:Author: Sergio Baños Calvo
:Reviewer: Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft
:Version: osgeo-live5.5
:License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)

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Kosmo Desktop
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Desktop GIS
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Kosmo - Desktop is a user friendly, desktop GIS application which allows you to explore, edit 
and analyse spatial data from a variety of databases, vector and raster formats. 

Kosmo - Desktop follows OGC standards and provides excellent topology integrity. 
It's plug-in architecture enables it to be easily customised for specific purposes.

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Core Features
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Supported formats:

* Vectorial file formats: Shapefiles, GML, DXF, DWG, DGN, CSV (by an extension)
* Vectorial databases: PostgreSQL + PostGIS, Oracle, MySQL
* Raster file formats: ECW, MrSID, Tiff, JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP
* OGC services: WMS 1.0.0/1.1.0/1.3.0, WFS 1.0.0/1.1.0

Key features:

* User friendly GUI, focused on an easy learning curve
* Available in 12 languages (English, Spanish, Italian, German, Croatian, Czech, Russian, Slovak, Catalan, Euskera, Brassilian Portuguese, Finnish)
* Advanced printing module based on OpenOffice offimatic suite (by an extension)
* Topology consistency rules: pre/during/post edition
* Topology validation and cleaning tools (intersect/eliminate/clean)
* Geoprocessing wizard extension: buffer/dissolve/merge/clip/intersection/spatial join/difference (by an extension)
* Raster georreferencing tool (by an extension)
* Sextante 0.6 integrated (by an extension)

Implemented Standards
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* Web Map Service (WMS) 1.0.0/1.1.0/1.3.0
* Web Feature Service (WFS) 1.0.0/1.1.0
* Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) (import/export)


Details
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**Website:** http://www.opengis.es

**Licence:** GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2

**Software Version:** 3.1

**Supported Platforms:** Windows, Linux

**API Interfaces:** Java

**Commercial Support:** http://www.saig.es/index.php?lang=en


Quickstart
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* :doc:`Quickstart documentation <../quickstart/kosmo_quickstart>`