Travel & Location Software
Rome2rio
With Rome2rio you can find the best way to get from A to B, anywhere in the world. Rome2rio is a web-based and a mobile application that allow you to compare plane, train, bus, car, ferry, bike share, driving and walking directions so that you can make the best travel decisions. Rome2rio allow you to save time, money and to travel on the routes that matter to you.
Mapbox
An open source mapping platform with that can be used for software projects. Mapbox provides and APIs and SKDs to integrate location into any mobile or web application. Companies like Foursquare, Lonely Planet, Facebook, Financial Times, The Weather Channel and Snapchat utilize Mapbox to create custom maps for their applications.
Yandex.Maps
Yandex.Maps provides detail maps of the whole world. It's the most popular mapping service in Russia, developed by the internet giant Yandex which. It serves over 20 million users worldwide every month, which use the application to find locations and get travel directions for driving, walking and commuting with public transport.
Bing Maps
With Bing Maps you can discover multiple locations and get transit, walking and driving directions when walking, driving a car or taking a train. Bing Maps offers live traffic data and traffic congestion alerts that allow you to plan trips and view the earth from satellite, aerial and street side imagery. Bing Maps is developed by Microsoft and can be used on mobile devices on the go, and on your desktop computer within all modern web browsers.
Qwant Maps
Qwant Maps is a map and navigation service that respects your privacy. With Qwant Maps you can easily find places like restaurants, hotels, supermarkets, bars and other service providers in your area. Qwant Maps is developed by the French company Qwant SAS and is avalible as a global service. The data found on Qwant Maps is reproduces and adapted from OpenStreetMap and is made available to users under the Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL).
MAPS.ME
MAPS.ME provides offline maps of the whole world. The application is used by over 140 million travelers worldwide to get fast, detail maps with turn-by-turn navigation capabilities.
Waze
Waze is a GPS navigation application used by over 130 million people worldwide. With Waze you can get driving directions, traffic reports and orginize carpools. By riding together with others, or selecting the right route with the live traffic map and road block alters you can save money while traveling from A to B. Waze works on both your smartphone and tablet, and can be used for free.
Google Maps
Google Maps is the worlds most popular mapping services. It offers satellite imagery, aerial photography, street maps, 360° interactive panoramic views of streets, real-time traffic conditions, and route planning for traveling by foot, car, bicycle, air and public transportation. Google Maps is available on the web and as native experiences on mobile devices.
OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap is free and open-source community-driven project to create editable maps for the world. The project provides data geolocation data about roads, trails, businesses, railway stations, air ports and much more. The data provided by the community and OpenStreetMap is free to use for any software project that requires maps, as long as you credit the project and its contributors.
Pocket Earth
Pocket Earth provides offline maps and travel guides on your iOS-powered devices. As a traveler, Pocket Earth is a fantastic companion app to have at your disposal. It gives you detailed, fast and easy to use offline maps that can be used in any environment. Pocket Earth support the community driven open data movement and data utilized within the app are provided by people like yourself, and updated frequently.
PocketMaps
With PocketMaps, you can store free offline map on your android device. The project is free and open-source and uses OSM data, Mapsforge-vtm and Graphhopper open source API.
OsmAnd
OsmAnd is a map and navigation application for Android and iOS that uses data from OpenStreetMap. OsmAnd provides offline navigation of maps and tools to better track them. Features provided found in the OsmAnd application include viewing points of interest, creating and managing GPX tracks, using contour lines visualization and altitude info, a choice between car navigation, cycle navigation or directions in the pedestrian mode, and OSM editing.
Google Earth
With Google Earth you can discover the world through superimposing satellite images, aerial photography, and GIS data mapped onto a 3D browsable globe. Google Earth allows users to see and navigate cities, landscapes and roads across the globe.
Mapserver
MapServer is an free and open-source platform for publishing spatial data and interactive mapping applications to the web. Originally developed in the mid-1990’s at the University of Minnesota, MapServer is openly developed and released under an MIT-style license, and runs cross-platform on macOS, Linux and Windows. MapServer is not a full-featured GIS system, nor does it aspire to be.
Garmin Connect
Connect seamlessly with your Garmin devices using Garmin Connect a tool for tracking, analyzing and sharing health and fitness activities from your Garmin device. No matter how you move, Garmin Connect can be used to track your running, walking, cycling, swimming, skiing and more. All data collected can be viewed in the Garmin Connect app, on your mobile device or in the browser.
Hopper
Hopper predicts future prices and help you book flights and hotels at the right time, saving you up to 40%. With 95% accuracy Hopper preditcs prices up to 1 year in advance. In total, Hopper has helped 30 million travelers book trips around the world, saving them more than $1.8 billion to date.
