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Table Of Contents:
- Desktop Application
- 3D Application
- Web Map Server
- Front-end Framework
- iOS & Android
- Geospatial Library (non-web)
- Spatial Database
- Map Render Engine
- Saas
- Data Format
- Data
- Conference & Communities
- News Site
- Amazing Map Site
- MOOC
- Related Resources
- Geospatial Start-ups And Companies
- ArcGIS - A enterprise level desktop GIS software published by Ersi
- QGIS - A cross-platform free and open-source desktop GIS software
- GRASS GIS - Used for geospatial data management and analysis, as a founding member of OSGEO
- uDig - An open source desktop application framework built with Eclipse
- gvSIG - A powerful, user-friendly, interoperable geomatics professionals
- Marble - A virtual globe and world atlas
- SharpMap - An mapping library in web and desktop applications built in .NET
- JUMP GIS - An open source GIS written in Java
- Whitebox GAT - Software package for geospatial analysis and data visualization
- TileMill - Creating beautiful interactive maps with CartoCSS. Github Link
- Global Mapper - A geographic information system (GIS) software package currently developed by Blue Marble Geographics that runs on Microsoft Windows
- Skyline - A glimpse into Skyline's cutting-edge 3D geospatial visualization products, and their potential to transform the way your organization makes decisions, shares information and manages its assets
- CityEngine - Transform 2D GIS Data into Smart 3D City Models
- ArcGIS Earth - Display data, sketch placemarks, measure distances and areas, and add annotations at any part of the world
- World Wind - Providing features for displaying with geographic data
- Google Earth - Bringing a earth view for global mapping
- ArcGIS Server - A GIS server for enterprise application
- MapServer - Publishing spatial data and interactive mapping applications to the web
- GeoServer - An open source server for sharing geospatial data
- deegree - An open source software for spatial data infrastructures and the geospatial web
- GeoDjango - A GIS server built with python web framework -- django
- Mapnik - An open source mapping toolkit written in C++ for desktop-based and server-based map rendering
- geomajas - An open source platform to create Web GIS applications
- GeoMOOSE - A Web Client JavaScript Framework for displaying distributed cartographic data
- mapbender3 - Publishing spatial data infrastructure services on the Symfony 2 PHP
- MapFish - A framework for building rich web-mapping applications built with Pylons Python web framework
- MapGuide - A Web Client JavaScript Framework for displaying distributed cartographic data
MapBuilder- This project has been retired in 2008- Nanocubes - An in-memory data structure for spatiotemporal data cubes. Github Link
- GeoTrellis - A geographic data processing engine for high performance applications that uses Spark to work with raster data.
- Leaflet - Open-source javaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
- Mapbox GL JS - A JavaScript & WebGL library that renders interactive maps from vector tiles and the Mapbox GL Style Specification
- OpenLayer3 - Open-source javascript map viewing library
- three.js - A javascript 3D library which makes WebGL simpler
- cesiumjs - An open-source JavaScript library for world-class 3D globes and maps
- webglearth2 - Open-source virtual planet web application running in any web browser with support for WebGL HTML5 standard
- ArcGIS API for JavaScript - Creating high-performing apps and smarter visualizations supportted by ERSI
- D3.js - A javascript library for manipulating documents based on data
- Echarts - A user-friendly data visualisation library supported by Baidu
- geomajas-client javascript - Open source javascript mapping API for cool maps and apps
- Google Maps Javascript API - A javascript api for google map
- d3-carto-map - A library for creating layer-based maps using D3
- turf.js - Advanced geospatial analysis for browsers and node supported by Mapbox
- Polymaps - A JavaScript library for image- and vector-tiled maps using SVG
- jVectorMap - A vector-based, cross-browser and cross-platform component for interactive geography-related data visualization on the web. Github Link
- Tangram - A javaScript library for rendering 2D & 3D maps live in a web browser with WebGL
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iOS
- ArcGIS Runtime SDK for iOS - Build mapping apps for iOS devices
- Google Maps API for iOS
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Android
- ArcGIS Runtime SDK for Android - Build native mapping apps for Android devices
- Google Maps API for Android
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Cross-Platform
- ArcGIS Runtime SDK for Xamarin - Build native mapping apps for Android and iOS in C# (Quartz Beta)
- GDAL - A translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats
- Proj.4 - A library for cartographic projection
- Shapely - A library for manipulation and analysis of geometric objects in the Cartesian plane
- Fiona - IO for GIS Data writted by Python
- Rtree - A wrapper of libspatialindex providing spatial indexing features
- GeoTools - An open source Java library that provides tools for geospatial data
- Orfeo toolbox - An open-source C++ library for remote sensing images processing
- PostGIS based on PostgreSQL - Most advanced open source database
- Oracle Spatial - Oracle-based advanced spatial data analysis
- Spatialite based on SQLite - Lightweight SQL library to support fully spatially capability
- MSSQL - A high-preformance database support by Microsoft
- MBtiles - A specification for storing tiled map data in SQLite databases
- mySQL - the world's most popular open source database
- mongoDB - An open-source, document database designed for ease of development and scaling
- GeoMesa - An open-source, distributed, spatio-temporal database built on a number of distributed cloud data storage systems, including Accumulo, HBase, Cassandra, and Kafka.
