Description:
This free pack contains high resolution elevation map for North America, Central America, and Greenland, divided into 7 smaller pieces.
Each tile covers the projected area of 40°x50°, and contains almost 29 million of samples (one sample per square kilometer).
49 countries lie in the area covered by this pack. In alphabetical order they are: Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Cayman Islands, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, France, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Iceland, Jamaica, Kirabati, Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Russian Federation, Saint Lucia, St. Pierre and Miquelon, St.Kitts & Nevis, St.Vincent, Tokelau, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, United States, United States Minor Outlying Islands, Venezuela, Virgin Islands (British), Virgin Islands (U.S).
You need PrettyMap to use these elevation maps. PrettyMap is a shareware GIS program, which lets you view vector and raster maps and images (such as country boundaries, world cities, rivers, buildings, streets, satellite photos, digital elevation models and topographies), search in geographically-referenced data, visualize and analyze spatial information, extend your knowledge with the educational quiz, and edit your own simple maps.
Reviews:
* [Jan 12, 2007] by Michael Duke
I agree. I don't mind buying software, but I detest deception, and advertising this as free software is deception.
** [Sep 8, 2006] by dave
Theres nothing free when you have to pay for the mapping software that runs the maps.
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