Tasks page

This is a list of the Tasks Debian GIS is made of:

Table of contents

• Data
• Development
• Gps
• Openstreetmap
• Remote sensing
• Statistics
• Map server
• Workstation

Data - Debian GIS data

This metapackage will install some packages providing data that can be used by different GIS applications.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Gmt-dcw

Digital Chart of the World (DCW) for GMT

Gmt-gshhg-low

Low resolution coastlines for the Generic Mapping Tools

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

Gmt-gshhg-full

Full resolution coastlines for the Generic Mapping Tools

Gmt-gshhg-high

High resolution coastlines for the Generic Mapping Tools

Development - Geographic Information Systems (GIS) development

This task sets up your system for GIS development.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Grass-dev

GRASS GIS development files

Libcgal-dev

??? missing short description for package libcgal-dev :-(

Libcitygml-dev

Static and header files of libcitygml

Libcv-dev

??? missing short description for package libcv-dev :-(

Libcvaux-dev

??? missing short description for package libcvaux-dev :-(

Libdap-dev

??? missing short description for package libdap-dev :-(

Libemos-dev

ECMWF Interpolation Library - development

Libepr-api-dev

ENVISAT Product Reader API for C -- Development files

Libepsilon-dev

Library for wavelet image compression - development files

Libfreexl-dev

library for direct reading of Microsoft Excel spreadsheets - devel

Libfyba-dev

Header files for FYBA library

Libgctp-dev

General Cartographic Transformation Package - development files

Libgdal-dev

Geospatial Data Abstraction Library - Development files

Libgeo-google-mapobject-perl

module managing the server side of the Google Maps API

Libgeo-googleearth-pluggable-perl

module to generate GoogleEarth Documents

Libgeo-gpx-perl

Perl module for creating and parsing GPX files

Libgeo-proj4-perl

PROJ library for cartographic projections

Libgeo-shapelib-perl

Perl extension for reading and writing shapefiles as defined by ESRI

Libgeographic-dev

C++ library to solve some geodesic problems -- development files

Libgeoip-dev

Development files for the GeoIP library

Libgeos++-dev

Geometry engine for GIS - C++ development files

Libgeos-dev

Geometry engine for GIS - Development files

Libgeotiff-dev

GeoTIFF (geografic enabled TIFF) library -- development files

Libgmt-dev

Generic Mapping Tools Library - Development files

Libgps-dev

Global Positioning System - development files

Libgrib2c-dev

NCEP GRIB2 library - development files

Libgrits-dev

Development files for grits

Libgts-dev

development files for libgts

Libhdf4-alt-dev

Hierarchical Data Format development files (without NetCDF)

Libhdf4-dev

Hierarchical Data Format development files (embedded NetCDF)

Libhdf5-dev

HDF5 - development files - serial version

Libhdf5-mpi-dev

HDF5 - development files - default MPI version

Libhdf5-mpich-dev

HDF5 - development files - MPICH2 version

Libhdf5-openmpi-dev

HDF5 - development files - OpenMPI version

Libhdf5-serial-dev

??? missing short description for package libhdf5-serial-dev :-(

Libhe5-hdfeos-dev

Development files for the HDF-EOS5 library

Libhighgui-dev

??? missing short description for package libhighgui-dev :-(

Libkml-dev

Library to manipulate KML 2.2 OGC standard files - development files

Liblas-c-dev

ASPRS LiDAR data translation library - C development files

Liblas-dev

ASPRS LiDAR data translation library - C++ development files

Liblaszip-dev

Lossless LiDAR compression - development files

Liblwgeom-dev

PostGIS "Lightweight Geometry" library - Development files

Libmapbox-geometry-dev

Generic C++ interfaces for geometry types, collections, and features

Libmapbox-variant-dev

Alternative to boost::variant for C++11

Libmapbox-wagyu-dev

Wagyu Geometry Processing Library

Libmapcache-dev

tile caching server - shared library development files

Libmapnik-dev

C++ toolkit for developing GIS applications (devel)

