Global Explorer Named one of 20 best CD-ROMs on the market

FREEPORT, Maine; June 20, 1994--PC World magazine has named DeLorme's
Global Explorer one of the 20 best CD-ROM titles on the market in its
December, 1993 issue. Global Explorer, the most detailed world atlas ever
published, joins another DeLorme title, Street Atlas USA in the magazine's
top-20 grouping.

Global Explorer is a computer globe that presents the world in much greater
detail-and offers computer users more functionality--than any computer or
printed atlas available today. It helps users stay on top of our rapidly
changing world. They will find the program an essential aid in keeping
abreast of world events, as well as 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 overflow a football field.

Global Explorer is widely available in computer stores and mail-order
catalogs; its retail price is $169.

DeLorme, which has an 18-year heritage of producing top-quality computer
and printed maps and atlases, invested more than 7 years and $10 million
(US) in developing Global Explorer by the time it was released in April
1993.

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
120,000 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 an 18-year-old company based in Freeport, Maine. The
company produces mapping software on CD-ROM for the consumer, corporate,
and government markets. These include Street Atlas USA, a street map of
the entire United States; MapExpert, a professional desktop mapping
package; XMap, a Geographic Information Management System; and GPS MapKit
SV, a low-cost software link to the Global Positioning System.

DeLorme also publishes a series of printed atlases and gazetteers of more
than 25 individual states.

For more information on Global Explorer and DeLorme's other mapping
products, call (800) 452-5931, ext. 8000.

DeLorme Mapping
P.O. Box 298, Main St, Freeport, Maine 04032
207-865-1234,   FAX: 207-865-9291

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