The Best Open Source Google Earth AlternativesTop Map Services and other similar apps like Google Earth

The best open source alternative to Google Earth is OpenStreetMap. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Google Earth and 17 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Google Earth are Marble, NASA World Wind, GNOME Maps and Street GL.

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  1. OpenStreetMap icon
     581 likes

    OpenStreetMap is a project aimed squarely at creating and providing free geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants them. It is a free editable map of the whole world. It is made by people like you.

    95 OpenStreetMap alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
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  2. Marble icon
     54 likes

    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

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • PortableApps.com
    • Flathub
    • Snapcraft
    • Flatpak
     
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  3. NASA World Wind icon
     44 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    1
  4. GNOME Maps icon
     25 likes

    quickly find the place you’re looking for by searching for a city or street, or locate a place to meet a friend.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Linux Mobile
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
     
  5. Street GL icon
     7 likes

    Streets GL is a real-time 3D map renderer built for visualizing OpenStreetMap data with a heavy focus on eye-candy features.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
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    1
  6. KStars icon
     23 likes

    Open-source astronomy software offering accurate night sky simulation with 100 million stars, Ekos astrophotography suite, stellar observation planner, "What's up Tonight" tool, FOV editor, and a variety of celestial catalogs for comprehensive astronomical exploration.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
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    1
  7. OSM Scout icon
     8 likes

    Goal of this project is to bring offline maps and navigation to Sailfish OS with native look and feel. OSM Scout for Sailfish OS is based on OSM Scout library.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Sailfish OS
     
  8. osmin icon
     7 likes

    Provides GPS navigation for on-road and off-road journeys on Android and Linux, utilizing a forked libosmscout backend, with GPX reading and writing, compass, trip tracker, road routing, POI database, offline mapping, data import/export, and suitable for outdoor activities.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  9. GMap.NET icon
     11 likes

    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
     
  10. Mobile app for Mergin Maps 📲. Open QGIS projects and manage vector data on your phone, even offline 📶 (Android/iOS/Windows app).

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Online
     
  11. OffRoad OSM icon
     3 likes

    Offline desktop map viewer featuring vector OpenStreetMap data, navigation, GPX track import/export, elevation and contour display, customizable map layers, waypoint tools, and efficient handling of large files for outdoor, hiking, or off-road planning and navigation.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  12. TransforMap icon
     12 likes

    TransforMap works towards an online platform for you to visualize the myriads of alternatives to the dominant economic thinking on a single mapping system.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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