Darius:   You are right about the CD-ROM atlas probably being just a little
to recent a technology.  I just bought a new machine for home, a 486DX2 66 and
it came with a CD-ROM Drive as standard equipment.  A color printer would have
pushed the price up to around $4000.  Here in the U.S. a CD-ROM drive is a
fairly cheap and increasingly common add-on device for new systems.
DeLorme's Street Atlas (Map Expert) appears to be a "best seller" among the
CD-ROM titles here in the U.S.  We find it very easy to use here in the Map
Room at Georgia.
     I had not yet seen "Global Explorer" but  had hopes it would be easy to
use and give patrons a good electronic world atlas.  I have not been impressed
with many of the electronic atlases I have seen up to now, but the potential is
there with the CD-ROM format.  The "Atlas of Georgia" will be out in a digital
format very soon.  It is closer to a GIS of Georgia than the other digital
atlases I have seen.
 
Johnnie Sutherland
University of Georgia