Open Source Mapping Software

NASA World Wind is a graphically rich 3D virtual globe for use on desktop computers running Windows. It combines NASA imagery generated from satellites that have produced Blue Marble, Landsat 7, SRTM, MODIS and more.

Organic Maps is a free Android & iOS offline maps app for travelers, tourists, hikers, and cyclists. It uses crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap data and is developed with love by MapsWithMe (MapsMe) founders and our community. No ads, no tracking, no data collection, no crapware. Your donations and positive reviews motivate and inspire our small team! Organic Maps is the ultimate companion app for travelers, tourists, hikers, and cyclists. Detailed offline maps with places that don't exist on other maps, thanks to OpenStreetMap. Cycling routes, hiking trails, and walking paths. Contour lines, elevation profiles, peaks, and slopes. Turn-by-turn walking, cycling, and car navigation with voice guidance. Bookmarks export and import in KML/KMZ formats (GPX is planned). Organic Maps app is free from trackers and other bad stuff. Organic Maps is pure and organic, made with love.

OSGeoLive is a self-contained bootable DVD, USB thumb drive or Virtual Machine based on Lubuntu that allows you to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything. It is composed entirely of free software, allowing it to be freely distributed, duplicated and passed around. It provides pre-configured applications for a range of geospatial use cases, including storage, publishing, viewing, analysis and manipulation of data. It also contains sample datasets and documentation.

Automatically geocode pictures from your camera and a GPS track log. Following Google code closure the only official webpage is (doc, support, code) : https://github.com/notfrancois/GPicSync

CatMDEdit is a metadata editor tool for describing resources, mainly geographic information. Developed by IAAA (University of Zaragoza) and GeoSpatiumLab S.L., sponsored by IGN Spain. Technical details: Java, XML, multiplatform, multilingual.

Earth3D is a program to display the earth as a 3D globe (including heightfields) in real-time. One can zoom until cities become visible. It uses huge datasets that are loaded on demand over the internet. It is possible to embed dynamic data into the view

Geo Arbores is a project for developing tools and extensions for the GIS software OpenJUMP

GeoSolid3D produces 3D geologic solid models, incorporated into the aquifer and confining units of the USGS ground water models, Modflow and Sutra. Uses GIS data of DEMs, geologic maps, and maps of river, watershed, recharge, and aquifer parameters.

wfb2sql is a Perl script that extracts information from the CIA World Factbook and creates SQL statements for IBM DB/2, PostgreSQL or MySQL. This data builds a perfect database for learning and teaching SQL.

3d visualization of USGS Digital Elevation Models (DEM). Support for stereo visualization. Written in Java and Java3D

PIHMgis is a “tightly-coupled” GIS interface to Penn State Integrated Hydrologic Model (PIHM). It is open source, platform independent and extensible. The “tightly-coupled” integrated GIS interface to PIHM has been created in the Open Source QGIS

Punt is a Open Source multi-language desktop application that allows the user to view the terrain of any world in 3D. Using open standards Punt can make use of data from the Internet combined with local data in common GIS-compatible formats.

JCT draws and edits thematic maps in Java. Primarily intended to geography teachers and their pupils.

Connecting Historical Authorities with Links, Contexts and Entities. CHALICE is a historic placename gazetteer for the UK, published as Linked Data and linked to other widely-used sources of placename reference information on the semantic web.

Autonomous Distributed GIS :: GLOBALBASE / browser COSMOS / server LANDSCAPE :: Browsing graphically seamless the Earth. The world is group of many maps which are in the worldwide distributed server.

GeoCatalogo, SRW, search and Retrieve Geographical Metadata. Jface, swt, Eclipse Forms to catalog iso19115 compliant metadata.

Geogame3D is a geographic game whose purpose is to locate some places on a 3D globe. See an example here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtafJDp9LU8 The game is widely configurable. The places proposed during the game can be changed. It is possible to play either with a mouse or even with a fancy Nintendo wii remote.

An extension to the desktop globe marble, providing the following additional modules: pixel maps, statistics module, 3D view

This program will read from an active GPS device and save it to a TXT file. This can then be used to fake a GPS signal while your developing your own GPS based project. I think its easier to develop this way from the home/office over having to bring the laptop outside and test / develop. Completely free, source included for those who are only getting into development, just like myself Please leave a comment (Good or bad) if you're downloading and using it

GraphCAD is a pseudo 3D Computer Aided Design (CAD) program to modeling dinamic and static objects, basics on graph theory. GraphCAD may be used as GIS, Medical Disgnostic, Engineering, Education and Mathematical modeling tool.

Hello. Peter Voise the programmer here. This Is a school example of how to create a hexagon map. It also shows how to measure distances on this map and why the hexagon way and measurement of distances is so superior. It also shows that it is possible to place this grid on a simple coordinate system - x-y- axis. It is the first step - the creation of an interface that later might be used in a strategical game or whatever. Comes with Full Lazarus/Delphi Code. For Educational Purposes! Now new version 2020 with bugfixes. Work hard and you will understand.

The goal of this project is to create a stand alone interactive World Atlas, complete with a searchable database that includes roads, cemeteries, city, county, state and country data that can import data from a csv

Narvik is a tool for conducting numerical and visual analysis in cartography.

The OpenOGI project is an open source library to integrate heterogeneous and distributed geographic objects (features) based on ontology and OGC WFS specification. This library is an open academic tool.

Simple UI to test the effectiveness of a heuristic algorithm against the brute force method for path finding among an arbitrary number of arbitrarily placed points on a grid. This is an educational project, don't expect new and better methods.