS binary format for LiDAR point clouds with classification and attributes. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| las-rs | Data access & IO | Pure Rust reader and writer for LAS point clouds. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| laspy | Data access & IO | Python library for reading and writing LAS/LAZ point clouds as NumPy arrays. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| LAStools / LASlib | Data access & IO | Point cloud toolset with open LASlib IO and commercially licensed processing tools. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| LASzip | Data access & IO | Lossless compression library for LAS point clouds producing LAZ files. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| LAZ | Point cloud & 3D formats | Losslessly compressed LAS using LASzip. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| libgeotiff | Data access & IO | Library and tools (listgeo, geotifcp) for reading and writing GeoTIFF georeferencing tags. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| libkml Retired | Data access & IO | Google's C++ reference library for parsing and writing KML. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| libosmium | Data access & IO | Libosmium is a fast C++ library for processing OpenStreetMap data files, with the osmium CLI. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| libpostgis / liblwgeom | Geometry & topology engines | PostGIS's internal lightweight geometry library for serialization and geometry functions. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| LibreDWG | Data access & IO | GNU library for reading and writing DWG files. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| libspatialindex | Spatial indexing | C++ library implementing R-tree, MVR-tree and TPR-tree spatial indexes. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| libtiff | Data access & IO | Reference library for reading and writing TIFF images underlying GeoTIFF. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| loaders.gl | Data access & IO | Framework-agnostic loaders for many geospatial and 3D formats from the vis.gl suite. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Maidenhead Locator System | Discrete global grids & geocodes | Amateur radio grid square locator encoding latitude/longitude in alternating letter/digit pairs. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Mapbox Vector Tile (MVT) | Tile formats | Protocol Buffers encoding of tiled vector features used by most web vector maps. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Mapcode | Discrete global grids & geocodes | Mapcode system for short location codes, open-sourced by its foundation with libraries in several languages. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| MapInfo TAB / MIF-MID | Vector formats | Precisely MapInfo native and interchange vector formats. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| MapLibre Style Spec | Tile formats | JSON style specification describing how vector tile layers are rendered. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| MapLibre Tile (MLT) | Tile formats | New columnar vector tile format from MapLibre designed to succeed MVT with better compression. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| MBTiles | Tile formats | SQLite container for storing raster or vector map tiles with metadata. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| MDAL | Data access & IO | Mesh data abstraction library reading 2D/3D unstructured meshes (UGRID, 2DM, SELAFIN, etc.). | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| mercantile | Discrete global grids & geocodes | Python utilities for Web Mercator XYZ tiles and quadkeys. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| mgrs (JS) | Discrete global grids & geocodes | JavaScript conversion between MGRS and latitude/longitude, part of proj4js org. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| MGRS / USNG | Discrete global grids & geocodes | Military and US national grid reference systems based on UTM zones and 100 km squares. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Mobile Geodatabase | Vector formats | Esri SQLite-based single-file geodatabase used by ArcGIS Pro and Runtime. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| morecantile | Discrete global grids & geocodes | Python implementation of OGC TileMatrixSet for arbitrary CRS tiling. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| MrSID | Raster formats | Extensis wavelet-compressed raster format for large imagery and LiDAR, read via the MrSID SDK. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| nanoflann | Spatial indexing | Header-only C++ KD-tree library for nearest-neighbour search in point clouds. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| NetCDF | Raster formats | Self-describing format for multidimensional scientific arrays, common for climate and ocean data. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| NetCDF-C / netCDF4-python | Data access & IO | Unidata reference libraries for reading and writing netCDF files. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| NetTopologySuite | Geometry & topology engines | .NET port of JTS providing geometry types, operations and IO. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ngeohash / python-geohash | Discrete global grids & geocodes | Small libraries for geohash encode/decode in Node and Python. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ODA Drawings SDK (Teigha) | Data access & IO | Commercial SDK from Open Design Alliance for reading and writing DWG/DGN files. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OGC API - DGGS | Discrete global grids & geocodes | OGC API standard for retrieving data organised by discrete global grid zones. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OGC CSVW / GeoCSV | Vector formats | Conventions for describing geometry and metadata in CSV files. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OGC DGGS Abstract Specification | Discrete global grids & geocodes | OGC abstract specification (ISO 19170-1) defining discrete global grid systems. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OGC SLD / SE | Tile formats | XML styling standards for map layers used by GeoServer and QGIS. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OGC Two Dimensional Tile Matrix Set | Discrete global grids & geocodes | OGC standard defining tile grids and tile matrix sets for any CRS. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OGR (GDAL vector) | Data access & IO | Vector part of GDAL providing drivers, SQL dialects and ogr2ogr conversion. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Open Location Code (Plus Codes) | Discrete global grids & geocodes | Open grid-based short code for any location, with reference libraries in many languages. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OpenEAGGR | Discrete global grids & geocodes | Open equal-area global grid library supporting ISEA hexagonal and triangular cells. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OpenJPEG | Raster formats | Open-source JPEG 2000 codec used by GDAL's JP2 driver. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| orb | Geometry & topology engines | Go library of 2D geometry types with GeoJSON, WKB, MVT encoding and planar/geo helpers. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OSM PBF / OSM XML | Vector formats | OpenStreetMap data encodings in compressed Protocol Buffers or XML. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OWSLib | Data access & IO | Python client for OGC web services such as WMS, WFS, WCS, CSW and OGC API. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Parquet native GEOMETRY/GEOGRAPHY types | Vector formats | Logical geometry and geography types added to the Apache Parquet and Iceberg specifications. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| PDAL | Data access & IO | Point cloud translation and processing library with JSON pipelines and CLI. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Placekey | Discrete global grids & geocodes | Universal place identifier combining address encoding with an H3-based location part. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| PMTiles | Tile formats | Single-file archive of map tiles readable by HTTP range requests without a tile server. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| polygon-clipping | Geometry & topology engines | JavaScript library for polygon union, intersection, difference and XOR on GeoJSON-like coordinates. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| polylabel | Geometry & topology engines | Finds the pole of inaccessibility, the best interior label point of a polygon. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| PROJ | Projection & CRS | Coordinate transformation library and CLI tools covering projections, datum shifts and the EPSG database. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| proj (GeoRust) | Projection & CRS | Rust bindings to PROJ for coordinate transformation. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| PROJ.4 Java / Proj4J | Projection & CRS | Java port of PROJ.4 projection routines maintained under LocationTech. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Proj4js | Projection & CRS | JavaScript library to transform coordinates between projections defined by PROJ strings or WKT. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| proj4rs | Projection & CRS | Pure Rust port of proj4js projection logic, usable in WebAssembly. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| PROJJSON | Projection & CRS | JSON encoding of CRS definitions mirroring WKT2, used by GeoParquet and PROJ. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ProjNet (ProjNET4GeoAPI) | Projection & CRS | .NET library for coordinate system conversions and transformations. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| pyogrio | Data access & IO | Fast vectorized vector IO for GeoPandas using GDAL with Arrow support. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| PyOsmium | Data access & IO | Python bindings for libosmium to process OSM files and change streams. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| pyproj | Projection & CRS | Python interface to PROJ for CRS definitions, transformations and geodesic calculations. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| pyshp | Data access & IO | Pure Python reader and writer for ESRI Shapefiles. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| QGIS project / QML style files | Metadata & catalog formats | XML project (.qgs/.qgz) and layer style (.qml) files produced by QGIS. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Rasterio | Data access & IO | Pythonic raster IO built on GDAL with NumPy arrays and windowed reads. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| RBush | Spatial indexing | High-performance JavaScript R-tree for 2D points and rectangles. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| rHEALPix / rhealpixdggs | Discrete global grids & geocodes | Python implementation of the rHEALPix equal-area discrete global grid system. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| rio-cogeo | Raster formats | Rasterio plugin to create and validate Cloud Optimized GeoTIFFs. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| rioxarray | Data access & IO | Rasterio-powered extension adding CRS and geospatial IO to xarray. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| robust-predicates | Geometry & topology engines | Port of Shewchuk's robust geometric predicates for exact orientation and in-circle tests. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| rstar | Spatial indexing | Rust R*-tree implementation for spatial queries and nearest neighbours. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Rtree (Python) | Spatial indexing | Python ctypes wrapper of libspatialindex for R-tree queries. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| RTTOPO (librttopo) | Geometry & topology engines | Topology and geometry library derived from PostGIS liblwgeom, used by SpatiaLite. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| S-57 / S-101 | Vector formats | IHO standards for electronic navigational charts. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| s2 (R package) | Geometry & topology engines | R bindings to S2 used by sf for spherical geometry on geographic coordinates. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| S2 cells | Discrete global grids & geocodes | Hierarchical quadrilateral cells on the sphere defined by S2, addressed by 64-bit cell IDs. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| S2 Geometry | Geometry & topology engines | Spherical geometry library with a hierarchical cell decomposition for indexing and region covering. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| s2geography | Geometry & topology engines | C++ layer on S2 providing Simple Features-style geography operations, used by R s2 and DuckDB. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| SAFE (Sentinel) | Raster formats | ESA product packaging format containing manifests and imagery for Sentinel missions. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Safe FME Engine | Data access & IO | Commercial data integration engine translating hundreds of GIS, CAD and database formats. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| SFCGAL | Geometry & topology engines | Wrapper around CGAL adding ISO 19107 3D geometry operations and used by PostGIS for 3D functions. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Shapefile | Vector formats | Esri's multi-file vector format (.shp/.shx/.dbf/.prj) still ubiquitous for exchange. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| shapefile (Rust) | Data access & IO | Pure Rust reader and writer for ESRI Shapefiles. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| shapefile.js / shpjs | Data access & IO | JavaScript library that converts zipped Shapefiles to GeoJSON in the browser. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Shapely | Geometry & topology engines | Python library exposing GEOS geometry objects and vectorized operations on NumPy arrays. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| simplefeatures (Go) | Geometry & topology engines | Pure Go Simple Features library with predicates and overlay operations. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| simplekml | Data access & IO | Python package for generating KML files. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| SpatiaLite (libspatialite) | Geometry & topology engines | SQLite extension library adding spatial SQL functions, geometry types and spatial indexes. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| SpatiaLite database | Vector formats | SQLite database file with SpatiaLite geometry tables and spatial indexes. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| spatialreference.org | Projection & CRS | Website listing CRS definitions in WKT, PROJ and other formats, now generated from PROJ. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Spherely | Geometry & topology engines | Python library for spherical geometry built on s2geography, a Shapely-like API on the sphere. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| STAC | Raster formats | SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog JSON specification describing geospatial assets for search. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| terra / sf / stars (R) | Data access & IO | Core R packages for vector (sf), raster (terra) and datacube (stars) spatial data built on GDAL/GEOS/PROJ. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Terrain-RGB / Terrarium | Raster formats | Encodings that pack elevation values into PNG/WebP RGB tiles for web maps. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| tiff / geotiff (Rust) | Data access & IO | Rust crates for decoding TIFF images and reading GeoTIFF georeferencing tags. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| TileJSON | Tile formats | JSON format describing tileset metadata such as URLs, bounds and zoom levels. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| tippecanoe | Tile formats | CLI that builds vector tilesets (MBTiles/PMTiles) from large GeoJSON or FlatGeobuf collections. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| TopoJSON | Vector formats | JSON extension of GeoJSON that encodes shared topology arcs to shrink file size. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Turf.js | Geometry & topology engines | Modular JavaScript toolkit for geospatial analysis on GeoJSON such as buffers, distances and aggregation. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| TWKB | Vector formats | Tiny Well-Known Binary, a compressed variable-precision geometry encoding. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| UGRID / mesh formats (2DM, SELAFIN) | Point cloud & 3D formats | Conventions and formats for unstructured mesh model output used in hydraulics and oceanography. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| USGS DEM / SDTS Retired | Raster formats | Legacy USGS elevation and transfer standards still found in archives. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| vgrid | Discrete global grids & geocodes | Python toolkit converting between many DGGS and geocode systems (H3, S2, A5, rHEALPix, Geohash, etc.). | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Virtual Raster (VRT) | Raster formats | GDAL XML format that mosaics, subsets or transforms other rasters without copying data. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| vtzero / vector-tile libs | Tile formats | Minimalist C++ library for encoding and decoding MVT. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| what3words | Discrete global grids & geocodes | Commercial system assigning three-word addresses to 3 m squares worldwide via API and SDKs. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| wkt (GeoRust) | Data access & IO | Rust crate for reading and writing Well-Known Text geometries. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| WKT / WKB (Simple Features) | Vector formats | Text and binary encodings of Simple Features geometries. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| WKT-CRS (ISO 19162) | Projection & CRS | Well-known text encoding for describing coordinate reference systems and transformations. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| xarray | Data access & IO | Labelled N-dimensional array library widely used for NetCDF, Zarr and gridded geodata. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| XYZ / TMS tile schemes | Tile formats | URL templates and Y-axis conventions for addressing Web Mercator map tiles. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Zarr | Raster formats | Chunked, compressed N-dimensional array storage format designed for cloud object stores. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| zarr-python | Data access & IO | Python implementation of the Zarr chunked, compressed N-dimensional array format. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
Desktop GIS & analysis engines (138)
| Name | Subcategory | Summary | Review |
|---|---|---|---|
| access | Spatial statistics (Python / PySAL) | Spatial accessibility measures such as two-step floating catchment area. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS API for Python | Commercial desktop GIS | Esri's Python package for working with ArcGIS Online/Enterprise content, spatial DataFrames and hosted analysis. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS Geostatistical Analyst | Commercial desktop GIS | ArcGIS Pro extension for kriging, interpolation, simulation and exploratory spatial data analysis. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS Pro | Commercial desktop GIS | Esri's flagship 64-bit desktop GIS for 2D/3D mapping, editing, geoprocessing and sharing to ArcGIS Online/Enterprise. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS Spatial Analyst | Commercial desktop GIS | ArcGIS Pro extension for raster modelling, map algebra, surface, hydrology, distance and suitability analysis. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcMap / ArcGIS Desktop Retired | Commercial desktop GIS | Esri's legacy 32-bit Windows desktop GIS suite (ArcMap, ArcCatalog), superseded by ArcGIS Pro. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcPy | Commercial desktop GIS | Python site package bundled with ArcGIS Pro that exposes geoprocessing tools, data access and mapping automation. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| AutoCAD Map 3D | Commercial desktop GIS | AutoCAD toolset that adds GIS data access, FDO connections, topology and map analysis to CAD drafting. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Autodesk Civil 3D | Commercial desktop GIS | Civil engineering design software with surfaces, corridors, grading and GIS data integration on top of AutoCAD. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| automap | R spatial packages | Automatic variogram fitting and kriging built on gstat. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Caliper Maptitude | Commercial desktop GIS | Business and demographic mapping desktop GIS with bundled census data, territory design and routing. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Circuitscape | Spatial statistics applications | Applies circuit theory to raster landscapes to model connectivity and movement corridors. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| CrimeStat | Spatial statistics applications | NIJ-funded Windows program of spatial statistics for crime incident analysis such as hot spots and journey to crime. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| cuSpatial | Python vector analysis | RAPIDS GPU library for spatial joins, distances and trajectory operations on NVIDIA GPUs. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Dask-GeoPandas | Python vector analysis | Parallel and out-of-core GeoPandas using Dask partitions for large vector datasets. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| DIVA-GIS | Open-source desktop GIS | Free Windows GIS aimed at biodiversity and genetic-resources mapping, species distribution modelling and simple climate analysis. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| DotSpatial | Open-source desktop GIS | .NET library for building GIS-enabled Windows Forms applications with map display, projections and analysis. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ENVI | Commercial desktop GIS | NV5 Geospatial's remote sensing analysis software for multispectral, hyperspectral, SAR and LiDAR image processing. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| esda | Spatial statistics (Python / PySAL) | Exploratory spatial data analysis: Moran's I, Geary's C, LISA, Getis-Ord and join counts. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| exactextract | Python raster & array analysis | Fast, exact zonal statistics that weight raster cells by their fractional coverage of polygons. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| exactextractr | R spatial packages | R interface to exactextract for coverage-weighted zonal statistics. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| FME Flow (Safe Software) | Spatial ETL | Server platform for scheduling and automating FME workspaces with REST APIs and webhooks. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| FME Form (Safe Software) | Spatial ETL | Visual data integration tool for translating, transforming and validating hundreds of spatial and non-spatial formats. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| FRAGSTATS | Spatial statistics applications | Computes landscape pattern metrics from categorical maps for landscape ecology. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| gdistance | R spatial packages | Distances and routes on geographic grids such as least-cost paths and resistance distances. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| geocube | Python raster & array analysis | Rasterises vector data into xarray datasets on a chosen grid. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeoDa | Spatial statistics applications | Desktop tool for exploratory spatial data analysis, spatial weights, LISA, clustering and spatial regression. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeoDataFrames.jl | Julia geospatial | Reading, writing and operating on vector data as DataFrames in Julia via GDAL. