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Globes, maps and viewers that let a person see what a model did.
The last layer of the stack: the libraries and applications that draw a model's output as a globe, a map, a scene or a chart in a browser or on a desktop. They do not simulate anything; they make a result visible, explorable and comparable, which is where most people meet a model. Several run entirely in a browser with no account, which matters for a classroom or a public meeting.
Open-source JavaScript library from Cesium for 3D globes and maps in the browser; streams 3D Tiles, terrain, imagery and time-dynamic data on a WGS84 globe.
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GPU-powered framework for visual exploration of large datasets in the browser, built by composing layers; draws over base maps from MapLibre, Mapbox, Google Maps and ArcGIS.
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Python package from the GitHub account milos-agathon that renders 3D terrain and thematic maps from elevation, raster and vector data, with a Rust and WebGPU renderer underneath; makes still images, vector files and frame sequences without a GUI.
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Free, open-source GIS from the opengeos project that loads, styles and analyses geospatial data in a web browser, as a desktop or phone app, or inside a Jupyter notebook, keeping the data on the user's own machine.
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Open-source geospatial analysis tool for large datasets that runs in a browser: load a file, add layers, filter and animate over time, without writing code.
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Open-source map libraries from the MapLibre organization: GL JS for GPU-accelerated vector-tile maps in a web page, Native for mobile, desktop and embedded apps, plus a style specification, a tile format and the Martin tile server.
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Open-source data analysis and visualization application from Kitware, used to look at the output of simulations from laptop to supercomputer scale.
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