Libmapserver-dev

Shared library development files for MapServer

Libmarble-dev

development files for the Marble globe widget library

Libnetcdf-c++4-dev

creation, access, and sharing of scientific data in C++

Libnetcdf-cxx-legacy-dev

??? missing short description for package libnetcdf-cxx-legacy-dev :-(

Libnetcdf-dev

creation, access, and sharing of scientific data

Libnetcdff-dev

creation, access, and sharing of scientific data in Fortran

Libogdi3.2-dev

Open Geographic Datastore Interface Library -- development

Libopencv-calib3d-dev

??? missing short description for package libopencv-calib3d-dev :-(

Libopencv-contrib-dev

??? missing short description for package libopencv-contrib-dev :-(

Libopencv-core-dev

??? missing short description for package libopencv-core-dev :-(

Libopencv-dev

development files for opencv

Libopencv-features2d-dev

??? missing short description for package libopencv-features2d-dev :-(

Libopencv-flann-dev

??? missing short description for package libopencv-flann-dev :-(

Libopencv-gpu-dev

??? missing short description for package libopencv-gpu-dev :-(

Libopencv-highgui-dev

??? missing short description for package libopencv-highgui-dev :-(

Libopenscenegraph-dev

3D scene graph, development files

Libopenthreads-dev

Object-Oriented (OO) thread interface for C++, development files

Libosmgpsmap-1.0-dev

GTK+ library to embed OpenStreetMap maps - development files

Libosmium2-dev

C++ framework for working with OSM data files

Libosmpbf-dev

C headers for OpenStreetMap PBF file format

Libossim-dev

OSSIM library -- development files

Libpdal-dev

Point Data Abstraction Library - development files

Libproj-dev

Cartographic projection library (development files)

Libprotozero-dev

Minimalistic protocol buffer decoder and encoder in C++

Libqgis-dev

QGIS - development files

Librasterlite2-dev

library for huge raster coverages using a SpatiaLite DBMS - headers

Libreadosm-dev

simple library to parse OpenStreetMap files - headers

Librttopo-dev

Tuscany Region topology library - Development files

Libsaga-dev

SAGA GIS development files

Libsfcgal-dev

Library for ISO 19107:2013 and OGC SFA 1.2 for 3D operations (development)

Libshp-dev

Library for reading and writing ESRI Shapefiles - development files

Libspatialindex-dev

General framework for developing spatial indices - development files

Libspatialite-dev

Geospatial extension for SQLite - development files

Libterralib-dev

C++ library for Geographical Information Systems -- development package

Libudunits2-dev

Development files for the libunits physical units package

Paraview-dev

Parallel Visualization Application. Development header files

Pktools-dev

GDAL add-on tools to perform useful raster processing - development files

Python-cligj

Python 2 library for processing GeoJSON commands

Python-geohash

fast, accurate Python geohashing library

Python-geojson

Python 2 bindings and utilities for GeoJSON

Python-liblas

Python module to use the ASPRS LiDAR data translation library

Python-mapbox-vector-tile

Mapbox Vector Tile library for Python 2

Python-modestmaps

display and interaction library for tile-based maps

Python-pysal

Python Spatial Analysis Library - Python 2

Python-rtree

R-Tree spatial index for Python GIS - Python 2 module

Python3-cligj

Python 3 library for processing GeoJSON commands

Python3-geojson

Python 3 bindings and utilities for GeoJSON

Python3-rtree

R-Tree spatial index for Python GIS - Python 3 module

Ruby-hdfeos5

Ruby interface to the HDF-EOS5 library

Ruby-netcdf

Ruby interface of netCDF library

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

Libkmlframework-java

library/framework for generating Google Earth KML

Python-cartopy

Cartographic library for Python 2

Python-cf

??? missing short description for package python-cf :-(

Python3-cartopy

Cartographic library for Python 3

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

Libossimgui-dev

OSSIM GUI library - development files

Libossimplanet-dev

OSSIM planet library - development files

Libossimplanetqt-dev

OSSIM planet Qt library - development files

Libwms-dev

OSSIM WMS library - development files

Gps - GPS related programs

Set of Debian packages which are dealing with GPS devices and data.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Foxtrotgps

