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"Buying Curious World Maps is the best decision MSNBC made this year. It does the work of two people in half the time, and the results are of much higher quality"
– Lori Neuhardt, Head of Graphics, MSNBC, New York
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You want the world. And you want it now.
Need a map of a disaster zone to cover a breaking story? Want to add animation and 3D features? Need to produce it in your house style in five minutes, ready for air? Curious World Maps is the answer.
World Maps is an easy-to-use software solution that lets you create broadcast-quality maps of any place, any time, in any style you want. However you currently source your maps you’ll be amazed how much faster and better you can do it with Curious World Maps.
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Be a devil for the detail
From global imagery to street-level, even down to individual buildings, World Maps lets you build-in exactly the detail you need to tell your story. Mix any combination of political and physical features, add custom graphic elements and even satellite data to create a unique view for your audience. more info...
Put on the style – round the clock
Your style is your station’s face, and with World Maps it’s easy to give every map you produce your unmistakeable house identity. What’s more, anyone in the house can play, because World Maps incorporates style-sheet functionality to ensure that no matter what the content, your house styles remain intact. Even at 4 am, when the News Editor is at the controls and the graphic designer is asleep a hundred miles away.
With World Maps your designers can create any number of templates for your house styles, and your journalists can apply them instantly and effortlessly to any geographical information they need. more info...
Make the Earth move
With the data at your fingertips and the style just a click away, you’ve got time to make your maps really fly. Adding animation to your maps is a great way to make them an attention-grabbing feature of your show.
In addition to producing stunning map images, World Maps has sophisticated multi-layered animation facilities. You can add any number of overlays, video clips, movies, text and more, and animate everything with the World Maps animation timelines. And your entire animation can be saved as part of a house style, making it easy to apply a complete multi-layered animation treatment to any new map location.
From simple reveals and write-ons to full-blown sequences flying your viewers from outer space to street level, World Maps’ animation facilities give you complete control over every parameter. more info...
River Deep, Mountain High
World Maps lets you show the world in conventional symbolic mapping styles or as topographically-precise real-world scenery - or both at the same time! With the 3D Map Animator option, you can fly through mountain scenery over a landscape combining 3D contours, satellite photography and your choice of map symbols, place names and features. Animate fluidly from a stylised 2D map to a three-dimensional visualisation of terrain with every contour accurately rendered – all without touching a specialist 3D program. Alternatively, if you want topographical data for your 3D animation package, World Maps can export to Maya, 3D Studio Max, and other major 3D programs. more info...
The data you want
World Maps ships complete with built-in databases of the whole world showing political and physical features, over 500,000 place names, relief data, natural earth colour and ocean contours. With optional local data sets, high-resolution DEM (Digital Elevation Model) data, and the facility to import your own satellite image sources, there’s no limit to the detail you can portray. With high resolution data you can focus in on a neighbourhood, a street, even an individual building. more info...
Multi-Format Output
In today’s multi-format broadcasting environment, you need to be ready with any kind of output. World Maps generates still maps and animated sequences in all the major formats - at both standard and high definition. You can easily output multiple format versions of the same material. And for your network’s web site, you can instantly create an internet-ready file of the story you just broke on the TV news bulletin. As a broadcast ready system, World Maps accepts all major image formats in current use, and supports international character sets for audiences around the globe.
Distributed Workflow
For the busiest newsrooms, the World Maps Network option delivers broadcast-quality map creation power over your studio LAN. With a single Windows server running the World Maps Network software, any video editor, news editor or journalist in the house can create maps for immediate broadcast, right from the desktop. Using just a standard web browser and intuitive interface controls you can access all the power of World Maps, from anywhere on the network, while retaining the consistency of your house style by choosing from the saved templates resident on the server.
For more information on the World Maps Network, click here.
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"One big advantage of Curious World Maps is having a combined graphics tool and vector database in one package. There is no need to go through the complex process of creating and importing maps into a graphics package for manipulation."
– Kristof D’haene, Producer, News and Current Affairs VTM, Belgium
"Now my department can quite confidently offer up to five maps for one show, instead of just one. Someone can request a fully animated map right before we go to air for a breaking story and it’ll be there."
– Paul Brodie, Art Director, ABC World News Tonight
"It’s our secret weapon. In fact we’d really prefer our competitors not to find out about it!"
– Mark Montour-Larson, Art Director, KMGH TV, USA
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