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 typeApplication types
Platforms
- Linux
- Linux Mobile
- Flathub
- GNOME
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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 GNOME 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 nine of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Google Earth are KStars, Marble, NASA World Wind and GeoLibre.
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Alternatives list
51 KStars alternativesOpen-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.
Germany
EU
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48 Marble alternativesMarble 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.
- Germany
- EU
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
- United States
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
- Germany
- EU
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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- United States
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.
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- Wine
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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