OSGeo-Live 5.0是一个人包含了很多开源GIS软件的虚拟机，在这个虚拟机里安装了目前主流的GIS开源软件，使用的时候直接在VMware中打开，或者光盘启动即可，非常简单，省去了大家安装软件的繁琐过程。对于开源GIS爱好者来说是一个家居旅行必备之良品。
下载地址：
http://live.osgeo.org/en/index.html
OSGeo-Live中安装的软件主要包括：
Browser Clients
- OpenLayers – [QuickStart] – Browser GIS Client
- Geomajas – [QuickStart] – Browser GIS Client
- Mapbender – [QuickStart] – Geoportal Framework
- MapFish – [QuickStart] – Web Mapping Framework
- GeoMoose – [QuickStart] – Web GIS Portal
Crisis Management
- Sahana Eden – [QuickStart] – Disaster management
- Ushahidi – [QuickStart] – Mapping and Timeline for events
Databases
- PostGIS – [QuickStart] – Spatial Database
- SpatiaLite – [QuickStart] – Lightweight Database
- Rasdaman – [QuickStart] – Multi-Dimensional Raster Database
- pgRouting – [QuickStart] – Routing for PostGIS
Desktop GIS
- Quantum GIS (QGIS) – [QuickStart]
- GRASS GIS – [QuickStart]
- gvSIG Desktop – [QuickStart]
- User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) – [QuickStart]
- Kosmo Desktop – [QuickStart]
- OpenJUMP GIS – [QuickStart]
- SAGA – [QuickStart]
- OSSIM – [QuickStart] – Image Processing
- Geopublisher- [QuickStart] – Catalogue
- AtlasStyler – [QuickStart] – Style Editor
- osgEarth – [QuickStart] – 3D Terrain Rendering
Navigation and Maps
- GpsDrive – [QuickStart] – GPS Navigation
- Marble – [QuickStart] – Spinning Globe
- OpenCPN – [QuickStart] – Marine GPS Chartplotter
- OpenStreetMap – [QuickStart] – OpenStreetMap Tools
- Prune – [QuickStart] – View, Edit and Convert GPS Tracks
- Viking – [QuickStart] – GPS Data Analysis and Viewer
- zyGrib – [QuickStart] – Weather Forecast Maps
Spatial Tools
- GeoKettle – [QuickStart] – ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) Tool
- GDAL/OGR – [QuickStart] – GeoSpatial Data Translation Tools
- GMT – [QuickStart] – Cartographic Rendering
- Mapnik – [QuickStart] – Cartographic Rendering
- MapTiler – [QuickStart] – Create Map Tiles
- OTB – [QuickStart] – Image Processing
- R Spatial Task View – [QuickStart] – Statistical Programming
Web Services
- GeoServer – [QuickStart]
- MapServer – [QuickStart]
- deegree – [QuickStart]
- GeoNetwork – [QuickStart] – Metadata Catalog and Catalog Services for Web
- MapProxy – [QuickStart] – Proxy WMS & tile services
- QGIS Server – [QuickStart] – Web Map Service
- 52°North WSS – [QuickStart] – Web Security Service
- 52°North WPS – [QuickStart] – Web Processing Service
- 52°North SOS – [QuickStart] – Sensor Observation Service
- TinyOWS – [QuickStart] – WFS-T Service
- ZOO Project – [QuickStart] – Web Processing Service
Data
- Natural Earth – Geographic Data Sets
- OSGeo North Carolina, USA Educational dataset
- OpenStreetMap – Sample extract from OpenStreetMap