Projects tagged ‘geography’

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.

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.

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]

Interface Integrada para Internet de Ferramentas de Geoprocessamento. Software para desenvolvimento de mapas interativos para internet.

Fusion is a web-mapping application development framework for MapGuide OS and MapServer built primarily in JavaScript. It allows non-spatial web developers to build rich mapping applications quickly ... [More] and easily. Using widgets, developers are able to add, remove, or modify functionality using standard-compliant HTML and CSS. Fusion does not require any proprietary browser plug-ins and works in all the major browsers on Windows, Mac, and Linux. [Less]

GeoClue is a D-Bus API and library that provides all kinds of geographic information to applications. The information may originally come in various forms from many sources (backends), but GeoClue ... [More] offers it to applications in a simple, abstracted form. [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]

The Constellation project provides a complete solution for the management, discovery, exploitation, and distribution of geographic data within a distributed services framework based on standards ... [More] compliant, free software modules. The project follows well defined standards based on, for geographic data, the specifications of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) and, for software development, the specifications of the Java computer language as developed within the Java Community Process. [Less]

The main goal of Puzzle GIS is to create a free, multiplatform (Java based), production ready and competitive tool as a valid alternative to commercial software. This application is a GIS development platform based on NetBeans 6.

Merkaartor is an OpenStreetMap mapping program. Merkaartor focuses on providing a visually pleasing but performant editing environment for free geographical data.