View 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 off-line vector and raster maps and images (such as country boundaries, cities, rivers, buildings, roads, satellite photos, digital elevation models and topographies), search in geographically-referenced data and extend your knowledge by taking an educational quiz.

• 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
  • satellite photos and images
  • and many more!
• distance measurement
• no Internet connection required
• data search for vector maps
• versatile quiz with teacher mode for vector map databases
• zoom range from whole planet to meters
• 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
• GPS fleet tracking service: PrettyEarth can regularly report locations so that you know where your fleet is, and others know where you are
• relief and elevation (DEM) view with vector map overlay
• shows day and night regions, computes shadow length and sun/north orientation
• various color schemes for elevation maps
• multiple, configurable vector map layers
• bar charts and color-by option for numeric features in vector map databases
• sessions to quickly save/restore program state
• numerous settings to customize the program

Try before you buy! PrettyEarth is a shareware with a 30-day evaluation period, then you have to register.

See also:

• even more advanced features in PrettyMap

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