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The Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) is a computer software library for reading and writing raster and vector geospatial data formats (e.g. shapefile), and is released under the permissive X/MIT style free software license by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation.
Free GPL-2.0-or-later: Android, web , Windows Primitive: Michael Fogleman Free MIT: MAC OS X, with Python & Go packages and a JavaScript port KVEC: K. Kuhl Freeware: WIN 2000, WIN XP, WIN Vista/7, OS/2, Linux, BeOS, MAC OS X Creator Year released Year least updated List price (USD) License Supported OS (without emulation)
OpenLayers supports GeoRSS, KML (Keyhole Markup Language), Geography Markup Language (GML), GeoJSON and map data from any source using OGC-standards as Web Map Service (WMS) or Web Feature Service (WFS).
QGIS is a geographic information system (GIS) software that is free and open-source. [2] QGIS supports Windows, macOS, and Linux. [3] It supports viewing, editing, printing, and analysis of geospatial data in a range of data formats. Its name comes from an abbreviation of its previous name, Quantum GIS.
JOSM (listen ⓘ) (Java OpenStreetMap editor) is a free software desktop editing tool for OpenStreetMap geodata created in Java, originally developed by Immanuel Scholz and currently maintained by Dirk Stöcker. [5] The editing tool contains advanced features [6] that are not present in OSM's default online editor, iD.
Five million place names, political boundaries, latitude/longitude lines, and other data can be displayed. WorldWind.NET provided the ability to browse maps and geospatial data on the internet using the OGC's WMS servers (version 1.4 also uses WFS for downloading place names), import ESRI shapefiles and kml/kmz files. This is an example of how ...
Some of the free software mentioned here does not have detailed maps (or maps at all) or the ability to follow streets or type in street names (no geocoding). However, in many cases, it is also that which makes the program free (and sometimes open source [ 1 ] ), avoid the need of an Internet connection, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and make it very ...
Example of KML code displayed within a browser window. If after clicking on the KML file link, a plain page full of code is displayed (see image for example): Select the entire contents of the page (Ctrl+A on Windows, ⌘ Cmd+A on Macintosh), and then copy it (Ctrl+C on Windows, ⌘ Cmd+C on Macintosh)