Vector maps for Earth

Current weather (20 cities) for PalmOS only
Category: Online.weather
User-defined points (vector) (Earth)
20 objects described by 7 features

Credits: Yahoo Weather online for principal agglomerations of the world. You can create a user-defined map and get current weather and forecasts for cities you choose.

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Current weather (50 cities) for PalmOS only
Category: Online.weather
User-defined points (vector) (Earth)
50 objects described by 7 features

Credits: Yahoo Weather online for principal agglomerations of the world. You can create a user-defined map and get current weather and forecasts for cities you choose.

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1996 country boundaries
Category: Boundaries.countries.world
Areas (vector) (Earth)
239 objects described by 7 features
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Country boundaries
Category: Boundaries.countries.world
Areas (vector) (Earth)
3784 objects described by 4 features

Credits: This higher resolution map requires more time to render than the Countries2005LowRes map.

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Low res. country boundaries
Category: Boundaries.countries.world
Areas (vector) (Earth)
3784 objects described by 4 features
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Time zones
Category: Features
Areas (vector) (Earth)
38 objects described by 1 feature

Credits: Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI), www.esri.com

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World facts
Category: Boundaries.countries.world
Areas (vector) (Earth)
251 objects described by 47 features

Credits: The World Factbook

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World facts (large)
Category: Boundaries.countries.world
Areas (vector) (Earth)
251 objects described by 110 features

Credits: The World Factbook

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Roads: Canada, USA, Mexico
Category: Transport.roads
Lines (vector) (Earth)
3933 objects, no properties
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Roads: USA West
Category: Transport.roads
Lines (vector) (Earth)
22320 objects described by one property
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Roads: USA East
Category: Transport.roads
Lines (vector) (Earth)
24693 objects described by one property
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Main Earth features
Category: Features
Areas (vector) (Earth)
16 objects described by 1 feature
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US national parks
Category: Features.parks
Areas (vector) (Earth)
995 objects described by 2 features

Credits: (c) 1999-2003 by Michael R. Meuser

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World rivers
Category: Water
Lines (vector) (Earth)
90 objects described by 1 feature
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Major lakes
Category: Water
Areas (vector) (Earth)
33 objects described by 4 features
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Canada
Category: Boundaries.countries
Areas (vector) (Earth)
12 objects described by 7 features
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USA states
Category: Boundaries.countries
Areas (vector) (Earth)
51 objects described by 51 features
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US airways
Category: Transport.air
Lines (vector) (Earth)
2126 objects, no database features

Credits: Bureau of Transportation Statistics

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US airports
Category: Transport.air
Points (vector) (Earth)
6734 objects described by 1 feature

Credits: Bureau of Transportation Statistics

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Cities, rank 1
Category: Cities
Points (vector) (Earth)
10000 objects described by 4 features

Credits: geonames.org. Populations range from 37 thousand to 14 million.

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Cities, rank 2
Category: Cities
Points (vector) (Earth)
10000 objects described by 4 features

Credits: geonames.org. Populations range from 16 thousand to 37 thousand.

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Cities, rank 3
Category: Cities
Points (vector) (Earth)
10000 objects described by 4 features

Credits: geonames.org. Populations range from 9 thousand to 16 thousand.

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Cities, rank 4
Category: Cities
Points (vector) (Earth)
10000 objects described by 4 features

Credits: geonames.org. Populations range from 5 thousand to 9 thousand.

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Cities, rank 5
Category: Cities
Points (vector) (Earth)
1860 objects described by 4 features

Credits: geonames.org. Populations range from 1004 to 5 thousand.

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Raster maps for Earth

Global
Elevation (Earth)
58M samples (0.2697 per km)

Credits: U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Geophysical Data Center

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Global low resolution
Elevation (Earth)
6480k samples (0.08991 per km)

Credits: U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Geophysical Data Center

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Historical, 1678
Image (Earth)
2134k samples (0.0516 per km)

Credits: Author: Kircher (1678), 'Tabula graphico-hydrographica motus oceani, currentes, abyssos, montes ignivomos'. Source: Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia.

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Land Surface, Shallow Water, and Shaded Topography
Image (Earth)
33M samples (0.2046 per km)

Credits: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Image by Reto Stoeckli

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World lights
Image (Earth)
9331k samples (0.1079 per km)

Credits: Data: Marc Imhoff NASA GSFC and Christopher Elvidge NOAA NGDC. Image: Craig Mayhew and Robert Simmon, NASA GSFC, 2000.

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AVHRR Land Cover Classification
Symbolic (Earth)
16M samples (0.1439 per km)

Credits: University of Maryland; Hansen, DeFries, Townshend, and Sohlberg
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