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Pretty Map Basic - Earth Atlas, Moon and Mars Maps 5.3
Shareware 
Latest update : Jul 08, 2006
File Size: 6420 KB
Download: available

Min Requirements:

Any Palm OS hardware
Palm OS 5.0

Author: Maciej Komosinski
Info/description:

PrettyMap is a GIS program for PDAs, currently available for the Palm platform. This mapping software lets you view vector and raster maps and images (such as country boundaries, world cities, rivers, buildings, streets, satellite photos, digital elevation models and topographies), search in geographically-referenced data, visualize and analyze spatial information, extend your knowledge with the educational quiz, and edit your own simple maps.

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
* all maps are free:
-- political: 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
-- satellite photos and images
-- lunar mountains, craters and crater chains, seas, lakes, swamps, valleys, ...
<-- and many more!
* spheral projection
* relief and 3D elevation (DEM) view with vector map overlay
* shows day and night area, computes shadow length and sun/north orientation
* internet connection not required on your PDA
* 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
PrettyMap is a shareware with a 30-day evaluation period, then you have to register.

Updated Description:
* fixed "Vector map layers/New map..." that would only work with another user map selected
* while editing text fields, the MENU key will now open a window with clipboard options: cut/copy/paste/clear
* while editing text fields, the ALT key on Treos will open a keyboard with special characters
* in the vector layers window, layer order has been reversed: top layer is now on top
* you can now open the vector layers window when no vector maps are open
* "move selected here" in context menu appears only for selected points on user maps
* removed the limit if 15000 objects per vector map layer
* faster loading of data in vector maps
* faster saving of user-editable maps
* improved memory management: you can open more vector maps
* fixed reporting of free memory in the "About" window
* fixed display issue when logging GPS locations
* "Search" can now be assigned to a hardware button
* improved synchronization window and a step-by-step sync procedure
* new LayerOrder field in map styles lets you influence/force ordering of vector maps of a given category (see the gfx/default.txt file for details)
* altitude is recorded in GPS log maps
* the GPX exporter now provides speed in m/s, not km/h
* PrettyMap-powered mobile apps can be used to edit geo-located records in customized relational databases (e.g. landmark types associated with locations associated with offices associated with people, etc.)
* numerous improvements in the user interface


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