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeoLibre | Whitebox & Rust GIS engines | Lightweight cloud-native GIS that runs in the browser, as a Tauri desktop app, on mobile and in Jupyter, using MapLibre and DuckDB. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| geolibre-rust (geolibre-wasm) | Whitebox & Rust GIS engines | WebAssembly toolkit that bundles Whitebox tools plus GeoLibre-specific tools to run geoprocessing in the browser with no server or GDAL. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeometryOps.jl | Julia geospatial | Pure-Julia geometry operations such as area, distance, clipping and simplification on GeoInterface types. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| geoR | R spatial packages | Model-based geostatistics with likelihood and Bayesian methods. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Geosoft Oasis montaj | Commercial desktop GIS | Seequent's geoscience mapping and processing platform for geophysical and geochemical grids and surveys. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeoStats.jl | Julia geospatial | Julia framework for geostatistical modelling, learning and simulation on geospatial domains. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeostatsPy | Geostatistics & interpolation | Python port of GSLIB geostatistics routines for teaching and subsurface modelling. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeoTrellis | JVM analysis engines | Scala library for high-performance distributed raster processing on Apache Spark. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeoUtils | Terrain & hydrology engines | Raster and vector convenience layer on rasterio/geopandas used by xDEM for georeferenced operations. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeoWombat | Python raster & array analysis | xarray/Dask utilities for large-scale satellite imagery processing, mosaicking and machine learning. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| giddy | Spatial statistics (Python / PySAL) | Geospatial distribution dynamics such as spatial Markov chains and rank mobility. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Global Mapper | Commercial desktop GIS | Affordable Windows GIS from Blue Marble for viewing, converting and analysing vector, raster, terrain and LiDAR data. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Global Mapper SDK | Commercial desktop GIS | Developer kit exposing Global Mapper's data reading, conversion, rendering and analysis functions to custom applications. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Golden Software Surfer | Commercial desktop GIS | Gridding, contouring and 3D surface mapping package with many interpolation methods, scriptable via automation. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GRASS | Open-source desktop GIS | Long-running OSGeo GIS and geoprocessing engine with 500+ raster, vector, imagery, terrain and hydrology modules (formerly GRASS GIS). | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| gstat | R spatial packages | Variogram modelling, kriging and geostatistical simulation in R. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GSTools | Geostatistics & interpolation | Geostatistical toolbox for covariance models, variogram estimation, kriging and random-field generation. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| gvSIG Desktop | Open-source desktop GIS | Java desktop GIS from the gvSIG Association with vector editing, geoprocessing and CAD-style tools, popular in Spain and Latin America. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GWmodel | R spatial packages | Geographically weighted models including GWR, GW PCA and GW summary statistics. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Hexagon GeoMedia | Commercial desktop GIS | Hexagon desktop GIS for data integration, editing, analysis and cartography, often paired with ERDAS imagery tools. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| HortonMachine | Terrain & hydrology engines | Java library of geomorphology, hydrology and LiDAR tools, usable from gvSIG, uDig or scripts. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ILWIS | Open-source desktop GIS | Integrated remote sensing and GIS desktop from ITC, with raster/vector analysis, image processing and hydrology toolboxes. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| inequality | Spatial statistics (Python / PySAL) | Spatial inequality measures such as Theil and Gini decomposition. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| InVEST | Python vector analysis | Natural Capital Project suite of models mapping ecosystem services such as carbon, water yield and habitat quality. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Isatis.neo | Geostatistics & interpolation | Geovariances' commercial geostatistics package for variography, kriging, simulation and resource estimation. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Kosmo Retired | Open-source desktop GIS | Spanish desktop GIS derived from OpenJUMP with editing, database connectivity and printing tools. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Landlab | Terrain & hydrology engines | Python framework for building 2D numerical models of Earth-surface processes like erosion, hydrology and landscape evolution. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| landscapemetrics | R spatial packages | Computes FRAGSTATS-style landscape metrics in R. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| libpysal | Spatial statistics (Python / PySAL) | Core PySAL library for spatial weights, graph construction, I/O and computational geometry. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Manifold System (Release 9) | Commercial desktop GIS | Highly parallel Windows GIS with a built-in spatial SQL engine and GPU acceleration; also sold as the Manifold Viewer/SQL engine. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| MapInfo Pro | Commercial desktop GIS | Precisely's Windows desktop GIS for business mapping, geocoded analysis and thematic maps with MapBasic scripting. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| MapWindow GIS | Open-source desktop GIS | Windows desktop GIS built on the MapWinGIS ActiveX control, with plugins for hydrology and other analysis. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| MapWinGIS | Open-source desktop GIS | Windows mapping and GIS ActiveX/COM control used to embed maps and basic GIS functions in .NET or C++ applications. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Marble | Open-source desktop GIS | KDE virtual globe and atlas application with offline maps, routing and a reusable map widget library. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| MATLAB Mapping Toolbox | Commercial desktop GIS | MATLAB add-on for map projections, geographic data import, raster and vector analysis and map display. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| mgwr | Spatial statistics (Python / PySAL) | Geographically weighted and multiscale geographically weighted regression. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| momepy | Python vector analysis | PySAL-family toolkit for quantitative urban morphology metrics of buildings, streets and plots. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| MovingPandas | Python vector analysis | Trajectory data structures and methods for analysing GPS tracks and other movement data. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| odc-geo | Python raster & array analysis | Open Data Cube geometry and GeoBox utilities for reprojecting and tiling xarray rasters. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OpenCities Map (formerly Bentley Map) | Commercial desktop GIS | Bentley's MicroStation-based GIS for creating, editing and analysing 2D/3D geospatial data in infrastructure workflows. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OpenJUMP | Open-source desktop GIS | Lightweight Java desktop GIS built on JTS for vector editing, topology checks and spatial analysis, extensible via plugins. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OrbisGIS | Open-source desktop GIS | Research-oriented desktop GIS from CNRS Lab-STICC built around the H2GIS spatial database and SQL-based processing. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| PCRaster | Open-source desktop GIS | Raster-based environmental modelling environment for dynamic spatio-temporal simulation with map algebra operators. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| pointpats | Spatial statistics (Python / PySAL) | Point pattern analysis: centrography, quadrat counts, distance-based statistics and simulation. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| pyflwdir | Terrain & hydrology engines | Deltares library for fast flow-direction-based hydrological operations on gridded data. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| pygeoda | Spatial statistics (Python / PySAL) | Python bindings to the libgeoda engine for GeoDa's weights, LISA and clustering functions. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| pygeoprocessing | Python vector analysis | NatCap's library of memory-efficient raster and vector geoprocessing routines behind InVEST. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| PyGEOS Retired | Python vector analysis | Vectorised GEOS bindings for NumPy arrays, now merged into Shapely 2.0. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| pyinterpolate | Geostatistics & interpolation | Spatial interpolation library including kriging and area-to-point Poisson kriging. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| PyKrige | Geostatistics & interpolation | Ordinary and universal kriging in 2D and 3D with a scikit-learn-compatible API. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| PyLandStats | Python raster & array analysis | Computes landscape metrics in the style of FRAGSTATS from categorical rasters. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| PyQGIS | Open-source desktop GIS | Python bindings to the QGIS core, GUI and analysis APIs for scripts, plugins and standalone apps. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| PySAL | Spatial statistics (Python / PySAL) | Meta-package federating PySAL libraries for spatial weights, autocorrelation, regression, clustering and dynamics. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| pysheds | Terrain & hydrology engines | Python library for watershed delineation, flow direction and accumulation and river network extraction from DEMs. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| QGIS | Open-source desktop GIS | Full-featured cross-platform desktop GIS for viewing, editing, analysing and publishing vector and raster data; 4.x line moved to Qt6. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| QGIS Processing / qgis_process | Open-source desktop GIS | Unified geoprocessing framework inside QGIS with a standalone qgis_process command that runs any native, GDAL, GRASS or SAGA algorithm headless. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| qgisprocess | R spatial packages | R interface to the qgis_process CLI for running QGIS Processing algorithms from R. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| R-INLA | R spatial packages | Bayesian inference with integrated nested Laplace approximation, widely used for spatial and spatio-temporal models. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| raster | R spatial packages | Original R package for gridded spatial data, superseded by terra. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Rasters.jl | Julia geospatial | Julia package for reading, manipulating and analysing raster data with named dimensions. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| rasterstats | Python raster & array analysis | Computes zonal statistics and point queries of rasters against vector geometries. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| rgdal / rgeos / maptools Retired | R spatial packages | Legacy R bindings to GDAL, GEOS and map utilities, retired from CRAN in 2023. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| rgeoda | R spatial packages | R bindings to the libgeoda engine for spatial weights, LISA and spatial clustering. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| rgrass | R spatial packages | Interface between R and GRASS for running modules and exchanging data. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| RichDEM | Terrain & hydrology engines | High-performance DEM analysis library for depression filling, flow accumulation and terrain attributes. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| RSAGA | R spatial packages | Older R interface to SAGA GIS geoprocessing. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Rsagacmd | R spatial packages | Dynamically generates R functions for every SAGA GIS tool via saga_cmd. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| rsatscan | R spatial packages | R wrapper that writes SaTScan parameter files, runs it and reads results. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| RustGIS | Whitebox & Rust GIS engines | Pure-Rust desktop and browser GIS with a ribbon UI, 1,000+ GeoLibre/Whitebox tools, DuckDB SQL, an AI assistant and an MCP server. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| RVT (Relief Visualization Toolbox) | Terrain & hydrology engines | Toolbox computing relief visualisations like sky-view factor, openness and hillshade blends from DEMs. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| SAGA GIS | Open-source desktop GIS | Desktop GIS focused on terrain, hydrology, climate and raster analysis, with a large tool library usable via the saga_cmd CLI. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| SaTScan | Spatial statistics applications | Free software for spatial, temporal and space-time scan statistics to detect disease or event clusters. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| scikit-gstat | Geostatistics & interpolation | Variogram estimation and kriging with an object-oriented, scipy-style API. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| scikit-mobility | Python vector analysis | Library for human mobility analysis, trajectory preprocessing, mobility measures and generative models. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| segregation | Spatial statistics (Python / PySAL) | Measures and decomposes residential segregation with spatial and aspatial indices. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| SEXTANTE Retired | Open-source desktop GIS | Former Java geoprocessing framework with hundreds of algorithms that fed gvSIG and inspired QGIS Processing. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| sf | R spatial packages | Simple Features for R: vector data frames with GDAL/GEOS/PROJ-backed I/O and geometry operations. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| sfdep | R spatial packages | Tidy interface to spdep for sf objects, adding emerging hot spot and colocation analysis. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| SGeMS Retired | Geostatistics & interpolation | Stanford geostatistical modelling software for variograms, kriging and stochastic simulation. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| sp | R spatial packages | Original R classes and methods for spatial data, now superseded by sf. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| spaghetti | Spatial statistics (Python / PySAL) | Network-constrained spatial analysis of events along lines. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| spatialpandas | Python vector analysis | HoloViz library of pandas/Dask extension arrays for geometry, aimed at fast spatial indexing and visualisation. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| spatialreg | R spatial packages | Spatial regression model fitting split out of spdep (lag, error, SLX, Durbin). | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| spatstat | R spatial packages | Comprehensive point pattern analysis, modelling and simulation in R. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| spdep | R spatial packages | Spatial weights, autocorrelation tests and local indicators of spatial association in R. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| spopt | Spatial statistics (Python / PySAL) | Spatial optimisation for regionalisation, facility location and transportation problems. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| spreg | Spatial statistics (Python / PySAL) | Spatial econometric regression models including spatial lag, error, SUR and diagnostics. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| stars | R spatial packages | Spatiotemporal arrays and raster/vector data cubes for R. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| SuperMap iDesktopX | Commercial desktop GIS | SuperMap's cross-platform desktop GIS for 2D/3D data processing, spatial analysis and mapping, with an AI assistant. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| TatukGIS Editor | Commercial desktop GIS | Windows desktop GIS editor and viewer built on the TatukGIS Developer Kernel SDK. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| TauDEM | Terrain & hydrology engines | MPI-parallel tools for DEM-based hydrologic terrain analysis: pit removal, flow directions, contributing area and stream networks. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| terra | R spatial packages | Fast raster and vector data handling and analysis in R, successor to raster. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| TerraView | Open-source desktop GIS | Brazilian INPE desktop GIS built on the TerraLib library for vector, raster and spatial statistics analysis. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| TerrSet liberaGIS (formerly IDRISI) | Commercial desktop GIS | Clark Labs' raster analysis and modelling suite (land change, habitat, climate, image processing), now free but closed source. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| TNTmips | Commercial desktop GIS | MicroImages' integrated GIS, image processing and mapping system with a free TNTmips Free tier. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| tobler | Spatial statistics (Python / PySAL) | Areal interpolation and dasymetric mapping between incompatible zone systems. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| TopoToolbox | Terrain & hydrology engines | Toolbox for topographic and river-profile analysis from DEMs, with MATLAB and newer Python versions. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| uDig | Open-source desktop GIS | Eclipse RCP desktop GIS built on GeoTools, oriented to web map services and lightweight editing. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Verde | Geostatistics & interpolation | Fatiando library for gridding and interpolating spatial data with Green's functions and splines. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| whitebox (Python) | Whitebox & Rust GIS engines | Python wrapper that downloads and calls the WhiteboxTools binary from scripts and notebooks. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Whitebox Next Gen | Whitebox & Rust GIS engines | Ground-up Rust rewrite of Whitebox as modular crates for raster, vector, LiDAR, projection and topology plus ~750 OSS tools. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Whitebox QGIS plugin | Whitebox & Rust GIS engines | QGIS plugin exposing Whitebox tools inside the QGIS Processing toolbox. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Whitebox Workflows (WbW) | Whitebox & Rust GIS engines | Python and R frontends to the Whitebox tool runtime for in-memory geoprocessing; open mode free, Pro tools need a licence. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Whitebox Workflows Pro (WbW-Pro) | Whitebox & Rust GIS engines | Paid extension adding advanced Whitebox tools on top of the open Whitebox Workflows core. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| whiteboxR | Whitebox & Rust GIS engines | R package wrapping the WhiteboxTools executable so its tools can be called from R. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| WhiteboxTools | Whitebox & Rust GIS engines | Standalone geospatial analysis engine with ~450 tools for terrain, hydrology, LiDAR, image and GIS analysis, run from a single binary. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| xarray-spatial | Python raster & array analysis | Numba/Dask-accelerated raster analysis for xarray: slope, aspect, viewshed, proximity, zonal stats and classification. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| xDEM | Terrain & hydrology engines | Library for DEM co-registration, differencing, uncertainty analysis and terrain attributes. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| xESMF | Python raster & array analysis | Regridding between structured and unstructured grids for xarray using ESMF. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Xvec | Python raster & array analysis | xarray extension for vector data cubes, indexing arrays by geometry coordinates. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
Display & visualization (165)
| Name | Subcategory | Summary | Review |
|---|---|---|---|
