Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Location History Map Explorer – Gamified fog of war world visualisation launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   TimeMap▲325

   Interactive Map of History: millions of people, events, maps

   2024 · oldmapsonline.org · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Displayce▲71

   Playful google maps experimentations

   2014 · jammersplit.de · its alternatives →

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   Globestudio▲84

   Open-source dotted maps and 3D globes for designers

   25d ago · globestudio.app · its alternatives →

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   Cube▲78

   A game about Google maps

   2014 · playmapscube.com · its alternatives →

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   Mapbox Studio▲95

   A design platform for radically custom maps

   2014 · mapbox.com · its alternatives →

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   Terrapattern▲77

   A visual search tool for satellite imagery

   2016 · terrapattern.com · its alternatives →

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   Rising World▲73

   A voxel based open-world sandbox game

   2015 · rising-world.net · its alternatives →

8. 8GA
   gallpeters – A website/API to create a simple, customizable world map▲8

   2022 · gallpeters.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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   Designing Virtual Worlds▲61

   The most comprehensive treatment of virtual world design

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Analyse Asia 132: The Alliance & Blitz-Scaling with Chris Yeh▲53

    The concept and practice of blitz-scaling from US to China

    2016 · content.blubrry.com · its alternatives →

11. 11HM
    Hero Map – Covering the world in a fog of war to encourage exploration▲14

    2016 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

12. 129U
    92K USGS Historical Maps in Dynamic Mosaic▲6

    2014 · demo.northavenue.net · its alternatives →

13. 13GS
    gridvisual – search and visualize EU data (D3.js)▲9

    2014 · gridvisual.com · its alternatives →

14. 14GT
    Geofable – tell stories with maps▲9

    2018 · geofable.com · its alternatives →

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    Reverse-engineered game worlds using WebGL▲6

    A digital museum of video game levels

    2019 · noclip.website · its alternatives →

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    Sitmap – a World in Conflict inspired map maker for Cold War scenarios▲9

    I loved the game World in Conflict (2007) One of those aspects I enjoyed was the maps shown during the loading screens. The colour choices and aesthetics were really striking and made the game even more immersive. Using Claude Fable and some photoshop skills, with a few tweaks here and there. I managed to get something quite useable and probably useless to most people shipped. If you enjoy maps, military, strategy etc, hopefully it is of interest to you.

    Aug 2026 · tomaytotomato.github.io · its alternatives →

17. 17NG
    Nations Graph – a visualization of world history in Haskell and JS▲7

    2015 · rocurley.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Photogrammetry of Seattle landmarks rendered in WebGL▲25

    An interactive tour of four Seattle landmarks reconstructed using photogrammetry and presented in 3D with dynamically-projected photographic textures.

    2022 · arcsineimaging.com · its alternatives →

19. 19EV
    Embeddable Visitor Maps▲7

    2013 · maps.chrismacnaughton.com · its alternatives →

20. 20VV
    Visualizing Visions – Exploring the Rijksmuseum Dataset▲6

    2017 · visualizingvisions.com · its alternatives →

21. 21VN
    Vistaserv.net, a Windows 95-themed Geocities clone▲6

    2020 · vistaserv.net · its alternatives →

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    Glimps▲15

    Explore the world, one glimpse at a time.

    Jul 2026 · glimps.social · its alternatives →

23. 23WD
    [WebGL Demo] Indirect Lighting Using Reflective Shadow Maps▲6

    2017 · erkaman.github.io · its alternatives →

24. 243R
    3D Reconstructions of scenes from the war in Ukraine▲7

    2022 · thiic.cc · its alternatives →

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →