Open
Source GIS Alternatives
Major
open source packages
QGIS (or Quantum GIS)
Uses Python as a scripting language
Uses Python and C++ as plugin languages
C++ is worth learning!!
Has a desktop version that links to GRASS
Uses Python, R (statistics, general programming), Bash (a Unix/Linux
shell language) for scripting
You can create �AddOns� (extensions) for GRASS using C, Python, and
Bash
Others�
GIS
toolkits
GDAL
Used by some of the above packages to do projection, data reformatting,
etc.
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