| @vis.gl/react-google-maps | vis.gl / large-data WebGL | React components and hooks for the Google Maps JavaScript API. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| amCharts 5 Maps | Charting & dataviz libraries with maps | Commercial JavaScript map charts with projections, choropleths and animations. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| AntV L7 | Web map libraries | WebGL geospatial visualization framework for large point, line, polygon and heatmap layers. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Apache ECharts | Charting & dataviz libraries with maps | Charting library with GeoJSON maps, geo coordinate systems and map-based series. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Apache Superset | BI & dashboard maps | BI platform whose chart types include deck.gl map layers and country choropleths. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Apple MapKit | Native & mobile SDKs | Apple's native map framework for iOS, macOS and visionOS apps. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Apple MapKit JS | Web map libraries | Embeds Apple Maps in web pages with annotations, overlays and search. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS Dashboards | Hosted web map makers | Esri app for building operational dashboards combining maps, charts and indicators. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS Earth | 3D globes & 3D Tiles | Free Esri desktop 3D globe for viewing KML, ArcGIS services and local data. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS Experience Builder | Hosted web map makers | Esri low-code builder for 2D/3D web apps, with a developer edition for custom widgets. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS for Power BI | BI & dashboard maps | Esri visual that adds ArcGIS mapping, demographics and spatial analysis to Power BI reports. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS Map Viewer | Hosted web map makers | Esri's browser app for authoring and styling web maps in ArcGIS Online and Enterprise. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS Maps SDK for .NET | Native & mobile SDKs | Esri SDK for 2D/3D mapping and offline GIS in WPF, WinUI and .NET MAUI apps. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript | Web map libraries | Esri's 2D/3D web mapping SDK tightly integrated with ArcGIS Online/Enterprise services and web maps. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS Maps SDK for Kotlin | Native & mobile SDKs | Esri SDK for 2D/3D maps and offline GIS on Android. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS Maps SDK for Qt | Native & mobile SDKs | Esri SDK for cross-platform desktop and mobile mapping apps built with Qt. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS Maps SDK for Swift | Native & mobile SDKs | Esri SDK for 2D/3D maps and offline GIS on iOS and macOS. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unity | 3D globes & 3D Tiles | Esri SDK for building 3D GIS experiences with ArcGIS data in Unity. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unreal Engine | 3D globes & 3D Tiles | Esri SDK for building 3D GIS experiences with ArcGIS data in Unreal Engine. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS StoryMaps | Hosted web map makers | Esri app for narrative web stories mixing maps, text and media. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Azure Maps visual for Power BI | BI & dashboard maps | Power BI map visual backed by Azure Maps for bubbles, heatmaps and reference layers. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Azure Maps Web SDK | Web map libraries | Microsoft's web map control for Azure Maps basemaps, data layers and spatial services. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Bing Maps V8 Web Control Retired | Web map libraries | Microsoft's legacy web map control and APIs, being retired in favour of Azure Maps. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Bokeh | Python notebook & app mapping | Interactive browser plotting library with tile providers and GeoJSON glyph support. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| CARTO basemaps | Basemap providers | Light, dark and Voyager basemaps hosted by CARTO, free within usage limits. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| CARTO Builder | Hosted web map makers | CARTO's web map and dashboard builder working on top of cloud data warehouses. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Cartopy | Python notebook & app mapping | Matplotlib-based library for projected static maps and cartographic transforms. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Cesium time-dynamic visualization (CZML) | Time & animation | JSON format for describing time-varying scenes and paths animated in CesiumJS. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| contextily | Python notebook & app mapping | Fetches web tile basemaps and adds them under Matplotlib/GeoPandas plots. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| D3 (d3-geo) | Charting & dataviz libraries with maps | D3 module for geographic projections, path generation and spherical geometry. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| d3-geo-projection | Charting & dataviz libraries with maps | Extended set of cartographic projections for d3-geo, with CLI tools. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Dash | Python notebook & app mapping | Framework for building analytic web apps in Python with Plotly charts and maps. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Dash Leaflet | Python notebook & app mapping | Leaflet components for Plotly Dash apps. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Datashader | Python notebook & app mapping | Rasterizes huge point, line and grid datasets into images for accurate large-data visualization. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Datawrapper | BI & dashboard maps | Hosted tool for making publishable choropleth, symbol and locator maps for journalism. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| deck.gl | vis.gl / large-data WebGL | GPU-powered framework for layered visualization of large geospatial datasets in the browser. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| deck.gl-community | vis.gl / large-data WebGL | Community-maintained add-on layers for deck.gl, including editable layers and graph layers. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Esri basemaps (ArcGIS Basemap Styles service) | Basemap providers | Esri's hosted vector and imagery basemaps for ArcGIS and open-source map libraries. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Esri Leaflet | Leaflet plugins | Leaflet plugins for consuming ArcGIS feature, map and image services and Esri basemaps. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Felt | Hosted web map makers | Collaborative browser-based map making and light analysis platform with an API. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Flourish | BI & dashboard maps | Hosted data storytelling tool with map templates such as 3D globes, choropleths and arcs. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Flowmap City | vis.gl / large-data WebGL | Hosted tool for building interactive origin-destination flow maps from spreadsheets (successor to Flowmap.blue). | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| flowmap.gl | vis.gl / large-data WebGL | deck.gl layer for drawing origin-destination flow maps with clustering. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| flutter_map | Native & mobile SDKs | Leaflet-inspired map widget for Flutter apps. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Folium | Python notebook & app mapping | Builds Leaflet maps from Python and saves them as standalone HTML. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| font-maker | Map style tools & specs | Converts TTF/OTF fonts into PBF glyph ranges for map labels. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Foursquare Studio | Hosted web map makers | Commercial kepler.gl-based platform for large-scale geospatial visualization and analysis. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Galileo | Native & mobile SDKs | Cross-platform Rust map rendering library for vector and raster layers, still under heavy development. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Geoapify Map Tiles | Basemap providers | Hosted OSM-based vector and raster basemaps with a free tier. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeoExt | Web GIS application frameworks | Combines OpenLayers with the Ext JS UI framework for rich web GIS clients. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| geojson.io | Data viewers & editors | Browser tool for drawing, editing and converting small GeoJSON datasets on a map. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeoMapFish | Web GIS application frameworks | Camptocamp web GIS platform (c2cgeoportal server and ngeo client) for building geoportals. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeoMoose | Web GIS application frameworks | Web GIS client framework for displaying distributed spatial data, popular with US local governments. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| geoplot | Python notebook & app mapping | High-level geospatial plotting built on Cartopy and Matplotlib. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeoStyler | MapLibre/OpenLayers ecosystem | UI and parsers for editing and converting map styles between SLD, QGIS, Mapbox and OpenLayers formats. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeoViews | Python notebook & app mapping | HoloViews extension for projected geographic plots of vector and gridded data. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ggplot2 | R mapping | Grammar-of-graphics plotting for R; geom_sf and coord_sf draw sf spatial data. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ggspatial | R mapping | Adds scale bars, north arrows, tiles and raster layers to ggplot2 maps. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Globe.gl | vis.gl / large-data WebGL | Three.js-based component for 3D globe data visualizations such as arcs, points and hex bins. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GMT (Generic Mapping Tools) | R mapping | Command-line toolkit for scientific maps, projections and gridded data figures. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Google Earth | 3D globes & 3D Tiles | Web and desktop 3D globe for viewing imagery, terrain and KML content. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Google Maps JavaScript API | Web map libraries | Google's hosted web map API with basemaps, markers, data layers, 3D maps and Places integration. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Google Maps SDK for Android and iOS | Native & mobile SDKs | Native mobile SDKs for embedding Google Maps in apps. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Google My Maps | Hosted web map makers | Simple Google tool for making and sharing custom maps with points, lines and layers. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Grafana Geomap | BI & dashboard maps | Grafana panel for plotting time-series and metric data on an OpenLayers map. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| harp.gl Retired | 3D globes & 3D Tiles | HERE's former open-source 3D vector-tile web map renderer, archived in 2023. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| HERE Maps API for JavaScript | Web map libraries | HERE's browser map library with HERE basemaps, routing and geocoding overlays. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| HERE SDK | Native & mobile SDKs | HERE's native SDK for maps, search and navigation on mobile. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Highcharts Maps | Charting & dataviz libraries with maps | Commercial charting module for choropleths, map bubbles and tiled web maps. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| HoloViews | Python notebook & app mapping | Declarative data visualization library that drives Bokeh, Matplotlib and Plotly backends. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| hvPlot | Python notebook & app mapping | Pandas-style .plot API producing interactive plots and maps, including geo=True for GeoPandas and xarray. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ipyleaflet | Python notebook & app mapping | Interactive Jupyter widget wrapping Leaflet with two-way Python bindings. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| kepler.gl | vis.gl / large-data WebGL | Browser app for exploring large location datasets with filters, time playback and many layer types. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Kepler.gl demo app | Data viewers & editors | Hosted no-install instance of kepler.gl for loading local CSV/GeoJSON in the browser. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| keplergl (Python) | Python notebook & app mapping | Jupyter widget and HTML exporter for kepler.gl maps. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Kibana Maps | BI & dashboard maps | Elastic's map app for visualizing geo_point and geo_shape data from Elasticsearch. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Kosmtik | Cartographic renderers | Lightweight editor for designing CartoCSS/Mapnik map styles with live preview. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Leaflet | Web map libraries | Lightweight library for interactive tiled web maps with a large plugin ecosystem. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| leaflet (R) | R mapping | R package that creates interactive Leaflet maps for RStudio, R Markdown and Shiny. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Leaflet-Geoman | Leaflet plugins | Drawing, editing, cutting and snapping toolkit for Leaflet with a free edition and a paid Pro edition. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| leaflet-timeline | Time & animation | Leaflet plugin that shows GeoJSON features on a time slider with playback. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Leaflet.draw | Leaflet plugins | Adds toolbars for drawing and editing polygons, lines, markers and circles on Leaflet maps. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Leaflet.heat | Leaflet plugins | Draws fast canvas heatmaps from point data on Leaflet maps. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Leaflet.markercluster | Leaflet plugins | Groups nearby markers into animated clusters that split apart as the user zooms in. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Leaflet.TimeDimension | Leaflet plugins | Adds time sliders and playback controls for time-enabled WMS and GeoJSON layers in Leaflet. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Leaflet.VectorGrid | Leaflet plugins | Displays vector tiles and sliced GeoJSON as Leaflet grid layers. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| leafmap | Python notebook & app mapping | High-level Python package for interactive mapping with several backends (ipyleaflet, folium, MapLibre, deck.gl). | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Lizmap Web Client | Web GIS application frameworks | Publishes QGIS projects as web maps through QGIS Server, configured from a QGIS plugin. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Lonboard | Python notebook & app mapping | Jupyter widget that renders large GeoDataFrames fast with deck.gl and GeoArrow. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Looker Studio | BI & dashboard maps | Google's free reporting tool with Google Maps and filled-map charts. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| luma.gl | vis.gl / large-data WebGL | Low-level WebGL/WebGPU rendering library underpinning deck.gl. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Mapbender | Web GIS application frameworks | Web-based geoportal framework for configuring map applications over OGC services. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Mapbox basemaps | Basemap providers | Mapbox's hosted vector, satellite and terrain basemap tilesets and styles. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Mapbox GL Draw | MapLibre/OpenLayers ecosystem | Drawing and editing controls for Mapbox GL JS and MapLibre GL JS maps. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Mapbox GL JS | Web map libraries | Mapbox's WebGL map renderer; source-available but proprietary licence and Mapbox account required since v2. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Mapbox Maps SDKs (iOS/Android) | Web map libraries | Native mobile map SDKs rendering Mapbox styles and vector tiles. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Mapbox Studio | Hosted web map makers | Web tool for designing custom Mapbox map styles and managing tilesets. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| mapdeck | R mapping | R interface to deck.gl for large interactive maps. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| mapgl | R mapping | R interface to MapLibre GL JS and Mapbox GL JS for interactive maps. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| MapLibre for Python | Python notebook & app mapping | Python bindings that build MapLibre GL JS maps for Jupyter, Shiny and HTML export. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| MapLibre GL JS | Web map libraries | Renders vector-tile and raster maps in the browser with WebGL, driven by a JSON style document. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| MapLibre Native | MapLibre/OpenLayers ecosystem | Native renderer for MapLibre styles on Android, iOS, desktop and headless server environments. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| MapLibre React Native | MapLibre/OpenLayers ecosystem | React Native bindings for MapLibre Native maps on iOS and Android. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| maplibre-rs | MapLibre/OpenLayers ecosystem | Experimental Rust/WebGPU vector-tile map renderer targeting web and native. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Mapnik | Cartographic renderers | Toolkit for rendering high-quality raster maps from vector and raster data sources. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Mapshaper | Data viewers & editors | Web app and CLI for simplifying, editing, clipping and converting Shapefile, GeoJSON and TopoJSON. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| MapStore | Web GIS application frameworks | React-based web GIS framework and app for building maps, dashboards and geostories over OGC services. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Mapsui | Native & mobile SDKs | .NET map component for MAUI, WPF, Avalonia, Blazor and other UI frameworks. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| MapTiler basemaps | Basemap providers | Hosted vector, satellite and terrain basemaps for MapLibre and other libraries. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| MapTiler Cloud | Hosted web map makers | Hosted map styles, tiles, geocoding and a style customizer from MapTiler. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| MapTiler SDK JS | Web map libraries | MapLibre GL JS-based SDK with built-in helpers for MapTiler styles, geocoding and terrain. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Maputnik | Map style tools & specs | Visual browser-based editor for MapLibre/Mapbox style JSON. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| mapview | R mapping | Quick interactive viewing of sf, terra and stars objects in R. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Masterportal | Web GIS application frameworks | Configurable geoportal client from the city of Hamburg built on OpenLayers. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Metabase | BI & dashboard maps | BI tool with pin, grid and region maps; open-source edition plus commercial editions. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| nebula.gl Retired | vis.gl / large-data WebGL | Editable geometry layers for deck.gl; development moved to deck.gl-community editable-layers. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ngeo | Web GIS application frameworks | OpenLayers-based client library behind GeoMapFish web portals. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Observable Plot | Charting & dataviz libraries with maps | Concise JavaScript charting library with geo marks and projections. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OL-Cesium | MapLibre/OpenLayers ecosystem | Synchronises an OpenLayers 2D map with a CesiumJS 3D globe. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ol-ext | MapLibre/OpenLayers ecosystem | Large collection of extra controls, interactions, styles and animations for OpenLayers. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ol-mapbox-style | MapLibre/OpenLayers ecosystem | Applies Mapbox/MapLibre style JSON to OpenLayers vector tile layers. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OpenFreeMap | Basemap providers | Free self-hostable vector-tile basemaps from OSM data with no API key or limits. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OpenGlobus | 3D globes & 3D Tiles | WebGL library for 3D globe and planetary visualization with terrain and vector layers. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OpenLayers | Web map libraries | Full-featured browser mapping library with strong support for projections, OGC services and vector/raster layers. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OpenSearch Dashboards Maps | BI & dashboard maps | Map visualization plugin for OpenSearch Dashboards using MapLibre. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Oskari | Web GIS application frameworks | Framework for building map portals and embedded maps over spatial data infrastructure services. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| osmdroid Retired | Native & mobile SDKs | Android map view for OSM and other raster tile sources; archived in 2024. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Panel | Python notebook & app mapping | Builds dashboards and data apps from notebooks and Python scripts. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Pigeon Maps | Web map libraries | Minimal React map component for raster tiles with no external dependencies. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Placemark | Data viewers & editors | Feature-rich browser editor for geospatial data; now open source after the commercial service ended. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Plotly | Python notebook & app mapping | Charting library whose map traces cover choropleths, scatter maps and tile-based maps. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| prettymaps | Python notebook & app mapping | Draws stylised artistic maps from OpenStreetMap data using Matplotlib. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Proj4Leaflet | Leaflet plugins | Lets Leaflet display tiles and data in non-Web-Mercator projections via Proj4js. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| protomaps-leaflet | Web map libraries | Renders vector tiles and PMTiles archives on a canvas inside Leaflet without WebGL. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| pydeck | Python notebook & app mapping | Python bindings for deck.gl layers in Jupyter and HTML output. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| PyGMT | Python notebook & app mapping | Python interface to the Generic Mapping Tools for scientific maps and figures. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Qgis2threejs | Data viewers & editors | QGIS plugin that exports DEM and vector layers to interactive three.js 3D web scenes. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| QGIS2Web | Data viewers & editors | QGIS plugin that exports a project to a standalone Leaflet or OpenLayers web map. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Qlik GeoAnalytics | BI & dashboard maps | Mapping and location analytics add-on for Qlik Sense. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| QWC2 | Web GIS application frameworks | React web client for QGIS Server projects, part of QGIS Web Client 2. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| rayshader | R mapping | Creates 2D and 3D shaded relief maps and renders from elevation matrices. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| React Leaflet | Leaflet plugins | React component bindings for building Leaflet maps. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| react-map-gl | vis.gl / large-data WebGL | React wrapper for MapLibre GL JS and Mapbox GL JS maps. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| react-native-maps | Native & mobile SDKs | React Native map components backed by Google Maps and Apple Maps. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Resium | 3D globes & 3D Tiles | React components wrapping CesiumJS. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Scribble Maps | Hosted web map makers | Browser tool for quickly drawing, annotating and sharing custom maps. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Shiny | R mapping | Framework for interactive web apps in R, also available for Python (MIT). | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| spreet | Map style tools & specs | Generates map sprite sheets from SVG icon folders for MapLibre/Mapbox styles. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Stadia Maps | Basemap providers | Hosted vector and raster basemaps, including the Stamen styles, plus geocoding and routing. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Streamlit | Python notebook & app mapping | Turns Python scripts into shareable web apps, with built-in simple maps and pydeck support. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| streamlit-folium | Python notebook & app mapping | Streamlit component for showing interactive Folium maps and receiving map events. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Tableau | BI & dashboard maps | BI platform with built-in geocoding, filled maps, spatial files and spatial joins. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Tangram | Web map libraries | WebGL map renderer that styles vector tiles with shader-driven YAML scene files. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Tangram ES | Native & mobile SDKs | Native C++ OpenGL ES renderer for vector-tile maps using Tangram scene files. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Terra Draw | MapLibre/OpenLayers ecosystem | Map-library-agnostic drawing and editing toolkit with adapters for Leaflet, OpenLayers, MapLibre, Google and ArcGIS. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| TerriaJS | 3D globes & 3D Tiles | Library for building 2D/3D catalogue-driven web map portals on Cesium and Leaflet. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| TerriaMap | 3D globes & 3D Tiles | Ready-to-deploy web map application built on TerriaJS, used by many national data portals. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Thunderforest | Basemap providers | Hosted OSM-based specialty basemaps such as OpenCycleMap, Transport and Outdoors. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| tmap | R mapping | Thematic map package for R with static and interactive modes. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| uMap | Hosted web map makers | Self-hostable web app for creating OpenStreetMap-based maps with custom layers and sharing. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Vega | Charting & dataviz libraries with maps | Declarative visualization grammar with projections and geo transforms. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Vega-Altair | Charting & dataviz libraries with maps | Python API that produces Vega-Lite charts and maps. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Vega-Lite | Charting & dataviz libraries with maps | High-level JSON grammar for charts, including geoshape and projection-based maps. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Walkers | Native & mobile SDKs | Slippy-map widget for the egui Rust immediate-mode GUI toolkit. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Web WorldWind | 3D globes & 3D Tiles | NASA's JavaScript 3D virtual globe for displaying imagery, terrain and OGC layers. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
