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New Server

Refractions is kindly hooking us up with a new server; there may be some transition pains as the website, mailing list and wiki are moved across.In order to facilitate the global nature of uDig development Jesse Eichar from our project steering committee is also experimenting with a GIT repository located in Europe. For more information please join the developer list and say hi.
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A GIS Framework for Eclipse

uDig is an open source (LGPL) desktop application framework, built with Eclipse Rich Client (RCP) technology.

  • uDig can be used as a stand-alone application.
  • uDig can be extended with RCP “plug-ins”.
  • uDig can be used as a plug-in in an existing RCP application.

Project Outline

The goal of uDig is to provide a complete Java solution for desktop GIS data access, editing, and viewing. uDig aims to be:

  • User friendly, providing a familiar graphical environment for GIS users;
  • Desktop located, running as a thick client, natively on Windows, Mac OS/X and Linux;
  • Internet oriented, consuming standard (WMS, WFS, WCS) and de facto (GeoRSS, KML, tiles) geospatial web services; and,
  • GIS ready, providing the framework on which complex analytical capabilities can be built, and gradually subsuming those capabilities into the main application.

uDig is distributed under the open source LGPL license.

Quick Start

  1. Download the application.
  2. Download the sample data.
  3. Install the application.
  4. Unzip the sample data.
  5. Run the application.
  6. Drag a file from the explorer view of the sample data into the uDig main panel.
  7. Try walk-through #1.
  8. Try walk-through #2.
  9. Keep on playing!