Awesome Geo Rust

A curated list of awesome geospatial software, libraries, tools and resources, written in Rust

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Contents

• Awesome Geo Rust
  • Geospatial primitives and algorithms
  • Handling GIS data formats
  • Raster and image processing
  • OSM data handling
  • Spatial index / Partioning
  • 3D
  • Geocoding
  • Routing
  • Web Services
  • Map rendering
  • Applications
  • Watchlist
• Resources
  • Community

Geospatial primitives and algorithms

• Geo - Geospatial primitives such as Point & LineString, and algorithms such as distance, convex hull, centroidcalculations.
• GEOS - Bindings for the Geometry Engine - Open Source (GEOS) library.
• Robust - Robust primitives for computational geometry.
• PROJ - Bindings for the PROJ library for coordinate transformation and projections.
• Rust Geodesy - A geodesy library written in Rust.
• geographiclib-rs - A port of geographiclib (geodesic calculations).
• S2 - S2 spherical geometry library in Rust.
• rust-geo-booleanop - Rust implementation of the Martinez-Rueda Polygon Clipping Algorithm.
• intersect2d - Line intersection sweep-line algorithm.
• spatial-join - Perform streaming geospatial-joins on geographic data.
• tile-grid - Library for map tile grid calculations.
• zonebuilder - Build zones for large geographic regions.
• Polylabel-rs - A Rust implementation of the Polylabel algorithm, with FFI.
• cheap-ruler-rs - Collection of very fast approximations to common geodesic measurements.

Spatial index / Partioning

• rstar - R*-tree library for the rust ecosystem.
• kdbush - A Rust port of kdbush, a fast static spatial index for 2D points.
• spade - Delaunay Triangulations for the Rust ecosystem.
• delaunator-rs - A very fast static 2D Delaunay triangulation library for Rust.
• earcutr - Port of MapBox's earcut triangulation code to Rust language.
• boostvoronoi - Segmented Voronoi for Rust.

Handling GIS data formats

• GDAL - Bindings for the Geographic Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) for reading and writing raster and vector GIS files.
• GeoZero - Zero-Copy reading and writing of geospatial data.
• GeoJSON - Work with GeoJSON files.
• GPX - Work with GPS files.
• kml - Rust support for reading and writing KML.
• GeoTIFF - Work with GeoTIFF raster files.
• image-tiff - TIFF decoding and encoding library in pure Rust.
• netCDF - Bindings for Network Common Data Form (netCDF) library. Can read and write HDF5 files.
• hdf5-rust - Thread-safe Rust bindings and high-level wrappers for the HDF5 library API.
• N5 - N5 "Not HDF5" tensor file system format.
• RINEX - RINEX analysis & and processing.
• shapefile-rs - Rust library to read & write shapefiles.
• TileJSON - Work with TileJSON files.
• Transit - Work with GTFS files.
• transit_model - Manage, convert and enrich transit data.
• FastGtfs - GTFS parsing, navigation, time table creation, and real-time network simulation.
• gtfs-structures - Read GTFS files into structs, with smart references.
• WKT - Work with Well-Known Text (WKT) files.
• World file - Work with World-files.
• FlatGeobuf - A performant binary encoding for geographic data based on flatbuffers.
• las-rs - Read and write ASPRS las files.
• stac-rs - Rust implementation of the SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) specification.
• pgstac-rs - Rust interface for pgstac.

Raster and image processing

• rasters.rs - Raster processing library and tools written in rust.
• geo-rasterize - A pure-rust 2D rasterizer for geospatial applications.

OSM data handling

• osmpbfreader-rs - Read OpenStreetMap PBF files.
• osmpbf - Library for reading the OpenStreetMap PBF file format.
• osm_boundaries_utils_rs - Read OpenStretMap relations with type=boundary as valid MultiPolygon.
• osm-transit-extractor - Extract OSM public transport data and write to CSV files.
• Pbfextractor - Create graph files out of OSM and SRTM data
• osmflat - OpenStreetMap flatdata format and compiler.
• osm-lump-ways - Group OSM ways based on topology & shared tags

More crates based on osmpbfreader-rs

3D

• density mesh - Image density/height map to mesh generator.
• startin - A Delaunay triangulator for processing TINs.

Geocoding

• GeoHash - Compute geohash of locations.
• Geocoding - Enrich addresses, cities, countries with geographic coordinates through third-party geocoding web services.
• Mimirsbrunn - Geocoding and reverse-geocoding (with OSM data).

Routing

• Fast Paths - Fast shortest path calculations for Rust.
• osm_ch - OSM-Contraction-Hierarchies.

Web Services

• t-rex - Vector tile server specialized on publishing MVT tiles from your own data.
• Martin - Blazing fast and lightweight PostGIS vector tiles server.
• Hecate - Fast Geospatial Feature Storage API.

Map rendering

• osm-renderer - OpenStreetMap raster tile renderer.

Applications

• A/B Street - A traffic simulation game exploring how small changes to roads affect cyclists, transit users, pedestrians, and drivers.
• Geo Engine - Cloud-ready geospatial data processing platform with workflows, raster and vector support and OGC-compliant interfaces.
• rgis - Performant, cross-platform (web, desktop) GIS app written in Rust
• sst - streaming startin.
• WhiteboxTools - Geospatial data analysis platform with more than 465 tools for processing various types of geospatial data.

Watchlist

• Miniproj - Geographic transformations between different coordinate systems defined by the European Petroleum Survey Group.
• coord_transforms - Rust crate for performing coordinate transforms.
• maplibre-rs - Native Maps for Web, Mobile and Desktop.
• RGeometry - Computational Geometry library written in Rust.
• offset-polygon - A Rust crate for offsetting (shrinking/expanding) polygons.
• map-engine - A rust library to work with tiled geospatial (raster) data.
• rust_road_router - Rust routing framework and toolkit.
• Sailor - A sailing navigation application.
• OGC API - OGC API building blocks.
• copc-rs - COPC reader.
• zarrs - A rust library for the Zarr V3 storage format for multidimensional arrays and metadata.
• pasture - A Rust library for working with point cloud data.
• h3o - Rust implementation of the H3 geospatial indexing system.
• bevy-potree
• cogbuilder
• vrt-file
• PlanetVectorTile - A map engine enabling you to have the entire map of the OSM planet on your own computer.
• GeoPolars - Geospatial extensions for Polars.
• country-geocoder - Reverse geocode WGS84 coordinates to an ISO country-code.
• Skeleton Tracing - A new algorithm for retrieving topological skeleton as a set of polylines from binary images.
• poly2tri-rs - Calculate CDT (Constrained Delaunay Triangulation) on a polygon.
• PMTiles (for Rust) - Rust implementation of PMTiles
• PMTiles (for Rust) - Low level implementation of the PMTiles format
• Proj4rs - Rust adaptation of Proj4
• Proj4wkt - Parse WKT to Proj strings
• Louvre - Computational Geometry Library with Rust
• gpkg-rs - A Rust crate for reading and writing GeoPackages.
• georaster - Rust library for accessing geospatial raster images (GeoTIFF).
• sif-rtree and sif-kdtree - R and K-D trees which can be memory-mapped directly from disk.
• jord - Geographical Position Calculations (spherical + ellipsoidal models and local frames).
• tzf-rs - Get timezone via longitude&latitude in Rust in a fast way

Resources

crates.io

• Category Science::Geospatial

Community

• Discord - GeoRust Discord channel