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Marble is a Virtual Globe and World Atlas that you can use to learn more about Earth. You can pan and zoom around and you can look up places and roads. A mouse click on a place label will provide the respective Wikipedia article.

Web site: http://portableapps.com/apps/education/marble_portable
Download: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/portab ... e?download

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Very cool. I wonder if they will/are allowed to link it to the CIA World Factbook? That would be really useful.

I've added Marble Portable to the database.
If you like it, please vote: http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=2326.

@ lautrepay: Thanks for adding

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Checker wrote:@ lautrepay: Thanks for adding

Thanks to you for the suggestion.

Another "desert island" app: I just kept sifting through the various different views, maps, and overlays. The detail isn't particularly high, but the overall view is very cool by itself. Additionally, the available plugin system made my mind whirl for a second here. The possibilities of plugging in other tools to this already pretty fantastic mapping program are intriguing.

Oddly I couldn't get the sun shading view to appear on all the different map views.