GTK+ mapping and GPS application

Gpsbabel

GPS file conversion plus transfer to/from GPS units

Gpsd

Global Positioning System - daemon

Gpsd-clients

Global Positioning System - clients

Gpsman

GPS data graphical manager

Gpstrans

communicate via serial port with a Garmin GPS receiver

Gpx2shp

convert GPS or GPX file to ESRI Shape file

Marble

globe and map widget

Mtkbabel

Tool for managing i-Blue 747 and compatible GPS data loggers

Navit

Car navigation system with routing engine

Navit-gui-gtk

Car navigation system with routing engine - GTK+ GUI

Obdgpslogger

suite of tools to log OBDII and GPS data

Openbmap-logger

??? missing short description for package openbmap-logger :-(

Qlandkartegt

??? missing short description for package qlandkartegt :-(

Qmapshack

GPS mapping (GeoTiff and vector) and GPSr management

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

Gpscorrelate

correlates digital photos with GPS data filling EXIF fields (command line)

Gpscorrelate-gui

correlates digital photos with GPS data filling EXIF fields (GUI)

Navit-graphics-gtk-drawing-area

Car navigation system with routing engine - GTK+ graphic plugin

Viking

GPS data editor, analyzer and viewer

Openstreetmap - OpenStreetMap related programs

Set of Debian packages which are dealing with OpenStreetMap data.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Gir1.2-osmgpsmap-1.0

GTK+ library to embed OpenStreetMap maps - Python bindings

Gpsprune

visualize, edit, convert and prune GPS data

Gpxviewer

views GPS traces collected in the GPX format

Imposm

importer for OpenStreetMap data

Jmapviewer

Java OpenStreetMap Tile Viewer

Josm

Editor for OpenStreetMap

Libgeo-coder-osm-perl

Geocode addresses with the OpenStreetMap Nominatim API

Libgeo-osm-tiles-perl

module for calculating tile numbers for OpenStreetMap

Libjs-leaflet

mobile-friendly interactive maps - browser library

Libjs-openlayers

JavaScript library for displaying map data in web browsers

Libosmpbf-java

Java access library for OpenStreetMap PBF file format

Maptool

Converts OpenStreetMap maps to Navit

Merkaartor

map editor for OpenStreetMap.org

Mkgmap

Generate Garmin maps from OpenStreetMap data

Mkgmap-splitter

Tile splitter for mkgmap

Mkgmapgui

Graphical User Interface for mkgmap

Nik4

Mapnik to image export

Node-carto

Mapnik stylesheet compiler

Openstreetmap-carto

Setup for standard OpenStreetMap Mapnik stylesheet

Osm2pgrouting

Tool to import OpenStreetMap data into a pgRouting database

Osm2pgsql

OpenStreetMap data to PostgreSQL converter

Osmcoastline

Extract coastline data from OpenStreetMap planet file

Osmctools

Some tools to manipulate OpenStreetMap files

Osmium-tool

Command line tool for working with OpenStreetMap data

Osmosis

Command line OpenStreetMap data processor

Osmpbf-bin

OpenStreetMap PBF file format library - tools

Python-imposm-parser

Python module to parse OpenStreetMap data

Python-osmapi

Python interface to OpenStreetMap API

Python-overpass

wrapper for the OpenStreetMap Overpass API (Python 2)

Python-overpy

wrapper to access the OpenStreetMap Overpass API (Python 2)

Python-pyosmium

Osmium library bindings for Python

Python3-osmapi

Python 3 interface to OpenStreetMap API

Python3-overpass

wrapper for the OpenStreetMap Overpass API (Python 3)

Python3-overpy

wrapper to access the OpenStreetMap Overpass API (Python 3)

