“3D Earth simulation”

If you like looking at the planet through Google Earth then Pocket Earth is an excellent application that allows you to watch and interact with the glorious globe all the way from space. However, there's more to this than pretty pictures. You can search for locations, check the weather - including wind speed and humidity - get information about moon phases, sunrises and sunsets, and see what time it is across the world. There are even thermal maps.

Literally everything you want from the planet is on here. You can zoom in and out and scroll about from point-to-point to track distances between different locations. The graphics are great and the scrolling feature is smooth. There really is so much in this simulation that you should just get downloading it right now.

Languages:

English

Recent changes in Pocket Earth:

VGA resolution support (640x480)
Minor bug fixes

OS requirements for Pocket Earth:

OS: PPC/PPC2002/PPC2002PE

Minimum requirements:

ARM or MIPS processors

Pros

Great simulation
Pinpoint locations
Loads of options including weather and time

Cons

Can take a bit of time to load

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From the publisher of Pocket Earth

Pocket Earth is a powerful PocketPC application that displays an interactive 3D Earth in your palm. We have introduced several new features in this major release (3.0) of Pocket Earth, the prominent ones being GPS support and real-time weather.

Please Note: The demo version may only be run 15 times after which it will expire.

We recommend that you first uninstall any previous version of Pocket Earth before installing this version, just to be safe. If you have created your own map or route files or modified the cities database in the previous version, it is recommended to back them up first and restore them after installation is complete.

Features:

Large icons and fonts for VGA mode
VGA resolution support (640x480)
New Sun/Moon display
Landscape Mode
An updated and Fully Editable 36,000+ city database
Additonal weather information (Wind speed, Visibility, Relative Humidity, Dew Point etc.)
Updated 36,000+ city database
GPS support (NMEA 0183 standard)
Real-time weather for select cities with auto-update
Moon phase, rise/set, elevation and azimuth
Search by city population
Support for multiple skins and fonts
Improved graphics
Display city time and date
Display Sunrise/Sunset times for any city
Display city's next DST transition
Distinct twilight modes: civil, nautical and astronomical
Locate any city by name
Animated rotation to located city
Automatic update of Earth's shadow
Automatic pseudo rotation of Earth
Suspend mode
Interactive 3D Earth rotation
Colorful Physical, Political and other maps
Dual mapping channels with several overlay modes
Dynamic multi-point visual distance measurement tool
Distances in kilometers, miles and nautical miles
Coarse and fine zoom controls
Zoom to selection
10, 15 or 30 degree lat/lon grid lines
Spherical and planar views
Sun spot and Earth shadow in real time
Special Day/Night overlay mode
Sun's azimuth and elevation at any point on earth in real time
Snap any point on earth to nearest known city
User defined snap radius
Lat/lon and antipode information at any point on earth
Tropical and Polar circles
Texture brightness control
Texture smoothing
User defined Route files (for ex. Historical Routes etc.)