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Awesome Geo Rust

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

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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.
osmx - Rust port of OSMExpress, a fast database file format for OpenStreetMap.
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.
geom3d - Data structures and algorithms for 3D geometric modeling.

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.
routrs - Geograph-based shortest distance calculation for Rust.

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.
BBOX services - Composable spatial services.

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.
Ferrostar - A FOSS navigation SDK built from the ground up for the future.

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.
polygon-offsetting - Offset a polygon (only margin).
Cavalier Contours - 2D polyline/shape library for offsetting, combining, etc.
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
s2-pmtiles - Read/Write PMTiles V3.0 as well as S2PMTiles V1.0
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.
geo-index - Packed, static, zero-copy spatial indexes (R-tree and k-d tree).
jord - Geographical Position Calculations (spherical + ellipsoidal models and local frames).
tzf-rs - Get timezone via longitude&latitude in Rust in a fast way
geometry-rs - Partial port of tidwall/geometry (efficient 2D geometry library for Go).
pasture - Rust library for point cloud processing.
rout3serv - H3-grid based Routing server with GRPC-API and dataframe integration.
Airmail - Lightweight geocoder in pure Rust.
geoserde - Adapter between geographic feature and GIS files.
geojson-vt-rs - Crate for slicing GeoJSON into vector tiles on the fly.
The Roaring Landmask - A fast and memory-limited landmask based on GSHHG for determing whether a point on Earth is on land or in the ocean.
Galileo - General purpose cross-platform geo-rendering library.
Gauzilla - 3D Gaussian Splatting renderer for WebAssembly with lock-free multithreading.
utiles - utils & tiles w/ (rs & pyo3).
earclip - Triangle mesh designed to be fast, efficient, and sphere capable.
iOverlay - Boolean Operations for 2D Polygons: Supports intersection, union, difference, xor, and self-intersections for all polygon varieties.