Google Earth Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to Google Earth for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is Organic Maps, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Google Earth and 11 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Google Earth are Marble, NASA World Wind, GNOME Maps and KStars.

Google Earth alternatives are mainly Map Services but may also be GPS Navigation Services or Weather Forecast Tools. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Google Earth.

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Organic Maps
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Free • Open Source
Map Service
GPS Navigation Service
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F-Droid
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77 alternatives to Organic Maps
Organic Maps is an Android & iOS offline maps app for travelers, tourists, hikers, and cyclists based on top of crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap data and curated with love by MAPS.ME founders.
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Organic Maps Features
1. Works OfflineOrganic Maps can be used without the need to connect to the internet.
2. No TrackingOrganic Maps will not track you or use your personal data.
3. Privacy focusedOrganic Maps is considered a privacy friendly alternative.
4. CyclingUse Organic Maps to plan, discover, track or share your bike rides.
5. Dark ModeOrganic Maps supports dark mode for comfortable usage in low light conditions.
6. Turn-by-turn NavigationOrganic Maps gives you up-to-date detailed directions at each step of a selected route.
7. Ad-freeOrganic Maps doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
8. Route PlanningPlan and optimize your route with Organic Maps to avoid traffic and save time.
9. Public TransportationOrganic Maps contains information about one or more public transport services that you can use in your area of interest.
Based on OpenStreetMap
Bookmarks
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Openstreetmap integration
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Nearby Search
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Hiking Maps
Marble
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PortableApps.com
33 alternatives to Marble
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.
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Marble Features
1. Turn-by-turn NavigationMarble gives you up-to-date detailed directions at each step of a selected route.
2. PortableMarble can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
3. Hiking MapsExplore and discover the outdoors with new hiking trails in your area with Marble.
Apps with Offline Map
Select map data resource
Marble vs Google Earth opinions
Most users think Marble is a great alternative to Google Earth.
Douze
it also features an offline world map in the form of a globe, with many different layers available, with old age maps and such.
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Guest
It shows maps of Earth and the sky, also with 3D rendition of our planet.
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NASA World Wind
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Free • Open Source
Map Service
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14 alternatives to NASA World Wind
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.
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NASA World Wind Features
1. Turn-by-turn NavigationNASA World Wind gives you up-to-date detailed directions at each step of a selected route.
2. Works OfflineNASA World Wind can be used without the need to connect to the internet.
Image Navigation
NASA World Wind vs Google Earth opinions
Most users think NASA World Wind is a great alternative to Google Earth.
Guest
This is a developer tool rather than an application that can be used "out of the box", like Google Earth.
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GNOME Maps
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Free • Open Source
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GPS Navigation Service
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GNOME
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20 alternatives to GNOME Maps
Maps gives you quick access to maps all across the world. We use the collaborative OpenStreetMap database, enabling our users to make smaller changes to places and points-of-interests.
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GNOME Maps Features
1. Public TransportationGNOME Maps contains information about one or more public transport services that you can use in your area of interest.
2. Privacy focusedGNOME Maps is considered a privacy friendly alternative.
3. Dark ModeGNOME Maps supports dark mode for comfortable usage in low light conditions.
4. Route PlanningPlan and optimize your route with GNOME Maps to avoid traffic and save time.
Based on OpenStreetMap
Planning
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KStars
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42 alternatives to KStars
KStars is a Desktop Planetarium for KDE. It provides an accurate graphical simulation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, at any date and time. The display includes upto 100 million stars, 13,000 deep-sky objects,all 8 planets, the Sun and Moon, and thousands of comets...

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KStars vs Google Earth opinions
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whitephoenixus
It’s a planetarium program, not a maps or atlas program.
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OffRoad OSM
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13 alternatives to OffRoad OSM
An offline map viewer for the Desktop based on OsmAnd.

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Modest Maps
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Free • Open Source
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53 alternatives to Modest Maps
Modest Maps is a small, extensible, and free library for designers and developers who want to use interactive maps in their own projects. It provides a core set of features in a tight, clean package with plenty of hooks for additional functionality.
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Modest Maps Features
Based on OpenStreetMap
Apps with Offline Map
Modest Maps vs Google Earth opinions
Roby718
this is a library, not an application
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gvSIG
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Free • Open Source
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GPS Navigation Service
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47 alternatives to gvSIG
gvSIG is a free open-source GIS project, characterized by a user-friendly interface, and capable of quickly accessing the most usual raster and vector formats. In the same view it includes local as well as remote data through a WMS, WCS or WFS.
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gvSIG Features
1. Points of Interest (POI)gvSIG shows you specific point locations of interest like restaurants, hospitals, gas stations, etc.
Apps with Offline Map
Modular System
Based on OpenStreetMap
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The app is no longer updated. Last version, 1.2.3, released in March 2011, can be still downloaded from Google Play Store.
Aciqra
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Free • Open Source
Star Map
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Linux
36 alternatives to Aciqra
Aciqra (uh-SEE-kruh) is a free and open source virtual sky map and planetarium which tracks and displays astronomical bodies including planets, nebulae and stars to an accuracy of a fraction of a degree for thousands of years into both the future and the past.
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Aciqra Features
1. PortableAciqra can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Discontinued
The project is no longer developed. Last version, 2.3.2, released in July 2013, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.
pTolemy3D
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Free • Open Source
Map Service
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6 alternatives to pTolemy3D
pTolemy3D projects goal is to provide FOSS tools necessary to build your own 3D GeoWeb application. The Viewer application is similar in concept to Google Earth and World WInd Java. Unlike WWJ, there is greater emphasis on the Browser as a platform.

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