NASA World Wind Alternatives for Windows

There are many alternatives to NASA World Wind for Windows if you are looking for a replacement. The best Windows alternative is Google Earth. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Google Earth or Marble. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to NASA World Wind and nine of them are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to NASA World Wind are Earth View from Google Earth, SAS.Planet, Plenum Globe and QTViewer.

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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.

    56 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. 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.

    43 Marble alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • PortableApps.com
    • Flathub
    • Snapcraft
    • Flatpak
     
  3. 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
     
  4. 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).

    32 SAS.Planet alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  5. 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
     
  6. 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
     
  7. 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 types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Mobile
     
  8. MapSphere icon
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    MapSphere is a manageable way to view and organize geographical data of different kind. This might be raster maps and satellite imagery from various sources, your own information received from GPS, tracks of your friends, whatever you want.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
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