What is EarthPlot 2.0?

EarthPlot renders a B&W earth plot picture under given latitude, longitude and altitude values.  Takes several seconds just to redraw the earth image... Kind of the ancestor of Google Maps! :P

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EarthPlot, a public-domain program by Michael Peirce and Marsh Gosnell, is widely available from user groups and electronic bulletin board software libraries, such as CompuServe and BCS-Mac ( Boston Computer Society). The program can draw a view of the earth at any latitude and longitude from 700 to 160,000 miles above the earth (see 'The World According to Earth-Plot"). EarthPlot draws the major landforms in outline only, but it can superimpose a latitude and longitude grid over the globe if you ask for it.

As long as your viewpoint is relatively distant from the earth, EarthPlot's maps are remarkably realistic. However, coastlines are crude approximations and perspectives grossly inaccurate in close-up views. Since creations cannot be saved as documents, you must take a .screen shot and cut away the extraneous parts surrounding the map in order to save it. But despite a few bugs, EarthPlot can produce dramatic maps, including some that would be difficult or impossible to find elsewhere.

Macworld. (May 1987). EarthPlot: A Free Ride. (pg. 167).

Download EarthPlot 2.0 for Mac

Architecture

Motorola 68K

System Requirements

From Mac OS 1.0 up to Mac OS 6.0

Compatibility notes

Architecture: 68K

Mac OS 1.x - Mac OS 6.x

Warning: On anything more recent than Mac OS 4.3, the QUIT and ABOUT menu items crash the whole OS with an illegal instruction error.  It works fine under Mac OS 4.3 and below.

 

Emulating this? It could probably run under: Mini vMac