Whitebox Next Gen
Ground-up Rust rewrite of Whitebox as modular crates for raster, vector, LiDAR, projection and topology plus ~750 OSS tools.
| Category | Desktop GIS & analysis engines |
|---|---|
| Subcategory | Whitebox & Rust GIS engines |
| Tool kind | Toolkit/CLI |
| Licence | MIT OR Apache-2.0 |
| Open source | partial |
| Language | Rust |
| Interfaces | Rust, Python, R, plugin |
| How an agent calls it | python, r, rust, plugin |
| Install | Not stated |
| Project status | active |
| Website | https://github.com/jblindsay/whitebox_next_gen |
| Notes | Pure Rust, no GDAL/PROJ/GEOS; separate proprietary Pro extension; soft-launched 2026 |
| Also listed under | Not stated |
| Registry status | active |
| Related | Not stated |