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- Atlases on CD-ROM tend to be better at pretty pictures than maps,
- so it was with some excitement that I loaded the Ordnance Survey
- Interactive Atlas of Great Britain. Perhaps I was too excited,
- though, because the maps were a disappointment. The supporting
- material is good. You can zoom around Britain using pretty controls
- (shame it wonÆt go bigger than VGA though), and take maps into
- greater detail from 1:6,000,000 to 1:25,000, but thatÆs where it
- stops, at the same sort of scale as a typical motoring atlas. It
- whets the appetite, but you want more. At the very least IÆd like
- to be able to go to 1:50,000 (the old 1 inch to a mile), and by
- preference to zoom in to the beautifully detailed pathfinder
- maps at 1:25,000. Even so, there are some fun details, with
- multimedia provided by photographs, videos, small area detailed
- maps and four dramatic if inflexible 3D models. There is also
- geographical information, a quiz and a map skills section to introduce
- the basics of map reading. The quiz is actually easier than finding
- your way around the detailed maps in the multimedia layer, which
- are fiendishly hard to manipulate.<p>
- Overall - Road atlas maps with multimedia goodies prove
- rather disappointing. Priced around ú40 in the UK. Windows CD.
- Distributed by Attica. Ordnance Survey web site is
- <a href="http://www.ordsvy.gov.uk/">http://www.ordsvy.gov.uk/</a>
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