Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Terradactile
Generate DEM and hillshade COGs for geospatial development.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Terradactile launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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I've been working on this project for about 4 years. It began as terrain only because world wide elevation data was publicly available. I then added buildings from OpenStreetMap (crowd sourced) and more recently from Overture Maps data. Some computer vision/machine learning advancements [1] in the past few years have made it possible to estimate tree canopy heights using satellite imagery alone making it possible to finally add trees to the map. The data isn't perfect, but it's within +/- 3 meters of so. Good enough to give a general idea for any location on Earth. Happy to answer…
2024 · shademap.app · its alternatives →
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I made a web app to generate 3D models of real places on earth from land cover and elevation data. Click anywhere on the map to get a polygon, and then click "generate". It should work at most scales, but if your watershed or region selection is too large, the result can be less exciting because it's so flat. As a warning, the 3D models can sometimes be too much for my phone. It's nicer on desktop. I'm still working better on mobile support. The land cover data I'm using gives a cool effect, but at some point I'd like to add in global imagery and clouds. The backend is a Python thread…
2025 · topography.jessekv.com · its alternatives →
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An interactive CSS terrain generator. Define a grid and generate your terrain!
Nov 2025 · terra.layoutit.com · its alternatives →
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Flexible tool to build planet-scale vector tilesets from OpenStreetMap data fast - onthegomap/planetiler
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 5AR
2018 · tylermw.com · its alternatives →
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Satellite imagery for dummies. Contribute to plant99/felicette development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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TerraForge3D▲69Free Opensource Procedural 3D Modelling and Texturing Tool
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 8LA
LayoutIt! offers easy frontend tools: Bootstrap builder, CSS Grid generator, VoxCSS voxel engine, tokens, terrains, SVG tools and more to kick-start your UI development.
2018 · layoutit.com · its alternatives →
- 9TD
2022 · terragen.dev · its alternatives →
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Digger is enterprise-ready, self-hostable infrastructure tooling. Terraform CI/CD, drift detection, PR automation, and state management. Open source DevOps for cloud-native teams.
2021 · diggerdev.com · its alternatives →
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It's free to play on steam, but you'll need a computer with a dedicated graphics card. I just released a new version after first releasing it 18 months ago. It's been a hard slog to scrounge time as it's not my day job but that's life. There's a ton of obvious improvements in the future (weather systems, temperature, varying rainfall, ice/snow, more biomes, more plate tectonics, lava, etc) but all suggestions/feedback is welcome.
2023 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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Google released an API in May to get fetch 3D Tiles of anywhere on Earth. Using this in standard 3D engines like Blender is tricky because (1) the tiles are in a geographic coordinate system (2) you get a lot of little tiles at varying quality levels I wanted to simplify this so all you need to do is get an API key, select a map region and a zoom level, and get one combined glTF file that you can throw into any engine. Especially if you're just prototyping and want to see how this data looks in your engine before investing in figuring out all the nuances of the API & coordinate system. (Note…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Atlas is the AI-native GIS. Build maps, dashboards, and spatial workflows from a conversation — GIS-grade analysis, accessible to your whole team. Trusted by energy developers, asset managers, and field operations teams.
2024 · atlas.co · its alternatives →
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Open 3D terrain generator from real world data
2019 · elevationapi.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I’m building Corviont, a self-hosted offline maps appliance (tiles + routing + search) for edge/on-prem devices. Hosted demo (no install): https://demo.corviont.com/ Self-host (Docker Compose repo): https://github.com/corviont/monaco-demo Docs: https://www.corviont.com/docs What’s inside: - Vector tiles served locally (PMTiles) - Routing served locally (Valhalla) - Offline geocoding/search + reverse (SQLite Nominatim-based index) - MapLibre UI wired to the local endpoints After the initial image + data pulls, it runs fully…
Jan 2026 · corviont.com · its alternatives →
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Explore advanced web development for online casinos at Juliango 202. Learn about programming languages, RNG algorithms, and secure platform architecture.
2018 · juliango202.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, we're Lucas and Lucas, the authors of Layerform (https://github.com/ergomake/layerform). Layerform is an open-source tool for setting up development environments using plain .tf files. We allow each engineer to create their own "staging" environment and reuse infrastructure. Whenever engineers run layerform spawn, we use plain .tf files to give them their own "staging" environment that looks just like production. Many teams have a single (or too few) staging environments, which developers have to queue to use. This is particularly a problem when a system is large,…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
17d ago · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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I'm working on a GPS track visualizer for quite some time. It shines in hilly and mountaineous terrain (where a 3D view makes more sense), but it also offers quite a lot of Strava-like features (statistics etc.). You can upload your GPX and FIT files manually, or sync directly with Garmin, Coros and Polar. See https://cubetrek.com for the live app and check out some examples there. It's free and opens source. Also, anyone who likes to work with 3D visualizations (especially Babylon.js), let me know if you like to help polish this thing further.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Create your own 3D printable scenery, buildings and dungeons
2021 · terraintinker.com · its alternatives →
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Creating and edit geospatial data in your browser
2016 · mapbox.com · its alternatives →
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