Imagery, remote sensing & GeoAI (144)
| Name | Subcategory | Summary | Review |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6S | Atmospheric correction | Radiative transfer code simulating the reflection of solar radiation through the atmosphere. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ACOLITE | Atmospheric correction | Atmospheric correction processor tuned for aquatic and coastal applications of Landsat, Sentinel-2 and other sensors. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Agisoft Metashape | Photogrammetry & drone | Photogrammetry software generating point clouds, meshes, DEMs and orthomosaics from photos. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Airbus OneAtlas | Commercial imagery providers | Airbus platform providing Pléiades, Pléiades Neo and SPOT imagery with streaming and ordering APIs. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Ames Stereo Pipeline | Photogrammetry & drone | NASA tools for producing DEMs from satellite and planetary stereo imagery. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS Image Analyst | GeoAI / deep learning | ArcGIS Pro extension for advanced imagery, deep learning, stereo and motion imagery analysis. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| arcgis.learn | GeoAI / deep learning | Esri module in the ArcGIS API for Python for training and running deep learning models on imagery. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Arosics | Atmospheric correction | Automatic co-registration of satellite images to correct sub-pixel spatial shifts between scenes. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ASF HyP3 | SAR processing | Alaska Satellite Facility on-demand cloud processing of Sentinel-1 RTC and InSAR products. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| asf_search | SAR processing | Python client for searching and downloading data from the ASF archive. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ATCOR | Atmospheric correction | Commercial atmospheric and topographic correction software for multispectral and hyperspectral imagery. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| BFAST | Change detection | R package detecting breaks for additive season and trend in satellite time series. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Brazil Data Cube | Cloud EO platforms | INPE platform producing analysis-ready data cubes for Brazil with STAC services. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ChangeFormer | Change detection | Transformer-based model for bi-temporal remote sensing change detection. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| COLMAP | Photogrammetry & drone | Structure-from-motion and multi-view stereo pipeline. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem | Cloud EO platforms | Official EU platform offering Sentinel data access, STAC/OData APIs, Sentinel Hub and openEO processing. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| CVAT | Labeling & training data | Annotation tool for images and video with boxes, polygons and AI-assisted labeling. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| DeepForest | GeoAI / deep learning | Detects individual tree crowns and birds in RGB aerial imagery with pretrained models. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Deepness | GeoAI / deep learning | QGIS plugin running ONNX deep learning models for segmentation, detection and regression on rasters. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| detectree2 | GeoAI / deep learning | Detectron2-based tree crown delineation from aerial and UAV RGB imagery. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| detectron2 | GeoAI / deep learning | Meta's object detection and segmentation library often used under geospatial tools. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Digital Earth Africa | Cloud EO platforms | Open Data Cube platform serving analysis-ready satellite data and products for the African continent. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Digital Earth Australia | Cloud EO platforms | Geoscience Australia's Open Data Cube deployment providing analysis-ready Landsat/Sentinel products for Australia. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| DOFA | GeoAI / deep learning | Dynamic one-for-all foundation model accepting arbitrary spectral bands across sensors. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Dolphin | SAR processing | Phase-linking InSAR processor for distributed scatterer time series. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| DroneDeploy | Photogrammetry & drone | Cloud drone mapping platform for flight planning and processing. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Earth Search | Cloud EO platforms | Element 84 public STAC API indexing open datasets on AWS such as Sentinel-2, Landsat and Copernicus DEM. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| earthaccess | Cloud EO platforms | Python library for searching and downloading NASA Earthdata with simplified authentication. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| EarthDaily | Commercial imagery providers | Analysis-ready commercial EO data platform with STAC-based access. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| earthengine-api | Cloud EO platforms | Official Python and JavaScript client libraries for Google Earth Engine. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| eCognition | Commercial RS software | Trimble object-based image analysis software segmenting and classifying imagery by rule sets. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| EMIT Data Resources | Hyperspectral | NASA tutorials and utilities for working with EMIT imaging spectroscopy data. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| EnMAP-Box | Hyperspectral | QGIS plugin for visualising and analysing imaging spectroscopy and multispectral data, including ML workflows. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| EO Browser | Cloud EO platforms | Web application for browsing and visualising satellite imagery from Sentinel Hub collections. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| eo-learn | Remote sensing processing | Python framework for building Earth observation workflows from tasks over EOPatch data containers. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| eoAPI | Imagery tiling & serving | Bundle of pgstac, stac-fastapi, TiTiler and vector services for a full EO data stack. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ERDAS IMAGINE | Commercial RS software | Hexagon desktop suite for image processing, classification, photogrammetry and spatial modelling. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ESA SNAP | Remote sensing processing | ESA desktop toolbox for processing Sentinel and other mission data, with graph-based batch processing. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| esa_snappy | Remote sensing processing | Python bridge for calling SNAP operators and reading products from Python. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Esri Site Scan / ArcGIS Drone2Map | Photogrammetry & drone | Esri desktop drone imagery processing producing orthos and 3D for ArcGIS. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Fmask | Cloud & atmospheric masking | Rule-based cloud, cloud-shadow and snow masking algorithm for Landsat and Sentinel-2. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| FORCE | Remote sensing processing | Framework for Landsat/Sentinel-2 preprocessing into analysis-ready data cubes plus time-series analysis. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GAMMA Software | Commercial RS software | Commercial SAR and InSAR processing package widely used in research. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| gdalcubes | STAC ecosystem | Builds on-the-fly regular data cubes from image collections such as STAC results. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| geemap | Cloud EO platforms | Python package for interactive mapping and analysis with Earth Engine in notebooks. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GEO-Bench | GeoAI / deep learning | Benchmark suite for evaluating Earth observation foundation models. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeoAI (geoai-py) | GeoAI / deep learning | Python package bundling data download, training and inference utilities for AI on geospatial data. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeoOSAM | GeoAI / deep learning | QGIS plugin that segments rasters with SAM 2.1/SAM3 by click, box or text prompt and exports vectors. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GMTSAR | SAR processing | InSAR processing system built on GMT for interferograms and time series. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Google Earth Engine | Cloud EO platforms | Cloud platform with a petabyte catalog and server-side API for planetary-scale geospatial analysis. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GroundWork | Labeling & training data | Element 84 (ex-Azavea) web tool for labeling geospatial imagery for segmentation and detection. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| HyperCoast | Hyperspectral | Python package for visualising and analysing hyperspectral data such as EMIT, PACE and DESIS, focused on coastal areas. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| IDL | Commercial RS software | Array-oriented programming language widely used for scientific and remote sensing processing. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ISCE2 | SAR processing | JPL InSAR Scientific Computing Environment for interferometric SAR processing. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ISCE3 | SAR processing | Next-generation ISCE framework used for NISAR processing. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ISOFIT | Hyperspectral | Optimal-estimation framework for atmospheric correction and surface property retrieval from imaging spectrometers. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Kili Technology | Labeling & training data | Commercial labeling platform with geospatial image annotation support. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Label Studio | Labeling & training data | Data labeling tool for images and other data, usable for imagery annotation with ML backends. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| LandTrendr (GEE) | Change detection | Earth Engine implementation of the LandTrendr temporal segmentation algorithm for Landsat disturbance mapping. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| LaSRC | Atmospheric correction | USGS surface reflectance code used to produce Landsat 8/9 Collection 2 Level-2 products. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| LiCSBAS | SAR processing | InSAR time-series package designed for COMET LiCSAR products. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| MAJA | Atmospheric correction | CNES multi-temporal atmospheric correction and cloud screening processor for Sentinel-2 and others. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Meshroom | Photogrammetry & drone | Node-based 3D reconstruction application built on AliceVision. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| MicMac | Photogrammetry & drone | IGN photogrammetry suite for aerial, satellite and close-range 3D reconstruction. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Microsoft Planetary Computer | Cloud EO platforms | Microsoft hosted STAC catalog of open environmental datasets with tiling and SAS-token data access. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Microsoft Planetary Computer Pro | Cloud EO platforms | Azure service for ingesting, cataloging and serving private geospatial data through STAC and tiling APIs. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| MintPy | SAR processing | Small-baseline InSAR time-series analysis producing ground deformation maps. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| NASA CMR | Cloud EO platforms | NASA Common Metadata Repository search API for collections and granules, with a CMR-STAC endpoint. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| NASA Worldview | Cloud EO platforms | Web app for browsing near-real-time global satellite imagery layers from NASA GIBS. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| NodeODM | Photogrammetry & drone | Lightweight REST API wrapping ODM for processing nodes. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| odc-stac | STAC ecosystem | Loads STAC items into xarray datasets with reprojection and resampling, without an ODC database. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OmniCloudMask | Cloud & atmospheric masking | Deep-learning cloud and shadow segmentation that works across sensors and resolutions. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Open Data Cube | Cloud EO platforms | Software for indexing large satellite archives and loading them as xarray data cubes for analysis. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Open-CD | Change detection | OpenMMLab-based toolbox of deep learning change detection models and training configs. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OpenDroneMap (ODM) | Photogrammetry & drone | Processes drone images into orthophotos, DSMs, point clouds and 3D models. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| openEO | Cloud EO platforms | Open API standard for describing and running EO processing workflows on compatible cloud back-ends. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| openeo (Python client) | Cloud EO platforms | Python client for connecting to openEO back-ends and building process graphs. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| openEO Web Editor | Cloud EO platforms | Browser-based interface for building and running openEO workflows visually. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| openeo-processes-dask | Cloud EO platforms | Dask/xarray implementation of openEO processes enabling local execution of process graphs. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OpenMVS | Photogrammetry & drone | Multi-view stereo reconstruction for dense point clouds and textured meshes. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OpenSfM | Photogrammetry & drone | Structure-from-motion library used inside OpenDroneMap. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Orfeo ToolBox | Remote sensing processing | Library and CLI apps for high-resolution optical, SAR and hyperspectral image processing, segmentation and classification. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| PCI Geomatica | Commercial RS software | CATALYST desktop and Python environment for orthorectification, mosaicking, SAR and image analysis. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| pgstac | STAC ecosystem | PostgreSQL schema and functions for storing and searching large STAC catalogs. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Picterra | Labeling & training data | Cloud platform for training custom object detectors on aerial and satellite imagery without code. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| PIX4Dcloud | Photogrammetry & drone | Cloud processing and sharing of drone mapping projects. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Pix4Dmapper | Photogrammetry & drone | Desktop photogrammetry for drone mapping products. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| PIX4Dmatic | Photogrammetry & drone | Pix4D desktop photogrammetry optimised for large corridor and mapping projects. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| planet (Python SDK) | Commercial imagery providers | Official Python client and CLI for Planet APIs. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Planet APIs | Commercial imagery providers | Data, Orders, Subscriptions and Basemaps APIs for PlanetScope and SkySat imagery. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Planet Insights Platform analytics | GeoAI / deep learning | Planet's analysis-ready feeds such as Planetary Variables and change detection served over APIs. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| planetary-computer (Python) | Cloud EO platforms | Helper library that signs Planetary Computer asset URLs for authenticated access. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Py6S | Atmospheric correction | Python interface to the 6S radiative transfer model for simulating and correcting atmospheric effects. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| pyCCD | Change detection | Python implementation of the Continuous Change Detection and Classification (CCDC) algorithm for time series. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| PyGMTSAR | SAR processing | Python reimplementation of GMTSAR workflows for Sentinel-1 InSAR in notebooks. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| pyroSAR | SAR processing | Python framework for organising and processing SAR data through SNAP and GAMMA. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| pystac | STAC ecosystem | Python library for reading, writing and validating STAC catalogs, collections and items. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| pystac-client | STAC ecosystem | Python and CLI client for searching STAC APIs. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| python-fmask | Cloud & atmospheric masking | Python implementation of the Fmask cloud masking algorithm for Landsat and Sentinel-2. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Raster Vision | GeoAI / deep learning | Framework for deep learning on satellite and aerial imagery: chip, train, predict and evaluate. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| RealityScan | Photogrammetry & drone | Epic Games photogrammetry software, formerly RealityCapture. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| rio-tiler | Imagery tiling & serving | Reads web map tiles, previews and statistics from COGs and other rasters. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| rslearn | GeoAI / deep learning | AI2 toolkit for assembling remote sensing datasets and training models on them. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| rstac | STAC ecosystem | R client for searching STAC APIs and downloading assets. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| rustac | STAC ecosystem | Rust implementation of STAC tooling with CLI, server and GeoParquet support, plus Python bindings. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| s2cloudless | Cloud & atmospheric masking | Machine-learning cloud detector for Sentinel-2 imagery producing cloud probability masks. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| SAHI | GeoAI / deep learning | Sliced inference for detecting small objects in large images such as satellite scenes. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| SARscape | Commercial RS software | ENVI add-on for SAR processing including interferometry. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| sarsen | SAR processing | Algorithms for SAR terrain correction and simulation using xarray. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| SatMAE Retired | GeoAI / deep learning | Masked autoencoder pretraining for temporal and multispectral satellite imagery. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| segment-geospatial (samgeo) | GeoAI / deep learning | Applies Meta's Segment Anything models to geospatial imagery for segmentation and vectorisation. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Sen2Cor | Atmospheric correction | ESA processor turning Sentinel-2 Level-1C top-of-atmosphere data into Level-2A surface reflectance with scene classification. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Sentinel Hub | Cloud EO platforms | Commercial cloud API for on-the-fly processing, rendering and statistics of satellite imagery. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| sentinelhub-py | Remote sensing processing | Python client for Sentinel Hub processing, catalog, batch and statistical APIs. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| sentinelsat Retired | Imagery tiling & serving | Formerly searched and downloaded Sentinel data from the Copernicus SciHub API. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| sits | Time series | R package for satellite image time series analysis and machine-learning land classification on data cubes. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| SkyFi | Commercial imagery providers | Marketplace for ordering commercial satellite imagery and tasking from multiple vendors. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| SNAP Microwave Toolbox (S1TBX) | SAR processing | SNAP toolbox for Sentinel-1 and other SAR calibration, terrain correction and interferometry. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Socet GXP | Commercial RS software | BAE Systems geospatial intelligence software for imagery exploitation and photogrammetry. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| solaris Retired | GeoAI / deep learning | CosmiQ Works toolkit for preparing geospatial ML data and evaluating models. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Spectral Python (SPy) | Hyperspectral | Python module for reading, displaying and classifying hyperspectral image data. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| STAC (SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog) | STAC ecosystem | JSON specification for describing geospatial assets so imagery and other data can be searched and indexed consistently. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| STAC API | STAC ecosystem | API specification for searching STAC catalogs, aligned with OGC API - Features. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| STAC Browser | STAC ecosystem | Vue web app for browsing static STAC catalogs and STAC APIs. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| stac-fastapi | STAC ecosystem | FastAPI-based framework for running STAC API servers with pluggable backends. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| stac-fastapi-elasticsearch-opensearch | STAC ecosystem | stac-fastapi backend storing STAC items in Elasticsearch or OpenSearch. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| stac-fastapi-pgstac | STAC ecosystem | stac-fastapi backend using PostgreSQL/PostGIS via pgstac. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| stac-geoparquet | STAC ecosystem | Converts STAC items to and from GeoParquet for fast bulk catalog queries. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| stac-server | STAC ecosystem | Serverless STAC API on AWS Lambda with OpenSearch, used for Earth Search. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| stac-validator | STAC ecosystem | Validates STAC JSON against the specification and extension schemas. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| stackstac | STAC ecosystem | Turns STAC items into lazy Dask-backed xarray DataArrays. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| stactools | STAC ecosystem | CLI and library for creating and manipulating STAC metadata, with per-dataset plugin packages. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| StaMPS | SAR processing | Persistent scatterer and small baseline InSAR time-series processing. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| TerraTorch | GeoAI / deep learning | Fine-tuning framework for geospatial foundation models like Prithvi, built on TorchGeo and Lightning. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| TerrSet | Commercial RS software | Clark Labs GIS and remote sensing software, includes land change and earth trends modelers. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| TIMESAT | Time series | Software for extracting vegetation phenology metrics from satellite time series. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| TiTiler | Imagery tiling & serving | FastAPI dynamic tile server for COG, STAC and mosaics. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| titiler-pgstac | Imagery tiling & serving | TiTiler extension serving dynamic mosaics from pgstac searches. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| TorchGeo | GeoAI / deep learning | PyTorch library of geospatial datasets, samplers, transforms and pretrained models. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| UP42 | Commercial imagery providers | Geospatial marketplace and processing platform for ordering and analysing imagery. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Vantor (formerly Maxar Intelligence) | Commercial imagery providers | High-resolution WorldView imagery and analytics delivered through the Vantor platform and APIs. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| WebODM | Photogrammetry & drone | Web interface and API for managing OpenDroneMap processing tasks. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| xcube | Imagery tiling & serving | Toolkit for building, serving and analysing xarray/Zarr EO data cubes, with server and viewer. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Xee | Cloud EO platforms | Xarray backend that opens Earth Engine image collections as lazily loaded datasets. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
