# OpenPhillyGlobe

**Repository Path**: mirrors_CesiumGS/OpenPhillyGlobe

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: OpenPhillyGlobe
- **Description**: "Google Earth for Philadelphia" with open source and open data.
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: Apache-2.0
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2020-09-24
- **Last Updated**: 2026-03-29

## Categories & Tags

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## README

Open Philly Globe
=================

"Google Earth for Philadelphia" with open source and open transit data.

**Live demo:** http://www.openphillyglobe.org/

Interactively visualize [SEPTA routes](http://www3.septa.org/hackathon/) and [pedestrian counts](http://philadelphiaretail.com/demographics-ped-count.aspx).  Middle-mouse button drag to tilt the view.  More transit layers to come in the future.

![](https://raw.github.com/AnalyticalGraphicsInc/OpenPhillyGlobe/master/Documentation/Ped.png)
_Real-Time SEPTA locations and average weekday pedestrian activity at Philadelphia street corners in August 2013._

There is a great open-data movement in Philadelphia, but there is not a one-stop viewer for the heterogeneous datasets.  OpenPhillyGlobe is an open-source web-based 3D globe for visualizing Philly's open data with an initial focus on simultaneously visualizing multiple transit layers.

OpenPhillyGlobe is built on [Cesium](https://github.com/AnalyticalGraphicsInc/cesium), an open-source virtual globe engine, and developed in JavaScript.  It runs in a browser without a plugin.

OpenPhillyGlobe is developed for the [Apps for Philly Transit 2013 Hackathon](http://appsforphilly.org/?tag=transit) by [@abwood](https://twitter.com/abwood) and [@pjcozzi](https://twitter.com/pjcozzi) with special thanks to [@matt_amato](https://twitter.com/matt_amato).

OpenPhillyGlobe uses the Apache 2.0 license.  It is free for commercial and non-commercial use.

<img src="https://raw.github.com/AnalyticalGraphicsInc/OpenPhillyGlobe/master/Documentation/alexSmall.jpg" width="480" />

**Data Sources Credits**
* [Philadelphia Pedestrian Counts](http://philadelphiaretail.com/demographics-ped-count.aspx)
* [SEPTA API](http://www3.septa.org/hackathon/)
* [Philadelphia Bicycle Thefts](https://github.com/CityOfPhiladelphia/phl-open-geodata/tree/master/bicycle_thefts)
* [OpenStreetMap](http://www.openstreetmap.org/)

**Artwork Credits**
* [SEPTA](https://twitter.com/SEPTA)
* [Wikimedia Commons](http://commons.wikimedia.org/)

**Links**
* OpenPhillyGlobe on [codeforphilly.org](http://codeforphilly.org/projects/OpenPhillyGlobe)