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There are a couple of different products produced by AutoMap - AutoRoute
Express of G.B. and AutoRoute Express of U.K.+Ireland, but these are based
on 1:250,000 scale mapping. There are equivalent cd's for Belgium, Finland,
Europe, Germany, Austria, Australia, etc.
One reason there is not a Street Atlas USA equivalent for the U.K. are the
high copyright fees that commercial companies have to pay OS for using their
base maps - they are free here. Another problem is the size of the market.
I heard a figure at a mapping convention that there were (in Feb. 1996)
500,000 cd-rom drives installed in the UK while at the same time there were
12 million in the USA - a huge difference in market size.
I would think that the British AA would eventually come out with a detailed
routeplanner cd.
Russell Guy
Omni Resources
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At 04:18 PM 4/11/97 EDT, you wrote:
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> This is a more mundane request for personal use but: Does anyone
>know if there is a CD-ROM of all of the roads/highways in the United Kingdom
>that is similar to "Precision Mapping" or "DeLorne" in the United States?
>Thats one that goes down to the 500-foot scale, finds streets/roads by "ZIP"
>code and/or area.
>
> I've checked with several book stores in the UK via the Internet and
>found nothing but it would seem to me that both Britains and other tourists
>would make a big, big market for such a travel aid.
>
> Thanks for any help that might come my way.
>
> Fred Schaff, Spring Grove, PA, <[log in to unmask]>
>Fred Schaff, Spring Grove, PA, <[log in to unmask]
>
>"The Meek shall inherit the Earth. The Rest of Us will go to the Stars."
> John W. Campbell
>
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