Google Earth Alternatives

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap is a project aimed squarely at creating and providing free geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants them. It is a free editable map of the whole world. It is made by people like you. It allows you to view, edit and use geographical data in a collaborative way from anywhere on Earth.

Features:

• Community based
• Open API
• CrowdSourced
• Police location
• User generated

OsmAnd

OsmAnd is a map and navigation application with access to the free, worldwide, and high-quality OpenStreetMap data. Enjoy voice and optical navigator, viewing POIs (points of interest), creating and managing GPX tracks, using contour lines visualization and altitude info (through plugin), a choice between driving, cycling, pedestrian modes, OSM editing and much more.

Features:

• Apps with Offline Map Support
• Works Offline
• Customizable
• Based on OpenStreetMap
• Points of interest (POI)
• Cycling
• Driving directions
• GPS Location Tracking
• Multiple languages
• Nearby Search
• Night mode/Dark Theme
• OSM-based
• Police location
• Real-time traffic
• Record Tracks
• Text to Speech
• Turn-by-turn Navigation
• User generated
• Wikipedia integration

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.

Features:

• Select map data resource
• Apps with Offline Map Support
• Portable
• Turn-by-turn Navigation

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. Virtually visit any place in the world. Look across the Andes, into the Grand Canyon, over the Alps, or along the African Sahara.

Features:

• Image Upscaling
• Image Navigation

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 and asteroids.