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From: mantares@mail.crl.com (Michael Antares)
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Subject: Re: CD ROM Mapping Programs
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 94 01:49:46 GMT
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In Article <fbrownCtBE3n.HE9@netcom.com>, fbrown@netcom.com (Fred Brown) wrote:
>Hello:
>
>        I am interesting in any of the CD ROM's (for ibm) that claim to
>have "every street in the U.S.A." on line where you can print out maps,
>etc.... my question is:
>
>Has anyone actually used any of these programs?  Is it as good as they
>say?  Can you zoom into downtown San Francisco or L.A. and print out
>a street map of where you want to go at a level of detail that is
>useful?
>
>        Any replies would be appreciated.
>
>--Val (fbrown@netcom.com)
>I have the DeLorme CD-ROM and all I can say is this is truely the first piece
of software the does EXACTLY what they claim.  When I first got it I looked
for the short road we live on (really just a frontage road a few hundred
feet long out in the country in Sonoma county, CA).  There it was!  Then a
friend bet me the program couldn't find the little village in northern
Alaska that he used to live in--just a few dirt streets with some mobile
homes.  It not only found the town but the street he lived on.

Also they are very nice people.  I had a Macintosh version and was having so
problems with it--probably my CD-ROM player--and they first sent a
replacement disk and then when that didn't work either (and the program had
worked for several months) they sent me a Windows version--all without
requiring me to send back my disks first.  Good people to do business with.
>
>
>
Michael Antares
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