Atlas

Every body flat as a printed map

Beside the globe Kugelblitz shows every body as an atlas: the same data flat in five projections, from the whole sheet to the finest images. You switch in the title bar or with ⇧⌘A.

North Africa, Europe and Arabia in the atlas in Equal Earth, in the corner the two hemispheres with the area the window shows

Projection and central meridian

Equal Earth, Mollweide, Hammer-Aitoff, Mercator or Plate Carrée. You choose the central meridian freely: 150° E moves the Pacific to the middle. Every sheet reaches to 85° north and south.

The whole Earth in Equal Earth on the topographic map, the Pacific in the middle of the sheet with deep-sea trenches and seamounts, central meridian 150° east — The Pacific in the middle, with the sea depths

A sheet without an edge

North is always up, and the edge is no limit: dragging, keys and SpaceMouse go past it, and the sheet turns on under the window. In the corner two hemispheres show which part of the body is in view. You drag the light area with the mouse, from one hemisphere to the other too, and a click flies there the short way.

The drawn maps in the atlas

The road map and the topographic map paint their relief and the contour lines into the ground, write the heights on the contour lines. Buildings lie on the sheet as roofs on every kind of map, shaded by their shape.

Grossglockner and Pasterze on the topographic map in the atlas, with relief, elevation tints, glaciers and contour lines with their heights — The Alps with relief and contour lines

Berlin's Museum Island on the road map in the atlas, the roofs shaded by their shape, from the Berlin Cathedral to the Altes Museum — Berlin with the roofs of its buildings

What belongs to the globe

The atlas is flat and unlit, like print. Terrain, buildings in 3D, day and night, the lights at night and the sky belong to the globe. Imagery, lines, places, names, your own places and events are shown as on the globe.

Saving a picture

File → “Save View as Picture…” saves the sheet as the window shows it, or as a map from above in GeoTIFF format.