software recommendations - Seeking Free and Open Source GIS Desktop packages?

Can someone give me a list of free and open source GIS desktop packages?

Answer

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http://freegis.org/ - the oldest and perhaps most comprehensive directory of free GIS software and projects.

Wikipedia has most of them listed

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• QGIS


• uDig


• OpenJump


• gvSIG



• TerraView


• Kosmos


• WhiteBox


• MapWindow


• GeoDa


• If you consider Google Earth as a GIS application, Nasa's WorldWind is an open source alternative.


• Epi-map, part of CDC's Epi-info epidemiology package, may be worth a look if you're in that line of work.


• OpenMap's free too. UI's pretty old school though. I prefer qGIS or uDig.


• QGIS supports native SAGA grid format so it is very easy to work with these two programs together and use advantages of both