OSGeoLive 14.0

Being cooped up in his home office, Mayank Sharma’s quest to travel the world leads him to a distro that brings the world to him.

-  Mayank Sharma

IN BRIEF A Lubuntubased distro that offers some of the finest open source geospatial tools along with relevant datasets. Instead of simply piling them into the distro, the developers have configured them to be usable right out of the box. OSGeoLive is supported by several reputable projects and organisations, and supports multiple languages.

SPECS

Minimum CPU: 1GHz

Memory: 1GB

HDD: 20GB

Build: 64-bit ISO and VM

OSGeoLive is a Lubuntu based distro that pulls together a library of open source tools and applications to support all kinds of geospatial use cases. The distro isn’t designed as a general-purpose distro, but rather as a daily driver for individuals who work with geospatial tools.

Geospatial refers to all data and the associated tech that’s used to acquire, manipulate and store geographic information. Geospatial tools are used by data specialists, science researchers, cartographic professionals and map hobbyists.