Technology

Earth.org was built on LAMP platform (Linux, Apache, mySQL, PHP). Apart from that the big keystone in the Earth.org achitecture are Solr and Squid. On PHP side we used CakePHP rapid developement framework. jQuery is used for JavaScript. Base of Earth.org is RESTful API.

We use open source only. The only closed component we are using is Google maps.

We aim to bring you a product that is well structured, with an easy-to-use interface that makes finding and adding information as simple as possible. You can access many layers of data - from general demographics about nations all the way down to tips about favorite shops and sights in small towns - so you can enter or explore as much or as little information as you like.

Currently Earth.org is available in two languages: English and German.