AndreasWBartels / JGISShell

Java GIS Viewer and Layer Datastore Manager

JGISShell

see DOAG Geodata Days 2017 slides

Java GIS Viewer and Spatial Layer Datastore Manager

JGSShell is a Java based spatial data viewer and layer datastore manager. It consist of 4 parts, a viewer, a spatial-layer manager, a scripting API (groovy and Java) and a URL concept.

JGISShell was created 10 years ago as a private education and evaluation project to explore spatial data and technologies. Now it riched a state that it could be usefull for other. Maybe to learn, explore spatial data or manage spatial data.

Geodata Viewer

map source: © 2016 Landesanstalt für Umwelt, Messungen und Naturschutz Baden-Württemberg and Landesamt für Geoinformation und Landentwicklung Baden-Württemberg

further screenshots

The viewer supports the following formats:

Feature based geodata

WFS, Shapefiles, GeoJSON, PostGIS, SpatiaLite, GeoPackage, H2 Database. Oracle Locator/Spatial, MSSQL/SQLServer, SAP Hana, ESRI MDB based Geodatabases, ESRI Arc GIS Rest Feature Services and a own GML equal XML format.

Image based geodata

WMS, WMTS, PostGIS Raster, Worldfiles, mbtiles, OSM, MAPBOX Tile Layers, GeoPackage, ESRI Arc GIS Rest Map and Image Services

Grid based geodata

ESRI ASCII Grid, Saga Grid and XYZ Grid files

Layer Manager

The manager is like a spatial data file system manager for exploring and managing geospatial data.

Scripting

The scripting API can be used to extend the Viewer and the Manager or to process geospatial data.

import net.anwiba.scripting.groovy.JGISShellGroovyScript
@groovy.transform.BaseScript JGISShellGroovyScript facade

map().
  add("Bundesl\u00e4nder",
    layerReference(
      "\$SYSTEM{jgisshell.workingpath}/data/bundeslaender.shp"
    )
  );

Data access URL schema

The URL based schema is designed to access different kinds of datastores or spatial layers.

Open Data search

ckan search dialog using european data portal https://www.europeandataportal.eu/

Author

JGISShell was created by Andreas W. Bartels.

License

JGISShell (JGISShell.jar) has a reduced BSD license. Which regulates the use of the binary code. See license.txt for more information.

The source-code, insofar as it is published, is located in this project libraries and has the LGPL V2.1 license.

The source code published in this project, in the scripts folder, has the GPL V3 license.

Installation

see WIKI - JGISShell-Installation

For more download this project and open doc/manual/index.html.