Free view maps software for windows

World Maps 1 offers you a free service from Google. It offers images of maps and satellite photos of the entire world and even the route between different locations.

World maps offers stunning views of the Globe.World Map provides the ability to zoom in or out to display the map. The user can control the map with your mouse or arrow keys to move to the location you want.

To allow for faster movement, the keys \"+\" and \"-\" can be used to control the zoom level. Users can enter an address, intersection or general area to search the map.

MapView 4.0.5 offers you a mapping software dedicated to route planning and navigation for hiking and cycling. It is very handy for geocaching lovers. It enables you to plan your trip or expedition from comfort of your home desktop computer.

You can plan your tracks by simple clicking on the map, or you can view track logs from the other people. You can check your tracks with on-line satellite or orthophoto maps e.g. Google maps.

You can manage points of intereset. Wherever you find something interesting e.g. water source, campsite, bivouac, geocache or mountain summit, you can store this places to appropriate categories by selecting place from map or grabbing it from GPS. In anytime later you can browse these points and look round its neighbourhood and it's possible to tell GPS to navigate to that place.

You can measure distance, velocity, azimuth and altitude. It's possible to view altitude profile of your trip.

It's possible to make smaller sub-map of bigger map or sub-map of some on-line map for offline using in your desktop computer or in your PDA for your nature adventure. You can create your own map by scanning some paper map and calibrating it with proper map datum and map projection to gps gets work correctly.

Major Features:

1. Integrated usage of global or national online maps like google maps or USA terraserver
2. Use maps or charts which you scan yourself
3. Support for making submaps from large on-line or off-line maps
4. Support for reading and writing GPX files
5. With cooperation of PDA version you can use your maps in your PocketPC with Windows Mobile 5.0 and above
6. Create or edit Waypoints, Routes and Tracks on the map and upload these to your PDA or export it to GPX
7. More than 25 predefined map datums and easy way to add user defined.
8. Many map projections and grid systems are supported.
9. Map print support
10. Show your GPS position in real time on the map (moving map).
11. Altitude profile of your track
12. Points of interest database
13. Geocaching support
14. Easy way to change to the other map by "maps which cover specified place" feature