Geography

AmiGlobe98 - The last freeware world atlas

Amiglobe 98 is a world atlas and database with information about 200 countries.

You can choose from four map projections including flat, Peter's, Mercator's or spherical. You can easily zoom in on any area to display cities,rivers, and main peaks. You can also quickly locate a city or country on the map using a drop down list. Amiglobe features a wealth of information about each country. The main information screen displays a map of the country and the flag, and lets you click a button to hear the national anthem play. It also displays general information such as area, population, density, capital city, GNP, and GNP per capita. You can click tabs to learn more about a country's geography, history, people, government, economy, transportation, and military.

Amiglobe does not need installation.

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GIS ObjectLand

GIS ObjectLand is a universal Geographic Information System for Windows.
Key features:
- creation of vector-raster maps with arbitrary structure of layers and feature types;
- creation of themes. Theme is a user presentation of a map;
- control of displaying features depending on the chosen scale;
- spatial data input and editing by assigning feature coordinates and also by interactive drawing with mouse or digitizer;
- sewing of separate pages of an imported map into one unified continuous map;
- copying, merging, and moving maps, layers, and feature types between different geoinformation databases;
- creation of tables of arbitrary structure;
- creation of queries. Query is a user presentation of table built by setting search and sorting conditions, joining tables, calculations and using reference tables;
- copying, merging, and moving tables and queries between different geoinformation databases;
- setting arbitrary links between spatial and table information;
- getting information about the feature selected on the map;
- searching for features on the map by linked records;
- creation of filters. Filter is conditions of feature visualization depending on spatial properties of features and linked table data;
- creation of layouts. Layout is an output form combining spatial, table information and presentation elements;
- import and export of table and spatial information for widespread data formats;
- support of style libraries containing fonts, map symbols, line styles, hatches and fill styles;
- style editors for displaying styles;
- setting for users the access permissions to components;
- multiuser data editing;
- using and editing tables of external database (via ODBC) as linked tables;
- providing automation COM interfaces for user applications.
Free noncommercial version is available for download. Educational institutions can use noncommercial version of GIS ObjectLand in studies free of charge.

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