v0.2.0

RustGIS v0.2.0 opens far more of your data, in the app and in the browser, and lets AI agents drive it. GeoPackage, GeoParquet, FlatGeobuf, KML and GPX open natively, large files stream a view at a time, and the web app at web.rustgis.app reads them too. SQL queries run through DuckDB, an MCP server lets AI agents make maps, and the ribbon is reorganised around the order of the work.

Highlights

• More data, read in place: GeoPackage, GeoParquet and FlatGeobuf open in place, and large files are read a view at a time; KML and KMZ (styles included) and GPX open natively; zipped Shapefiles open, with the coordinate system from their .prj; PMTiles raster and vector archives open by web address or file; GeoTIFF adds palette images and files in their own projection. All of these work in the web app too (GeoPackages through a pure-Rust SQLite reader, PMTiles by web address). See the new Supported Data Formats page.
• Export to more formats: layers export to GeoPackage, GeoParquet, Shapefile and KMZ, alongside GeoJSON, CSV, FlatGeobuf, KML, GPX and WKT.
• SQL and DuckDB, and GDAL's formats: run SQL queries and open DuckDB databases through DuckDB Spatial, and read File Geodatabase, DXF and the other vector formats GDAL supports through ogr2ogr, when they are installed.
• An MCP server for AI agents: rustgis-cli mcp lets Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code and other agents run RustGIS commands and make maps, with the documentation built in.
• A ribbon in the order of the work: tabs are now Home, Data, Style, Edit, Analyze, View and Publish. A permanent Style tab acts on the selected layer, the panes are Layers, Browser and Tools, and all 15 interface languages are translated.
• Install and stay current: install with Homebrew, the AUR, Fedora COPR or winget; Help › Check for Updates tells you when a new release is out; Settings › Start-up picks the project, projection and extent the app opens with.

Download

Get the app for your platform at https://downloads.rustgis.app (or below), and see https://rustgis.app/installation/ for which file to pick.

What's Changed

• UI: centre dialog button labels vertically by @giswqs in #69
• Data providers: GeoPackage, GeoParquet and FlatGeobuf read in place by @giswqs in #70
• Streamed layers: large GeoPackage, GeoParquet and FlatGeobuf files read a view at a time by @giswqs in #71
• GDAL formats: KML, GPX, File Geodatabase, DXF… through ogr2ogr when installed by @giswqs in #72
• Downloads site: tighten the header spacing by @giswqs in #73
• Downloads site: drop the 100 MB note while every file is mirrored by @giswqs in #78
• PMTiles: raster and vector tile archives, by web address or file; a Supported Data Formats page by @giswqs in #74
• GeoTIFF: palette images, a file's own projection, and large files without overviews by @giswqs in #76
• Docs: GeoTIFF support on the Supported Data Formats page by @giswqs in #79
• MCP server: rustgis-cli mcp for AI agents, with the docs built in by @giswqs in #75
• Package managers: Homebrew tap, AUR, Fedora COPR and winget by @giswqs in #82
• Package managers: accept a COPR config without its header or copr_url by @giswqs in #83
• Shapefile: read the coordinate system from the .prj by @giswqs in #86
• Settings: start-up preferences for the project, projection and extent by @giswqs in #90
• GeoPackage: report tables past the cap; notices reach the CLI and MCP by @giswqs in #87
• SQL queries and DuckDB databases through DuckDB Spatial by @giswqs in #88
• Google Analytics for rustgis.app and web.rustgis.app by @giswqs in #91
• Privacy: say the docs site reports full page addresses by @giswqs in #93
• Export layers to GeoPackage, GeoParquet, Shapefile and KMZ by @giswqs in #92
• Open zipped Shapefiles, in the web app too by @giswqs in #94
• Homebrew: cask in homebrew-cask style by @giswqs in #96
• Status bar: cut a long notice to the room left by @giswqs in #98
• Open GeoPackages in the web app, with a pure-Rust SQLite reader by @giswqs in #95
• Read KML, KMZ and GPX natively, styles included, in the web app too by @giswqs in #97
• Reorganise the ribbon by task: Home, Data, Style, Edit, Analyze, View, Publish by @giswqs in #99
• Rename the panes: Contents to Layers, Catalog to Browser, Geoprocessing to Tools by @giswqs in #101
• Translate the reorganised ribbon and pane names; refresh screenshot alt text by @giswqs in #103
• Packaging: staple the notarization ticket to RustGIS.app by @giswqs in #105
• Add Help › Check for Updates by @giswqs in #104
• Remove the ribbon feature checklist and its coverage count by @giswqs in #106
• Ignore local and generated files: .claude/, private/, docs caches, .env, editor and OS files by @giswqs in #108
• Release v0.2.0: version, roadmap and highlights by @giswqs in #107

