GSDView (Geo-Spatial Data Viewer) Open Edition is a lightweight viewer for geo-spatial data and products. It is written in python and Qt and it is mainly intended to be a graphical front-end for the GDAL library and tools. GSDView is modular and has a simple plug-in architecture.
Note
two editions of GSDView currently exist:
- an open source version named GSDView Open Edition that is freely available (GPL2) and provides only very basic features
- a GSDView Pro Edition that is non free and provides a larger number of features (including image analysis tools and integration components for external image processing tools)
Please refer to the SourceForge project page.
In order to run GSDView you should have the following software installed:
- Python 2.7 or higher (including Python 3.x)
- numpy 1.3.0 or higher
- gdal 1.7.3 or higher
- QtPy and PyQt5 or PySide2
- Qt5 >= 5.3
Note
in order to run GSDView with Python 3.x GDAL >= 1.10 is required.
Hint
Ubuntu and Debian users can resolve all dependencies by running the following command as superuser:
# apt-get install python-qt5 python-gdal gdal-bin
Decompress the distribution package:
$ tar xvfz gsdview-X.YY.tar.gz
From the package directory run the following command as superuser:
# python setup.py install
You can also install GSDView in a custom location:
# python setup.py install --prefix=<PATH_TO_INSTALL_DIR>
Note
If you have all dependencies installed you can run GSDView without installation by simply running the following command in the package root:
$ python run.py
Note
WindowsTM users can run GSDView without installation by
double-clicking on gsdview.pyw file.
If it doesn't exist you can get it by making a copy of the
run.py file and renaming it run.pyw.
GSDView is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2.