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, Android, iPhone and Android Tablet 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

    Google Earth

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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.

    51 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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    it has better ouality mapping

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    • Google Earth is the most popular Web-based, Windows, Android & Mac alternative to NASA World Wind.

    • Google Earth is the most popular free alternative to NASA World Wind.

    • Google Earth is Free Personal and ProprietaryNASA World Wind is Free and Open Source
  2. Zoom Earth icon

    Zoom Earth

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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.

    11 Zoom Earth alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
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  4. Marble icon

    Marble

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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.

    40 Marble alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • PortableApps.com
    • Flathub
    • Snapcraft
    • Flatpak
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    • Marble is the most popular Open Source alternative to NASA World Wind.

    • Marble is Free and Open SourceNASA World Wind is also Free and Open Source
    • Marble is Privacy focusedNASA World Wind is not according to our users
  5. TerraExplorer icon

    TerraExplorer

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    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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  7. Sentinel Hub icon

    Sentinel Hub

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    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.
    9 Sentinel Hub alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    • Sentinel Hub is the most popular SaaS alternative to NASA World Wind.

    • Sentinel Hub is the most popular commercial alternative to NASA World Wind.

    • Sentinel Hub is Paid and ProprietaryNASA World Wind is Free and Open Source
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    SAS.Planet

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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).

    30 SAS.Planet alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    Yahoo photos as map + Panoramio/Wikimapia as layers
     
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    Spectator

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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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  11. GMap.NET icon

    GMap.NET

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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.

    41 GMap.NET alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Mobile
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    QTViewer

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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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  13. Satellitemap.space icon

    Satellitemap.space

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

    15 Satellitemap.space alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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  14. Relief Maps icon

    Relief Maps

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    Relief Maps is a GPS application focused on outdoor sports, the app is based on an beautiful and high-performance 3D map.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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