Full Changelog: v0.1.0...v0.2.0

v0.1.0

The first release of RustGIS: a fast, free and open-source desktop GIS written in pure Rust, with a ribbon workflow, for mapping, analyzing and sharing geospatial data. It runs natively on Windows, macOS and Linux and in the browser at web.rustgis.app. Your data stays on your machine unless you send it to an AI model you choose, and every action is a command you can script from rustgis-cli.

Highlights

• Your data, any map: GeoJSON, CSV, Shapefile, GeoTIFF and cloud-optimised GeoTIFF, XYZ/TMS/WMS web tiles, Mapbox Vector Tiles and MapLibre styles, drawn on a 3D globe or in any projection.
• Cartography and layouts: unique values, graduated colours and proportional symbols, collision-free labels, effects and extrusion, page layouts with map series and PDF export, reports and presentations.
• Analysis: SQL selection, overlay and proximity tools, guided workflows (viewshed, IDW, shortest path, suitability), ModelBuilder and scripts, imagery tools, and over 1,000 GeoLibre and Whitebox tools for terrain, hydrology and LiDAR, natively and in the browser.
• Editing: create and modify features with snapping and templates; domains, subtypes, attribute rules and relationships keep data valid; every change can be undone.
• AI Assistant: ask about your data or tell the map what to do, with Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, OpenRouter, Ollama or any OpenAI-compatible model, in the app, the web app and rustgis-cli ask.
• Scriptable and extensible: rustgis-cli runs any command by id; sandboxed WebAssembly plugins add commands, tools and ribbon tabs, with a registry at plugins.rustgis.app.
• 15 interface languages, and packages for every desktop: Windows installers (setup.exe, .msi) and a portable zip, a signed and notarized macOS DMG, and Linux .deb, .rpm and AppImage.

Download

Get the app for your platform at https://downloads.rustgis.app (or below), and see https://rustgis.app/installation/ for which file to pick.

