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2. Virtual globe - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_globe

   NASA WorldWind, an open-source virtual globe with stars and advanced atmosphere & sunlight effects. A virtual globe is a three-dimensional (3D) software model or representation of Earth or another world. A virtual globe provides the user with the ability to freely move around in the virtual environment by changing the viewing angle and position.

3. Google Earth - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Earth

   Google Earth is a web and computer program that renders a 3D representation of Earth based primarily on satellite imagery.The program maps the Earth by superimposing satellite images, aerial photography, and GIS data onto a 3D globe, allowing users to see cities and landscapes from various angles.

4. NASA WorldWind - Wikipedia

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   NASA WorldWind is an open-source (released under the NOSA license and the Apache 2.0 license) virtual globe. According to the website, "WorldWind is an open source virtual globe API. WorldWind allows developers to quickly and easily create interactive visualizations of 3D globe, map and geographical information.

5. List of online map services - Wikipedia

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   Online maps can be basically divided by the covered area (global or local) and by the representation of this area (classic drawn or orthophoto). Global online maps [ edit ] These maps cover the world, but may have insufficient details in some areas.

6. Earth3D - Wikipedia

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   Marble, a free software of a virtual globe that allows the user to choose among the Earth, the Moon, Venus, Mars and other planets. World Wind, virtual Earth globe open-source developed by NASA. OpenStreetMap, collaborative project to create free and editable maps. Comparison of web map services; Neogeography

7. World map - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_map

   Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map. Many techniques have been developed to present world maps that address diverse technical and aesthetic goals. [2] Charting a world map requires global ...

8. OpenStreetMap - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap

   For example, OpenRailwayMap is a detailed online map of the world's railway infrastructure based on OSM data. [89] OpenSeaMap is a world nautical chart built as a mashup of OpenStreetMap, crowdsourced water depth tracks, and third-party weather and bathymetric data.

9. Digital Earth - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Earth

   In a speech [1] prepared for the California Science Center in Los Angeles on January 31, 1998, Gore described a digital future where schoolchildren - indeed all the world's citizens - could interact with a computer-generated three-dimensional spinning virtual globe and access vast amounts of scientific and cultural information to help them understand the Earth and its human activities.