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Jim — Best way to compare these two encyclopedias is to take a look at their paper-based counterparts. Most public libraries will have both on the shelves in their reference section. You're correct, BTW…Compton's IS aimed at the younger market and always has been. Grolier's is aimed at the high…
My remarks were hardly "uneducated." Disgruntled, yes; uneducated, no. And please give your theory about "80 percent accuracy is good enough" a rest. In the case of Chicago's O'Hare Airport, 80 percent accuracy would translate to losing 27,000 passengers every day. Errors in new software packages are to be expected,…
All is forgiven…now, go fix Indiana! (Or at least the map version…I'll stay here and work on the real item.) –Bill
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Street Atlas USA
Message #31478
Hope it's of some use to them…and thanks for passing it along. –Bill
I bought one of the Magnavox CDD461's about three months ago and have been very pleased with it, although I bought mine for looking at reference works — mostly straight text on CD — and so, wasn't horribly concerned about the speed issue or MPC compatability. Heckuva deal at $299…
Helipads makes some sense at least… Although, in that case, they've missed the Indianapolis Heliport, the city's largest helicopter airport. I was reading the fine print in their license agreement last night and noticed that it specifically prohibits you from using their maps for navigating by land, sea, or air.…
Rich — Forum software allows for either the sender OR the receiver to delete a message. You just read the message as you normally would and then type DEL. The system also provides a "Delete message? Y/N" prompt to doublecheck for bad typing. And, yes, I reset the age on…
A curious thing… I left a note here a few days ago for the DeLorme rep who logged on, asking about the abnormalities I'd noticed in the Street Atlas disk (incorrect building locations on several major structures, several places that were razed by wrecking balls more than 20 years ago,…
Steve -I'm curious how these errors could've crept into the program — I mean SERIOUSLY! 20-year-old place name errors? Streets changing and new housing developments I can understand. Anybody will cut you some slack for that kind of stuff with a new product. But you've got three "airports" listed in…
Glad to hear they weren't just ganging up on Hoosierland! –Bill
Street Atlas USA
Message #30680
I just got a copy of DeLorme's Street Atlas USA and did the natural thing: pulled up my address and started looking around my neighborhood. When I pulled back to a 12X magnification view of Indianapolis, I noticed some BIZARRE things…like place names of buildings and institutions that have been…
Tim — FYI, several years back, Mike Wiener from Microlytics, Inc., posted notices in the Journalism Forum on CIS asking for reviewers to test his program, Word Finder. No strings. He would send a copy to whoever asked, once they provided some proof that they were published writers with some…
Beats me! But I'm sure one of the more technically-oriented folks here can help figure it out…. –Bill
Bill — I've had good luck with a local Indianapolis outlet that also sells by mail/telephone order. It's called The CD-ROM Source — brand-new, small, store-front operation and CD-ROM is ALL they sell! Prices tend to be about 30%-50% below most retail shops and they've got an in-store selection of…
#cdrom encyclopedias
Message #29153
Compton's is a multi-volume encyclopedia, aimed at junior high readers. The Concise Columbia Encyclopedia is a 950-page desktop reference work, aimed at adult readers. Someone else here compared the Columbia to a dictionary in size — that's about right. It's handy when you want to quickly verify and fact, such…