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Oh no, I've been looking for "modern Encarta" for years, in particular something that would easily show me different regions coloured by statistics and criteria - the ability to pick part of the earth, and then colour selected regions by economy, or productivity, or politics, or whatever, was phenomenal. Tablets _should_ be such a natural device for an educational geography product; but with free Google Maps + Wikipedia, nobody seems to be trying (at least I cannot find anything useful in my once-yearly attempts).


CIA World Factbook is fairly close from a data perspective but not super user friendly or polished:

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world...

(Enable Flash to make it slightly less cumbersome)


This is something I plan to work on after getting my PhD in a few years. It's technically challenging, but there is so much things to do pedagogically around historical & linguistics maps on the globe.


Isn't GapMinder sort of what you're looking for? https://www.gapminder.org/tools/




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