# Julia stand-alone app?

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-stand-alone-app/20277
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** question
**Created:** [January 30, 2019, 1:52pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-stand-alone-app/20277 "2019-01-30T13:52:15Z")
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#### Post date: [January 30, 2019, 2:20pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-stand-alone-app/20277/3 "2019-01-30T14:20:24Z")

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If you want realistic maps, some links which might be useful as a starting point:

> [@Package for map visualizations?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/package-for-map-visualizations/1875/8):
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> @amellnik you are right on about this. plotly.js can do it, so PlotlyJS.jl can also. [here](http://spencerlyon.com/PlotlyJS.jl/examples/maps/) are a couple examples from the PlotlyJS.jl docs

> **[GitHub - tedsteiner/OpenStreetMap.jl: Julia OpenStreetMap Package](https://github.com/tedsteiner/OpenStreetMap.jl)**
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> Julia OpenStreetMap Package. Contribute to tedsteiner/OpenStreetMap.jl development by creating an account on GitHub.

But this doesn’t seem to have been kept updated through the last version Julia version upgrades.

Everything at:

> **[JuliaGeo](https://github.com/JuliaGeo)**
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> Geospatial packages for Julia. JuliaGeo has 31 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

However a lot of what you seem to be describing is the GUI.  
Julia is good at the number crunching to make the modelling work. While Julia is good at displaying data, I have thus far not found very good ways for user inputs. Some non-Julia GUI front-end linked to a Julia back-end might do the trick.

Maybe see here for some ideas for GUI options:

> [@Trying to find GUI options for Julia (windows + linux)](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/trying-to-find-gui-options-for-julia-windows-linux/14575/6):
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> The warning is expected. There’s been a couple of fixes very recently, so you could try master (]dev Gtk), otherwise you can open an issue in the repo. Everything running without error but nothing showing is definitely strange.

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