Qlandkartegt

??? missing short description for package qlandkartegt :-(

Rel2gpx

create GPX-track from OSM relation

Routino

Set of tools to find a path between two points

Sosi2osm

SOSI to OSM converter

Tilecache

Web map tile caching system

Tilestache

map tiles caching system

Viking

GPS data editor, analyzer and viewer

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

Gpscorrelate

correlates digital photos with GPS data filling EXIF fields (command line)

Gpscorrelate-gui

correlates digital photos with GPS data filling EXIF fields (GUI)

Libosm-gary68-perl

OpenStreetMap Perl modules by gary68

Libreadosm-dev

simple library to parse OpenStreetMap files - headers

Node-leaflet-hash

linkable location hashes for leaflet

Routino-www

Web frontend for routino

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

Node-kosmtik

Make maps with OpenStreetMap and Mapnik

Node-osmium

Osmium library Node.js bindings

Osmium-contrib

Various programs showing what you can do with the Osmium library

Osrm

high performance routing engine for shortest paths in road networks

Osrm-tools

tools for use with osrm

No known packages available

Cascadenik

cascading stylesheets for Mapnik

Gebabbel

GUI for gpsbabel

Tkosm

Edit GPX tracks and create tour maps

Remote sensing - Remote sensing and earth observation

Debian packages which are dealing with Remote Sensing (for instance Synthetic Aperture Radar -- SAR) processing (interferometry, polarimetry, data visualization, etc) and earth observation.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Dans-gdal-scripts

GDAL contributed tools by Geographic Information Network of Alaska

Gdal-bin

Geospatial Data Abstraction Library - Utility programs

Gmtsar

InSAR processing system based on Generic Mapping Tools - metapackage

Libepr-api-dev

ENVISAT Product Reader API for C -- Development files

Libgdal-dev

Geospatial Data Abstraction Library - Development files

Libossim-dev

OSSIM library -- development files

Libotb-dev

??? missing short description for package libotb-dev :-(

Monteverdi

??? missing short description for package monteverdi :-(

Ossim-core

OSSIM core utilities

Otb-bin

??? missing short description for package otb-bin :-(

Otb-bin-qt

??? missing short description for package otb-bin-qt :-(

Python-epr

Python ENVISAT Product Reader API (Python 2)

Python-gdal

??? missing short description for package python-gdal :-(

Python-mipp

Meteorological data Ingest-Processing Package (mipp)

Python-mpop

Meteorological Post-Processing Package (MPoP)

Python-otb

ORFEO Toolbox Python API for applications (Python 2)

Python-pycoast

Draw coastlines, borders and rivers on images

Python-pykdtree

Fast kd-tree implementation with OpenMP-enabled queries (Python 2 version)

