The package offers a set of PSTricks related packages for
various cartographic projections of the terrestrial sphere. The
package pst-map2d provides conventional projections such as
Mercator, Lambert, cylindrical, etc. The package pst-map3d
treats representation in three dimensions of the terrestrial
sphere. Packages pst-map2dII and pst-map3dII allow use of the
CIA World DataBank II. Various parameters of the packages allow
for choice of the level of the detail and the layouts possible
(cities, borders, rivers etc). Substantial data files are
provided, in an (internally) compressed format. Decompression
happens on-the-fly as a document using the data is displayed,
printed or converted to PDF format. A Perl script is provided
for the user to do the decompression, if the need should arise.
