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Re:I Miss Microsoft Encarta by NikolaNovak on Monday August 19, 2019 @01:49PM (#20739971)
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).
Re:I Miss Microsoft Encarta by mikeyouse on Monday August 19, 2019 @02:11PM (#20740180)
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)

Re:I Miss Microsoft Encarta by tasogare on Monday August 19, 2019 @02:49PM (#20740563)
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.
Re:I Miss Microsoft Encarta by tripzilch on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @07:27AM (#20745662)
Isn't GapMinder sort of what you're looking for? https://www.gapminder.org/tools/