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FoxtrotGPS – GPS/GIS application designed for small screens

FoxtrotGPS is a GTK+ based mapping and GPS application. It’s typically used to show a moving map showing your position in real time.

gpsd is a service daemon that monitors one or more GPSes or AIS receivers attached to a host computer through serial or USB ports.

GPXSee is a Qt-based GPS log file viewer and analyzer that supports all common GPS log file formats.

Mobile Atlas Creator (MOBAC) is software that creates offline atlases of raster maps for cellphones and GPS devices. Free and open source.

Viking aims to be an easy to use, yet powerful in accomplishing, a wide variety of GPS related tasks. It uses a hierarchical layering system.

ossimPlanet is an accurate 3D global geo-spatial viewer that is built on top of the OSSIM, OpenSceneGraph, and Qt libraries.

Virtual Ocean integrates the GeoMapApp tool suite with the NASA World Wind 3-D earth browser to create a powerful platform.

WorldWind is a virtual globe initially developed by NASA’s Learning Technologies project.

GeoMapApp is an earth science exploration, global topography database, and visualization application that is continually being expanded.

OpenStreetMap is a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. View, edit and use geographical data.

Marble is a small interactive virtual globe and world atlas that you can use to learn more about Earth.

Skyfield computes positions for the stars, planets, and satellites in orbit around the Earth.

THELI is a tool for the automated reduction of astronomical images. It’s command-line software with an independently created GUI available.

PyRAF is a command language for running IRAF tasks that is based on the Python scripting language.

IRAF is the Image Reduction and Analysis Facility, a general purpose software system for the reduction and analysis of astronomical data.