Method for providing graphic map information, an apparatus for performing the method, and a computer readable medium having a program stored thereon that is executable by the apparatus in performing the method

A method, comprising:

• providing, in response to one or more signals received from a portable electronic device situated within an aircraft during a flight of the aircraft over the Earth, a current position signal indicative of a current translational position of the portable electronic device airborne over the Earth and a current orientation signal indicative of a current orientation of a display of the portable electronic device,
• retrieving, in response to the current position signal and the current orientation signal, an atlas data signal having graphic map information representative of a portion of the Earth under the airborne aircraft corresponding to the current translational position of the portable electronic device situated in the aircraft and corresponding to the current orientation of the display of the electronic device, wherein the map information contains a view of the Earth from the current translational position that shows the earth in an elevational view corresponding to the orientation of the display of the portable electronic device, and
• transmitting the retrieved atlas data signal to the portable electronic device situated within the aircraft.