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Google Earth VR vs GRASS GIS

Google Earth VR

earth.google.com

GRASS GIS

grass.osgeo.org

Side by side

FigureGoogle Earth VRGRASS GIS
Price fromFreeFree
Free planYesYes
Free trial——
Open source——
Web—Yes
WindowsYesYes
macOS—Yes
Linux—Yes
API—Yes
Self-hosted—Yes
Plans published11
Spec score · Geo Tools7.6 (#14)8.0 (#10)
Founded19981982
SupportThe Google Earth Help page links users to the help community for answers from community members.GRASS offers worldwide community support plus commercial consulting, training and custom-development services.

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Google Earth VR

  • FreeFree

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GRASS GIS

  • GRASS GISFree

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In their own words

Google Earth VR

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GRASS GIS

GRASS GIS is a geospatial processing system for raster, vector, and other geographic data, including terrain, ecosystem, hydrology, data management, and imagery work. It contains more than 500 modules for processing and rendering geographic data, with tools for 3D voxel, temporal, image-processing, and spatial-statistics tasks alongside raster, terrain, hydrological, and vector analysis. Through GDAL-OGR, it supports nearly all common GIS file formats. Interfaces include a graphical user interface, command line, C API, Python, Jupyter Notebook, and WPS. GRASS integrates with QGIS and R and provides PostgreSQL and SQLite database interfaces; its official Addons repository has more than 300 extensions. It is free and open source under GPL (>=v2), with no warranty. The listed platforms include Linux, macOS, Windows, API, web, and self-hosted deployment. Prebuilt macOS applications are signed and notarized. Support includes a worldwide community as well as commercial consulting, training, and custom development.

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