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“In the past we have used Clipart and Photoshop to add much needed map graphics to our videos, but this was always a slow and tedious process. Now, with Curious World Maps, we can create very impressive maps and do it much faster.”
– Mark Ritter, Operation Manager, The International Mission Board, USA
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The only map you need. The one you're about to create.
In today's data-crowded world, it's your choice of information and style of presentation that determines the effectiveness of your message. When you use a map to make your point, chances are you'd prefer to show data suited to your own purpose rather than make do with imagery designed for the world at large.
With Curious World Maps on your desktop, you have access to a world of information, with the power to filter exactly what you need from it, and the versatility to visualise it the way you want. In about the time it can take to pull an atlas from the shelf and scan the index for a location, you can deliver your own customized image of anywhere on the planet. World Maps' easy-to-use map-making powerhouse delivers the imagery you need - from the global to the local, from strategic initiative to detailed implementation.
Easy to install on standard PC or Mac hardware, and simple to use, Curious World Maps' fast, versatile and secure map-making capabilities are in use in government and non-government agencies around the world.
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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 deliver your message. 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
Curious 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
With Curious World Maps it's easy to give every map you produce your own unmistakeable style, reflecting your agency's design guidelines and informational priorities. What's more, World Maps incorporates style-sheet functionality to ensure that no matter what the content, your house styles remain intact.
You can authorize anyone in your department to create maps, sure in the knowledge that World Maps will deliver stylistic consistency.
With World Maps you can create any number of style templates, and your 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 makes them an attention-grabbing feature of your work, and is just about the best way to establish a wider geographical context for any location.
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 your audience 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 to create correct 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 animated sequences for corporate video or a stage presentation, still and animated content for your intranet or department website, and print-quality map images for reports, Curious World Maps makes it easy.
Distributed Workflow
For the busiest agencies, the World Maps Network option delivers quality map creation power over your department LAN. With a single Windows server running the World Maps Network software, you can authorize your staff to use a standard web browser to access Curious map-making power, while retaining the consistency of your house styles 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 save our master designs on a database. From that master we can improvise and make new maps with great ease, rather than creating new maps from scratch.”
– Marlies Kaesler, Graphics Designer, Studio Hamburg, Germany
“Curious World Maps has saved us a huge amount of time. Before we started it took us at least an hour to create a map with topography. Now, I can create the same map in under five minutes.”
– Joel Thompson, Graphic Designer, The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canada
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