NASA World Wind AlternativesMap Services and other similar apps like NASA World Wind

NASA World Wind is described as 'World Wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, World Wind lets you experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, just as if you were really there' and is a Map service in the travel & location category. There are more than 10 alternatives to NASA World Wind for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Web-based, iPhone, iPad and Mac apps. The best NASA World Wind alternative is Google Earth. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Google Earth or Zoom Earth. Other great apps like NASA World Wind are TerraExplorer, Earth View from Google Earth, Sentinel Hub and SAS.Planet.

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  1. Google Earth icon
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    Explore Earth from space to sea with detailed satellite imagery, 3D buildings, and ad-free service. Save toured places, share them, and explore offline all points of interest around the globe.

    60 Google Earth alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • BSD
    • iPad
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  2. Zoom Earth icon
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    Live images of Earth, updated every 10 minutes with GOES and Himawari-8, and every 15 minutes with Meteosat. Zoom to Satelite Map view with Street names. Rain and Weather view.

    18 Zoom Earth alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  3. Marble icon
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    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.

    47 Marble alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • PortableApps.com
    • Flathub
    • Snapcraft
    • Flatpak
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  4. TerraExplorer is a powerful, easy to use tool to build, analyze, and navigate high resolution 3D world environments created by fusing aerial and satellite photography, terrain elevation data and other 2D and 3D information layers.onto a 3D map,.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    • Windows Mobile
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
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  5. Daily earth data and analytics for broad area management.

    Easily extract insights from Earth observation data and build your own applications on top of Planet Insights Platform — without having to build or manage your own infrastructure.

    • Explore earth observation data
    • Impor.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  6. SAS.Planet icon
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    This program allows work with any maps service if you can describe getting picture by longitude/latitude(if you want you can write config file or simplepascal script to describe how obtain needle photos).

    33 SAS.Planet alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. Plenum Globe icon
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    Turn any CSV into a rotating 3D globe. Choropleth maps, 3D columns, points & connection arcs — 244 countries, 19 palettes, 4 textures incl. NASA imagery. Export as PNG or standalone HTML. Fully offline, one-time purchase.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  8. Spectator icon
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    Spectator simplifies access to satellite imagery from NASA, ESA and other providers. It gives you access to images archives, but also tracks satellites in real-time to give you information about next image acquisition.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
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  9. QTViewer icon
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    Libmini is free software that displays geographic terrain data at real-time. This is an example application of integrating libmini in the Qt user interface. The application, the libMini QTViewer, primarily uses libmini viewer functions but provides additional camera control.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10. Find internet constellation satellites such as the SpaceX Starlink and Oneweb networks on the world map and in your area using augmented reality.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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  11. GMap.NET icon
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    GMap.NET is great and Powerful, Free, cross platform, open source .NET control. Enable use routing, geocoding, directions and maps from Google, Yahoo!, Bing, OpenStreetMap, ArcGIS, Pergo, SigPac, Yandex, Mapy.cz, Maps.lt, iKarte.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Mobile
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