Debian GIS Project
Summary
Osgeo: geodata viewers and editors
packages concerning geodata viewers and editors

OSGEO Desktop apps part 2

Debian packages which are helpful to view or edit geodata.

FIXME: Idea from https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/browser/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/bin/install_icons_and_menus.sh#L34 but needs enhancement

The list to the right includes various software projects which are of some interest to the Debian GIS Project. Currently, only a few of them are available as Debian packages. It is our goal, however, to include all software in Debian GIS which can sensibly add to a high quality Debian Pure Blend.

For a better overview of the project's availability as a Debian package, each head row has a color code according to this scheme:

If you discover a project which looks like a good candidate for Debian GIS to you, or if you have prepared an unofficial Debian package, please do not hesitate to send a description of that project to the Debian GIS mailing list

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Debian GIS Osgeo: geodata viewers and editors packages

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Gpsdrive
sistema di navigazione per l'auto
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fieldgeography
hardwaregps
interfacex11
networkclient
roleprogram
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Sistema di navigazione basato su mappe che mostra la posizione attuale, fornita da un ricevitore GPS, su una mappa ridimensionabile. Le mappe possono essere scaricate da fornitori di mappe o essere tracciate al volo usando l'insieme di dati di OpenStreetMap.

La programmazione di percorsi, con indicazioni vocali opzionali, è supportata tramite waypoints.

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Gpsprune
visualize, edit, convert and prune GPS data
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GpsPrune is an application for viewing, editing and converting coordinate data from GPS systems. It's a tool for preparing GPS data before you go on a trip, and for playing with your collected GPS data after you get home again.

It can load data from arbitrary text-based formats (for example, any tab-separated or comma-separated file) or XML, or directly from a GPS receiver. It can display the data (as map view using OpenStreetMap images and as altitude profile), edit this data (for example delete points and ranges, sort waypoints, compress tracks), and save the data (in various text-based formats). It can also export data as a GPX file, or as KML/KMZ for import into Google Earth, or send it to a GPS receiver.

Some example uses of GpsPrune include cleaning up tracks by deleting wayward points - either recorded by error or by unintended detours. It can also be used to compare and combine tracks, convert to and from various formats, compress tracks, export data to Google Earth, or to analyse data to calculate distances, altitudes and so on.

Furthermore, GpsPrune is able to display the tracks in 3d format and lets you spin the model round to look at it from various directions. You can also export the model in POV format so that you can render a nice picture using Povray. You can also create charts of altitudes or speeds. It can also load Jpegs and read their coordinates from the EXIF tags, and export thumbnails of these photos to Kmz format so that they appear as popups in Google Earth. If your photos don't have coordinates yet, GpsPrune can be used to connect them (either manually or automatically using the photo timestamps) to data points, and write these coordinates into the EXIF tags.

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Josm
editor per OpenStreetMap
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JOSM è un editor per OpenStreetMap (OSM) scritto in Java. La versione attuale gestisce tracciati GPX indipendenti, dati di tracciati GPX dal database OSM e da nodi esistenti, riempie tag di segmenti e metadati dal database OSM.

OpenStreetMap è un progetto che mira direttamente a creare e fornire dati geografici liberi, come mappe stradali, a chiunque li desideri. Il progetto è stato creato perché la maggior parte delle mappe che sembrano liberamente utilizzabili hanno in realtà restrizioni legali * tecniche per il loro utilizzo, che impediscono alle persone di utilizzarle per scopi creativi, produttivi o imprevisti.

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Marble
widget per mappe e mappamondo
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Marble è un widget generico per mappe geografiche e un'infrastruttura per le applicazioni KDE. Il widget Marble mostra la terra come una sfera, ma non necessita di accelerazione hardware. È incluso un insieme minimale di dati geografici per poterlo utilizzare anche senza una connessione ad internet.

Questo pacchetto fa parte del modulo educativo di KDE.

Merkaartor
map editor for OpenStreetMap.org
Maintainer: Bernd Zeimetz
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Merkaartor is a map editor for OpenStreetMap.org, the free editable map of the whole world.

Features:

  • download from and upload to the OpenStreetMap server
  • open .osm and .gpx files
  • create and move trackpoints, ways, and areas
  • add tags, delete features
  • reverse, split and join ways
  • visualize some leisure/landuse areas and road types
  • displaying GPS information
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Viking
modifica, analisi e visualizzazione di dati GPS
Maintainer: Bernd Zeimetz
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Viking mira ad essere semplice da usare ma potente nello svolgimento di un'ampia gamma di compiti relativi al GPS. Usa un sistema di livelli gerarchico per organizzare i dati GPS, le mappe ed altri tipi di livello con dati spaziali come linee di coordinate.

Alcune delle cose che si possono fare con Viking sono:

  • caricare e scaricare punti di interesse e percorsi da/su GPS;
  • tracciamento GPS in tempo reale e registrazione dei percorsi;
  • importazione ed esportazione di file gpx;
  • preparazione di percorsi e punti di interesse per viaggi partendo da mappe di servizi come OpenStreetMap e TerraServer. Bisogna solo caricare i dati sul GPS prima di partire. Le mappe, insieme ai percorsi ed ai punti di interesse possono anche essere stampate per usarle in viaggio;
  • dopo i viaggi, i percorsi e i punti di interesse possono essere scaricati dal GPS, conservati, gestiti e riutilizzati in viaggi successivi;
  • analisi di giri fuori strada o camminate, per capire dove si è stati e quanto lontani si era da qualcosa;
  • generare punti di interesse e percorsi da seguire per arrivare facilmente in posti dove non si è mai stati né si hanno dati GPS, ma per i quali esistono mappe TerraServer;
  • generare mappe con le linee delle coordinate;
  • analizzare le velocità in punti diversi, aggiungendo punti di interesse dove ci si è dimenticati di aggiungerli ma si è rallentato o ci si è fermati.
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Zygrib
visualizzazione di dati meteo, visualizza file GRIB
Maintainer: Alastair McKinstry
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Questa applicazione, scritta col toolkit Qt, permette:

  • visualizzazione di dati meteo da file in formato GRIB Format 1;
  • download automatico dati GRIB;
  • download automatico dati IAC (fleetcode).

Packaging has started and developers might try the packaging code in VCS

Opencpn - wnpp
GPS ChartPlotter/Navigator
License: GPL-2.0+
Debian package not available
Svn
Version: 2.5.0+dfsg-1

OpenCPN is a concise ship-borne GUI chart plotter and navigation application for use as a planning tool or while underway. OpenCPN is developed by a team of active sailors using real world conditions for program testing and refinement. It supports:

* GPS/GPDS postition input
* BSB raster chart display
* S-57 and CM93 vector ENChart display
* AIS input decoding with tracking and alerts
* Route planning with tidal support
* Waypoint autopilot navigation
* GPX file input and output
*Popularitycontest results: number of people who use this package regularly (number of people who upgraded this package recently) out of 167387