Projects

OpenStreetMap

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

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.

GPSBabel

GPSBabel converts waypoint data between about fifty file formats, including Magellan and Garmin serial, Garmin USB, Mapsource, Mapsend, Streets & Trips, Delorme, National Geographic, many PDA formats, and many others. It is endian and word-size safe, includes a GUI, and runs on a variety of ... [More] operating systems. It also supports Groundspeak GPX extensions for geocaching. [Less]

Marble

claimed by KDE

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 respective Wikipedia article. Marble is also a light weight generic geographical map component ... [More] 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]

gvSIG Mobile

gvSIG Mobile is a Geographic Information System (GIS) aimed at mobile devices, ideal for projects that capture and update data in the field. It's known for having a user-friendly interface, being able to access the most common formats and a wide range of GIS and GPS tools which are ideal for ... [More] working with geographic information. gvSIG Mobile aims at broadening gvSIG Desktop execution platforms to a range of mobile devices, in order to give an answer to the needings of a growing number of mobile solutions users, who wish to use a GIS on different types of devices. So far, gvSIG Mobile is a Geographic Information System, as well as a Spatial Data Infrastructures client for mobile devices. Such a client is also the first one licensed under open source. [Less]

Mobile Trail Explorer

Mobile Trail Explorer is an application for user to view and record tracks using the mobile phone and GPS device. Recorded tracks can be exported in KML format on memory card so that they can be viewed in Google Earth application later on. Mobile Trail Explorer is mainly targeted for recording ... [More] biking, hiking etc. trails. Software runs on Java platform so it is supported by many mobile phones. It is required that mobile phone supports Bluetooth connections (JSR 82) for GPS and File connection (JSR 75) for exporting trails. [Less]

OSMtracker

OSMtracker is an application for the Windows Mobile PDA/PocketPC and SmartPhones. The main features are track logging (gpx) and quick (voice) waypoint annotations when driving a car or on a bicycle. It also has a smooth scrolling map with heading indicator.

BT747

Project to control GPS Dataloggers, mainly MTK based and convert GPS logs to several other formats using filters, etc. Runs on most platforms (Desktops, Linux, Mac, Palm, Mobile Phone, PocketPC).

MyTourbook

Analyze and visualize tours in many variations, which are recorded with a GPS device, bike-, exercise- or ergometer-computer. Some highlights: Tools are available to adjust recorded data, GPS tours can be visualized in customizable maps, ...

GpsDrive

GpsDrive is a car (bike, ship, plane) navigation system. GpsDrive displays your position provided from your GPS receiver on a zoomable map. The maps are autoselected for best resolution depending of your position and can be downloaded from the Internet. Speech output is supported if the ... [More] "festival" software is running. All GPS receivers supported by gpsd should be usable. GpsDrive is written in C with use of the GTK+ toolkit under the GPL license, and runs with Linux and FreeBSD. [Less]