Felt vs NASA WorldWind
Felt
felt.comNASA WorldWind
worldwind.arc.nasa.govSide by side
| Figure | Felt | NASA WorldWind |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $199/mo | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 7 | 2 |
| Spec score · GIS Software | 9.4 (#1) | 8.6 (#5) |
| Company legal name | Crunchbase identifies the legal entity as Felt Maps Inc. | The maker is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), a U.S. government agency. |
| Hosting | Felt says data is hosted in the U.S. by default, with enterprise regional hosting, data residency options, and customer VPC deployment available. | The WorldWind Server Kit extends GeoServer to provide a geospatial solution for hosting data. |
| Self-hosting | Enterprise includes regional deployment options and makes self-hosted deployment available. | Web WorldWind can be deployed on an application’s own HTTP server, including an offline example workflow. |
| Support | Professional includes priority email and chat support and a one-hour onboarding session; Enterprise includes a dedicated customer success manager, technical support, and custom onboarding. | The Java resources include API documentation and a community support forum; source code and issue tracking are managed through GitHub. |
| What it does | Felt is a browser-based GIS platform for creating, analyzing, collaborating on and sharing interactive maps, dashboards and spatial applications. | NASA WorldWind is a virtual globe and geospatial visualization platform for exploring and displaying geographic information in 3D and 2D. |
Plans
Felt
- FreeFree
- PersonalFree
- Team$199 a month
- Business$599 a month
- Platform$1,000 a month
- Enterprise$1,250 a month
- ProfessionalPrice not published
In their own words
Felt
Felt is a cloud-based GIS platform for building maps, dashboards, and apps from spatial data. It combines spatial SQL and cross-table analysis with plain-language analysis through Felt AI. Connections include Amazon S3, BigQuery, Databricks, Esri, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, MS SQL, Postgres, Snowflake, STAC, WFS, WMTS, Wherobots, and Amazon Redshift. A QGIS plugin carries styling, symbology, and layer structure into Felt when publishing. Its iOS and Android Field App supports surveys, GPS capture, geotagged photos, offline work, and later syncing. Teams can collaborate on maps in real time, share them, use threaded comments, and manage permissions. The Personal plan is free forever and allows unlimited maps and sharing, but it is for personal use and excludes uploads of your own data files. Professional and Enterprise are annual contracts with prices not published; Professional lists 25 GB monthly data processing and 100K monthly map views. A seven-day trial is listed. Felt supports web, desktop, mobile, API, and self-hosted platforms.
NASA WorldWind
NASA WorldWind has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.