Portable Marble is the portable version of Marble designed to be able to run from a USB flash drive or any other portable device.
Portable Marble is a very useful geographical atlas and a virtual desktop globe designed to enable you to explore other places on our home planet with the utmost ease.
Users can use this tool to look up places, to easily create maps, measure distances and to retrieve detail information about locations that you have just heard about in the news or on the Internet. The user interface is clean, simple and easy to use.
Of course it's also possible to measure distances between locations or watch the current cloud cover. Marble offers different thematic maps: A classroom-style topographic map, a satellite view, street map, earth at night and temperature and precipitation maps.
All maps include a custom map key, so it can also be used as an educational tool for use in class-rooms. For educational purposes you can also change date and time and watch how the starry sky and the twilight zone on the map change.
Here are some key features of "Portable Marble":
· You can pan and zoom around and you can look up places and roads.
· A mouse click on a place label will provide the respective Wikipedia article.
· You can measure distances between locations.
· It offers different thematic maps: A classroom-style topographic map, a satellite view, street map, earth at night and temperature and precipitation maps. All maps include a custom map key, so it can also be used as an educational tool for use in class-rooms.
· For educational purposes you can also change date and time and watch how the starry sky and the twilight zone on the map change.
· Supports multiple projections: Choose between a Flat Map ("Plate carré"), Mercator or the Globe.
· Promotes the usage of free maps.
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