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PrettyMapView 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 FactbookUSA states with areas, population sizes, males, females, age, marriage, race, and household statistics, ...major riverselevation data for Earth, Moon, Marssatellite photos and imageslunar mountains, craters and crater chains, seas, lakes, swamps, valleys, ... and many more!data search for vector mapsversatile quiz with teacher mode for vector map databasesdistance measurementsupport for vector maps (points, lines, areas)support for raster maps (terrain elevation and bathymetry, images, symbolic)handles multi-attribute data associated with vector map objectsdisplays maps of various planetssupports GPS, logging GPS locations, "follow GPS" mode, WiFi wardriving and export to KML/GPXGPS fleet tracking service: PrettyMap can regularly report locations so that you know where your fleet is, and others know where you arerelief elevation (DEM) view with vector map overlayshows day and night regions, computes shadow length and sun/north orientationinternet connection not required on your PDAvarious color schemes for elevation mapszoom range from whole planet to metersmultiple, configurable vector map layersbar charts and color-by option for numeric features in vector map databasesintegrated user-defined locations (Points Of Interest) editor for work in the fieldsynchronization of map datasessions to quickly save/restore program statenumerous settings to customize the programTry 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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Format:Software
Date:Dec 2008Version:5.7
License:PurchasePrice:$19.95
Platform:Mobile
System Req:.NET compact framework version 2.0 (or newer) installed.
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