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About PrettyMap

View maps of Earth and other planets with PrettyMap! See current day and night region, learn geography by taking the quiz, enjoy 3D elevation surface, 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 boundarie, world citie, river, satellite photos), search in geographically-referenced data, visualize and analyze spatial information, download current weather reports and forecast, extend your knowledge by taking an educational quiz, and edit your own simple maps. PrettyMap is a GIS program with the following features:

• Support for vector maps (point, line, areas)
• support for raster maps (terrain elevation and bathymetry, image, symbolic)
• handles multi-attribute data associated with vector map objects
• displays maps of various planets
• supports GPS, logging GPS locations and the "follow GPS" mode
• GPS fleet tracking service: PrettyMap can regularly report locations so that you know where your fleet i, and others know where you are
• displays current weather map, detailed weather reports and forecasts (requires Internet connection)
• all maps are free:
• political: country boundaries with country name, capital, population size, ...
• major cities with name, statu, population ranks and classe, ...
• comprehensive set of data for each country, based on the current information from The World Factbook
• USA states with area, population size, male, female, age, marriage, race, and household statistic, ...
• major rivers
• elevation data for Earth, Moon, Mars
• satellite photos and images
• lunar mountain, craters and crater chain, sea, lake, swamp, valley, ...
• and many more!
• spherical projection
• relief and 3D elevation (DEM) view with vector map overlay
• shows day and night region, computes shadow length and sun/north orientation
• various color schemes for elevation maps
• user-defined elevation colors
• zoom range from whole planet to meters
• multiple, configurable vector map layers
• data search for vector map databases
• versatile quiz with teacher mode for vector map databases
• bar charts and color-by option for numeric features in vector map databases
• distance measurement
• integrated user-defined locations (Points Of Interest) editor, stores notes and values for each POI
• sessions to quickly save/restore program state
• adjustable water level for elevation data
• numerous settings to customize the program.