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About Dapple
Dapple is a global data explorer designed to provide an open and optimal environment for visualizing, presenting and sharing massive quantities of geoscientific data on desktop computers. Dapple lets you browse, discover and display graphically rich data from global and corporate spatial servers – Geosoft DAP servers, NASA servers, USGS servers, and the many, many WMS servers currently available. The Dapple project is an open-source activity sponsored by Geosoft and derived from the NASA World Wind open source project. Dapple represents our effort to make this powerful technology accessible and useful to professional earth scientists.
Geosoft Open Source Software
Geosoft’s research and development efforts are directed to meeting the needs of the global geoscience community within our area of expertise - large volume earth science data. There is no bigger challenge today than connecting the people who study and investigate the earth, with the vast quantities of earth data critical to knowledge development and decision-making.
Geosoft’s open source development initiatives promote improved discovery and sharing of earth data. These initiatives support Geosoft’s vision of delivering a superior data experience to the geoscience community by connecting people with their data – in new and better ways.
Objectives of Geosoft’s open source development are to:
- Improve discovery and sharing of geoscientific, earth data around the world
- Contribute to the existing foundation of open, geospatial technologies through collaboration, sharing and reuse of software development
- Improve our ability to innovate and quickly respond to community needs through support of community development and standardization in data access
Spatial Data Rights
When you use Dapple, you are browsing and viewing spatial data and information provided by web services on the Internet. Some of that data may be copyrighted or have other terms of use imposed by the supplier of that data. To protect your own liability, you should ensure that your use of that data does not violate any rights or conditions that the supplier of the data may have. Geosoft and the Dapple team shall not be liable in any way for your use of any data.
Dapple is a certified open source application - Open Source Initiative (OSI).