Talk:GEOS (software library)

Hi - apparently a robot, or someone unfamiliar with the domain, has marked this article as "not notable."

Background: due to the runtime construction of Java and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), code libraries that are written in Java are basically not useable as libraries from the older foundation of most modern software, a cross-linking environment often build from C. Linux, Microsoft Windows and the BSD family, including the Macintosh, use a linking structure that enables libraries from various languages, to be integrated. Java, by design, does not participate in this interoperability.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_virtual_machine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable_and_Linkable_Format

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD

JTS and GEOS: The Java Topology Suite is a decade in the making, and implements a complete, standards compliant computational geometry package. There are few, if any, replacements for the completeness and correctness of the JTS library. This JTS work, the base classes it defines, and the operations it provides, are not available to the standard linking structure of most software (see above). GEOS re-implements a foundational subset of the JTS library, and is the basis of the geometry support in some of the most widely used geometry applications in the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QGIS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostGIS

By making the JTS classes available to GDAL, which in turn is one of the most widely supported and used engines in GIS, GEOS is irreplaceable as a core component, and is therefore noteworthy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GDAL

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Google Earth – A virtual globe and world imaging program.

GRASS GIS

gvSIG

MapServer

World Wind Java – NASA's open source virtual globe and world imaging technology.

Orfeo toolbox – A satellite image processing library.

R – An open source statistical software with extensions for spatial data analysis.

SAGA GIS – A cross-platform open source GIS software.