= Tools that Support Postgis =

Open Source Loading Data
 * Shp2Pgsql [wiki:UsersWikiExamplesShp2Pgsql ExamplesShp2Pgsql]
 * ogr2ogr - [wiki:UsersWikiOGRExamples OGR Examples]
 * [http://sourceforge.net/projects/dxf2postgis Dxf2PostGIS] ([http://www.glasic.it/dxf2postgis.html Home Page])
 * [http://sourceforge.net/projects/osm2postgis OSM2PostGIS] - OpenStreetMap XML (planet.osm) to PostgreSQL, PostGIS and pgRouting

Open Source Extracting Data
 * Pgsql2Shp [wiki:UsersWikiExamplesPgsql2Shp ExamplesPgsql2Shp]
 * ogr2ogr - [wiki:UsersWikiOGRExamples OGR Examples]
 * [http://www.spatialdataintegrator.com Spatial Data Integrator]

Commercial Extract, Transform, Load (ETL)
 * [http://www.safe.com/products/overview.php Safe FME Desktop Translator/Converter and Server Translator and Converter]

Web-Based GIS Displaying Data - Open / Free
 * [http://www.mapserver.org/ Mapserver]
 * [http://geoserver.sourceforge.net/ GeoServer (Java-based WFS / WMS -server )]
 * [http://www.codeplex.com/SharpMap SharpMap SDK] - for ASP.NET 2.0
 * [http://mapguide.osgeo.org/ MapGuide Open Source] (using [http://fdo.osgeo.org/ FDO])
 * [http://www.tinyows.org/ TinyOWS] High performance WFS-T Server. C based.

Web-Based GIS - Closed / Proprietary
 * [http://www.ionicsoft.com Ionic Red Spider (now ERDAS)]
 * [http://www.cadcorp.com Cadcorp GeognoSIS]
 * [http://www.webmapserver.de Iwan Mapserver (free)]
 * [http://www.mapdotnet.com/ MapDotNet Server]
 * [http://www.mapguide.com/ MapGuide Enterprise] (using [http://fdo.osgeo.org/ FDO])

Desktop GIS Displaying Data - Open / Free
 * [http://udig.refractions.net uDig]
 * [http://qgis.org/ QGIS]
 * [http://www.mezogis.org/ mezoGIS]
 * [http://www.vividsolutions.com/jump/ JUMP] (no longer under development,  take a look at OpenJUMP)
 * [http://www.openjump.org OpenJUMP]  
 * [http://openev.sf.net OpenEV]
 * [http://www.codeplex.com/SharpMap SharpMap SDK] - for Microsoft.NET 2.0
 * [http://code.google.com/p/ziggis/ ZigGIS for ArcGIS/ArcObjects.NET] - uses MS.NET Framework 2.0
 * [http://www.gvsig.gva.es/index.php?id=gvsig&L=0&L=2 GvSIG]

Desktop GIS Analysis - Open / Free
 * [http://grass.itc.it GRASS] using OGR driver: [http://grass.itc.it/grass61/manuals/html61_user/v.in.ogr.html   Import] [http://grass.itc.it/grass61/manuals/html61_user/v.out.ogr.html   Export] [http://grass.itc.it/grass61/manuals/html61_user/v.external.html   Virtual map link]

Desktop - Closed / Proprietary
 * [http://www.caliper.com/ Maptitude Mapping Software]
 * [http://www.safe.com Safe Software FME]
 * [http://www.cadcorp.com Cadcorp SIS]
 * [http://www.microimages.com/announce/ Microimages TNTmips GIS]
 * [http://webhelp.esri.com/arcgisserver/9.3/dotNet/index.htm#geodatabases/using_th485132809.htm ESRI ArcSDE/ ArcGIS 9.3]
 * [http://www.manifold.net/ Manifold]
 * [http://www.spatialmanager.com/ Spatial Manager]
 * [http://www.geoconcept.com GeoConcept]
 * [http://www.mapinfo.com/ MapInfo (v10)]
 * [http://www.autodesk.com/map3d AutoCAD Map 3D] (using [http://fdo.osgeo.org/ FDO])