“Improve your knowledge of geography with this map viewer”

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, cities, rivers, buildings, roads, satellite photos, digital elevation models and topographies), search in geographically-referenced data, visualize and analyze spatial information, download current weather reports and forecasts, display weather maps, extend your knowledge by taking an educational quiz, and edit your own simple maps.

Features include:

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
Displays current weather maps, detailed weather reports and forecasts (requires Internet connection)
All maps are free

Languages:

English

Recent changes in PrettyEarth:

built-in synchronization of user maps
improved support for some GPS units that previously caused "GPS signal lost" problems after 1-2 minutes of work
redesigned "Open maps" window
persistent selection (i.e. after Search or Quick Find) – the selected object will remain red for 30 seconds
with GPS tracking, in case of Internet connection problems, attempts are made every minute
improvements in the user interface