Flash Earth!

Flash Earth alternatives

  • 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.

    tags: Portable map-viewer maps offline-maps planetarium
  • 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.

    tags: elevation geographic historical-imagery image-navigation image-upscaling
  • GMap.NET

  • 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.lv, NearMap, OviMap, CloudMade, WikiMapia, MapQuest in Windows Forms & Presentation, supports caching and runs on windows mobile!

    tags: directions geocoding google-maps gps map-online
  • 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.

    tags: Discontinued maps satellite geographic
  • Urthecast

  • UrtheCast is developing the world's first near realtime HD Earth video stream, via two cameras mounted aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

    tags: api geolocation gps map-online map-viewer
  • Mapline

  • Mapline is the simplest mapping software on the planet! Be empowered with map visualizations from Excel spreadsheet data to optimize logistics, enhance market planning, identify growth opportunities, or mitigate market risks. Create your first map now!

    tags: customer-analytics customer-segmentation data-analysis data-visualization embeddable
  • Earth View from Google Earth

  • Earth View is a collection of the most beautiful and striking landscapes found in Google Earth.

    tags: educational google-earth
  • MapSphere

  • 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.

    tags: gps maps satellite gps-track geocode-photo
  • Earth Browser

  • EarthBrowser is an innovative earth simulation that combines an easy to navigate 3 dimensional globe with real-time weather conditions and 7 day forecasts for thousands of locations worldwide. Live earthquakes, hurricanes, webcams, volcanoes and cloud animations are just some of data that is available in an instant. A great aid to teachers for visualizing earth and space with their students. A must have for anyone who loves to watch the weather.

    tags: maps weather-forecast satellite air
  • SAS.Planet

  • 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). "In package" program supports many "main sources"("maps" in main menu) such as GoogleMaps, VirtualEarth, Yahoo satellite photos etc(some part of maps are local - for Russia, Ukraine and Belarus) And there are functionality of "layers" - sources that can been used independently and simultaneously(Wikimapia, Water resources, Panoramio etc). Also there are placemark manager, possibility to work with connected GPS-device, exporting layers and batch loading.Program is portable and has own cache so it can works offline. ยป

    tags: gps maps