CompuServe Messages

Paul, As you point out there are minor data base errors here and there in both Street Atlas and MapExpert. I suppose that's to be expected with over 5 million streets to keep track of. Overall it's amazingly accurate though. As to which side of the street is the left side and which is the right side, the rule seems to be that the orientation is correct when you are facing in the direction of increasing numbers. I've checked many addresses where I know which side of the street a house is located and the rule applied in all cases. There are two ways to get rid of the clutter of street names when checking block numbers. You can erase all overlay data with the Erase Overlay tool or you can use the Select Overlay tool to select individual street names or other overlay items that you want to delete and then just press your keyboard [Delete] key to get rid of them. Although I haven't tried importing any maps into other programs for printing as yet, I suspect that your loss of smaller type items may be due to no matching printer fonts in WP 5.1 for the screen fonts you were seeing in the preview. I get all the type when printing to my DeskJet directly from MapExpert so maybe MapExpert has some built-in fonts that are being used for printing..just a guess, I don't really know. What I'd like to see is some improvements in the MapExpert print dialog box, such as being able to print multiple copies and having it remember titles and other settings from one printout to the next. A CD caching utility such as SpeedCache+ really speeds up the operation of MapExpert. My setup uses a 3mb RAM cache in Windows and MapExpert can do lots of map work in the same area without having to re-access the CD-Rom drive. regards, Tom