Google Street View
Google Street View, by Google Maps, is a virtual representation of our surroundings on Google Maps, consisting of millions of panoramic images. With Google Street View you can navigate streets across the globe using a 360* navigation system allowing you to see imagery where ever the Google Maps car have been to capture image data.
Airbnb
Airbnb is an online marketplace and platform booking and renting out travel accommodation. Anyone can host on Airbnb in exchange for a 3% commission fee for every booking. The platform is accessible in 62 languages and available across 220+ countries across the globe.
Zoom Earth
Zoom Earth is a web-based application that shows live weather satellite images updated in near real-time, and the best high-resolution aerial views of the Earth. With Zoom Earth you can explore the planet from a fast zoomable map, allowing you to experience recent images of storms, wildfires, property and more. Through the intuetive interface the high-resolution aerial views makes earth come to life.
Flavorit
With Flavorit you can find the best places to eat, and which to avoid. Flavorit is an iOS app that conains a databnase of over 1 million restaurants world whide. Find trustworthy reviews from people all across the world.
Spot
Spot is a platform that help you collaboratively plan trips with friends and explore the world’s best places. It's a new way to discover where to go next, Spot intelligently offers you recommendations from friends and experts you trust. Whether you're planning a small outing with friends, or your next trek across the globe. Save time, stay organized by keeping everyone in the loop with collaborative lists of things to do.
Lyft
Lyft is a ridesharing service based in California, it offers vehicles for hire motorized scooters, a bicycle-sharing system, and food delivery. With the Lyft app, available on Android and iOS, you can match with a nearby driver who will pick you up and take you where you want to go. Just tap request and a driver and the application takes care of the rest.
fitbit
Track your all-day activity, workouts and health with Fitbit. It's an application that is used in combination with Fitbit physical trackers and smartwatches that allow people to live a healthier and more active life.
Strava
Strava is a fitness tracking and competition application that is built for passionate athletes. The application uses GPS to track individual users activity and provides score boards and competitions for users to enter. Strava is perfect for runners, cycklist and athletes on the move that want to connect, compete and measure them selves with others.
Apple Maps
Apple Maps is an app native to the macOS and iOS eco system. The application comes pre-installed with all Macintosh computers, iPhones and iPads. With Apple Maps, you can navigate through the world with the help of directions and the use of maps.
TripAdvisor
Tripadvisor is an online travel platform with user-generated content. It offers online hotel reservations as well as bookings for transportation, lodging, travel experiences, and restaurants. It features approximately 859 million reviews and opinions on approximately 8.6 million establishments. Tripadvisor is available on the web and natively for mobile.
foursquare
Founded by Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai in late 2008. Foursquare's location platform is the foundation of several business and consumer products. The company rose to prominence with the launch of its namesake local search-and-discovery mobile app, now known as Foursqare City Guide, in 2009. Today, Foursquare is one of the most trusted, independent location data platform for understanding how people move through the real world.
QGIS
QGIS is a free and open-source software that can be used access planetary imagery and geospatial data. The platform is openly developed and released under the GNU GPLv2. With QGIS, users can view, edit and analyse geospatial data cross-platform, for Android, macOS, Linux and Windows.
Mobile Atlas Creator
Mobile Atlas Creator is a free and open-source software which can create atlases for GPS handhelds and mobile applications like TrekBuddy. Individual maps can also be exported as large PNG files with MAP file calibration for OziExplorer. Mobile Atlas Creator also integrates well with third-party online maps providers sush as OpenStreetMap.
Map3
Map3 is a decentralized map network, governed and distributed over a p2p network.
Aero
Aero is redefining air travel by providing the next generation of first class, direct, premium flights via private terminals.
TripIt
Unlike other travel apps, TripIt can organize your travel plans no matter where you book. With Tripit you can manage all your travel details in one place and get heads up throught your trip. Simply join and forward your confirmation emails to plans@tripit.com and in a matter of seconds, TripIt will create a master itinerary for every trip.
Booking.com
Booking.com is an online travel agency and booking platform for lodging reservations. The platform provides listings for over 6 million hotels, guest houses and apartment rentals. Booking.com operates from its headquarters in Amsterdam but has a presence globally in over 226+ countries across the world. At Booking.com, travellers can find the perfect accommodation for their next trip.
Vrbo
Vrbo is web-based application that offers marketplace for booking of rental properties such as condos, cabins, lake rentals, beach houses and more. Vrbo was launched in 1995 and has a long track record for providing a quality service to its customers. Anyone can list their properties on Vrbo to reach a global network of travelers. Vrbo is now owned and operated by the Expedia Group.