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REVIEW: CD-ROM - STREET ATLAS USA 2.0 Delorme Mapping 1993
This is truly amazing stuff - imagine a search engine and database on a
single CD-ROM that contains every street in the entire country - right
down to the remotest back-roads and displays them in your choice of 13
different magnification levels. To give you an idea of just how detailed
the highest mag level is, if you printed out all of STREET ATLAS USA at
that level the finished seamless map would cover more than ten football
fields!
You can search the database in several ways - by name of a city and state,
telephone area code and exchange or ZIP code. You can also locate areas
of interest by panning and zooming. STREET ATLAS USA database contains
more than 12 million street segments and 1.1 million geographic and
man-made features! It shows city, town, street and highway names, natural
features and topography features such as rivers, lakes, elevation, etc
as well as man-made landmarks such as railroads and prominent buildings.
In the larger urban areas the program will display the street address
ranges, a particularly useful feature. The direct printing function allows
you to print high-quality color or B&W seamless maps at different scales
on any Windows-supported printer.
There is some flexibility in selecting the user interface - either the
STREET ATLAS USA panel or the standard Windows interface. The Delorme
interface is very easy to use. You can easily resize maps and call up
the legend at any time.
STREET ATLAS USA is very popular - it spent a remarkable 18 months on
the top ten CD-ROM list and is the only program of this type I have seen.
The Limited License allows for non-commercial use on a single-user system
and its best to read the license terms and conditions if you're
contemplating anything else. Fortunately, STREET ATLAS USA has a bigger
brother, MAP EXPERT 2.0 available at a higher cost but with many more
features and different licensing terms that may be more suitable for
commercial use. I will review MAP EXPERT 2.0 in the very near future
and will compare the two programs and their respective licensing agreements.
I had a ball with STREET ATLAS USA! It took less than 30 minutes of playing
to become proficient with the built-in interface. I spent over four
hours (much to my wife's chagrin) visiting old haunts, checking out
familiar neighborhoods, towns and other places I know. I even checked
out a (fairly) new housing development in Swampscott MA and it was there!
The database was more up-to-date than I expected. I have reviewed two
other Delorme Mapping software products and I found STREET ATLAS USA to be
just as impressive as MAP'N'GO and GLOBAL EXPLORER but not surprising for
a Delorme Mapping product.
%T STREET ATLAS USA 2.0
%I Delorme Mapping
%C Freeport Maine
%D 1993
%O CD-ROM, average price $79.00
%G ISBN:0-89933-953-0
%K mapping, streets,
(C) 1995
Michael Crestohl
Nahant Massachusetts USA
mc@shore.net
DISCLAIMER: I have no interest, financial or otherwise, in the success or
failure of the book or materials reviewed herewith, nor have I received any
compensation (other than a review copy requested by me) from anyone who has.
All opinions expressed are strictly my own.
Other Internet and Aviation book/software reviews by me can be obtained
by anonymous FTP from: x2ftp.oulu.fi in the /pub/books/crestohl directory.