Open data sources (13)
| Name | Subcategory | Summary | Review |
|---|---|---|---|
| Census Data API (ACS) | US federal – census | API for American Community Survey, decennial and other Census tables by geography. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Census Geocoder | US federal – census | Free address geocoding and geography lookup service from the Census Bureau. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Earth Search (Element 84) | Catalogs | Public STAC API over Sentinel, Landsat, NAIP and Copernicus DEM on AWS. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| LCRA Hydromet | Texas | Lower Colorado River Authority real-time rainfall, river and lake data. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| NASA FIRMS | US federal – NASA | Near-real-time active fire detections from MODIS and VIIRS. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| NASS Quick Stats | US federal – USDA | API for US agricultural statistics by county and state. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| nowCOAST | US federal – NOAA | NOAA map services of real-time coastal observations, forecasts and warnings. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| NWS API | US federal – NOAA | National Weather Service API for forecasts, alerts and observations by point or zone. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OpenFEMA | US federal – hazards | API for disaster declarations, NFIP claims/policies and grant data. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Soil Data Access | US federal – USDA | SQL-over-REST service for querying SSURGO tabular and spatial data. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Texas Flood Viewer (TxGIO) | Texas | Map of Texas flood gauges, lake levels and weather. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| TIGERweb | US federal – census | Census map services exposing current TIGER geographies. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Water Data for Texas | Texas | TWDB reservoir levels, drought and water-condition data. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
OSM & Overture tooling (42)
| Name | Subcategory | Summary | Review |
|---|---|---|---|
| Every Door | Editors | Mobile editor focused on fast survey of shops, amenities and entrances. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Go Map!! | Editors | OSM editor for iPhone and iPad. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| HOT Export Tool | Query services | Web app for building on-demand OSM exports by area and feature theme. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| HOT Raw Data API | Query services | HOT API that returns custom OSM extracts by area and tags in GeoJSON, shapefile, GeoPackage and more. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| HOT Tasking Manager | QA & coordination | Splits mapping projects into tasks so many volunteers can map an area in coordination. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| iD | Editors | Default in-browser OSM editor with presets and validation, aimed at newcomers. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Imposm | Database import | Imports OSM into PostGIS using YAML mappings, with fast parallel import and minutely diff support. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| JOSM | Editors | Full-featured desktop OSM editor with plugins, validators, imagery and scripting. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| KeepRight Retired | QA & coordination | Older OSM data-error checker showing problems on a map. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Level0 | Editors | Text-based web editor for OSM objects in a compact textual format. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| MapRoulette | QA & coordination | Micro-task platform that serves OSM fix-up challenges one at a time. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ohsome (R) | R packages | R client for the ohsome API to query OSM history statistics. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ohsome API | Query services | REST API for aggregated statistics and extractions over the full OSM edit history. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| openstreetmap-website | Query services | The Rails application behind openstreetmap.org, including the editing API and map pages. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OSM API v0.6 | Query services | Official read/write API of openstreetmap.org for map data, changesets, notes and users. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OSM Inspector | QA & coordination | Geofabrik web tool with QA views for routing, tagging and boundary problems in OSM. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| osm2pgsql | Database import | Imports OSM data into PostgreSQL/PostGIS with Lua-configurable flex output and diff updates. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| osmapi | Cloud-native / analytics | Python wrapper for the OSM editing API v0.6 to read and upload changesets. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OSMCha | QA & coordination | Changeset analysis tool that flags suspicious OSM edits for review. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| osmconvert | PBF processing | Converts and clips OSM data between PBF, XML and o5m formats and applies change files. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| osmdata | R packages | R package that queries Overpass and returns OSM features as sf or sp objects. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| osmextract | R packages | R package that downloads and imports OSM extracts from Geofabrik, BBBike and others via GDAL. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| osmfilter | PBF processing | Small command-line filter that keeps OSM objects matching tag expressions in .osm/.o5m files. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| osmium-tool | PBF processing | Command-line Swiss-army knife to extract, filter, merge, convert and diff OSM PBF/XML files. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Osmose | QA & coordination | QA engine that detects OSM data issues and publishes them on a map and API. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Osmosis | PBF processing | Java command-line pipeline tool for reading, filtering, writing and replicating OSM data. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OSMPythonTools | Cloud-native / analytics | Python wrappers for the OSM API, Overpass, Nominatim and ohsome with caching. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| osmtogeojson | Cloud-native / analytics | Converts OSM XML or Overpass JSON into GeoJSON with multipolygon handling. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| osmupdate | PBF processing | Downloads and applies OSM change files to keep a local extract current. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Overpass API | Query services | Read-only query server for OSM data with its own query language for area/tag searches. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Overpass Turbo | Query services | Web IDE for writing, running and mapping Overpass queries, with a query wizard. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| overpy | Cloud-native / analytics | Python client for querying the Overpass API and parsing results into objects. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Overture Explorer | Overture Maps | Web map for browsing current Overture releases and inspecting features. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Overture GERS | Overture Maps | Global Entity Reference System of stable IDs for joining data to Overture features. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Overture schema | Overture Maps | Published schema defining Overture themes, types and properties. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| overturemaps-py | Overture Maps | Python CLI and library to download Overture data by bbox and type to GeoJSON or GeoParquet. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Postpass | Query services | Thin HTTP wrapper that runs SQL against an OSM PostGIS database and returns GeoJSON. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| QuackOSM | Cloud-native / analytics | Converts OSM PBF to GeoParquet using DuckDB, with tag filtering and geometry reconstruction. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Rapid | Editors | iD-derived web editor that adds AI-detected roads, buildings and open datasets for review. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| StreetComplete | Editors | Android app that asks simple survey quests to fill missing OSM details. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Taginfo | Query services | Statistics service showing how OSM tags and values are used, with an API. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Vespucci | Editors | Full OSM editor for Android with offline support and validators. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
Point clouds, LiDAR & 3D (108)
| Name | Subcategory | Summary | Review |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3D Forest | Lidar processing suites | Desktop application for terrestrial lidar forest inventory and tree segmentation. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| 3d-tiles-tools | 3D tiles & streaming formats | Cesium CLI and library for validating, converting, packaging and upgrading 3D Tiles tilesets. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| 3d-tiles-validator | 3D tiles & streaming formats | Validator that checks 3D Tiles tilesets and tile content against the specification. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| 3DCityDB | City models | Database schema and tools for storing and managing CityGML city models in PostgreSQL/PostGIS. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| 3dfier | City models | Extrudes 2D polygons into 3D using lidar point clouds to create city models. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| 3DTilesRendererJS | Web viewers & engines | Three.js renderer for 3D Tiles tilesets, including Google photorealistic tiles. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS Pro LAS dataset tools | Lidar processing suites | ArcGIS Pro tools for managing LAS datasets, classifying ground and buildings, and creating surfaces. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Blender | Desktop viewers & editors | Open source 3D creation suite used for modeling, texturing and rendering city and terrain scenes. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| BlenderGIS | Desktop viewers & editors | Blender add-on for importing DEMs, shapefiles, OSM data and basemaps with georeferencing. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Blosm | Desktop viewers & editors | Blender add-on for importing OpenStreetMap buildings, terrain and Google 3D Tiles; free and premium editions. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Cesium for Unity | Web viewers & engines | Unity plugin that streams 3D Tiles and terrain into Unity projects. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Cesium for Unreal | Web viewers & engines | Unreal Engine plugin that streams global 3D Tiles content into Unreal scenes. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Cesium ion | Web viewers & engines | Hosted platform that tiles and streams 3D content, terrain and point clouds as 3D Tiles. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| cesium-native | Web viewers & engines | C++ runtime for streaming 3D Tiles and terrain, used by Cesium's game-engine integrations. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| CesiumJS | Web viewers & engines | JavaScript library for 3D globes and maps that streams 3D Tiles, terrain and imagery. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| citydb-tool | City models | Command-line tool for importing and exporting CityGML and CityJSON with 3DCityDB v5. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| CityGML | City models | OGC standard data model and GML encoding for semantic 3D city and landscape models. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| citygml-tools | City models | CLI for upgrading, validating, reprojecting and converting CityGML, including to CityJSON. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| citygml4j | City models | Java library for reading, writing and processing CityGML. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| CityJSON | City models | Compact JSON encoding of the CityGML data model, adopted as an OGC community standard. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| cjio | City models | Python CLI for manipulating, validating, subsetting and converting CityJSON files. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| CloudCompare | Desktop viewers & editors | Desktop application for viewing, comparing, registering and editing large point clouds and meshes. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| CloudComPy | Desktop viewers & editors | Python bindings exposing CloudCompare's algorithms for scripting. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| copc-lib | Indexing & cloud-optimized | C++ library with Python bindings for reading and writing COPC files node by node. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| copc-rs | Indexing & cloud-optimized | Rust crate for reading and writing Cloud Optimized Point Cloud files. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| copc.js | Indexing & cloud-optimized | JavaScript library that reads COPC headers and octree nodes over HTTP range requests. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| CSF (Cloth Simulation Filter) | Ground classification | Ground filtering by simulating a cloth draped over the inverted point cloud. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Draco | Point cloud & mesh libraries | Google library for compressing 3D meshes and point clouds, used inside glTF and 3D Tiles. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| E57 (ASTM E2807) | Formats | Vendor-neutral standard for terrestrial laser scan point clouds, images and metadata. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| e57 (Rust crate) | LAS/LAZ libraries | Pure Rust reader and writer for E57 point cloud files, with Python bindings available. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Entwine | Indexing & cloud-optimized | Builds Entwine Point Tile (EPT) octree indexes from large point cloud collections for streaming. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ept-python | Indexing & cloud-optimized | Python client for querying Entwine Point Tile datasets by bounds and resolution. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| FARO SCENE | Desktop viewers & editors | FARO software for processing and registering terrestrial laser scans. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| FUSION/LDV | Lidar processing suites | USDA Forest Service suite of command-line lidar tools and a viewer for forestry metrics and canopy surfaces. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Giro3D | Web viewers & engines | Three.js-based web library for 2D/3D maps, point clouds and 3D Tiles. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Global Mapper Lidar Module | Lidar processing suites | Add-on to Global Mapper Pro for classifying, filtering and extracting features from point clouds. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| glTF Transform | Point cloud & mesh libraries | SDK and CLI for inspecting, optimizing and compressing glTF/GLB models. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles | 3D tiles & streaming formats | Google Map Tiles API service streaming photogrammetric 3D Tiles of cities worldwide. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| gsplat | Photogrammetry & reality capture | CUDA-accelerated library for training and rendering 3D Gaussian splats. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| I3S (Indexed 3D Scene Layers) | 3D tiles & streaming formats | Esri-originated OGC community standard for streaming 3D scene layers, meshes and point clouds. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| iTowns | Web viewers & engines | Three.js-based JavaScript framework from IGN for 3D geospatial visualization of terrain, point clouds and 3D Tiles. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| iTwin Capture Modeler | Photogrammetry & reality capture | Bentley reality modeling software (formerly ContextCapture) that builds 3D meshes from photos and scans. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| iTwin.js | Web viewers & engines | Bentley's open source library for building digital twin apps over infrastructure models and reality data. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| LAS (ASPRS LAS specification) | Formats | Binary exchange format for airborne and terrestrial lidar points with classification and return attributes. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Laserchicken | Lidar processing suites | Python toolkit for computing ecological feature metrics from large airborne lidar point clouds. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| LASlib | LAS/LAZ libraries | C++ read/write API underlying the LAStools suite. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| lasR | Lidar processing suites | Fast C++ pipeline engine for airborne lidar processing with R and Python front ends. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| LAStools | Lidar processing suites | Fast command-line lidar tools for tiling, ground classification, DEM creation and QA; core tools LGPL, most analysis tools licensed. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| laz-rs | LAS/LAZ libraries | Pure Rust implementation of LASzip compression and decompression. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| lazrs-python | LAS/LAZ libraries | Python bindings to the Rust laz-rs codec that give laspy fast, parallel LAZ compression. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Leica Cyclone 3DR | Desktop viewers & editors | Leica point cloud analysis and modeling software for inspection, meshing and deliverables. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Leica Cyclone REGISTER 360 PLUS | Desktop viewers & editors | Leica software for automated registration and QA of terrestrial laser scans. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| libE57Format | LAS/LAZ libraries | C++ library for reading and writing ASTM E57 scan files. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| lidar (opengeos) | Lidar processing suites | Python package for terrain and depression analysis from lidar-derived DEMs. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| LiDAR360 | Lidar processing suites | Point cloud processing suite for airborne, mobile and terrestrial lidar including forestry and terrain modules. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| LidarView | Desktop viewers & editors | ParaView-based application for live and recorded visualization of lidar sensor streams. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| lidR | Lidar processing suites | R package for airborne lidar analysis including ground classification, normalization, canopy models and tree segmentation. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| LP360 | Lidar processing suites | Lidar and drone point cloud processing for classification, QA and volumetrics, standalone or in ArcGIS. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| MCC-LIDAR | Ground classification | Multiscale curvature classification tool from USFS researchers for separating ground returns in forested lidar. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| MeshLab | Desktop viewers & editors | Desktop system for cleaning, repairing, simplifying and texturing 3D triangle meshes and point clouds. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Myria3D | Ground classification | Deep learning framework from IGN France for semantic segmentation of aerial lidar point clouds. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| nerfstudio | Photogrammetry & reality capture | Framework for training and viewing neural radiance fields and Gaussian splats from images. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Obj2Tiles | 3D tiles & streaming formats | Converts OBJ meshes into 3D Tiles with decimation and splitting, from the OpenDroneMap project. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OGC API - 3D GeoVolumes | 3D tiles & streaming formats | OGC API draft for discovering and accessing 3D content collections like 3D Tiles and I3S. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Open3D | Point cloud & mesh libraries | Library for 3D data processing including point cloud registration, reconstruction, meshing and visualization. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Open3D-ML | Point cloud & mesh libraries | Extension of Open3D for 3D machine learning tasks such as semantic segmentation and object detection. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OpenTopography | Lidar data sources | NSF-funded facility serving lidar point clouds, DEMs and on-demand processing with a REST API. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OSM Buildings | Web viewers & engines | JavaScript library and hosted service that renders OpenStreetMap buildings in 2.5D/3D on web maps. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| pasture | LAS/LAZ libraries | Rust framework for point cloud data layouts, I/O and processing. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| PCD (Point Cloud Data) | Formats | Point Cloud Library's native file format for storing point clouds with typed fields. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| PCL (Point Cloud Library) | Point cloud & mesh libraries | Large C++ library of point cloud filtering, segmentation, registration and surface reconstruction algorithms. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| pclpy | Point cloud & mesh libraries | Python bindings for a subset of the Point Cloud Library. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| PDAL Python bindings | Core processing | Python package that runs PDAL pipelines and returns point arrays as NumPy structured arrays. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| pdal_wrench | Core processing | Parallel command-line tools built on PDAL for common point cloud tasks like clipping, merging, tiling, rasterizing and COPC conversion. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| pdal-parallelizer | Core processing | Splits PDAL pipelines across tiles and runs them in parallel with Dask. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| pg2b3dm | 3D tiles & streaming formats | Generates 3D Tiles from 3D geometries stored in PostGIS tables. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| pgPointcloud | Core processing | PostgreSQL extension that stores point cloud patches in the database with PostGIS integration. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Plasio | Web viewers & engines | Browser-based viewer for LAS/LAZ and Entwine point clouds. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| PLY (Polygon File Format) | Formats | Simple ASCII or binary format for meshes and point clouds with arbitrary per-vertex properties. