uDig
uDig is an open source desktop GIS development platform. It is also a working open source desktop GIS application.
A flexible applicationAs an application, uDig is designed to integrate well with as many GIS file formats, databases, and web services as possible. uDig offers a rich collection of desktop and internet GIS functionality to the end user:
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A modular platformAs a platform, uDig provides modular Java development components for the Eclipse "Rich Client Platform" (RCP). These "plugin" components allow developers to embed geospatial intelligence in any Eclipse RCP application.
The uDig platform can also be customized with standard Eclipse RCP "plugins". Like a collection of Lego™ bricks, the uDig environment can be extended, or it can be used as an extension. |
Open Source Company
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Refractions Research sponsors and develops uDig as an open source project in collaboration with developers from around the world. Visit the uDig open source community site at udig.refractions.net.
Our uDig Projects
Line Cleaner – BC Ministry of Forests
The British Columbia Ministry of Forests needed a tool to conflate multiple roads databases into a single working layer. Refractions delivered the algorithms and a user interface based on the uDig platform.
The SMART partnership supports improved law enforcement and biological monitoring in protected areas around the world. They came to Refractions to build a software tool to help meet their needs.
Mobile GIS – UN Food & Agriculture Organization
UN FAO needed a data collection tool that could run disconnected and didn't have a per-seat licensing cost. Refractions delivered a simple tool using the uDig desktop platform.