Python-pyorbital

Orbital and astronomy computations in Python 2

Python-pyresample

Resampling of remote sensing data in Python 2

Snap

location of genes from DNA sequence with hidden markov model

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

Nco

Command-line operators to analyze netCDF files

Ncview

X11 visual browser for NetCDF format files

Netcdf-bin

Programs for reading and writing NetCDF files

Debian packages in contrib or non-free

Doris

Delft object-oriented radar interferometric software

Googleearth-package

??? missing short description for package googleearth-package :-(

Snaphu

Statistical-Cost, Network-Flow Algorithm for 2D Phase Unwrapping

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

Gsdview

Geo-Spatial Data Viewer open source edition

Mapready

ASF Remote Sensing Tool Kit

Ossim-gui

OSSIM graphical interface

Ossim-package-support

OSSIM package-support utilities

Ossim-planet

OSSIM planet utilities

Ossim-planet-qt

OSSIM planet Qt utility

Ossim-plugins

OSSIM core plugins

Polsarpro

Polarimetric SAR Data Processing and Educational Tool

Unofficial packages built by somebody else

Adore-doris

Automated DORIS Environment

Eolisa

Client for ESA Earth Observation Catalogue and Ordering Services

Getorb

Precise orbits interpolation utility

Imcorr

Program to do cross-correlation for motion tracking

Opticks

Opticks is an open source remote sensing application and development framework

Points2grid

Generates Digital Elevation Models using a local gridding method

No known packages available

Giant

Generic InSAR Analysis Toolbox

Pyaps

Tropospheric correction methods for SAR interferometry

Python-bufr

Generic BUFR file reader written in python

Roipac

Repeat Orbit Interferometry PACkage

Varres

Variable Resolution Interferogram Resampler

Statistics - Statistics with geographical data

Set of Debian packages which are useful for doing statistics with geographical data.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Hyantesite

??? missing short description for package hyantesite :-(

R-cran-deldir

GNU R Delaunay Triangulation and Dirichlet (Voronoi) Tessellation

R-cran-fields

GNU R tools for spatial data

R-cran-gstat

GNU R spatial and spatio-temporal geostatistical modelling

R-cran-mapdata

GNU R support for producing geographic maps (supplemental data)

R-cran-mapproj

GNU R support for cartographic projections of map data

R-cran-maps

GNU R support for producing geographic maps

R-cran-raster

GNU R geographic data analysis and modeling

R-cran-sp

GNU R classes and methods for spatial data

R-cran-spatstat

GNU R Spatial Point Pattern analysis, model-fitting, simulation, tests

R-cran-spdep

GNU R spatial dependence: weighting schemes, statistics and models

Map server - Present geographic information via web map server

Debian packages which are dealing with geographical information to be presented for the web on so called map tile servers. These are pretty useful when trying to setup an OpenStreetMap tile server but not restricted to OpenStreetMap data only.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Cgi-mapserver

CGI executable for MapServer

Libapache2-mod-mapcache

tile caching server - Apache module

Mapcache-tools

tile caching server - tools

Mapproxy

open source proxy for geospatial data

Mapserver-bin

MapServer utilities

Php-mapscript

php-cgi module for MapServer

Python-mapscript

Python library for MapServer

Python-owslib

??? missing short description for package python-owslib :-(

Pywps

Implementation of OGC's Web Processing Service

Qgis-server

QGIS server providing various OGC services

Routino-www

Web frontend for routino

Tilecache

Web map tile caching system

Tilestache

map tiles caching system

Twms

tiny web map service

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

Mapcache-cgi

tile caching server - CGI binary

Php-geos

GEOS bindings for PHP

Debian packages in contrib or non-free

Pycsw

OGC compliant metadata (Catalogue Service for the Web) server

Tinyows

lightweight and fast WFS-T server

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

Node-kosmtik

Make maps with OpenStreetMap and Mapnik

Tilemill

map design studio

Workstation - Geographic Information Systems (GIS) workstation

This task sets up your system to be a GIS workstation to process geographical information and make maps.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Avce00

Conversion of ESRI Arcinfo Vector Coverage in E00 format

E00compr

Program to read/write Arcinfo compressed E00 files

Epsilon-bin

Library for wavelet image compression - tools

Gdal-bin

Geospatial Data Abstraction Library - Utility programs

Geographiclib-tools

C++ library to solve some geodesic problems -- tools

Geoip-bin

IP lookup command line tools that use the GeoIP library

Geotiff-bin

GeoTIFF (geografic enabled TIFF) library -- tools

Gmt

Generic Mapping Tools

Gpsmanshp

Tcl interface to shapelib

Grace

XY graphing and plotting tool

Grass

Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS GIS)

H5utils

HDF5 files visualization tools

Hdf4-tools

Hierarchical Data Format library -- runtime package

Hdf5-tools

HDF5 - Runtime tools

Libgdal-dev

Geospatial Data Abstraction Library - Development files

Libgdal-grass

GRASS extension for the GDAL library

Libgeo-point-perl

module to simplify handling geographic points

Libgeographic-dev

C++ library to solve some geodesic problems -- development files

Libjts-java

JTS Topology Suite

Liblas-bin

ASPRS LiDAR data translation toolset

Libshp-dev

Library for reading and writing ESRI Shapefiles - development files

Mapcode

Convert geo coordinates to/from mapcodes

Mapnik-utils

C++ toolkit for developing GIS applications (utilities)

