Social Source Commons

3D Route Builder is a powerful utility for fine grain control over paths directly in Google Earth.

Arc2Earth was created to convert and publish your ArcGIS data to view in Google Earth, Google Maps or Virtual Earth

ArcView is full-featured GIS software for visualizing, managing, creating, and analyzing geographic data.

Location-based social-networking site.

This software makes it possible to create vector maps which can be uploaded to Garmin GPS receivers.

Housing and demographic data about communities in the USA. The site assembles a variety of data sets from multiple sources, and provides tools and guides to assist in analyzing, interpreting, and applying the data

Virtual globe application with social layers.

OpenGIS-based mapping and interoperable crisis management software.

The basic idea behind Fire Eagle is to become the link between your location and the services that you want to give your location to. You can feed your location to Fire Eagle from your GPS unit, cell phone, laptop, etc, then their applications can use it for whatever task you give them permission for.

Group maps for online communities

Open Source Server of GeoSpatial Information

Tools that have helped create noteworthy GIS (Geographic Information Systems) projects in the Nonprofit realm, with links and descriptions of these projects.

Full-featured GIS tool

The Google Earth Plug-in and its JavaScript API let you embed Google Earth, a true 3D digital globe, into your web pages

The Google Maps API lets you embed Google Maps in your own web pages with JavaScript. The API provides a number of utilities for manipulating maps (just like on the http://maps.google.com web page) and adding content to the map through a variety of services, allowing you to create robust maps applications on your website.

Online utility that creates maps and profiles from GPS data (tracks and waypoints), street addresses, or simple coordinates.

Hosted and mobile mapping software.

Ipoki is a GPS-based social network.
Ipoki lets you connect with others to share geolocation information.

LOTE is an easy to use geographical projection converter, downloadable application

Map Channels is a service that lets you embed a custom map into your website or blog without the need for coding.

Desktop GIS product, standard version has powerful features easily comparable to ArcGIS but far simpler to use.

Maps and directions.

MapTube is a free resource for viewing, sharing, mixing and mashing maps online.

Software for GPS maps creation

Java-based Internet mapping server for deployment of mapping applications.

Mobile GMaps is a FREE application that displays maps from Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, Windows Live Local (MSN Virtual Earth), Ask.com, Open Street Map and other sources on Java J2ME-enabled mobile phones, PDAs and other devices.

Define, map and analyze neighborhood information using preloaded information

Portal for creating and uploading geological maps.

Raster viewing program. Strong search capabilities

PhotoOverlays are photographs that are directly embedded in the Google Earth's landscape, PhotoOverlay Creator is a software tool allowing you to quickly and easily create your own PhotoOverlay.

PixGPS is a simple program for Microsoft Windows that makes it simple to insert the exact position of each photo (latitude and longitude) into the photos EXIF meta data.

Provides basic geospatial capabilities for Plone, enables content to be marshalled into Google Earth or OpenLayers maps.

Prune is an application for managing coordinate data from GPS systems.

Free/Open Source Mapping and GIS Analysis software for Linux, OS X and Windows. Comparable to Manifold or ArcView

Geotagging solution for Mac. It allows you to easily add to your photos and home videos the location where they were taken.

Transforms shapefiles into kml files for use with Google Earth or MapWindow

StarTraX is a program that allows you to relive your GPS journey in real time. High definition images from Google Earth combine with StarTraX to show you exactly where you’ve been.

Site for tagging geographic locations.

Cross-platform (Win/Mac/Lin), open source, full-featured desktop geographic information system (GIS)

Social networking site based around personalized maps.

Enables creation of collaborative maps to locate people, projects, businesses,complaints, activities, community and social issues.

Quickly create interactive world maps through a service that allows you to add your own search query, allow for user-admins and is multiple-user friendly.

Variety of geodata/spacial data conversion tools for use with mapping applications. Home of Zmaps for determining latitutes and longitudes via a google maps mashup