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| plyfile | Point cloud & mesh libraries | NumPy-based Python reader and writer for PLY files. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| PMF (Progressive Morphological Filter) | Ground classification | Classic ground filter that grows a morphological window to separate ground from objects; available in PDAL, PCL and lidR. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Polyscope | Point cloud & mesh libraries | Lightweight viewer and UI for 3D meshes and point clouds in C++ and Python. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Potree | Web viewers & engines | WebGL viewer for streaming and measuring very large point clouds in the browser. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Potree Desktop | Web viewers & engines | Electron desktop wrapper for Potree with drag-and-drop conversion and viewing of point clouds. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Potree format (Potree 2.0) | Formats | Octree file layout produced by PotreeConverter for streaming point clouds in the Potree viewer. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| PotreeConverter | Web viewers & engines | Converts LAS/LAZ into the Potree octree format for web streaming. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| py3dtilers | 3D tiles & streaming formats | Python tools from the VCity project for building 3D Tiles from CityGML, OBJ, GeoJSON and IFC. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Py3DTiles | 3D tiles & streaming formats | Python library and CLI that converts point clouds and meshes into 3D Tiles. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| pye57 | LAS/LAZ libraries | Python wrapper around libE57Format for reading and writing E57 files. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| PyForestScan | Lidar processing suites | Python library for computing forest structure metrics from airborne point clouds. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| pylas Retired | LAS/LAZ libraries | Earlier Python LAS/LAZ reader-writer whose code was merged into laspy 2.0. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| PyMeshLab | Desktop viewers & editors | Python interface to MeshLab's filters for scripted mesh processing. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| pyntcloud | Point cloud & mesh libraries | Python library for point cloud I/O and feature extraction built on pandas. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| pyRANSAC-3D | Point cloud & mesh libraries | Python implementation of RANSAC fitting for planes, cylinders, spheres and other primitives in point clouds. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| PyVista | Point cloud & mesh libraries | Pythonic interface to VTK for 3D meshing, plotting and analysis of spatial data. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| rlas | LAS/LAZ libraries | R package that reads and writes LAS/LAZ files using LASlib. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| roofer | City models | Automatic LoD2 building reconstruction from footprints and point clouds, used to make 3DBAG. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| SlideRule Earth | Lidar data sources | On-demand cloud service and Python client for processing ICESat-2 and other elevation data. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| SMRF (Simple Morphological Filter) | Ground classification | Ground classification algorithm using progressive morphological openings on a minimum surface; implemented as PDAL filters.smrf. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| SuperSplat | Photogrammetry & reality capture | Browser-based editor for cleaning and publishing Gaussian splat scenes. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| TerraScan (Terrasolid) | Lidar processing suites | Production software for classifying, editing and extracting features from airborne and mobile lidar. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Trimble RealWorks | Desktop viewers & editors | Software for registering, analyzing and modeling terrestrial and mobile laser scan data. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| trimesh | Point cloud & mesh libraries | Python library for loading, analyzing and exporting triangle meshes, including glTF and PLY. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| untwine | Indexing & cloud-optimized | Converts LAS/LAZ point clouds into Cloud Optimized Point Cloud (COPC) files efficiently on limited memory. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| USGS LidarExplorer | Lidar data sources | Web map for finding and downloading 3DEP lidar point cloud projects. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| val3dity | City models | Validates 3D primitives and city model geometries against ISO 19107 rules. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| VTK (Visualization Toolkit) | Point cloud & mesh libraries | Visualization and processing library for 3D geometry, volumes and scientific data. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| WhiteboxTools LiDAR tools | Lidar processing suites | LiDAR toolset within WhiteboxTools Open Core for gridding, ground filtering, classification and tiling LAS/LAZ. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
Routing, networks, geocoding & LRS (136)
| Name | Subcategory | Summary | Review |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1Spatial 1Integrate (LRS) | Linear referencing (LRS) | Rules-based spatial data validation and integration engine with linear reference system support. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Actian Ingres LRS | Linear referencing (LRS) | Ingres geospatial linear reference system functions. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Addok | Geocoding engines & libraries | Lightweight Redis-backed geocoder used by France's national address API. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| AgileAssets LRS Gateway | Linear referencing (LRS) | Integration component synchronizing Esri Roads and Highways LRS data with AgileAssets asset management systems. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Amazon Location Service Routes | Commercial routing APIs | AWS routing, matrix, isoline and route optimization APIs using HERE and other data providers. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS Linear Referencing toolbox | Linear referencing (LRS) | Core ArcGIS tools to create M-aware routes, locate features along routes, overlay and dissolve route events. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS Location Platform routing services | Accessibility & transport modeling | Esri's hosted routing, service area, closest facility and VRP REST services. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS Location Referencing toolbox | Linear referencing (LRS) | ArcGIS Pro geoprocessing tools to create LRS, routes and events, generate calibration points and apply edits. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS LRS REST services (LRServer) | Linear referencing (LRS) | Server capability exposing measure-to-geometry, geometry-to-measure and translate operations over an LRS. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS Pipeline Referencing | Linear referencing (LRS) | Esri extension managing linear referencing for pipeline networks (APDM, UPDM, PODS models). | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS Roads and Highways | Linear referencing (LRS) | Esri extension for managing multi-method linear referencing systems, routes, events and their time-aware history for DOTs. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS World Geocoding Service | Geocoding services | Esri's global geocoding, reverse geocoding, suggest and batch geocoding service. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ARNOLD (All Road Network of Linear Referenced Data) | Linear referencing (LRS) | FHWA requirement that states submit an all-public-roads LRS network for HPMS reporting. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Azure Maps Route | Commercial routing APIs | Microsoft Azure routing, route matrix and range services. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Bentley AssetWise Linear Network Management (Exor) | Linear referencing (LRS) | Enterprise road network and LRS management system (formerly Exor) for highway agencies. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| BRouter | Routing engines | Configurable bicycle- and hiking-focused offline router with elevation-aware profiles; also runs as a server and Android app. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Carmen Retired | Geocoding engines & libraries | Mapbox's former open-source geocoder built on vector tiles. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| censusgeocode | Geocoding engines & libraries | Python wrapper for the US Census Bureau geocoder, including batch mode. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| city2graph | Accessibility & transport modeling | Turns urban datasets such as streets, buildings and transit into graphs for graph neural network and network analysis. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| cityseer | Accessibility & transport modeling | Computes localized network centralities, land-use accessibility and mixed-use metrics on street networks. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Conveyal Analysis | Accessibility & transport modeling | Web platform for scenario planning and regional accessibility analysis of transit and street changes, built on R5. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Curb Data Specification (CDS) | Network & traffic referencing standards | Open Mobility Foundation spec describing curb regulations and usage linked to street references. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| disy GeoSpatial Integration for Talend (LRS) | Linear referencing (LRS) | Spatial ETL components for Talend including linear reference system transformations. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| dodgr | Accessibility & transport modeling | R package for distances, flows and routing on dual-weighted directed street graphs. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Eclipse SUMO | Accessibility & transport modeling | Microscopic, continuous traffic simulator with network import from OSM and many tools for demand and analysis. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Esri ArcGIS Network Analyst | Accessibility & transport modeling | ArcGIS Pro extension for routes, service areas, closest facility, OD matrices and vehicle routing on network datasets. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| FGDC United States Thoroughfare, Landmark, and Postal Address Data Standard | Address data | US federal standard defining address content, classification and quality measures. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| FMM (Fast Map Matching) | Routing engines | Fast map matching library using precomputed upper-bounded origin-destination tables for large GPS datasets. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GBFS | Transit data & tools | General Bikeshare Feed Specification for real-time shared bike and scooter availability. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GDAL/OGR measured geometry support | Linear referencing (LRS) | GDAL reads and writes M-aware geometries across formats, preserving route measures. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| geocoder (Python) Retired | Geocoding engines & libraries | Simple Python client for many geocoding providers. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Geocodio | Geocoding services | US and Canada geocoding API with batch upload and data appends such as census, districts and timezones. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| geopy | Geocoding engines & libraries | Python client for many geocoding services plus geodesic distance calculations. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GERS (Global Entity Reference System) | Network & traffic referencing standards | Overture's stable global feature IDs for joining third-party data to map entities, including road segments. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GMNS | Accessibility & transport modeling | Zephyr Foundation's General Modeling Network Specification, a CSV-based standard for routable transport model networks. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Google Geocoding API | Geocoding services | Google Maps Platform forward and reverse geocoding service. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Google OR-Tools | Routing engines | Operations research toolkit with vehicle routing, scheduling and graph solvers. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Google Routes API | Commercial routing APIs | Google Maps Platform routing and route-matrix service with traffic-aware travel times. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GraphHopper | Routing engines | OSM routing engine with custom profiles, isochrones, map matching and matrix support; also sold as a hosted API. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GraphHopper Directions API | Routing engines | Hosted routing, matrix, isochrone, geocoding and route optimization API run by GraphHopper GmbH. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GraphHopper Isochrone API | Routing engines | GraphHopper endpoint computing reachable areas in time or distance, available self-hosted or through the hosted API. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GTFS Kit | Transit data & tools | Pandas-based library to read, analyse, map and edit GTFS feeds, including route and stop statistics. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GTFS Realtime | Transit data & tools | Protocol Buffers feed format for live vehicle positions, trip updates and service alerts. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GTFS Schedule | Transit data & tools | Standard zipped CSV format for public transit schedules, stops, routes and shapes. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GTFS Validator (MobilityData) | Transit data & tools | Canonical validator checking GTFS feeds against the specification and best practices. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| gtfs_segments | Transit data & tools | Splits GTFS routes into stop-to-stop segments and computes service frequency per segment. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| gtfs-realtime-bindings | Transit data & tools | Official language bindings to parse GTFS Realtime protobuf feeds. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| gtfs-via-postgres | Transit data & tools | Imports GTFS into PostgreSQL with views for querying arrivals and departures. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| HERE Geocoding & Search API | Geocoding services | HERE's geocode, reverse, autosuggest and place search API. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| HERE Routing API | Commercial routing APIs | HERE routing, matrix and isoline APIs covering car, truck, pedestrian and transit. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| HPMS Field Manual | Linear referencing (LRS) | FHWA specification for reporting route-and-measure highway inventory data sections. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| igraph | Accessibility & transport modeling | Fast graph analysis library usable for large road or transit networks. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ISO 19148 Linear referencing | Linear referencing (LRS) | International standard conceptual schema for linear referencing methods, events and offsets. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Itinero | Routing engines | .NET routing library that builds routable networks from OSM and supports custom vehicle profiles. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| libpostal | Geocoding engines & libraries | Statistical NLP library to parse and normalize street addresses in most countries. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| linref | Linear referencing (LRS) | Python library for linearly referenced event data: overlay, dissolve, segment and locate events on routes with GeoPandas. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| LocationIQ | Geocoding services | Hosted Nominatim-based geocoding plus routing and map tiles. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Mapbox Directions API | Commercial routing APIs | Mapbox routing, matrix, isochrone and map matching APIs built on OSM with traffic. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Mapbox Geocoding API | Geocoding services | Mapbox forward, reverse and batch geocoding service with permanent-storage tier. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| mappymatch | Routing engines | NREL package for matching GPS traces to road networks using OSM or custom networks. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| MATSim | Accessibility & transport modeling | Agent-based multimodal transport simulation running daily plans of synthetic populations on networks. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| matsim-tools | Accessibility & transport modeling | Python helpers for reading and analysing MATSim networks, plans and events. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Mobility Data Specification (MDS) | Network & traffic referencing standards | Open Mobility Foundation API spec for cities to exchange data with shared mobility operators. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| MOTIS | Routing engines | Intermodal mobility platform offering timetable routing, street routing and geocoding from GTFS and OSM in one server. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| MTFCC (MAF/TIGER Feature Class Code) | Network & traffic referencing standards | Census Bureau classification codes for TIGER features such as S1100 primary roads and S1400 local streets. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| neatnet | Accessibility & transport modeling | Simplifies street network geometry for morphological analysis, collapsing dual carriageways and intersections. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| NENA NG9-1-1 GIS Data Model | Address data | NENA standard schema for road centerlines and address points used in Next Generation 9-1-1. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| NeTEx | Transit data & tools | CEN European XML standard for exchanging public transport network and timetable data. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| NetworkX | Accessibility & transport modeling | General graph library used for shortest paths, centrality and connectivity on geographic networks. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Nominatim | Geocoding engines & libraries | Geocoder and reverse geocoder built on OSM data in PostgreSQL; also runs the public osm.org search service. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OneBusAway | Transit data & tools | Open-source real-time transit information system serving arrival predictions and trip data via API and apps. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Open Transport Map / INSPIRE Transport Networks | Network & traffic referencing standards | EU INSPIRE data specification for transport network themes with linear referencing. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OpenCage Geocoding API | Geocoding services | Geocoding API aggregating open data sources such as OSM, with permissive result storage. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OpenLR | Network & traffic referencing standards | Map-agnostic dynamic location referencing method encoding road locations as compact binary or XML references. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| openlr (Python) | Network & traffic referencing standards | Python library for parsing and serializing OpenLR binary location references. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OpenLR (TomTom Java) | Network & traffic referencing standards | TomTom's reference Java implementation for encoding and decoding OpenLR references. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| openlr-dereferencer | Network & traffic referencing standards | Python decoder that matches OpenLR references onto a target road network. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| openrouteservice | Routing engines | GraphHopper-based routing service from HeiGIT adding isochrones, matrices, POIs, elevation and many travel profiles. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| openrouteservice-py | Routing engines | Python client for the openrouteservice API covering directions, isochrones, matrix and geocoding. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OpenTripPlanner | Routing engines | Multimodal trip planner combining GTFS/NeTEx transit with OSM walking, cycling and driving, with a GraphQL API. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| opentripplanner (R package) | Routing engines | R interface for setting up and querying OpenTripPlanner servers for routes and isochrones. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Oracle Spatial LRS | Linear referencing (LRS) | Oracle Spatial SDO_LRS package for creating measured geometries and locating points and segments by measure. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ORS Tools (QGIS plugin) | Routing engines | QGIS plugin to request openrouteservice routes, isochrones and matrices from map layers. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| osm2gmns | Accessibility & transport modeling | Converts OSM into networks in the GMNS (General Modeling Network Specification) format. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| osm2pgrouting | Routing engines | Imports OSM XML into a pgRouting-ready topology in PostgreSQL. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OSMnx | Accessibility & transport modeling | Downloads, models, simplifies and analyses OSM street networks as NetworkX graphs with GeoPandas integration. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OSRM | Routing engines | Very fast road routing engine on OSM data using contraction hierarchies or MLD, with route, table, match, trip and tile services. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Overture Maps Transportation schema | Network & traffic referencing standards | Overture schema for segments and connectors with linear-referenced attributes and GERS IDs over global roads. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| pandana | Accessibility & transport modeling | Contraction-hierarchy network queries for fast accessibility aggregations and nearest-POI searches over large networks. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| partridge | Transit data & tools | Fast, lazy GTFS loader for pandas that filters feeds by service date. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| peartree | Transit data & tools | Converts GTFS feeds into directed NetworkX graphs for transit network analysis. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Pelias | Geocoding engines & libraries | Modular Elasticsearch-based geocoder importing OSM, OpenAddresses, Who's On First and Geonames. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| pfaedle | Transit data & tools | Map-matches GTFS trips to OSM to generate accurate shapes.txt geometry. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| pgRouting | Routing engines | PostgreSQL/PostGIS extension providing shortest path, driving distance, TSP and other graph algorithms in SQL. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Photon | Geocoding engines & libraries | Search-as-you-type OSM geocoder by komoot backed by Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, using Nominatim data. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| placekey-py | Geocoding services | Python library to convert between Placekeys, coordinates and H3, and call the Placekey API. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| PostGIS Address Standardizer | Geocoding engines & libraries | PostgreSQL extension that parses addresses into normalized components using rule tables. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| PostGIS linear referencing functions | Linear referencing (LRS) | PostGIS functions such as ST_LineInterpolatePoint, ST_LineLocatePoint, ST_LineSubstring and ST_LocateAlong for measured geometry. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| PTV Developer | Commercial routing APIs | PTV routing, truck routing and tour optimization APIs for logistics. