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.

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]

Walking Papers

Walking Papers is like walking, but with paper. With Walking Papers you can print a map from OpenStreetMap, walk around with it and take notes and sketch improvements - then you scan it in, edit it in Potlatch and then we all have a better map!

Kothic JS

Kothic JS is a full-featured JavaScript map rendering engine using HTML5 Canvas. It was initially developed as a JavaScript port of Kothic rendering engine written in Python.

GXmap

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) usage. In the ham mode, the antenna direction and distance from one location (i.e. a radio station) ... [More] 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]