DeLorme's MapExpert 2.0 offers professional desktop mapping capabilities,
plus comprehensive street level database of the entire US

DeLorme's MapExpert 2.0 is a comprehensive, seamless CD-ROM professional
desktop mapping program for the entire United States that allows users to
customize, scale, and print an unlimited variety of high-quality maps for
any business need.

MapExpert 2.0 for Windows is now available to the public in retail stores,
mail-order catalogs, and directly from DeLorme. The program does not carry
a suggested retail price; it's average street price is $295.

The database in MapExpert 2.0 has been completely updated to provide the
most current maps available, including thousands of streets and
developments that didn't exist a few years ago. The database contains
up-to-date maps of the entire country and includes more than 12 million
street segments and 1.1 million geographic and man-made features. Maps
include city and town names; highway, street, and road names; railroads;
mountains, rivers, lakes, and streams; and many prominent buildings and
monuments.

The maps delineate urban areas and population centers and display elevation
lines to give users a sense for the lay of the land. At any time, users
can call up a map legend for a key to the elements they are viewing on the
screen.

MapExpert users can quickly find a map for the area they want by searching
for a place name, a zip code, or a telephone area code and exchange. Maps
can be viewed and printed at dozens of different scales, ranging from a
coast-to-coast panorama down to a level that clearly shows individual city
blocks. As the user zooms in, increasing levels of detail are displayed.
Address ranges are available in more than 300 metropolitan areas.

The application software includes powerful functions that allow users to
print high-quality black-and-white or color maps; to annotate, highlight,
update, and customize maps; and to place and print notes on maps. A
special printing function tiles the printout of large maps so that an
ordinary 8-1/2" by 11" printer can used to make a mural map measuring
3-1/2' by 4- 1/2'.

Working with a map at any scale, users can add text, property lines, new
roads, proposed developments, notes, shaded areas, new geographical
features, common mapping symbols, or other details. When they customize
maps, MapExpert users are not altering the underlying database - instead,
they create overlay files that can be printed, saved, and edited at a
later date.

Users may freely reproduce MapExpert maps for personal and in-house
business use. They can also copy maps to the Windows clipboard or save
them as bitmaps that can be imported into other applications.

MapExpert can also be linked to the Global Positioning System with the
addition of a GPS receiver and the GPS MapKit software available from
DeLorme. This enables users to track their direction of travel, speed, and
altitude and to display their locations anywhere in the United States on
DeLorme's incredibly detailed maps.

MapExpert 2.0 comes on a single CD-ROM. The product requires an IBM or
compatible 386 PC or higher, CD-ROM drive, VGA graphics display, mouse, 2
MB of RAM, 4 MB of available hard-disk space, Windows 3.1, and MS-DOS 4.01
or higher. A Windows-compatible printer is recommended.

DeLorme Mapping is a 19-year-old company based in Freeport, Maine. The
company specializes in producing comprehensive, seamless mapping data,
with innovative, easy-to-use software that makes this data accessible to a
wide range of computer users. At the consumer level, the company produces
Map'n'Go, a complete travel planner for North America, Street Atlas USA,
featuring street level maps of the entire country, and Global Explorer,
the most detailed world atlas ever produced.

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 MapExpert 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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