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Many features are first versions: there are no full 3D scenes or enterprise portal sharing yet.

Done

  • Layered workspace, command registry with undo, project files (.rgis), rustgis-cli, the web app (WebAssembly, installable with offline start, opened with a project or data by its web address), 15 interface languages; a ribbon laid out in the order of the work (Home, Data, Style, Edit, Analyze, View, Publish), start-up preferences, Check for Updates.
  • Data: files by their web address; GeoJSON, CSV/TSV (x/y in any EPSG system, or WKT), Excel and OpenDocument spreadsheets, GeoRSS, LandXML, encoded polylines, Shapefile (zipped too, with the coordinate system in its .prj), GeoPackage, GeoParquet, FlatGeobuf, KML/KMZ (styles included), GPX, GML, MapInfo MIF, OSM PBF, TopoJSON, DXF and LiDAR (LAS/LAZ/COPC) in, all of them in the web app too (large files read in place, a view at a time); the vector formats GDAL reads when it is installed, PostGIS, MySQL and MariaDB tables read live (desktop), and SQL queries and DuckDB databases (DuckDB Spatial) when DuckDB is; GeoJSON, CSV, GeoPackage, GeoParquet, Shapefile, FlatGeobuf, KML/KMZ, GPX and WKT out; standalone tables; geotagged photos and KML ground overlays; geocoding (Find Place, address tables); a Data Sources pane (favourites, recent, saved services, a library) and an SQL pane (DuckDB Spatial); layer, map, style, template, task and package files.
  • Open data: STAC search (Planetary Computer assets), Overture Maps, Source Cooperative, OpenStreetMap by area (Overpass), geoBoundaries, CKAN, Socrata and ArcGIS Hub portals, and S3 buckets with signed connections and a bucket browser.
  • Rasters: GeoTIFF/COG (by web address, read in place by range; Zstandard too) and ASCII grids, Zarr 2 and 3 stores (a variable's step, by folder or web address), and JPEG 2000, NetCDF, HDF, ERDAS Imagine… through GDAL, EPSG reprojection, stretch/RGB/classified/shaded-relief symbology, raster functions, indices, change detection, classification, georeferencing.
  • Services: WMS, WMTS, WFS, WCS, OGC API Features and Tiles, and ArcGIS REST, listed from their capabilities; CSW catalogue search.
  • Maps: multiple maps, a GPU renderer (beta) with smooth zoom and pan, a 3D globe with the flat map draped over it, projection presets and EPSG codes (features cut along the edge of world projections), a search box for layers, places and coordinates, bookmarks, web tile layers (XYZ/TMS/WMS, Mapbox Vector Tiles, MapLibre styles, PMTiles and MBTiles archives), a basemap gallery (OpenFreeMap, USGS Imagery), worldviews.
  • Cartography: single, unique values, graduated colours and proportional symbols; labels with placement and annotation; custom colour ramps (and QGIS, GDAL and GMT palette files); masking, display filters, aggregation, extrusion; graphics.
  • Editing: create, move, rotate, scale, merge, split, explode; snapping, templates, elevation, topology; domains, subtypes, attribute rules, contingent values, relationships, archiving.
  • Analysis: selection by attributes and location; overlay, proximity and summary tools; guided workflows (viewshed, line of sight, IDW, shortest path, suitability); ModelBuilder and scripts; the GeoLibre and Whitebox suite (1,000+ tools) natively and in the browser.
  • Layouts (map frames, surrounds, map series, PDF), reports, presentations and notebooks.
  • Sharing as open formats (web maps, OGC API Features collections, MapLibre styles, glTF scenes, locators), offline areas with sync, deep learning pixel classification, hosted imagery tiles.
  • The AI Assistant (Anthropic, OpenAI, ChatGPT sign-in, Gemini, OpenRouter, Ollama, OpenAI-compatible) in the app, the web app and rustgis-cli ask; an MCP server (rustgis-cli mcp) for AI agents such as Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code, with the documentation built in.
  • The AI Assistant's agent skill and loopback relay, which let external AI clients drive the app.
  • Sandboxed WebAssembly plugins with a registry at plugins.rustgis.app; process plugins that run as programs (with Python environments RustGIS makes), in the background with progress and Cancel.
  • The rustgis Python package on PyPI: the engine in-process, and rustgis.Map in Jupyter.
  • Desktop packages: Windows installers (setup.exe, .msi), a portable zip and a Store MSIX; a signed and notarized macOS DMG; Linux .deb, .rpm, AppImage and tarballs; Homebrew, the AUR, Fedora COPR and winget; a download mirror at downloads.rustgis.app.

Next

  • Editing: vertex editing (move, add and delete vertices of existing features).
  • Analysis: spatial join, intersect and union, near, heat maps.
  • 3D: full scenes with terrain, beyond the globe and 2.5D extrusion.