Terrestrial globe

Introduction

" Terrestrial globe " is designed to view the Earth as a globe. Images can be zoomed in and out as well as moved with a pen.

Program controls

Installation. prc file is to be installed in a usual way. Release version is to be installed without deleting the Demo version to preserve already chosen preferences.

Demo version contains about half of cities displayed in Release version. In the Demo version omitted cities in a fixed range of longitudes.

Program designed to make possible to customize appearance of the picture and to view in details any part of the globe. Control buttons are at the left side of the screen.

Fig 1. Two examples of the main screen of the program

The top button is for moving screen image. Hold the pen on the screen moving from begin to end points.

is for getting information about an object you tap. If besides a name the button appears, it is possible to get additional information about one by tapping it. By tapping you will move the object to the center of the screen for zoom purpose. The and buttons are for zoom. Zoom operation works in a way that the center of the picture is not moved.

The button is for preferences. The next screenshot gives appearance of the preferences.

Fig. 2 Preferences screenshot.

Grid. Next picture presents grid steps.

Fig. 3 Grid used in the program.

Tip! The less items are displayed the faster program works. Moreover, if there is no zoom (x1) to many marked items makes screen image overloaded and not readable.

The button is for location, date and time settings.

Fig. 4 for location, date and time settings.

To set the desired value, please, tap on selector or push button.

Menu bar allows to find full countries LIST and easy to view a chosen country. In the screen center positioned the chosen country capital.

Fig. 5 Menu bar.

Also it is possible use any available zoom with menu bar.

Because English is not our primary language we would be very grateful for any comments concerning improvements of this manual.

Version 1.02 Color support has been added

Version 1.03 Bug reported by Simon Yeke concerning m505/515 support, has been fixed

Version 1.04 Two additional zoom's are supported now

Vlad Yudin

Dmitry Nikolayev

October 8, 2003 Dubna, Moscow region.