Top 10 coolest softwares discovered at FOSS4G

1) TileMill

• Web platform for creating beautiful maps (from shapefile or PostGIS data) with a css-like online editor. It's also a tiling application (using Mapnik). 

2) GeoCat Bridge

• This ArcGIS extension can easily publish metadata from a list of layers in the TOC into GeoNetwork BUT ALSO publish the data themselves to your WMS server (in the beta version) and keep the symbology (convert into a SLD for GeoServer or a mapfile for MapServer). 

3) Mapnik

• Powerfull C++ library for creating beautiful maps (Desktop or Web). 

4) CartoDB

• Online geospatial database with PostGIS in the backend (inspired from Google Fusion but OS). 

5) Node.js

• Very powerfull javascript program to build scalable applications on server-side.

6) JQueryGeo

• jQuery plugin that encapsulate a bunch of geolocation functionality into 6 APIs.

7) Polymaps and ModestMap

• Two lightweight javascript libraries for displaying interactive maps on the Web.

8) CartoSet

• Customizable geoportal solution that allows creation of nice looking maps and to publish them easily on the Web.

9) Stado

• Very new product that enable powerfull and massively parellel processing (MPP) architecture with Postgresql and PostGIS. Seem really promising...

10) MapQuery

• Another jQuery plug-in using OpenLayers library.