Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 10:31:14 +0530 From: Samdarshi Pali Dear Mukesh There two excellent commercial software available at http://www.motherplanet.net/ for digital atlas and maps. They have high resolution satellite imagery (1km resolution) and shaded relief topographic imagery with kinds of map layers such as political boundaries, coastlines, rivers, lake and island boundaries, 267 countries and regions, 40000+ ranked cities, 15000+ islands, and 1700+ noteworthy historical earthquakes since 1980 into a fantastic 3D earth globe. 30 day trial versions are available for both the software as large downloads - 97MB & 187MB size respectively. You will need highspeed/broadband connection to download them. Regards Samdarshi Pali