DeLorme's Global Explorer is the most detailed world atlas ever published

DeLorme's Global Explorer, the most detailed world atlas ever published is
a CD-ROM map software program that presents the world in much greater
detail - and offers computer users more functionality - than any computer
or printed atlas available today.

Global Explorer will help users stay on top of our rapidly changing world.
They will find the program an essential aid in keeping abreast of world
events, a serious travel reference tool, and an indispensable educational
program.

In addition to its easy-to-use software engine, Global Explorer contains an
unprecedented database of geographic information on a single CD-ROM. If
the program were printed out at its highest level of magnification and
assembled into a globe, it would fill a football stadium.

Global Explorer is widely available in computer stores and software
catalogs. Like other DeLorme products, it does not carry a suggested
retail price. It's average street price is $59.

DeLorme, which has an 19-year heritage of producing top-quality computer
and printed maps and atlases, invested more than 7 years and $10 million
in developing Global Explorer. DeLorme also publishes Street Atlas USA, a
street map of the United States, which is one of the best-selling CD-ROMs
in the country.

Global Explorer features beautiful, seamless, full-color maps of the whole
world. Users can zoom in and out through 15 levels of magnification,
taking in a whole-world view or an incredibly detailed perspective of any
part of the earth. Just as with a free-standing globe, users can scroll,
or pan, to take in different views of any portion of the planet.

The maps in Global Explorer feature detailed topographic information, as
well as national and provincial boundaries, bodies of water, urban areas
and major highways, elevation data, and land-coverage patterns indicating
wetlands, glaciers, oil fields, and other features.

Global Explorer includes indexed, searchable references to more than
140,000 places and street maps of 100 cities throughout the world.

The program also features fascinating descriptions of 20,000 of the most
interesting historical, cultural, geographical, and social features in the
world. In any country, users can select icons displayed on the maps to
call up descriptions of notable features. These descriptions fall into
more than 100 different categories, ranging from volcanoes to wildlife
reserves, national monuments to ocean trenches, and battlefields to
shrines.

Users can also search the database of descriptions, to find information on
any of the features within those 100 categories. When they select a
feature of particular interest anywhere in the world, Global Explorer will
display the correct map, where they can read about the feature.

There are also country profiles with up-to-date information on the
geography, government, economy, and population of countries throughout the
world.

A fascinating function of Global Explorer is its network of world air
routes. Users can ask for a route between any two cities on the globe, and
the program will search its database to display two options for likely
commercial air routes between the two locations and the approximate travel
distance. If users start or end in a city without a commercial airport,
the program will draw a line to the nearest airport, and add that mileage
in calculating the total distance.

The system requirements for Global Explorer include an IBM-compatible 386
PC or higher, CD-ROM drive, mouse, VGA graphics, 4 MB RAM, 3 MB hard-drive
space, Microsoft Windows 3.1, and DOS 4.01 or higher.

DeLorme Mapping is a 19-year-old company based in Freeport, Maine. Other
products include Map'n'Go , a complete travel planner for North America;
Street Atlas USA, America's best-selling map software program, featuring
street level mapping of the entire country; MapExpert, a professional
desktop mapping package; and GPS MapKit SV, a low-cost software link to
the Global Positioning System.

DeLorme also publishes the Atlas & Gazetteer Series, detailed collections
of topographic maps showing individual states in their entirety, all in
handy book form (now covering 27 states).
For more information on Global Explorer or any DeLorme product, call
1-800-452-5931, or view product demos on DeLorme's home page at
http://www.delorme.com on the Internet.

DeLorme Mapping
PO Box 298, Main St
Freeport, ME 04032
207-865-1234,  207-865-9291

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