turf/SEE_ALSO.md
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Geospatial analysis software has a few prominent strains:

  • Esri & other closed-source, proprietary libraries
  • Open source libraries in the lineage of JTS

Python

  • Shapely is a friendly Python binding to GEOS
  • geopandas is a layer on top of Shapely and Fiona for PostGIS-like tasks

C++

  • GEOS is a port of JTS to C++

JavaScript

  • jsts is a port of JTS to JavaScript

Java

Go

  • gogeos is a Go binding to GEOS
  • go.geo is a pure-Go implementation of some geometry operations and primitives

Postgres

  • PostGIS provides geospatial operations within the Postgres database. Advanced operations rely on GEOS.