Most map assets sold for PowerPoint are pictures. You can move them and you can resize them, and that is the end of it. Change one country's colored and you are in an image editor, or you are drawing a colored rectangle on top and hoping nobody looks closely.
This is not that. Every country, every state, every province and every county in this library is a native PowerPoint freeform shape. Click it and it selects. Change its fill and it changes. Put a number against it and it shades. The whole atlas behaves the way a chart behaves, because it is built from vector geometry rather than exported as a picture of some.
The library holds 385 map scopes and 14,426 individually fillable shapes, 11,240 of them carrying a name you can shade from data:
–The world, with all 257 countries as separate shapes, in a true Robinson projection
–25 regional maps, each cut to a proper cartographic window rather than assembled from a country list, so Europe is Europe and not four fifths Siberia
–257 country maps, subdivided into states, provinces, prefectures, departments or regions wherever that division exists, with neighboring countries drawn in as context
–The United States by state, and all 51 states individually by county, down to the last county in Texas
The geometry comes from Natural Earth version 5.1.2, the public domain dataset maintained under the North American Cartographic
Information Society. It is free for any use, commercial included, with no attribution required. That matters for a document you buy: nothing in this file carries a license that follows it into your own client work.
A reference volume ships alongside the maps. It documents the whole of Natural Earth, all 183 layers and 350,371 features across three scales, and explains which layer answers which question: where the 26 language name fields live, which of the five parallel country code systems to join on, why the same country map exists in 34 national point of view variants, and where the population series from 1950 to 2050 sits. The atlas is the working asset. The reference is how you go further than it.
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Source: Best Practices in PowerPoint Map Diagrams PowerPoint Slides: Country Visualization Toolkit: Editable Maps for Every Country, State, Province PowerPoint (PPTX) Presentation Slide Deck, Advanced Analytics
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