Software Reviews : Global Explorer Publisher: DeLorme Mapping,Lower Main St.,POB 298,Freeport,ME 04032;207-865-1234 Year of Publication: 1993 Version Reviewed: 1.0 Materials: CD-ROM disk,user's guide Price: $169.00 Machine Specificity: IBM-compatible 80386,80486,or Pentium com puter System Requirements: Hardware—4MB RAM,3MB hard disk space,CD-ROM drive,VGA monitor,mouse;software—Microsoft Widows 3.1 or later,Microsoft CD-ROM Extensions,and MS-DOS 4.1 or later Effectiveness: Excellent User Friendliness: Good Documentation: Fair

Abstract

Following the success of its Street Atlas USA, providing for the first time complete street maps of the entire United States on one CD-ROM, DeLorme has released the most-detailed electronic atlas ever produced. It contains 100,000 items in its gazetteer, 100 detailed street maps, text descriptions for 20,000 points of interest, commercial air travel routes, and general background information in profiles of each country of the world. It allows on its maps seamless panning and zooming from the global to the local level.