Ogdi-bin

Open Geographic Datastore Interface Library -- utilities

Opencpn

Open Source Chartplotter and Marine GPS Navigation Software

Openscenegraph

3D scene graph, utilities and examples (binaries)

Osgearth

Dynamic 3D terrain rendering toolkit for OpenSceneGraph (binaries)

Ossim-core

OSSIM core utilities

Pdal

Point Data Abstraction Library

Pktools

GDAL add-on tools to perform useful raster processing

Postgis

Geographic objects support for PostgreSQL

Postgresql-comparator

efficient PostgreSQL table content comparison and synchronization

Pprepair

planar partition repair tool

Prepair

polygon repair tool

Proj-bin

Cartographic projection library (tools)

Python-affine

Python Library for handling affine transformations of the plane

Python-descartes

Matplotlib extension to work with geometric objects (Python2)

Python-fiona

Python API for reading/writing vector geospatial data

Python-gdal

??? missing short description for package python-gdal :-(

Python-geolinks

Python 2 Library for using geospatial links (catalogue interoperablity)

Python-geopandas

Python tools for geographic data

Python-mapnik

Python 2 interface to the mapnik library

Python-pdal

Point Data Abstraction Library - Python 2 extension

Python-pyproj

Python interface to PROJ library

Python-pysal

Python Spatial Analysis Library - Python 2

Python-pyspatialite

Python interface to Spatialite

Python-rasterio

Python 2 API for using geospatial raster data with Numpy

Python-shapely

geometric objects, predicates, and operations (Python 2)

Python-snuggs

S-expressions for numpy - Python 2 version

Python-stetl

Streaming ETL - Geospatial ETL framework for Python 2

Python3-affine

Python 3 Library for handling affine transformations of the plane

Python3-fiona

Python 3 API for reading/writing vector geospatial data

Python3-rasterio

Python 3 API for using geospatial raster data with Numpy

Python3-shapely

geometric objects, predicates, and operations (Python 3)

Python3-snuggs

??? missing short description for package python3-snuggs :-(

Qgis

Geographic Information System (GIS)

Rasterlite2-bin

command line tools for librasterlite2

Roadmap

??? missing short description for package roadmap :-(

Saga

System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses

Savi

satellite constellation visualisation

Spatialite-bin

Geospatial extension for SQLite - tools

Spatialite-gui

user-friendly graphical user interface for SpatiaLite

Stetl

Streaming ETL - Commandline utility

Thuban

Interactive geographic data viewer

Totalopenstation

download and process data from total station devices

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

Grass-doc

GRASS GIS user documentation

Libgeo-proj4-perl

PROJ library for cartographic projections

Libgeo-shapelib-perl

Perl extension for reading and writing shapefiles as defined by ESRI

Libkml-java

Library to manipulate KML 2.2 OGC standard files - Java package

Nco

Command-line operators to analyze netCDF files

Ncview

X11 visual browser for NetCDF format files

Netcdf-bin

Programs for reading and writing NetCDF files

Python-epr

Python ENVISAT Product Reader API (Python 2)

Python-kml

Library to manipulate KML 2.2 OGC standard files - Python extension

Python-netcdf4

Python interface to the netCDF4 (network Common Data Form) library

Python-pyshp

read/write support for ESRI Shapefile format

Python3-netcdf4

Python 3 interface to the netCDF4 (network Common Data Form) library

S3dosm

gps card application for s3d

Debian packages in contrib or non-free

Googleearth-package

??? missing short description for package googleearth-package :-(

Libgeotiff-epsg

GeoTIFF library -- EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset

No known packages available but some record of interest (WNPP bug)

Vtp

Virtual Terrain Project

No known packages available

Capaware

3D multilayer geographical framework