DebianGis Packages List
This page lists binary packages proposed for inclusion in Debian, and their status. Please, make the project name links to the upstream project home page. Please keep all packages derived from a given upstream project together.
The package list could be non up-to-date, this list is maintained by hand, please keep it with a grain of salt. See DebianGis Status for a synthesis page of archive status, automatically generated on a daily basis. This page is useful anyway to see interesting packages and comments about. See http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_packages for an updated details.
Ready in official Debian
The packages found in the main Debian repositories may lag behind what is available from the DebianGIS SVN, which may lag behind the latest upstream release. Packages maintained by the DebianGIS team are drawn directly from our SVN.
Geospatial packages of core concern
Meta-packages
education-geography task from debian-edu: DebianGIS recommends these additions: qgis, gmt, gdal, proj. (education-geography already depends on grass):
- GIS "workstation" task
Binary packages
GDAL: Convert between many geospatial data formats
GRASS: Powerful GIS for modeling and analysis
QuantumGIS: Easy to use GIS. Includes qgis-plugin-grass
PROJ: proj-doc: there are PDF files available, perhaps those would be better?
gpsd: GPS hardware daemon
gpsdrive: Real time navigation
gpstrans: Download GPS data from a Garmin serial GPS
gpsbabel: Convert GPS wpt/rte/trk data between many file formats
gmt: Generic Mapping Tools (cartography)
OpenJUMP: in debian/contrib, because it depend on batik and sun jre. Work is being done to get batik into debian/main, and openjump to work with GNU Classpath. Packaged instead of JUMP
Viking: a GPS track editor and analyzer
ParaView: Very useful for 3D representation of GRASS rasters and vectors. Maintained by the Debian Scientific Computing Project.
GeoTranz: similar in function to "proj" or "cs2cs" from PROJ.4, but in the form of a Java hand calculator.
Epigrass: epidemiological simulation and analysis
mtkbabel: Tool for managing i-Blue 747 and compatible GPS data loggers
zyGrib - Real-time weather forecast visualization.
Data
OpenStreetmap
josm: Java OpenStreetmap Editor
gosmore: viewer of OSM XML data such as the planet.osm
Useful packages to be packaged
Sorted by approximate priority.
Libraries and bindings
Desktop/Analysis/Database
Ossim: currently being worked on (Francesco Lovergine)
PostLBS: powerful routing solution for PostgreSQL/PostGIS
TerraView: powerful GIS based on TerraLib (already in Debian, but obsolete)
OpenModeller: species occurrence modelling software
r-spatial: R/GRASS interface for GRASS 6 and other spatial software for R
garmin-utils: similar in scope and function to gpstrans, but works with modern serial Garmins. See also the NetBSD port
e-foto: aerial photogrammetry. See this unanswered post
ogr2gui - GUI frontend for GDAL's ogr2ogr vector geodata format converter
Data
OpenStreetMap
mkgmap: OSM to Garmin maps converter
Sample datasets
- GRASS's Spearfish dataset
- OSGeo's NC sample dataset
Java
gvSIG (top priority)
uDig: User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS
Postgisdriver-JUMP: currently being worked on. Contrib - depends on jump
GeoTools: Java GIS Toolkit
Deegree2 and iGeoPortal: currently being worked on. Binary package structure not yet clear.
NASA World Wind (Java version): Needs JOGL and perhaps SUN Java
JOGL: Java
Kosmos Desktop GIS derived from OpenJUMP (an unofficial package available)
For more info on the Java state in Debian, see the moving java to Debian/main page.
Live Web Apps
PyWPS: Python Web Processing Service
OpenLayers, TileCache, FeatureServer (all from MetaCarta)
3D Visualization
Visual Terrain Project: proposed
VisIt: 3D visualization
X3D: modern version of VRML, various libs & apps
OpenDX: the open source version of IBM's Visualization Data Explorer. Uses the IBM Public License
MINI: proposed, needed for VTerrain
OpenProducer: proposed, useful for ?OpenSceneGraph
Lower Priority
http://www.primagis.fi/ map extension for Plone; it builds on top of Mapserver, Python Cartographic Library (PCL) and Cartographic Objects for Zope (ZCO)
OpenEV: currently being worked on (Alex Bodnaru); old version, based on gtk1; the new one, based on gtk2, is still unsuitable to packaging
MB-System: multibeam, interferometry, and sidescan sonar data processing (GPL)
Open3D GIS: Requires FreeWRL, see http://sourceforge.net/projects/freewrl/. Project apparently dead? https://sourceforge.net/projects/open3dgis/
dxf2svg: also the reciprocal svg2dxf (depends on pstoedit)
JGrass: currently being worked on. Contrib - needs jdk1.4, several contrib packages. Currently being fused with uDig - better postpone packaging until settled down