Projects tagged ‘earth’ and ‘gis’

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.

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 ... [More] developers. At its simplest you can think of World 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]

Marble is a Virtual Globe and World Atlas that you can use to learn more about Earth: You can pan and zoom around and you can look up places and roads. A mouse click on a place label will provide the ... [More] respective Wikipedia article. Marble is also a light weight generic geographical map component for use in your own Qt 4.x / C++ application. It is provided as a library, a QWidget and a KDE 4 KPart and hence can easily get integrated with KDE 4 or Qt 4 applications. By default MarbleWidget shows the earth as a sphere but doesn't make use of any hardware acceleration. [Less]

jMaps is a jQuery plugin that provides a really easy API to create and manage multiple google maps on any page. * Geocode and reverse any valid address in the world via Google's geocoding API ... [More] * Search for directions to and from any location * Add and remove Markers * Add and remove polygons and polylines * Add and remove graphic layers on the map * Add and remove Google adsense layers * Add and remove Traffic layers * Get information back such as map center, map size, map type, etc [Less]

Dapple makes it easy to find and visualize massive quantities of geoscientific data available on the Internet. * View geoscience data, satellite imagery, remote sensing data, geology maps ... [More] , geophysical data, and many other earth data sets of interest to geoscientists. * Save an earth view and share your view with colleagues. * Add new Geosoft DAP and WMS servers of interest. * View GeoTIFF files. [Less]

Preparation of GPS routes and analysis of GPS logs in the context of outdoor sports (biking, skiing, trecking, gliding, geocaching, mountaineering). Our hope is to have a multi platform, multi GPS file and map format software.

use flash 3d API, create earth

GXmap is a small virtual globe and map viewer. Apart from showing an ordinary 3D globe view of the earth, it can also generate Azimuthal equidistant projection maps suitable for amateur radio (ham) ... [More] usage. In the ham mode, the antenna direction and distance from one location (i.e. a radio station) on earth to another is calculated and displayed. A NASA satellite image is used as the default map, and tiles from OpenStreetMap are downloaded automatically when needed. If a GPS device is connected (as detected by gpsd), the current GPS coordinates are displayed on the map as well. [Less]

This project will demonstrate and develop several examples for using the Google Earth API as the front end to geoprocessing tasks from a variety of GIS software suites, both commercial and open ... [More] source. Using the Google Earth API with ESRI's JS APICheck it out! Blog entry about the Earth API / ESRI Demo [Less]

Introductiongeopy makes it easy for developers to locate the coordinates of addresses, cities, countries, and landmarks across the globe using third-party geocoders and other data sources, such as ... [More] wikis. geopy currently includes support for six geocoders: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, Windows Local Live (Virtual Earth), geocoder.us, GeoNames, MediaWiki pages (with the GIS extension), and Semantic MediaWiki pages. Who's using geopy?My Apartment Map is proud to use and support geopy: geopy has allowed us to increase the number of apartments in our index and thus increase the quality of our site overall. [Less]