Projects tagged ‘maps’


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OpenLayers

   
Primary Language: JavaScript Licensed as: New BSD License

OpenLayers is a web mapping framework, allowing users to pull in disparate sources of data and display them in an AJAX mapping interface.

Metrics updated 02 Oct 08

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Celestia

   
Primary Language: C/C++ Licensed as: GNU General Public License 2.0

Celestia is an OpenGL-based 3D space simulation for Unix and Win32 that lets you travel through the solar system, to the stars, and even beyond the galaxy. Visit over 100,000 stars, 100 solar system bodies, and all known extrasolar planets.

Metrics updated 04 Oct 08

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OpenStreetMap

   
Primary Language: JavaScript

OpenStreetMap is a free editable map of the whole world. It is made by people like you. OpenStreetMap allows you to view, edit and use geographical data in a collaborative way from anywhere on Earth.

Metrics updated 05 Oct 08

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Stellarium

   
Primary Language: C/C++ Licensed as: GNU General Public License 2.0

Stellarium renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It displays stars, constellations, planets and nebulae, and has many other features including multiple panoramic landscapes, fog, light pollution simulation and a built-in ... [More] scripting engine. Stellarium comes with a star catalogue of about 600 thousand stars and it is possible to download extra catalogues with up to 210 million stars. Stellarium has multiple sky cultures - see the constellations from the traditions of Polynesian, Inuit, Navajo, Korean, Lakota, Egyptian and Chinese astronomers, as well as the traditional Western constellations. It is also possible to visit other planets in the solar system - see what the sky looked like to the Apollo astronauts, or what the rings of Saturn looks like from Titan. [Less]

Metrics updated 17 Sep 08

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GRASS GIS

   
Primary Language: C Licensed as: GNU General Public License 2.0

Commonly referred to as GRASS, this is a Geographic Information System (GIS) used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics/maps production, spatial modeling, and visualization. GRASS is currently used in academic and ... [More] commercial settings around the world, as well as by many governmental agencies and environmental consulting companies. [Less]

Metrics updated 04 Oct 08

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JOSM

   
Primary Language: Java Licensed as: GNU General Public License 2.0

JOSM is an editor for OpenStreetMap written in Java 1.5. The current version supports stand alone GPX tracks, GPX track data from the OSM database and existing nodes, line segments and metadata tags from the OSM database.

Metrics updated 04 Oct 08

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Worldwind

   
Primary Language: C# Licensed as: NASA Open Source Agreement 1.3

World Wind, an open source 3D interactive world viewer, was created by NASA's Learning Technologies project, and released in mid-2004. It is now developed by NASA staff and open source community developers. At its simplest you can think of World ... [More] Wind as a desk globe, however World Wind is not a simple desk globe. World Wind allows any user to zoom from outer space into any place on Earth. World Wind uses satellite imagery and elevation data to allow users to experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, just as if they were really there. World Wind can also be expanded to include additional imagery and data.. There have already been a number of add-ons created, from Norway's Prehistoric Hillforts to additional planets. [Less]

Metrics updated 04 Oct 08

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GeoNetwork opensource

   
Primary Language: Java Licensed as: GNU General Public License 2.0

GeoNetwork opensource is a standardized and decentralized spatial information management environment, designed to enable access to geo-referenced databases, cartographic products and related metadata from a variety of sources, enhancing the spatial ... [More] information exchange and sharing between organizations and their audience, using the capacities of the internet. This approach of geographic information management aims at facilitating a wide community of spatial information users to have easy and timely access to available spatial data and to existing thematic maps that might support informed decision making. [Less]

Metrics updated 03 Oct 08

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SharpMap

 
Primary Language: C# Licensed as: GNU Lesser General Public License 2.1

SharpMap is an easy-to-use mapping library for use in web and desktop applications. It provides access to many types of GIS data, enables spatial querying of that data, and renders beautiful maps.

Metrics updated 05 Oct 08

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Viking

   
Primary Language: C/C++

Viking is a free/open source program to manage GPS data. You can import and plot tracks and waypoints, show Terraserver maps under it, add coordinate lines, make new tracks and waypoints, hide different things, etc. It is written in C with the GTK+ 2.

Metrics updated 05 Oct 08