

The following global mapping/atlas CDROM product was well recommended by 
a friend, and is described in some detail below.

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>/* ---------- "CD-ROM REVIEW: GLOBAL EXPLORER by D" ---------- */
>CD-ROM REVIEW:          GLOBAL EXPLORER                Delorme Mapping 1994
>
>Recently I reviewed MAP'N'GO, Delorme Mapping's travel planning and 
>highway routing package.  I also received their GLOBAL EXPLORER which 
>provided me with another good reason to justify the cost of my CD drive.  
>I managed to spend over five hours in one sitting playing with this 
>fascinating global mapping program.
>
>GLOBAL EXPLORER offers indexed references to more than 140,000 places,
>including seamless full color maps of the whole world showing detailed 
>topographic detail, major highways, political boundaries, bodies of
>water and street maps of 100 major cities.  There are fifteen levels of 
>magnification which allows you to "zoom" in and out showing a whole-world 
>view or close-up with incredible detail.  You can also "pan" the map to 
>any other location easily and quickly with just the click of your mouse.  
>
>In addition to the mapping database, there is a gazetteer interface that
>helps you explore the world, searching by country or category, providing
>descriptions of 20,000 of the most interesting historical, cultural,
>geographical and social aspects of the world.  You can call up descriptions
>of over 100 different categories of features by selecting icons displayed 
>on the maps.  Also included are informational profiles with up-to-date
>information on the geographic, political, economic and demographic data
>of any country that interests you.  
>
>The Streets interface was of particular interest - and the Street Find
>feature.  Once you are in a city that has street data, and there are
>100 major cities in this category, activate the Streets Find function and
>type in a few letters of the street name - you will be shown a scrolling
>list of streets with the letter combination you entered.  Select the correct
>street name and click on Locate.  That's all there is to it.  Also the
>Airnet feature is neat - the database contains the world's commercial
>scheduled airline routes and will display these between any two points
>on earth, showing you (in black) a couple of different options.  The 
>Itinerary box shows you departure location, destination and all 
>intermediate airports.  If either the starting or ending point do not have 
>a commercial airport the program will draw a line (in blue) to the nearest 
>one and add the mileage to the itinerary.  Its truly amazing!
>
>GLOBAL EXPLORER comes with limited print capabilities which allow you to
>copy the current detailed map to the Windows clipboard as a bitmap file 
>which will include any air routes and Gazetteer symbols but not any of
>the text descriptions.  Futhermore, the single-user license agreement
>terms contain certain paper and tangible media copy limitations which
>accord you the right to make map printouts only for personal and in-house
>business or institutional purposes.  So if you plan to make use of
>GLOBAL EXPLORER for any other use, better contact Delorme Mapping at
>800-452-5931 directly and ask.  "Street" price is around $59.00.  Delorme
>maintains a World Wide Web Home Page (www.delorme.com) which is fun to 
>access and browse.
>
>System requirements are: 386 or higher computer, 4 MB RAM, 3 MB hard
>disk space, DOS v4.01 or higher, MicroSoft Windows 3.1, CD-ROM drive,
>VGA, and a mouse.  
>
>I found GLOBAL EXPLORER to be fun and very informative - a valuable addition
>to my personal library of "factual" CD-ROMs.  I can see myself referring
>to it often.  It definitely belongs in every home and school library as
>a primary reference tool.
>
>
>%T      GLOBAL EXPLORER
>%I      Delorme Mapping
>%C      Freeport Maine
>%D      1994
>%O      CD-ROM world atlas
>%G      ISBN: 0-89933-952-2
>%K      world atlas, cartography, mapping
>
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