Program:
PrettyMap - View maps of Earth and other planets! ...
Map - Education - Surfsearch
Latest Changes:
** not specified **. View maps of Earth and other planets! See current day and night areas, ...
Description:
View maps of Earth and other planets with PrettyMap! See current day and night areas, learn geography
...
more
More Programs
All Categories for Learning
Main Sections SoftSamba.co.uk
More Info. Program: PrettyMap
View maps of Earth and other planets with PrettyMap! See current day and night areas, learn geography with the quiz, enjoy 3D elevation surfaces, measure distances between locations and create your own maps with special places! PrettyMap lets you view vector and raster maps and images (such as country boundaries, world cities, rivers, satellite photos), search in geographically-referenced data, visualise and analyse spatial info, extend your knowledge, and edit your own simple maps. PrettyMap is a GIS program with the following features:
- 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
- maps available:
* country boundaries with country names, capitals, population sizes, ...
* major cities with names, status, population ranks and classes, ...
* USA states with areas, population sizes, males, females, age, marriage, race, and household statistics, ...
* major rivers
* elevation data for Earth, Moon, Mars
* and many more!
- internet connection not required on your PDA
- various colour schemes for elevation maps
- user-defined elevation colours
- zoom range from whole planet to metres
- shows day and night area, computes shadow length and sun/north orientation
- multiple, configurable vector map layers
- data search for vector map databases
- versatile quiz with teacher mode for vector map databases
- bar charts and colour-by option for numeric features in vector map databases
- relief and 3D elevation (DEM) view with vector map overlay
- distance measurement
- integrated user-defined locations (Points Of Interest) editor, stores notes and values for each POI
- sessions to save/restore program state
- adjustable water level for elevation data
- numerous settings to customise the program
All Categories for Learning
This list is all sub-categories for Learning. Current sub-category is highlighted in red.
For Other Main categories:
Main Sections SoftSamba.co.uk
Main Sections SoftSamba.co.uk