Kosmo

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Kosmo
Developed by	SAIG S.L.
Latest release	1.2 / 21 February 2008
OS	Cross-platform
Available in	English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, German, Italian
Genre	Geographic information system
License	GNU General Public License
Website	http://www.saig.es/

Kosmo is a desktop geographic information system (GIS) with advanced functions. It is the first of a series of developments that are being made available to the community.

Kosmo was implemented using the Java programming language and is being developed from the JUMP GIS platform and a series of free code libraries, all of which are well acknowledged and widely used in different free software projects (for example, Geotools and JTS). It is available for Windows and Linux operating systems.

It is a tool for visualizing and processing spatial data, characterized by its friendly user interface and access to multiple data formats, both vectorial (in a file, such as Shapefile, DWG and DXF, or a data base, such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Oracle) and raster (TIFF, ECW, MrSID, or other georeferenced image files, such as BMP, GIF, JPG, or PNG). It can also edit and offer a variety of utilities to the GIS user.

One of its main characteristics is the possibility of increasing functionality, based on extensions.

Kosmo was developed by a company called SAIG S.L. (in Spanish Sistemas Abiertos de Información Geográfica - Open Geographical Information Systems), and is distributed under the GNU General Public License.