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Product Features
- 100 specially selected 1:25 000 scale map extracts
- 100 specially selected 1:50 000 scale map extracts
- 20 new town and city centre plans
- 6 new airport plans
- 5 new breathtaking fly-throughs
- The Great Britain topic quiz
- Fully searchable listing of over 42 000 place names
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Amazon.co.uk Review
The Ordnance Survey Interactive Atlas of Great Britain CD-ROM is now in its fifth edition and features many new extras including 83 town centre plans, ten airport plans and more than 500 photos of places of interest. In addition there are five "fly-throughs" which turn the contours of an ordnance survey map into 3D images--admittedly they don't last long and you can't control how you move through them, but they are neat nonetheless.
There are also two quizzes. The Great Britain Topic Quiz has been augmented so that it covers eight topics including cities and towns, mountains and hills, places and people and countries. The Around Britain Quiz has you answering questions that make up a virtual journey from John o'Groats to Land's End in five minutes.
But it is the map coverage that will draw people into this CD-ROM. The whole of Britain is covered at 1:250,000 and there are "layers" you can add and subtract to overlay a whole range of mapping features from railways to the Meridian line and places of interest. In addition, the second CD contains 100 map extracts at 1:50,000 and 100 at 1:25,000 that cover popular areas like National Parks and are idea for walkers and cyclists. You have to install the second CD separately to get access to these, but there is no trouble in doing so. Printing is easily done from most map views. Ordnance Survey Interactive Atlas of GB 5th Edition is relatively inexpensive software that map lovers will enjoy. --Sandra Vogel
Manufacturer's Description
Do you know where to find Snails Hill and Sanda Island? Could you find your way to Cape Wrath? The Ordnance Survey Interactive Atlas will take you above and beyond your immediate locality to broaden your geographical knowledge of Great Britain.
This two CD-ROM set covering the whole of Britain brings you all the features of the latest vector mapping data. Disk A contains 1:250 000 scale mapping, interactive symbols, 100 specially selected 1:50 000 scale map extracts, photos, fly-throughs, town plans, a map skills section and the Quiz Zone. Disk B contains 100 specially selected 1:25 000 scale map extracts that are ideal for walkers and cyclists alike, covering areas such as the Lake District, the Peak District, Snowdonia, Yorkshire Dales, Exmoor and the New Forest, to name but a few. So as well as planning your route you can also study places of interest around the area, giving you the ultimate opportunity to make detailed plans for trips, days out or walks.
Data scales
The whole of Great Britain at 1:250 000 scale, showing features such as contour lines and spot heights. Selected areas can be examined in fine detail with 1:50 000 scale map extracts on disk A and 1:25 000 scale map extracts on disk B.
Town and city centre plans
There are 20 additional town plans - taking the total to 83 - covering places such as Wolverhampton, Torquay, Huddersfield, Southport and Penzance.
Advanced Layers
Greater flexibility over previous editions to customise the map content by using the expanded layer control facility to switch off unwanted information.
Personalise your maps
Place your own map pins on areas of special interest. Save favourite map views using the bookmark facility or add text or web links to the pins.
Printing
All maps can be printed, either as a basic copy or a high-quality print. Maps can also be saved to file as bitmap images.
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142 of 143 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Very pretty, but not much practical use,
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This review is from: Ordnance Survey Interactive Atlas of GB 5th Edition (CD-ROM)
If you expected this to be a substitute for your Landranger or Explorer maps, think again.It's okay for motorists I suppose, and quite easy to use and navigate around, but for walkers it is useless. The 100 extracts at 1:25000 cover such miniscule areas, that you wonder why they bothered. For instance, what if you wanted to use the maps to do a walk in the Yorkshire Dales; the Three Peaks say? Er, no. 'Fraid not. It would have been nice to be able to print out the relevant bits of an Explorer map and take them instead of folding the real thing into some new contortion, but this CDRom simply isn't suitable. Not really sure who would benefit from it. Even motorists won't unless they have a PC in their car...
155 of 157 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
OS Interactive Atlas fails to impress,
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This review is from: Ordnance Survey Interactive Atlas of GB 5th Edition (CD-ROM)
If you think that by buying this software you will never have to buy another OS map - forget it. The claim that the "100 specially selected 1:25000 map extracts" are "ideal for walkers and cyclists" is clearly absurd when you realise that each one covers an area of around 6km.x 6km. Any cyclist would get from one side of the map to the other in under half an hour.In a popular area like Snowdonia, the "extracts" cover less than 10% of the area covered by the Landranger 115 map. The town plans are good as far as they go - but they don't go far enough. London, for example stops at Camden Town in the north and Clapham in the south. The 1:250,000 map of Gt. Britain is an excellent motorists map, but you still get the feeling that it has been done better by other people.
57 of 58 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
beware the * on the front cover,
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This review is from: Ordnance Survey Interactive Atlas of GB 5th Edition (CD-ROM)
This is the most pointless product I've ever wasted money on. The front cover states that it is 'ideal for walkers & cyclists' yet it does not detail public footpaths or bridle paths. The bitmaps are unuseable and the interface is clunky and non-standard for a windows product.Spend the extra £20 & buy a product such as Anquet maps.
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