View maps of Earth and other planets with PrettyMap! See current day and night regions, learn geography by taking the quiz, enjoy relief elevation surfaces, measure distances between locations and create your own maps with special places! PrettyMap lets you view off-line vector and raster maps and images (such as country boundaries, world cities, rivers, satellite photos), search in geographically-referenced data, visualize and analyze spatial information, extend your knowledge by taking an educational quiz, and edit your own simple maps. PrettyMap is a GIS program with the following features:
all maps are free:
political: country boundaries with country names, capitals, population sizes, ...
major cities with names, status, population ranks and classes, ...
comprehensive set of data for each country, based on the current information from The World Factbook
USA states with areas, population sizes, males, females, age, marriage, race, and household statistics, ...
versatile quiz with teacher mode for vector map databases
distance measurement
support for vector maps (points, lines, areas)
support for raster maps (terrain elevation and bathymetry, images, symbolic)
handles multi-attribute data associated with vector map objects
displays maps of various planets
supports GPS, logging GPS locations, "follow GPS" mode, WiFi wardriving and export to KML/GPX
GPS fleet tracking service: PrettyMap can regularly report locations so that you know where your fleet is, and others know where you are
relief elevation (DEM) view with vector map overlay
shows day and night regions, computes shadow length and sun/north orientation
internet connection not required on your PDA
various color schemes for elevation maps
zoom range from whole planet to meters
multiple, configurable vector map layers
bar charts and color-by option for numeric features in vector map databases
integrated user-defined locations (Points Of Interest) editor for work in the field
synchronization of map data
sessions to quickly save/restore program state
numerous settings to customize the program
Try before you buy! PrettyMap is a shareware with a 30-day evaluation period, then you have to register.
What's New in This Release:
· new option to adjust behavior on startup: don't open maps / restore recent session / open political map / elevation map
· non-ascii (language-specific) characters are now supported in user maps
· user maps can be created and edited for other planets
· while selecting area in the "zoom area" mode, the red rectangle shows the actual area after zooming
· all settings windows redesigned and more responsive
· improved GPS support for older devices (Windows Mobile 4.x) and for some non-standard devices
· "Open Maps" window more responsive (opens and scrolls quickly)
· completely redesigned and reimplemented rendering: faster map drawing and panning
· faster zoom area/measure tools
· improved support for devices with screen resolution above 640px
· faster relief rendering
· numerous GUI improvements
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Supported operating systems:
Windows Mobile 2003, Windows Mobile 5.0, Windows Mobile 6 Classic, Windows Mobile 6 Professional, Windows Mobile 6.1 Classic, Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional
StateResearch StateResearch - This program is a tutor for the states in your country. You have to do research to enter all of them in and the information on them.
This program requires that you have both the 'BeanDLL.dll' file ** and ** the runtime files for Visual Basic on your PocketPC computer
StudentCountries StudentCountries - This program can be used by a student. Each time you learn a fact about a country enter it into the country entry. The fact sheets are stored in the 'StudentCountries' folder in a text file.
This program requires that you have both the 'BeanDLL.dll' file ** and ** the runtime files for Visual Basic on your PocketPC computer
Funk & WagnallsŪ History Encyclopedia Looking for a college-level encyclopedia of history? This is the one for you!
Town Compass® presents Funk & Wagnalls History Encyclopedia 2004 Handheld Edition. This version features 4,195 records; use the built-in Index and Search features to find what you're looking for quickly
CIA World Factbook 2008 CIA World Factbook 2008 - The World Factbook by the CIA contains basic factual reference information on all the countries of the world. The layout has been optimized for viewing with iSilo
RandomState RandomState - This program generates a random U.S. state. Tap the button to display a random state. NOTE: The program will not repeat twice in a row.
This program requires that you have both the 'BeanDLL.dll' file ** and ** the runtime files for Visual Basic on your PocketPC computer
Free Earth Elevation Map for PrettyMap/PrettyEarth Earth Elevation Map for PrettyMap/PrettyEarth - This is a medium-resolution, free Earth elevation map for PrettyMap and PrettyEarth. It contains one elevation sample per 4 km, approximately.
Note: large file (16 MB download, 55 MB after installing).
Note for PrettyEarth users: this map will be installed to Program FilesPrettyMapmaps
SPB Geo Game With SPB Geo Game you can study national capitals and flags
GWordBook US State Information This reference database gives information about the population, the biggest city, size, capital, largest city and much more on every US-State
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