gvSIG,geographic information system (GIS), is a desktop application designed for capturing, storing, handling, analyzing and deploying any kind of referenced geographic information in order to solve complex management and planning problems. gvSIG is known for having a user-friendly interface, being able to access the most common formats, both vector and raster ones. It features a wide range of tools for working with geographic-like information (query tools, layout creation, geoprocessing, networks, etc.).
Integrating in the same view both local (files, databases) and remote data through OGC standards.
Including a plugin system which allows to easily extend the application or to develop tailor-made solutions.[2][3]
Being available in several languages: Spanish, English UK, English USA, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Portuguese-Brazilian, Russian, Chinese, Serbian, Swahili, Turkish, Czech, Polish, Romanian, Greek, Basque, Valencian/Catalan, Galician.
gvSIG was initially developed for the Generalitat Valenciana (gv), an institution of the self-governed autonomous community of Valencia. This explains the abbreviation gvSIG for which the last three letters stands for Sistema d'informació geogràfica (SIG), or GIS in English.
Query: information, area and distance measurement, hyperlink.
Selection: by point, by rectangle, by polygon, by layer, by polyline, by circle, by buffer zone, alphanumeric search, invert selection, delete selection.
3D and animation: 3D Views, XYZ-projected as well as spherical (planetary), 3D layers, 3D symbology, 3D editing, 3D framing, 2D and 3D animation, stereo viewing (horizontal split).
Other: Coordinates Reference Systems manager, import from/export to WMC, scripting, translations manager.
Sextante[7] GIS has been ported to a plugin for gvSIG adding analysis functions for raster datasets in addition to gvSIG's built-in vector analysis tools. Within Sextante, GRASS GIS can be used as extension to make its algorithms available to gvSIG users.[8]
gvSIG Mobile
gvSIG Mobile aims at broadening gvSIG execution platforms to a range of mobile devices, in order to give an answer to the needs of a growing number of mobile solutions users, who wish to use a GIS on different types of devices.
So far, gvSIG Mobile is a Geographic Information System, as well as a Spatial Data Infrastructures client for mobile devices. Such a client is also the first one licensed under open source.
gvSIG Mobile is known for:
integrating in the same view both local and remote data through OGC standards.
being open source software, under the GNU GPL v2, what allows its free use, distribution, study and improvement.
being available in several languages (Spanish, English, German, French, ...) .
being developed using Java, and it's available for platforms supporting Java Micro Edition CDC 1.1. So far, it runs on the following platforms: Windows Mobile 5.0, Windows Mobile 6.0 and Nokia Maemo[9]
Query: information, see coordinates, distance and areas measurement.
Selection: by point, by rectangle, by attributes, clear selection.
Search: by attribute.
GPS: internal/external GPS connection, reprojection to UTM, simulated NMEA frames, waypoints, tracklog in GPX and CSV formats, center on view, signal parameters, satellites used, calculate the distance between current location and the destination location.
Graphic editing: create points, lines and polygons both GPS and hand based.
Alphanumeric editing: customized forms.
Vector representation: point/line/polygon symbology, thematic mapping, export to GML, KML and SHP.
gvSIG CE is a community driven GIS project fork of gvSIG that will be bundled with SEXTANTE, GRASS GIS and SAGA. This project is not supported by the gvSIG Association. gvSIG CE is not an official project of gvSIG.