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| pyesridump | Address data | Dumps features from ArcGIS REST services to GeoJSON; widely used to harvest address layers. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| pygtfs | Transit data & tools | Loads GTFS feeds into a SQLAlchemy database for querying. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| pypostal | Geocoding engines & libraries | Python bindings for libpostal parsing and expansion. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| pyrosm | Accessibility & transport modeling | Fast OSM PBF reader that extracts street networks, buildings and POIs into GeoPandas and graph objects. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| pyroutelib3 | Routing engines | Pure-Python A* router over OSM data for simple offline routing. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| PySAL spaghetti | Accessibility & transport modeling | Spatial analysis on networks: snapping points, network distance matrices and network-constrained statistics. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| pyvalhalla | Routing engines | Python bindings that embed the Valhalla engine for building tiles and running routing calls locally. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| QGIS LRS plugin | Linear referencing (LRS) | QGIS plugin to calibrate routes from measured points, locate events, and create measures, with error reporting. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| QGIS native linear referencing tools | Linear referencing (LRS) | QGIS Processing algorithms for M values, points along geometry, line substring and interpolation. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| QGIS Network Analysis (QNEAT3) | Accessibility & transport modeling | QGIS Processing plugin adding OD matrices, iso-areas and shortest-path tools over line layers. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| QGIS Network analysis toolbox | Accessibility & transport modeling | Built-in QGIS Processing tools for shortest path and service area on any line layer. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| R5 | Accessibility & transport modeling | Conveyal's rapid realistic routing engine for many-to-many multimodal accessibility and travel-time distributions. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| r5py | Accessibility & transport modeling | Python wrapper around R5 producing travel-time matrices and detailed itineraries with GeoPandas output. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| r5r | Accessibility & transport modeling | R package wrapping R5 for fast multimodal travel-time matrices and accessibility measures. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| RoutingKit | Routing engines | C++ library implementing customizable contraction hierarchies and other fast shortest-path techniques for road graphs. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| routingpy | Routing engines | Single Python client wrapping many routing APIs, including OSRM, Valhalla, GraphHopper, ORS, Google, HERE and Mapbox. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| rustworkx | Accessibility & transport modeling | High-performance graph library for Python implemented in Rust. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| sfnetworks | Accessibility & transport modeling | Tidy R package for geospatial networks combining sf and tidygraph. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Shapely linear referencing | Linear referencing (LRS) | Shapely interpolate/project methods for distance along lines; basis for most Python LRS scripts. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| SharedStreets Referencing System | Network & traffic referencing standards | Open, map-neutral street segment identifiers for linking transport data across basemaps. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| sharedstreets-js | Network & traffic referencing standards | CLI and library that match GPS traces and line data to SharedStreets references. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Smarty (SmartyStreets) | Geocoding services | Address validation, USPS standardization and rooftop geocoding API. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| snkit | Accessibility & transport modeling | Tools to clean spatial networks by snapping, splitting and adding topology to line data. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| stplanr | Accessibility & transport modeling | R toolkit for sustainable transport planning: desire lines, route networks and flow aggregation. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| tidytransit | Transit data & tools | R package to read GTFS and compute service frequencies, headways and travel times. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| TMC (Traffic Message Channel) | Network & traffic referencing standards | Pre-coded location table standard (ISO 14819) used to reference road segments in traffic data such as NPMRDS. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| TomTom Routing API | Commercial routing APIs | TomTom routing, reachable range and matrix services with live traffic. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| TomTom Search API | Geocoding services | TomTom geocoding, reverse geocoding and POI search service. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Transcend Spatial Solutions (now Rizing) | Linear referencing (LRS) | Consultancy that built LRS and Roads and Highways solutions for DOTs; rebranded as Rizing geospatial after acquisition. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Transitland | Transit data & tools | Aggregated catalog and API of transit feeds worldwide with GTFS, GTFS-RT and GBFS data, run by Interline. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| transitland-lib | Transit data & tools | Library and CLI for validating, merging, filtering and importing GTFS feeds; dual commercial licence available. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| UrbanAccess | Accessibility & transport modeling | Builds combined GTFS transit and OSM pedestrian networks for accessibility analysis with pandana. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| US Census Geocoder | Geocoding services | Free US government geocoder matching addresses to TIGER/Line and returning census geographies, with batch upload. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| usaddress | Geocoding engines & libraries | Parses US address strings into components using a CRF model. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Valhalla | Routing engines | Tiled, multimodal OSM routing engine with dynamic costing, isochrones, map matching, matrices and elevation. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Valhalla isochrones | Routing engines | Valhalla isochrone endpoint returning time or distance reachability polygons or lines for any costing model. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| VROOM | Routing engines | Vehicle routing problem solver that optimizes multi-vehicle delivery and pickup tours using OSRM, Valhalla or ORS matrices. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
Servers, standards, tiles & catalogs (121)
| Name | Subcategory | Summary | Review |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2D Tile Matrix Set | OGC web service standards | Defines tile matrix sets such as WebMercatorQuad and the tiling grids used by WMTS and OGC API – Tiles. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| 52°North javaPS | Processing & sensor services | Java web processing server implementing WPS 2.0 and OGC API Processes. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| 52°North SensorThings API | Processing & sensor services | 52°North server implementing OGC SensorThings API on its sensor-web data model. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| 52°North SOS | Processing & sensor services | Implements OGC Sensor Observation Service for publishing sensor observations and metadata. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| 52°North WPS Retired | Processing & sensor services | Older Java WPS 1.0 server with R, GRASS and Sextante process backends. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS Enterprise | Commercial GIS servers & platforms | Esri's self-hosted GIS platform combining ArcGIS Server, Portal, Data Store and Web Adaptor. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS Hub | Commercial GIS servers & platforms | Esri's open data and community engagement site builder on top of ArcGIS Online. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS Image Server | Commercial GIS servers & platforms | ArcGIS Enterprise role for serving, analysing and dynamically processing large raster and imagery collections. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS Online | Commercial GIS servers & platforms | Esri's SaaS mapping platform for hosting layers, maps, apps and analysis. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS REST API – FeatureServer | Esri REST & industry specs | Esri REST endpoint for querying, editing and syncing vector features and attributes. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS REST API – ImageServer | Esri REST & industry specs | Esri REST endpoint for exporting, querying and processing raster imagery on the fly. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS REST API – MapServer | Esri REST & industry specs | Esri REST endpoint for rendered map images, tiles, identify and layer queries. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS REST API – VectorTileServer | Esri REST & industry specs | Esri REST endpoint serving vector tiles with an accompanying style resource. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArcGIS Server | Commercial GIS servers & platforms | Publishes maps, features, imagery and geoprocessing as web services; core server component of ArcGIS Enterprise. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| BBOX | Map & feature servers | Composable Rust server offering OGC API Features, Maps, Tiles and Processes plus asset serving and a bundled viewer. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Cadcorp GeognoSIS | Commercial GIS servers & platforms | Cadcorp's web map server providing OGC services and web mapping from many data formats. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Carmenta Server | Commercial GIS servers & platforms | Carmenta's geospatial server delivering maps and analysis via OGC services, used in defence and emergency systems. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| CKAN | Metadata catalogs & data portals | Open data portal software for publishing, cataloguing and searching datasets. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ckanext-dcat | Metadata catalogs & data portals | CKAN extension exposing and harvesting catalog metadata as DCAT/RDF including GeoDCAT-AP. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ckanext-spatial | Metadata catalogs & data portals | CKAN extension adding spatial search, geospatial previews and ISO/CSW metadata harvesting. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| CQL2 (Common Query Language) | OGC web service standards | Text and JSON filter language used by OGC API – Features and STAC API. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| CSW (Catalogue Service for the Web) | OGC web service standards | Searches and retrieves metadata records about datasets and services. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| datacube-ows | Map & feature servers | Serves Open Data Cube raster collections as WMS, WMTS and WCS with on-the-fly styling. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| DCAT | Tile, style & catalog specs | W3C RDF vocabulary for describing datasets and data catalogs. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| deegree | Map & feature servers | Implements a wide set of OGC services including WFS, WMS, WMTS, CSW and WPS with strong GML and INSPIRE support. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ERDAS APOLLO | Commercial GIS servers & platforms | Hexagon's server for cataloguing, processing and delivering large imagery and geodata via OGC services. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ERDDAP | Map & feature servers | Data server that subsets and reformats scientific gridded and tabular datasets, with WMS support. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Esri Geoportal Server | Metadata catalogs & data portals | Open-source metadata catalog with CSW, OpenSearch and ISO metadata harvesting backed by Elasticsearch. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| FGDC CSDGM Retired | Tile, style & catalog specs | US federal content standard for digital geospatial metadata, largely superseded by ISO 19115. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Filter Encoding (FES) | OGC web service standards | XML grammar for expressing spatial, temporal and attribute query filters in OGC services. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| FROST-Server | Processing & sensor services | Fraunhofer's full implementation of OGC SensorThings API with MQTT support. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeoCat Bridge | Metadata catalogs & data portals | QGIS plugin that publishes layers, styles and metadata to GeoServer, MapServer and GeoNetwork. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeoDCAT-AP | Tile, style & catalog specs | Geospatial extension of the DCAT application profile for publishing spatial dataset metadata as linked data. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeoHealthCheck | Processing & sensor services | Monitors uptime, availability and compliance of OGC web services and APIs with scheduled probes. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| geojson-vt | Tile generation & packaging | Slices GeoJSON into vector tiles on the fly in memory. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeoMedia WebMap | Commercial GIS servers & platforms | Hexagon web GIS server publishing GeoMedia data as maps and OGC services. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeoNetwork | Metadata catalogs & data portals | Metadata catalog for spatial data with ISO 19115/19139 editing, harvesting and CSW/OGC API Records search. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeoNode | Metadata catalogs & data portals | Web spatial content management system for uploading, styling, cataloguing and sharing layers and maps, built on GeoServer. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeoServer | Map & feature servers | Publishes vector and raster data from files and databases as OGC web services with styling and security. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeoServer Cloud | Map & feature servers | Splits GeoServer into containerised microservices for scalable Kubernetes or Docker deployments. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeoServices REST API Retired | Esri REST & industry specs | OGC community standard documenting Esri's REST API pattern for map, feature and image services. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeoSPARQL | OGC web service standards | Vocabulary and query extensions for representing and querying geospatial data in RDF/SPARQL. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeoWebCache | Tile caches & proxies | Caches and serves tiles from WMS backends via WMTS, TMS and WMS-C; embedded in GeoServer. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GML (Geography Markup Language) | OGC web service standards | XML grammar for encoding geographic features and their geometry. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| go-pmtiles | Tile generation & packaging | CLI and server for creating, extracting, inspecting, converting and serving PMTiles archives. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| INSPIRE | Tile, style & catalog specs | EU directive and technical guidelines defining harmonised data specs, metadata and network services for spatial data. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ISO 19115 / 19115-3 | Tile, style & catalog specs | International metadata model describing geographic datasets and services; 19115-3 provides the current XML encoding. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ISO 19119 | Tile, style & catalog specs | ISO standard defining geographic service architecture and service metadata. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ISO 19139 | Tile, style & catalog specs | XML schema implementation of the ISO 19115:2003 metadata model used widely in CSW catalogs. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| istSOS | Processing & sensor services | Python sensor data server; istSOS2 implements SOS and istSOS4 implements SensorThings API. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| KML | OGC web service standards | XML format for geographic annotation and visualisation, originating with Google Earth. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Koop | Map & feature servers | Node.js server that translates arbitrary data sources into Esri FeatureServer-compatible REST endpoints. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ldproxy | Map & feature servers | Publishes feature data from databases or WFS as OGC API Features, Tiles, Styles and Routes with HTML and JSON views. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| LuciadFusion | Commercial GIS servers & platforms | Hexagon server for fusing and serving 2D/3D geodata through OGC and 3D Tiles services. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Magda | Metadata catalogs & data portals | Federated data catalog that harvests and indexes datasets including spatial ones from many portals. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Mapbox Style Specification | Tile, style & catalog specs | JSON schema describing sources, layers and paint rules for Mapbox GL maps. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Mapbox Tiling Service | Tile generation & packaging | Hosted pipeline that converts uploaded data into vector tilesets using recipe configurations. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Mapbox Vector Tile Specification | Tile, style & catalog specs | Protocol Buffers encoding for tiled vector geometries and attributes (MVT). | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| MapCache | Tile caches & proxies | MapServer-project tile caching server for Apache and Nginx supporting WMTS, TMS and WMS. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| MapGuide Open Source | Map & feature servers | Web mapping platform with a server, authoring tools and APIs for publishing and querying maps. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| MapLibre Style Specification | Tile, style & catalog specs | Community-maintained open fork of the GL style JSON format used by MapLibre renderers. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| MapProxy | Tile caches & proxies | Tile cache and proxy that accelerates, reprojects and combines WMS, WMTS and tile sources. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| MapServer | Map & feature servers | Renders maps and serves WMS, WFS, WCS and OGC API Features from mapfile configurations via CGI or FastCGI. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| MapTiler Server | Tile servers | Desktop and server application for hosting tiles, maps and geodata with a web admin UI and OGC endpoints. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Martin | Tile servers | Fast vector tile server serving tiles from PostGIS, PMTiles and MBTiles, plus sprites, fonts and styles. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| mbtileserver | Tile servers | Small Go server that serves tiles and TileJSON from a directory of MBTiles files. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| mbutil | Tile generation & packaging | Imports and exports tiles between MBTiles files and directory trees. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| mod_tile / renderd | Tile servers | Apache module and rendering daemon that render and cache raster map tiles on demand with Mapnik. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Observations, Measurements and Samples (ISO 19156) | OGC web service standards | Conceptual model for observations and the features they sample. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OGC API – Common | OGC API standards | Shared building blocks (landing page, conformance, collections) used by all OGC API standards. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OGC API – Connected Systems | OGC API standards | REST API for describing and tasking sensors, platforms and other connected systems. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OGC API – Coverages | OGC API standards | REST API for accessing gridded and multidimensional coverage data with subsetting. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OGC API – Environmental Data Retrieval (EDR) | OGC API standards | REST API for retrieving environmental data by position, area, trajectory or corridor queries. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OGC API – Features | OGC API standards | REST/JSON API for querying and optionally editing vector feature collections. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OGC API – Maps | OGC API standards | REST API for requesting rendered map images of one or more collections. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OGC API – Moving Features | OGC API standards | REST API for trajectories and time-varying properties of moving objects. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OGC API – Processes | OGC API standards | REST API for listing and executing processes synchronously or as jobs. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OGC API – Records | OGC API standards | REST API for searching and publishing metadata records; successor to CSW. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OGC API – Routes | OGC API standards | REST API for requesting and sharing computed routes between locations. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OGC API – Styles | OGC API standards | REST API for publishing and retrieving style definitions in several encodings. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OGC API – Tiles | OGC API standards | REST API for serving vector, map and coverage tiles described by tile matrix sets. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OGC TEAM Engine | Processing & sensor services | OGC's compliance test engine that runs CITE test suites against service implementations. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OpenMapTiles | Tile generation & packaging | Open vector tile schema and toolchain for producing OSM-based basemaps. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OWS Context | OGC web service standards | Encodes a set of configured map layers and services for sharing between applications. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Planetiler | Tile generation & packaging | Builds vector tile archives (MBTiles/PMTiles) from OpenStreetMap and other sources very quickly on one machine. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| PMTiles libraries | Tile generation & packaging | Reference readers and writers for the PMTiles format in JS, Python and C++ plus MapLibre and Leaflet adapters. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Portal for ArcGIS | Commercial GIS servers & platforms | Content management, sharing and identity component of ArcGIS Enterprise for maps, apps and layers. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| pycsw | Metadata catalogs & data portals | Python metadata catalog server implementing CSW 2/3 and OGC API Records. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| pygeoapi | Map & feature servers | Python server implementing many OGC API standards (Features, Coverages, Records, Processes, EDR, Tiles, Maps) via a YAML config. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| pygeometa | Metadata catalogs & data portals | Generates ISO 19139, ISO 19115-3, OGC API Records and other metadata from simple YAML configs. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| PyWPS | Processing & sensor services | Python implementation of OGC WPS 1.0/2.0 for publishing geoprocessing functions. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| QGIS Server | Map & feature servers | Serves QGIS desktop projects as WMS, WFS, WCS, WMTS and OGC API Features with identical styling. