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24 alternatives to Open Source GIS – An Interactive Infographic
Learn about the history of open source GIS: GRASS, QGIS, HDF, NetCDF, PostGIS, OSM, Leaflet, GeoPandas, MapShaper, OpenLayers.
Open Source GIS is an interactive infographic tool designed for developers and GIS professionals. Launched in 2020, it provides a visual guide to open-source geographic information systems technologies and their… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Open Source GIS – An Interactive Infographic launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hi HN, After 9 years of running my own OpenStreetMap tile server infra for MapHub (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11389989), I've open-sourced it and launched OpenFreeMap. You can either self-host or use our public instance. Everything is open-source, including the full production setup — there’s no 'open-core' model here. Check out the repo (https://github.com/hyperknot/openfreemap). The map data comes from OpenStreetMap. I also provide weekly full planet downloads both in Btrfs and MBTiles formats. I aim to cover the running costs of the public…
2024 · openfreemap.org · its alternatives →
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Atlas is the AI-native GIS. Build maps, dashboards, and spatial workflows from a conversation — GIS-grade analysis, accessible to your whole team. Trusted by energy developers, asset managers, and field operations teams.
2024 · atlas.co · its alternatives →
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An Interactive History of the Git Distributed Version Control System
2021 · git-history.jpalmer.dev · its alternatives →
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I've been working on this project for about 4 years. It began as terrain only because world wide elevation data was publicly available. I then added buildings from OpenStreetMap (crowd sourced) and more recently from Overture Maps data. Some computer vision/machine learning advancements [1] in the past few years have made it possible to estimate tree canopy heights using satellite imagery alone making it possible to finally add trees to the map. The data isn't perfect, but it's within +/- 3 meters of so. Good enough to give a general idea for any location on Earth. Happy to answer…
2024 · shademap.app · its alternatives →
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Revolutionize GIS data management with Geoman for Leaflet, MapLibre, and Mapbox. Add drawing, editing, cutting, splitting, snapping, measuring, and more directly on the map.
2020 · geoman.io · its alternatives →
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Flexible tool to build planet-scale vector tilesets from OpenStreetMap data fast - onthegomap/planetiler
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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MapHub allows you to create, share and collaborate interactive maps online.
2016 · maphub.net · its alternatives →
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2016 · oracleofnj.github.io · its alternatives →
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Vizzu▲225Open-source JS library to build animated charts with ease
2022 · vizzu.io · its alternatives →
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Cartography resources. Contribute to GuildMasterDev/Cartographer development by creating an account on GitHub.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Globe wireframe visualizations in Golang. Contribute to mmcloughlin/globe development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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:bar_chart: :clipboard: Dashboards using YAML or JSON files - GitHub - kantord/just-dashboard: :bar_chart: Dashboards using YAML or JSON files
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, jvaclavik here from OpenClimbing team! We are thrilled to release version 2.0 of our fully opensource/opendata climbing guide. Based on OpenStreetMap for map-data and Wikimedia Commons for images, we created a (hopefully) user-friendly app which completely uses these open databases, thus contributing data back to commons. We designed a simple and powerful notation for drawing climbing routes directly over the Wikimedia pictures: - https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:wikimedia_commons:pa... Check out the release article for a ton of new features, or go…
2014 · openstreetmap.org · its alternatives →
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2017 · mjmdavis.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I built Repomap, a tool that generates interactive architecture diagrams from any GitHub repository. It uses a Rust + tree-sitter engine to analyze the codebase and produces a D3-based graph UI with clustering, zoom/pan, and live progress updates
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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vizzu - Library for animated data visualizations and data stories
2021 · lib.vizzuhq.com · its alternatives →
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Gio.js▲773D globe info visualization library built with Three.js
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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GeoPreview▲70Preview GIS files directly in Finder (GeoJSON, SHP, GPKG)
Apr 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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A framework for 3D geospatial visualization in the browser - UDST/vizicities
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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