OpenSphere is a pluggable, single-page, GIS web application that supports both 2D and 3D views. It supports hooking up to many common servers and formats such as ArcGIS, Geoserver (and other OGC WMS/WFS services), XYZ, TMS, KML, GeoJSON, Shapefiles, CSVs, and more! Other features include animation of both raster and vector data, import and export of various formats, saving files and layers between sessions, and much more!
Check it out!
- Coming as soon as we roll out the website!
In addition, OpenSphere (and its build system) can serve as a base library for GIS applications. Love what we've done with Openlayers and Cesium but want your own UI? You can do that!
- Java 1.7.0+
- Node/NPM
The build will not run natively in Windows. Perhaps try Cygwin or Linux via a VM or Docker container. It should run great on OS X and typical Linux distributions.
- Clone the project
npm installnpm run build- Point your browser at
dist/opensphere
Got a cool plugin you want to install? Either
cd opensphere; npm install opensphere-plugin-x- or clone the plugin project as a sibling to
opensphere
Then do npm run build in opensphere and it will pick up the plugin.
The 2D view should be supported by IE10+, FF17+, and Chrome 28+. 3D support depends on proper graphics card drivers and WebGL support by the browser (and also a specific revision of IE11).
Even though IE should work, if you use it, you are going to have a bad time. Edge is only slightly better.
- Coming soon!
Please use the issue tracker for all bugs and feature requests. Remember to search first to see if the problem has already been reported.
Our general development guide will help with contributions, plugins, and apps. For plugin development, start with our plugin guide. To use OpenSphere as a library and build your own app on top of it, check out our application guide.
To get involved with OpenSphere directly, see our contributing guide.
OpenSphere is an application used to visualize temporal/geospatial data. The application represents data using both two and three-dimensional models of the earth, and has the ability to handle large volumes of features and tiles. The core of the application is based on Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards.
OpenSphere was developed at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) in collaboration with BIT Systems. The government has "unlimited rights" and is releasing this software to increase the impact of government investments by providing developers with the opportunity to take things in new directions. The software use, modification, and distribution rights are stipulated within the Apache license.
If you'd like to contribute to this project, please make a pull request. We'll review the pull request and discuss the changes. All pull request contributions to this project will be released under the Apache license.
Software source code previously released under an open source license and then modified by NGA staff is considered a "joint work" (see 17 USC § 101); it is partially copyrighted, partially public domain, and as a whole is protected by the copyrights of the non-government authors and must be released according to the terms of the original open source license.
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