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| SensorML | OGC web service standards | Describes sensors and processing of observations in XML or JSON. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| SensorThings API | OGC web service standards | REST/JSON and MQTT API for IoT sensors, things, datastreams and observations. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| SLD / Symbology Encoding | OGC web service standards | XML languages for describing how map layers are symbolised in WMS and other services. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| SOS (Sensor Observation Service) | OGC web service standards | Retrieves sensor observations and sensor descriptions in a standard way. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| SuperMap iServer | Commercial GIS servers & platforms | SuperMap's GIS server publishing maps, data, analysis and 3D services with REST and OGC interfaces. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| t-rex Retired | Map & feature servers | Generates and serves Mapbox Vector Tiles from PostGIS and GDAL data sources. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Tegola | Tile servers | Vector tile server that generates MVT tiles from PostGIS and GeoPackage with built-in caching. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Terracotta | Tile servers | Lightweight Python tile server serving XYZ tiles from cloud-optimised GeoTIFF collections. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| THREDDS Data Server | Map & feature servers | Serves NetCDF and gridded scientific data via OPeNDAP, WMS, WCS and HTTP subsetting. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| tilemaker | Tile generation & packaging | Converts OpenStreetMap PBF extracts into vector tiles using Lua-configured layer logic. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| TileServer GL | Tile servers | Serves vector MBTiles/PMTiles and renders raster tiles and static maps from MapLibre GL styles. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| TileServer PHP | Tile servers | PHP script that serves MBTiles and tile directories as XYZ, TMS and WMTS. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| tileserver-rs | Tile servers | Rust tile server for PMTiles, MBTiles, PostGIS and COG with native raster rendering and static map images. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| TileStache Retired | Tile servers | Python tile server and cache serving rendered or proxied map tiles. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| TiPg | Map & feature servers | FastAPI application serving PostGIS tables as OGC API Features and vector Tiles. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| TMS (Tile Map Service) Retired | Tile, style & catalog specs | OSGeo specification for tile addressing with a bottom-left origin and service metadata documents. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| UTFGrid Retired | Tile, style & catalog specs | Tiled JSON grid encoding attribute lookups for raster tile interactivity. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| VersaTiles | Tile generation & packaging | Toolbox for converting, checking and serving map tiles across MBTiles, PMTiles and its own container format. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| WaterML 2.0 | OGC web service standards | Information model and encoding for hydrological time series and observations. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| WCPS (Web Coverage Processing Service) | OGC web service standards | Query language for server-side extraction and processing of multidimensional coverages. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| WCS (Web Coverage Service) | OGC web service standards | Retrieves raster and multidimensional coverage data with subsetting and format conversion. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| WFS (Web Feature Service) | OGC web service standards | Queries and optionally edits (WFS-T) vector features, typically returning GML or GeoJSON. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| WMS (Web Map Service) | OGC web service standards | Returns rendered map images for requested layers, extent and style. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| WMS-C (Tiling WMS) Retired | Tile, style & catalog specs | OSGeo recommendation constraining WMS requests to a fixed grid so responses can be cached as tiles. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| WMTS (Web Map Tile Service) | OGC web service standards | Serves pre-rendered map tiles from defined tile matrix sets via KVP or RESTful requests. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| WPS (Web Processing Service) | OGC web service standards | Describes and executes geoprocessing operations remotely over HTTP. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| XYZ / Slippy map tiles | Tile, style & catalog specs | De facto z/x/y URL scheme for Web Mercator tiles with a top-left origin. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| XYZ Hub | Map & feature servers | HERE's RESTful GeoJSON feature store and API for storing, querying and tiling spatial data. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ZOO-Project | Processing & sensor services | WPS and OGC API Processes server that wraps C, Python, Java and other code as web processes. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
Spatial databases & query engines (105)
| Name | Subcategory | Summary | Review |
|---|---|---|---|
| address_standardizer | PostgreSQL ecosystem | Parses and normalises postal addresses into components; bundled with PostGIS. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Amazon Athena geospatial | Big data / distributed | Serverless Trino-based SQL over S3 with geospatial and H3 functions. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Amazon RDS / Aurora PostgreSQL (PostGIS) | Managed PostgreSQL | AWS managed PostgreSQL services that support the PostGIS, h3-pg and pgRouting extensions. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Amazon Redshift spatial | Cloud warehouses | GEOMETRY and GEOGRAPHY types with ST_ and H3 functions in Redshift. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Apache AGE | PostgreSQL ecosystem | Adds openCypher graph queries to PostgreSQL, combinable with PostGIS columns. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Apache Arrow ADBC | Drivers & connectors | Arrow-native database connectivity API with drivers for PostgreSQL, SQLite, Snowflake, BigQuery and more. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Apache Doris spatial functions | Big data / distributed | MPP analytics database providing ST_ point, polygon and distance functions. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Apache Pinot geospatial | Big data / distributed | Real-time OLAP store with ST_ functions and H3-based geospatial indexes. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Apache Sedona | Big data / distributed | Cluster engine adding spatial types, SQL functions, spatial joins and raster support to Spark and Flink. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Apache Solr spatial | NoSQL / search / KV | Lucene-based search server with LatLonPointSpatialField, RPT shape fields and geofilt/bbox queries. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ArangoDB geo indexes | NoSQL / search / KV | Multi-model database with GeoJSON geo indexes and AQL GEO_ functions. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Azure Cosmos DB geospatial | NoSQL / search / KV | GeoJSON spatial indexing and ST_ functions in Cosmos DB's NoSQL API. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Azure Database for PostgreSQL (PostGIS) | Managed PostgreSQL | Microsoft managed PostgreSQL (Flexible Server) with PostGIS and related extensions allow-listed. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Azure SQL Database spatial | Commercial RDBMS | Managed SQL Server engine in Azure with the same geometry/geography types. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| CARTO Analytics Toolbox | Cloud warehouses | Set of spatial UDFs (tiling, quadbin, H3, clustering, routing) deployed into BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, Databricks and Postgres. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Citus | PostgreSQL ecosystem | Distributes PostgreSQL tables across nodes; works with PostGIS for scale-out spatial queries. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ClickHouse geo functions | Big data / distributed | Columnar OLAP database with Point/Polygon types, geohash, H3, S2 and polygon containment functions. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| CockroachDB spatial | Open-source RDBMS | Distributed SQL database with PostGIS-compatible geometry/geography and S2-based indexes. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Couchbase geospatial | NoSQL / search / KV | Full Text Search service with geo point/shape queries in Couchbase. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| CrateDB | Big data / distributed | Distributed SQL database built on Lucene with geo_point/geo_shape types and spatial match queries. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Crunchy Bridge | Managed PostgreSQL | Managed PostgreSQL from Crunchy Data with PostGIS and the Crunchy spatial tooling. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Databricks Mosaic Retired | Big data / distributed | Databricks Labs library for spatial indexing, joins and raster ops on Spark. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Databricks spatial SQL (ST functions) | Big data / distributed | Native GEOMETRY/GEOGRAPHY types and 80+ ST_ and H3 functions in Databricks SQL and Runtime. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| DB Browser for SQLite | Client tools | Desktop GUI for SQLite files; can load SpatiaLite to query GeoPackage tables. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| DBeaver | Client tools | Universal SQL client with a spatial viewer that maps geometry columns. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| DuckDB h3 community extension | Embedded / file databases | Adds H3 hexagon indexing functions to DuckDB. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| DuckDB spatial extension | Embedded / file databases | Adds GEOS-backed ST_ functions, GDAL I/O and CRS transforms to DuckDB; GEOMETRY became a core type in DuckDB 1.5. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Elasticsearch geo | NoSQL / search / KV | geo_point/geo_shape fields with bounding-box, distance, shape queries and geohex/geotile aggregations. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Esri enterprise geodatabase | Esri enterprise | ArcGIS schema layer on Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, SAP HANA or Db2 that adds versioning, replication, domains and topology. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Esri GIS Tools for Hadoop / Spatial Framework for Hadoop | Big data / distributed | Hive UDFs and Hadoop tools built on Esri Geometry API for Java. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Esri ST_Geometry (Oracle/PostgreSQL) | Esri enterprise | Esri spatial type and SQL functions installed in Oracle and PostgreSQL enterprise geodatabases. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Esri ST_Geometry for SQLite | Embedded / file databases | Esri loadable library adding the ST_Geometry type and functions to SQLite databases for ArcGIS use. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| File geodatabase (FileGDB) | Esri enterprise | Esri folder-based geodatabase; GDAL OpenFileGDB reads and writes it, Esri FileGDB API also exists. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GDAL database drivers | Drivers & connectors | GDAL/OGR drivers for PostGIS, Oracle OCI, MSSQLSpatial, MySQL, HANA, MongoDB, Elasticsearch and others. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeoBrix | Big data / distributed | Databricks Labs successor to Mosaic with raster, grid and vector functions for current Databricks runtimes. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeoDataFusion | Embedded / file databases | Adds ST_ spatial functions and GeoParquet/FlatGeobuf readers to Apache DataFusion. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeoMesa | Big data / distributed | Indexes and queries spatio-temporal data on HBase, Accumulo, Cassandra, Kafka and filesystem stores. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeoPackage (as database) | Embedded / file databases | OGC SQLite-based container for vectors, tiles and attributes that can be queried directly with SQL. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeoPolars | DataFrame / query libraries | Prototype geospatial extension to Polars based on GeoArrow. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| GeoWave | Big data / distributed | Multi-dimensional indexing layer for spatial data on distributed key-value stores like Accumulo and HBase. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Google BigQuery GIS | Cloud warehouses | GEOGRAPHY type and ST_ functions on spheroidal data inside BigQuery. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Google Cloud SQL / AlloyDB for PostgreSQL | Managed PostgreSQL | Google managed PostgreSQL services that support PostGIS. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| H2GIS | Embedded / file databases | Spatial extension for the H2 Java database offering OGC SQL functions and many file drivers. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| h3-pg | PostgreSQL ecosystem | Provides Uber H3 hexagonal grid indexing functions and PostGIS integration inside PostgreSQL. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| HeavyDB (HEAVY.AI, ex OmniSciDB/MapD) | Commercial RDBMS | GPU-accelerated columnar SQL database with geospatial types and functions; open core with commercial Immerse UI. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Ibis geospatial | DataFrame / query libraries | Dataframe API that compiles geospatial expressions to DuckDB, PostGIS, BigQuery and other backends. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| IBM Db2 Spatial Analytics | Commercial RDBMS | Spatial data types and functions for Db2 (formerly Spatial Extender). | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Informix Spatial DataBlade | Commercial RDBMS | Spatial types and R-tree indexing for IBM/HCL Informix. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Kinetica | Commercial RDBMS | GPU-accelerated analytic database with extensive geospatial, track and graph functions. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| MariaDB spatial | Open-source RDBMS | OpenGIS geometry types and ST_ functions with SPATIAL indexes in MariaDB. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| MEOS / PyMEOS | PostgreSQL ecosystem | Standalone C library and Python bindings of MobilityDB's temporal geometry types, usable without a database. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse spatial | Cloud warehouses | T-SQL geometry/geography functions in Fabric Warehouse, without spatial column types or indexes. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Microsoft ODBC Driver for SQL Server | Drivers & connectors | Official ODBC driver for SQL Server and Azure SQL. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Microsoft SQL Server spatial | Commercial RDBMS | geometry and geography CLR types with spatial indexes in SQL Server and Azure SQL. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| MobilityDB | PostgreSQL ecosystem | Adds temporal and moving-object types (tgeompoint etc.) to PostgreSQL/PostGIS for trajectory analysis. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| MongoDB geospatial queries | NoSQL / search / KV | 2dsphere and 2d indexes with $near, $geoWithin and $geoIntersects queries over GeoJSON documents. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| MySQL spatial | Open-source RDBMS | Spatial types, SRID-aware geography functions and R-tree indexes in MySQL 8+. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Neo4j native point type | Graph | Built-in Cypher point values and point indexes for distance and bounding-box queries. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Neo4j Spatial | Graph | Neo4j plugin providing spatial layers, R-tree indexes and WKT/shapefile/OSM import procedures. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Neon (PostGIS) | Managed PostgreSQL | Serverless branching Postgres service supporting PostGIS. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| ogr_fdw | PostgreSQL ecosystem | PostgreSQL foreign data wrapper that exposes any GDAL/OGR vector source as a queryable table. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| OpenSearch geospatial | NoSQL / search / KV | geo_point/geo_shape fields, geo queries and aggregations plus a geospatial plugin in the OpenSearch fork. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Oracle GeoRaster | Commercial RDBMS | Stores and processes raster imagery and grids inside Oracle Database. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Oracle Instant Client | Drivers & connectors | Free-to-use Oracle client libraries required by thick-mode drivers and tools. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Oracle Spatial (SDO_GEOMETRY) | Commercial RDBMS | Spatial types, R-tree indexes, networks, GeoRaster and topology inside Oracle Database, now included free in all editions. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Oracle SQL Developer | Client tools | Oracle database IDE with a map view for SDO_GEOMETRY results. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| pg_duckdb | PostgreSQL ecosystem | Embeds DuckDB in PostgreSQL so Postgres can query Parquet/GeoParquet and lake files. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| pg_featureserv | PostgreSQL ecosystem | Lightweight server publishing PostGIS tables and functions as an OGC API - Features endpoint. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| pg_tileserv | PostgreSQL ecosystem | Serves Mapbox vector tiles directly from PostGIS tables and functions. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| pgAdmin 4 | Client tools | PostgreSQL admin tool with a built-in geometry viewer for query results. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| polars-st | DataFrame / query libraries | GEOS-backed spatial expressions for Polars DataFrames. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| PostGIS | PostgreSQL ecosystem | Adds geometry and geography types, spatial indexes and hundreds of ST_ functions to PostgreSQL. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| PostGIS JDBC | Drivers & connectors | Java extensions adding geometry types to the PostgreSQL JDBC driver. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| PostGIS Raster | PostgreSQL ecosystem | Stores and analyses tiled rasters inside PostgreSQL with map algebra, clipping and raster-vector operations. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| PostGIS TIGER Geocoder | PostgreSQL ecosystem | Geocodes and reverse geocodes US addresses using Census TIGER data loaded into PostGIS. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| PostGIS Topology | PostgreSQL ecosystem | Models shared-edge topological networks of nodes, edges and faces in PostgreSQL. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| postgis_sfcgal | PostgreSQL ecosystem | Exposes SFCGAL 3D and exact-arithmetic geometry operations (extrusion, 3D intersection, straight skeleton) in PostGIS. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Presto geospatial functions | Big data / distributed | ESRI-geometry-based ST_ functions and spatial joins in PrestoDB. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| psycopg | Drivers & connectors | PostgreSQL adapter for Python used to run PostGIS queries. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| pymssql / mssql-python | Drivers & connectors | Python drivers for SQL Server; Microsoft's mssql-python is the newer official one. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| pyodbc | Drivers & connectors | Python ODBC bridge used to query SQL Server, Db2, Teradata and HANA spatial data. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| python-oracledb (ex cx_Oracle) | Drivers & connectors | Oracle Database driver for Python with thin mode needing no Instant Client. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| QGIS DB Manager | Client tools | QGIS panel for running SQL against PostGIS, SpatiaLite, GeoPackage and Oracle and loading results as layers. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| rasdaman | Array / raster databases | Array database for massive multi-dimensional rasters and datacubes with WCS/WCPS query interfaces. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Redis geospatial (GEO commands) | NoSQL / search / KV | Sorted-set based GEOADD/GEOSEARCH commands for radius and box point lookups. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| RPostgres / DBI + sf | Drivers & connectors | R database interface used by sf to read and write PostGIS layers. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| SAP HANA Spatial | Commercial RDBMS | ST_Geometry/ST_Point types, spatial joins and clustering in SAP HANA. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| SciDB Retired | Array / raster databases | Array database for scientific data from Paradigm4. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| SedonaDB | Embedded / file databases | Single-node analytical engine from Apache Sedona with spatial types, joins and CRS awareness built in, built on DataFusion. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| SingleStore geospatial | Commercial RDBMS | Distributed SQL database with GEOGRAPHY and GEOGRAPHYPOINT types and spatial joins. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Snowflake geospatial | Cloud warehouses | GEOGRAPHY and GEOMETRY types with ST_ and H3 functions in Snowflake. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| SpatiaLite | Embedded / file databases | Loadable SQLite extension adding geometry types, R*Tree-backed spatial indexes and OGC SQL functions. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| spatialite_gui | Embedded / file databases | Desktop GUI for browsing, querying and mapping SpatiaLite databases. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| SQL Server Management Studio | Client tools | SQL Server client with a Spatial results tab for geometry/geography columns. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| SQLAlchemy + GeoAlchemy2 | Drivers & connectors | ORM/SQL toolkit and its spatial extension for PostGIS, SpatiaLite, MySQL and others. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| SQLite R*Tree module | Embedded / file databases | Built-in SQLite virtual table for fast bounding-box range queries. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| StarRocks spatial functions | Big data / distributed | MPP analytics database with a set of ST_ spatial functions. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Supabase (PostGIS) | Managed PostgreSQL | Hosted Postgres platform with PostGIS available and auto-generated REST APIs. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Teradata geospatial | Cloud warehouses | ST_Geometry type and spatial functions in Teradata Vantage. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Tile38 | NoSQL / search / KV | In-memory geospatial database and geofencing server speaking the Redis protocol. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| TileDB | Array / raster databases | Storage engine for dense and sparse multi-dimensional arrays, used for rasters and point clouds. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Trino geospatial functions | Big data / distributed | Built-in ST_ and Bing tile functions for federated SQL queries in Trino. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Valkey geospatial | NoSQL / search / KV | Linux Foundation Redis fork retaining GEO commands for point search. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| Wherobots | Big data / distributed | Managed cloud spatial compute platform by the creators of Apache Sedona, including raster and GeoParquet/Iceberg. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |
| YugabyteDB | Open-source RDBMS | Distributed PostgreSQL-compatible database that can run PostGIS. | Unverified lead from the seed atlas |