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"In terms of maps as information architecture, there has never been a better product than Curious World Maps. We are able to quickly and accurately show locations around the world and that is just as important as the improvements it has made to our workflow."
– Lucas P Aragon, Senior Art Director, NGC Creative, National Geographic Channel, USA
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Your story. And how to tell it.
If you present information to deliver a message, to make a point, and to persuade, you know that clarity is crucial. And if your information includes maps, you'll know that clarity is not always easy to achieve.
On the one hand, you can get your maps from third-party sources, scanning them from an atlas and altering them by hand, adding detail laboriously to clip art outlines, or using expensive bureau services.
And on the other hand there's Curious World Maps - the most powerful and versatile way to create just the maps you want, with total control over detail, style and clarity.
World Maps is an easy-to-use software solution that lets you create the highest quality maps of any location, at 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...
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 and ocean contours. With optional local data sets, Natural Earth coloring, 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...
Put on the style – round the clock
Your style is your organization's face, and with World Maps it's easy to give every map you produce your unmistakeable corporate identity. What's more, anyone in your organization can create maps, because World Maps incorporates style-sheet functionality to ensure that no matter what the content, your house styles remain intact.
With World Maps your designer can create any number of templates for your corporate styles, and your executives, sales people or PR staff 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 work.
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 audience 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...
Multi-Format Output
In today's multimedia environment, you need to be ready with any kind of output. World Maps generates animated sequences in all the major standard definition and high-definition television formats, and in Quicktime and AVI formats for use in presentation software or on the web. You can output still images in every popular image format for onscreen or print use, and you can easily output multiple format versions of the same material. So if your need is for an animated sequences for corporate video or a stage presentation, still and animated content for your company website, and print-quality map images for the annual report, Curious World Maps makes it easy.
Distributed Workflow
For the busiest organizations, the World Maps Network option delivers quality map creation power over your company LAN. With a single Windows server running the World Maps Network software, anyone using just a standard web browser can access Curious map-making power, 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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"We are no longer wasting valuable creative hours looking for or retouching maps. Curious Software has not created just another map program – they’ve revolutionised the map making process and given users the control."
– Michael Lines, Director of Media The Church of the Apostles, USA
"Out of the box, we were creating both still and animated maps by the end of our first day. It is the first time that I’ve seen unanimous approval of a new product amongst our users."
– Rob Ramsay, Manager of Digital Tools Production, The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canada
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