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, ...
  • major rivers
  • elevation data for Earth, Moon, Mars
  • satellite photos and images
  • lunar mountains, craters and crater chains, seas, lakes, swamps, valleys, ...
  • and many more!
• data search for vector maps
• 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.

See also:

• elevation map packs: North and Central America, South America, Europe, Australia, Africa, Asia

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