Projects tagged ‘maps’ and ‘world’

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 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]

Marble is a desktop globe program and a generic geographical map widget and framework. Marble shows the Earth as a sphere but doesn't need any hardware acceleration (no OpenGL needed). It's meant to be small, fast and light weight.

KGeography is a geography learning tool. Right now it has six usage modes: * Browse the maps clicking in a map division to see it's name * The game tells you a map division name and you have to click on it * The game gives you an empty map and ... [More] you have to place divisions on it one by one * The game tells you a capital and you have to guess the division it belongs to * The game tells you a division and you have to guess its capital * The game shows you a map division flag and you have to guess its name * The game tells you a map division name and you have to guess its flag [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, geophysical data, and many other earth data sets of ... [More] 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]