Geographic Information Systems. Open Source Solutions

A geographic information system (GIS) is a computer system that provides the ability to capture and analyze spatial and geographic data.

1) GIS applications (or GIS apps) are computer-based tools that allow the user to create interactive queries (user-created searches), store and edit spatial and non-spatial data, analyze spatial information output, and visually share the results of these operations by presenting them as maps.
Top GIS Software: OpenStreetMap, GoogleMaps (plătit), Maptitude (plătit), QGIS (Quantum GIS), Esri ArcGIS, Mapbox.

2) NASA stands for National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA is a U.S. government agency that is responsible for science and technology related to air and space. The Space Age started in 1957 with the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik.
NASA: Open Data initiative and Instructions for GitHub.


Recommendations.
If any of the solutions interests you, or you think that it has a good perspective for development, or you can adapt the software to the needs of citizens, authorities, businesses or NGO-s in Moldova, then you can:


1. International Solutions

# Open Source Solution Web Licence
1 OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap este cel mai mare proiect geospațial creat de comunitate din toate timpurile. Software-ul din această organizație este pentru:

  • utilizatorii să prelucreze datele OpenStreetMap pentru uz propriu,
  • editori pentru editarea datelor OpenStreetMap și
  • rulează infrastructura OpenStreetMap.
www.openstreetmap.org/about N/A
2 nasa / openmct
A web based mission control framework.
Open MCT is a next-generation mission operations data visualization framework. Web-based, for desktop and mobile.
Open MCT (Open Mission Control Technologies) is a next-generation mission control framework for visualization of data on desktop and mobile devices. It is developed at NASA’s Ames Research Center, and is being used by NASA for data analysis of spacecraft missions, as well as planning and operation of experimental rover systems. As a generalizable and open source framework, Open MCT could be used as the basis for building applications for planning, operation, and analysis of any systems producing telemetry data.
nasa.github.io/openmct/ Apache-2.0
3 nasa / NASA-3D-Resources
A growing collection of 3D models, textures, and images from inside NASA.
Welcome to the 3D Resources github site. This is a growing collection of 3D models, textures, and images from inside NASA. Our goal is to provide a comprehensive repository for 3D models, images, textures, and visualizations. These assets are free and without copyright.
Please read the usage guidelines. NASA intranet interface for these resources.
nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/

nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/

Apache-2.0
4 nasa / apod-api
Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) microservice
A microservice written in Python with the Flask micro framework.
N/A Apache-2.0
5 nasa / Transform-to-Open-Science
Transform to Open Science (TOPS)
Want a website instead of a GitHub repo? https://nasa.github.io/Transform-to-Open-Science/
Ready to get started transforming towards open science with us? Get started here!
TOPS Goals and Values
Open Science is the principle and practice of making research products and processes available to all, while respecting diverse cultures, maintaining security and privacy, and fostering collaborations, reproducibility, and equity. (source)
nasa.github.io/Transform-to-Open-Science/ CCO 1.0
6 nasa / api-docs
nasa/api-docs repository contains the front-end for http://api.nasa.gov/. This site is currently CNAME mapped to NASA domain, but in the event the page is down, you can access it through Github Pages here: http://nasa.github.io/api-docs/.
nasa.github.io/api-docs/ Apache-2.0
7 qgis / QGIS
QGIS is a free, open source, cross platform (lin/win/mac) geographical information system (GIS).
QGIS is a full-featured, user-friendly, free-and-open-source (FOSS) geographical information system (GIS) that runs on Unix platforms, Windows, and MacOS. Features.
qgis.org/ GPL-2.0
8 OSGeo / grass
GRASS GIS – free and open-source geospatial processing engine.
GRASS GIS (https://grass.osgeo.org/) is a Geographic Information System used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics/map production, spatial modeling, and visualization.
grass.osgeo.org/ GNU-2.0
9 OSGeo / osgeo
The Open Source Geospatial Foundation is not-for-profit organization to empower everyone with open source geospatial. Directly supports projects as an outreach and advocacy organization providing financial, organizational and legal support. Works with our sponsors and partners for open software, standards, data, research and education.
www.osgeo.org/ N/A
10 jblindsay / whitebox-tools
An advanced geospatial data analysis platform. This page is related to the stand-alone command-line program and Python scripting API for geospatial analysis, WhiteboxTools.
The official WhiteboxTools User Manual can be found at this link.
www.whiteboxgeo.com MIT
11 Simpals / map-md-app
Map.md – https://map.md, (React/UMD) wrapper for mapbox-gl.js
https://map.md/ Apache-2.0

2. Outdated solutions

The Open Source Solutions that does not update more than 1 year, but potentially could be interesting to End Users.
We don’t make any recommendations to use or not to use the solutions listed below. Your decision is fully up to you.

# Open Source Solution Web Licence
2-1 openstreetmap-ru / OpenStreetMap.ru
OpenStreetMap – RU.
openstreetmap.ru Custom