A hallmark of the User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) program built with Eclipse is that it can be used as a standalone application or a plugin for existing applications. Details on the uDig project as well as installers can be found at the following website:
Click on Downloads
at the preceding website to view the list of versions and installers. At the time of writing, 2.0.0.RC1 is the latest stable version. uDig is supported by Windows, macOS X, and Linux.
In this recipe, we will quickly connect to a PostGIS database and then add a layer to uDig.
Carry out the following steps:
- Navigate to
File
|New Layer
from the main menu, as shown in the following screenshot:
- Select
PostGIS
as the data source and click on theNext
button to continue, as shown in the following screenshot:
- Fill in your PostGIS connection parameters and then click on the
Next
button, as shown in the following screenshot: