IOSA.it Open Archaeology

p.mapper is a MapServer PHP/MapScript Framework, based on UMN MapServer and PHP/MapScript by DM Solutions. The p.mapper framework is intended to offer broad functionality and multiple configurations in order to facilitate the setup of a MapServer application based on PHP/MapScript. Functions included are:

• DHTML (DOM) zoom/pan interface. Supported browsers: Mozilla/Firefox 1.+/Netscape 6.1+, IE 5/6, Opera 6.+, Konqueror 3.+
• Pan/zoom with mouse wheel, keyboard keys, slider, and reference map
• Query functions (identify, select, search)
• Query results display with database joins and hyperlinks
• Print functions: HTML and PDF
• Configuration of several functions, behaviour and layout via a common INI file
• HTML legends
• Various styles for display of legend and table of contents
• Multilingual user interface (pre-defined: English, German, Italian, French, Swedish)

p.mapper has been tested with MapServer versio

ParaView is an application designed with the need to visualize large data sets in mind. The goals of the ParaView project include the following:

• Develop an open-source, multi-platform visualization application.
• Support distributed computation models to process large data sets.
• Create an open, flexible, and intuitive user interface.
• Develop an extensible architecture based on open standards.

ParaView runs on distributed and shared memory parallel as well as single processor systems and has been succesfully tested on Windows, Linux and various Unix workstations and clusters. Under the hood, ParaView uses the Visualization Toolkit as the data processing and rendering engine and has a user interface written using a unique blend of Tcl/Tk and C++. Please go here for a detailed list of features.

GPS Manager (GPSMan) is a graphical manager of GPS data that makes possible the preparation, inspection and edition of GPS data in a friendly environment. GPSMan supports communication and real-time logging with both Garmin, Lowrance and Magellan receivers and accepts real-time logging information in NMEA 0183 from any GPS receiver. GPSMan can also be used in command mode (with no graphical interface).

This is a presentation by A. Bezzi, et al for CAA 2004 (PDF - 4.6 Mb).
It describes very well how to perform every single step of archaeological research using open source software. It's worth reading even tough you will find weblinks in our directory for most of the software here mentioned.