Open Source Apple iPhone GPS Apps

Organic Maps is a free Android & iOS offline maps app for travelers, tourists, hikers, and cyclists. It uses crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap data and is developed with love by MapsWithMe (MapsMe) founders and our community. No ads, no tracking, no data collection, no crapware. Your donations and positive reviews motivate and inspire our small team! Organic Maps is the ultimate companion app for travelers, tourists, hikers, and cyclists. Detailed offline maps with places that don't exist on other maps, thanks to OpenStreetMap. Cycling routes, hiking trails, and walking paths. Contour lines, elevation profiles, peaks, and slopes. Turn-by-turn walking, cycling, and car navigation with voice guidance. Bookmarks export and import in KML/KMZ formats (GPX is planned). Organic Maps app is free from trackers and other bad stuff. Organic Maps is pure and organic, made with love.

OpenLayers makes it easy to put a dynamic map in any web page. It can display map tiles, vector data and markers loaded from any source. OpenLayers has been developed to further the use of geographic information of all kinds. It is completely free, Open Source JavaScript, released under the 2-clause BSD License (also known as the FreeBSD). Pull tiles from OSM, Bing, MapBox, Stamen, and any other XYZ source you can find. OGC mapping services and untiled layers also supported. Render vector data from GeoJSON, TopoJSON, KML, GML, Mapbox vector tiles, and other formats. Leverages Canvas 2D, WebGL, and all the latest greatness from HTML5. Mobile support out of the box. Build lightweight custom profiles with just the components you need. Style your map controls with straight-forward CSS. Hook into different levels of the API or use 3rd party libraries to customize and extend functionality.

ARKit uses camera and motion data to map out the local world as you move around. CoreLocation uses wifi and GPS data to determine your global location, with a low degree of accuracy. ARKit + CoreLocation combines the high accuracy of AR with the scale of GPS data. The potential for combining these technologies is huge, with so many potential applications across many different areas. Allow items to be placed within the AR world using real-world coordinates. Dramatically improved location accuracy, using recent location data points combined with knowledge about movement through the AR world. The improved location accuracy is currently in an “experimental” phase, but could be the most important component. The library and demo come with a bunch of additional features for configuration. It’s all fully documented to be sure to have a look around.

XCSoar is a tactical glide computer for Android, Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Uses camera and motion data to map out the local world as you move around. Uses wifi and GPS data to determine your global location, with a low degree of accuracy. Combines the high accuracy of AR with the scale of GPS data. The potential for combining these technologies is huge, with so many potential applications across many different areas.

Astral Projection is a testing tool for iOS applications that use the CoreLocation framework. AP allows for testing location-aware apps on both the device and the simulator, using configurable location data sources like a GPX file or a remote agent.

Lets you monitor your GPS-phone. You have full control of your own data. Both client software (for phones) and server software is free open source, so you might set up your own server or use the default one at opengeotracker.org

This project is for an iPhone/iPad viewer that is used to display FAA digital aviation charts. It also includes the support files necessary to prepare digital charts as downloadable tiles and a point of sale web site used by end users to obtain the charts. The viewer's features includes generating track points, which can be saved as GPX. The viewer can also be used to plot flights. The point of sale purchase system is Drupal based with a MySQL database. The remote device connects to the database using a Glassfish server and Jersey. This app has been available on Apple's iTunes App Store for over two years and has a 4+ star ratings. I have moved on to other things and while I've been maintaining it I'd like to see it continue to improve. That's is why I'm releasing it as an open source project.

Many people have met the challenge of finding out their location, while not having a gps. We have developed a solution to this challenge. wLBS is the world's first completely open Wi-Fi geolocation system.