PostGIS in Action: Desktop Tools that Support PostGIS

Tools with * are covered in the book

Open Source Desktop Tools

• OpenJump*
• QuantumGIS*
• uDig*
• GvSig*
• GearScape
• OrbisGIS
• ZigGIS PostGIS connector is an ArcGIS plugin that allows querying PostGIS data without the need of ArcSDE. It goes without saying, that you need an ArcGIS license to use it. The 2.0 series was under a commercial open source license. The upcoming 3 series is under a regular FOSS license.

Proprietary Desktop Tools

• CadCorp SIS
• Manifold.net
• MapInfo Professional 10+
• AutoCAD and AutoDesk family of tools. Note the FDO PostGIS driver is beta quality as of this writing and according to comments there is a planned rewrite of it by AutoDesk. This article discusses getting up and going with AutoCad and PostGIS
• ESRI ArcGIS desktop via ArcSDE license. Take a look at ZigGIS if you don't want to shell out the money for ArcSDE and just need to use in ArcMap or other ArcGIS desktop tool.