Malawi Atlas

The Malawi Atlas built in 2008 provides a broad range of health, agriculture, environmental, demographic and economic data and information about Malawi and combines this with some of the information from the Africa Atlas as well. It is organized for easy use on your desktop with the free Dynamic Maps software.

Download the atlas (see the links below) to use it in Dynamic Maps. You can easily add your own pictures and information and even data sets to it.

Downloading the Malawi Atlas and Dynamic Maps Software :

Read the Introduction.
Download Dynamic Maps 3.1 software (22MB)
Download the Malawi Atlas (11.9 MB)
Download the Dynamic Maps Manual (Letter size, .pdf format) (1.2MB)

Sample images from the atlas (click to get larger image):

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How to Get Started:
a) Install Dynamic Maps 3.1.
b) Install the Atlas (it is a self-extracting "zip" file). It will unzip all the files into "C:\Atlases".
c) IMPORTANT: Because this is older Windows software, you need to run it in Compatibility Mode. Here's how.
c) Run Dynamic Maps and "Import" the atlas by navigating to the "Malawi Atlas " directory.

How to Use: The atlas is arranged in Topics. Each topic has various related map layers and related information (document, web links). To access a topic click on the + beside the topic name to expand the list and/or click in the topic box to get the topic. With each topic you can: turn on and off map layers, change the colors and rendering qualities of the map layers, zoom in and out, select map features, and more. You can even add your own program data, documents, and information to this atlas. Dynamic Maps integrates with PowerPoint for the easy and powerful map creation. You can even ungroup the map in PowerPoint to get individual control of each of the map's features!

Adding you own data: For virtually any map layer in any topic you can add your own file or web link to supplement the information in the atlas. Once you do, that information becomes part of the atlas.

Building Your Own Atlas
The Malawi Atlas like many others was created with Dynamic Atlas software. Dynamic Atlas makes it easy to organize, integrate and publish any data and information in a way that is usable to anyone.

Dynamic Maps is free software - so once your atlas is ready, it can be distributed anywhere. Or publish the atlas directly to the Internet.

If you are interested in integrating your own data and information and publishing it into an atlas, or adding new data to this one, please contact:

Find out more about Dynamic Atlas and Dynamic Planet at www.dynamicplanet.com.