What's Changed

• Add Claude Code Review workflow by @giswqs in #2
• Add RustGIS: pure-Rust desktop GIS with a ribbon UI by @giswqs in #1
• Add the RustGIS web app (WebAssembly) by @giswqs in #4
• Add interface translations (15 languages) and collapsible ribbon by @giswqs in #5
• Release packages, Dependabot and issue templates by @giswqs in #6
• Build(deps): Bump rfd from 0.16.0 to 0.17.2 by @dependabot[bot] in #7
• Build(deps): Bump tiny-skia from 0.11.4 to 0.12.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #8
• Build(deps): Bump anthropics/claude-code-action from 1.0.241 to 1.0.245 in the actions-minor-patch group by @dependabot[bot] in #9
• Build(deps): Bump actions/upload-artifact from 4 to 7 by @dependabot[bot] in #10
• Build(deps): Bump actions/upload-pages-artifact from 4 to 5 by @dependabot[bot] in #11
• Build(deps): Bump actions/setup-python from 6 to 7 by @dependabot[bot] in #12
• Build(deps): Bump actions/download-artifact from 4 to 8 by @dependabot[bot] in #13
• Build(deps): Bump actions/deploy-pages from 4 to 5 by @dependabot[bot] in #14
• Add raster layers, and fit the header to narrow windows by @giswqs in #15
• Add a 3D globe view alongside the Web Mercator map by @giswqs in #16
• Draw the flat map in any projection, not only Web Mercator by @giswqs in #17
• Fix projection edge cases left from review by @giswqs in #18
• Open the epsg.io link in a new browser tab by @giswqs in #19
• Link the website and GitHub from About RustGIS by @giswqs in #20
• Make the identify popup resizable with its scrollbar on the right by @giswqs in #22
• Add the GeoLibre tool suite to geoprocessing by @giswqs in #21
• Retry the sample-data download in the build script by @giswqs in #23
• Run the GeoLibre tools in the web app by @giswqs in #24
• Add clipboard, pop-up modes and label display options by @giswqs in #25
• Add graphics layers and drawing tools by @giswqs in #26
• Add page layouts with map frames, surrounds, map series and PDF export by @giswqs in #27
• Add project items: map, layer and style files, templates, packages, tasks by @giswqs in #28
• Add data design and editing tools by @giswqs in #29
• Add analysis workflows, raster functions, models and scripts by @giswqs in #30
• Add layer effects and imagery tools by @giswqs in #31
• Add view effects, colour vision simulation and navigation modes by @giswqs in #32
• Add linked views, thumbnails, animation, profiles, offline areas and workspace tools by @giswqs in #33
• Add a plugin system: sandboxed WebAssembly plugins by @giswqs in #34
• Plugins can have a ribbon tab of their own by @giswqs in #36
• Add reports by @giswqs in #35
• Plugins: read registries of up to 100,000 plugins by @giswqs in #37
• Draw menu icons inside the menu by @giswqs in #39
• Plugin Manager: browse thousands of plugins by @giswqs in #40
• Keep the GeoLibre tool list in the browser cache by @giswqs in #41
• Check the shape of the cached GeoLibre tool list by @giswqs in #42
• Add presentations and notebooks by @giswqs in #38
• Web app: open the Plugin Manager on a registry given in the address by @giswqs in #44
• Web tile layers: XYZ/TMS/WMS raster tiles, vector tiles and MapLibre styles by @giswqs in #43
• Vector tiles: no black pattern fills, no boxes in labels by @giswqs in #46
• Vector tiles: icons and fill patterns from the style's sprite by @giswqs in #47
• Ribbon and tab strip: scroll arrows when wider than the window by @giswqs in #48
• Add sharing, deep learning and hosted imagery by @giswqs in #45
• Worldview: China's borders for the built-in countries in China by @giswqs in #50
• Settings tab: the Language group moves there from View by @giswqs in #51
• AI Assistant: a chat pane that acts on the map through commands by @giswqs in #49
• i18n: translate the 911 missing interface strings in every catalog by @giswqs in #52
• Language switch: no missing-glyph boxes while the CJK font loads by @giswqs in #54
• AI Assistant: refuse malformed tool parameters by @giswqs in #53
• Plugins: translations everywhere, and the interface language in requests by @giswqs in #55
• World Atlas: gray country borders instead of white by @giswqs in #56
• Plugin registry: limit the translations kept per entry by @giswqs in #57
• Release: sign and notarize the macOS DMG and CLI by @giswqs in #58
• Projects save as .rgis; .rgisx files still open by @giswqs in #59
• downloads.rustgis.app: a download mirror for the latest release by @giswqs in #60
• Release: Windows MSIX, a named portable zip, and the exe icon by @giswqs in #61
• Release: an RPM package and an AppImage for Linux by @giswqs in #62
• Release: name the .rpm after the release version; MSIX opens .rgis by @giswqs in #64
• Docs: refresh the README and docs, new tagline, drop the coverage page by @giswqs in #63
• Release: Windows setup.exe (NSIS) and .msi (WiX) installers by @giswqs in #67
• Release v0.1.0: version, roadmap and highlights by @giswqs in #68

New Contributors

• @giswqs made their first contribution in #2
• @dependabot[bot] made their first contribution in #7

Full Changelog: https://github.com/opengeos/RustGIS/commits/v0.1.0