PrettyEarth - World Atlas and Maps, GPS 6.0
iew beautiful maps of Earth with PrettyEarth! See current day and night regions, learn geography by taking the quiz, enjoy relief elevation surfaces and measure distances between locations! PrettyEarth lets you view 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. PrettyEarth 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)
- displays maps of various planets
- supports GPS, logging GPS locations, wardriving and the "follow GPS" mode
- GPS fleet tracking service: PrettyEarth can regularly report locations so that you know where your fleet is, and others know where you are
- all maps are free:
- political: country boundaries with country names, capitals, population sizes, ...
- comprehensive set of data for each country, based on the current information from The World Factbook
- elevation data for Earth, Moon, Mars
- lunar mountains, craters and crater chains, seas, lakes, swamps, valleys, ...
- relief and elevation (DEM) view with vector map overlay
- shows day and night regions, shadow length and sun/north orientation
- zoom range from whole planet to meters
- multiple, configurable vector map layers
- data search for vector map databases
- versatile quiz with teacher mode
- bar charts and color-by option
- distance measurement
- sessions to quickly save/restore program state