- mapnik - Mapnik combines pixel-perfect image output with lightning-fast cartographic algorithms, and exposes interfaces in C++, Python, and Node
- mapbox-gl-native - A library for embedding interactive, customizable vector maps into native applications on multiple platforms
- tangram-es - A C++ library for rendering 2D and 3D maps from vector data using OpenGL ES, and mainly focused on mobile and embedded devices.
- Mapbox - Helping you design your own map and presenting your data
- Cartodb - The easiest way to map and analyze your location data
- Mapzen - An open, sustainable, and accessible mapping platform. Their tools let you display, search, and navigate your world.
- GIS Cloud - A next generation platform for apps that manage location information
- stamen - Data visualization to tell compelling stories for some of the world's most visible companies
- citytracking - A two-year project, to change the way people view, talk about, utilize digital city services
- worldmap - Building your own mapping portal and publish it to the world
- GeoHey - A geographic online one-stop solution (Chinese)
- GeoQ - A location intelligence platform (Chinese)
- 地图慧 - A self-designed map server for customs (Chinese)
- 地图无忧 - A enterprise-level map service (Chinese)
- Shapefile
- GeoJson - Represent geospatial information by json
- TopoJson - Represent geospatial information by json in a smaller side
- TileJSON - Represent vector tile provider by json
- WKT - A text markup language for representing vector geometry objects on a map
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Data List Site
- a-comprehensive-list-of-all-open-data-portals-around-the-world
- Free GIS Data
- GeoCommons - A community contributed collection of open data from around the world
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Data Site
- 199it
- Harvard Dataverse
- WorldPop
- NYC Open Data
- Los Angeles GeoHub
- Global LUCC data (30m)
- Global cities Shapefile data
- NetworkRepository.com - The First Interactive Network Repository with Visual Analytics
- OpenFlights: Airport and airline data
- Gridded Population of the World (GPW), v3 | SEDAC
- Citi Bike Trip Histories
- NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission - Trip Record Data
- T-Drive trajectory data sample
- pm2.5-China
- Remote sensing imge
- metro extracts - City-sized portions of OpenStreetMap
- Geofabrik
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Conference
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Communities
- OGC - an international not for profit organization committed to making quality open standards for the global geospatial community
- Maptime
- geo community
- GIS stackexchange
- GIS-Lab - informal community of russian-speaking GIS/RS specialists, we get better ourselves and help get better others
- GeoNet - The Esri Community
- GIS Lounge - Maps and GIS
- The GIS News Tweets Daily
- Geoawesomeness
- GISuser - The GIS And Mapping Professional Resource
- ESRI news
- Directions Magazine - GIS News and Geospatial
- GISCafe
- GIS times
- geospatial pr
- gisgeography
- canadiangis
- MAPCITE
- Geospatial World
- Wiki.GIS.com - The GIS Encyclopedia
- Geo Blogs
- mastermaps
- Anita Graser
- Charley
- Mike Bostock
- Gretchen Peterson
- KARTO PICS
- Maps of the Year
- Cartography and Geovisualization Group at Oregon State University
- snazzymaps - A google map style gallery
- Odyssey.js
- Amazing Maps
- Beijing City Lab
- Chinese Bus System
- flowingdata
- finemapping
- thematicmapping
- dougmccune
- OpenWebGIS is free online GIS
- NC STATE UNIVERSITY Center for Geospatial Analytics
- CHATTY MAPS - the sounds map of city.
- roads to rome - roads to ROME
- discoverspatial - Easy to follow spatial courses & tutorials from the world's leading instructors
- Coursera's GIS Specialization - Including
Fundamentals of GIS,GIS Data Formats, Design and Quality,Geospatial and Environmental Analysis,Imagery, Automation, and ApplicationsandCapstone: Geospatial Analysis. - Geospatial Intelligence & the Geospatial Revolution
- Maps and the Geospatial Revolution
- MongoDB地理数据模块与MongoGIS - Mandarin.
- mapskin - a collection of scalable vector icons for geospatial.
Geospatial Start-ups And Companies list