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 the version in the DebianGIS Alioth repositiry, which 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
Binary packages
Java
For further information regarding java gis packages proposed for inclusion in Debian (problems, dependencies, packaging state) see JavaPackagesState .
For more info on the Java state in Debian, see the moving java to Debian/main page.
Useful packages to be packaged
Sorted by approximate priority
Desktop/Analysis/Database
- Ossim: currently being worked on (Francesco Lovergine)
- TerraView: powerful GIS based on TerraLib (already in Debian).
- PosLBS: powerful routing solution
- 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
Java
Probably better waiting until Sun java goes into main.
Live Web Apps
There are concerns about official packages for these due to the associated and inherent security support workload
- MapStorer: database (either MySQL? or PostgreSQL?) supported system for managing UMN MapServer? projects through a web interface
- ka-Map!: An AJAX app that offers an intuitive web interface to UMN Mapserver
- PyWPS: Python Web Processing Service
Java
3D Visualization
- ParaView: Very useful for 3D rapresentation of GRASS rasters and vectors
- 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?
Java
Lower Priority, to be packaged
- OpenEV: currently being worked on (Alex Bodnaru); old version, based on gtk1; the new one, based on gtk2, is still unsuitable to packaging
- JGrass: currently being worked on. Contrib - needs jdk1.4, several contrib packages. Currently being fused with uDig - better postpone packaging until settled down?
- MB-System: multibeam, interferometry, and sidescan sonar data processing (GPL)
- PhpPgGIS: ITP #381974. Project apparently inactive
- pg_dijkstra: routing module for PostgreSQL? 8.x and PostGIS?
- Chameleon: Possible licencing problems
- Open3D GIS: Requires FreeWRL?, see http://sourceforge.net/projects/freewrl/. Project apparently dead? [1]
- SQLiteBrowser: Not specifically a GIS app, but useful for managing SQLite databases (e.g. linked to GRASS)
- MapLab: Requires rosa. Some copyright/licencing issues. Some java and some C compilation needed. Maybe better to postpone it? See http://maptools.org/maplab/index.phtml?page=release-2.2.html. Project apparently abandoned
- PloneMap: proposed, needs ZMapServer?, Zope, Plone; may be a chance to combine content and geodata mangement with easy installation of debian packages
- ZMapServer: proposed, needs mapserver to be compiled and python mapscript to be installed, a Zope-Product
- dxf2svg: also the reciprocal svg2dxf (depends on pstoedit)
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