Description:

The Macquarie Australian Atlas on CD-ROM provides a superb collection of maps and related information about the Australian continent.

Wherever possible mapping is supplemented by text descriptions. Exceptional navigation, searching and information retrieval facilities are provided through a system of Tabs and Toolbar.

The Atlas consists of the following map collections:

• Physical or Geographic Maps
  • Whole of Australia Scale 1:50,000,000
  • State level 1:20,000,000
  • Regional level 1: 5,000,000
  • Detailed level 1: 2,500,000
• The Land (Geology, Water Resources etc)
• The People (Population Density, Exploration etc)
• Metropolitan Maps
• Antarctica

Users are able to:

• Use Tabs to move to another map collection
• Zoom In/Out from one map level to another
• Search for places by name and latitude/longitude
• View information about places
• Add freehand overlays or drawings to maps
• Estimate distances between places
• Print maps and related text.

Technical Details:

1. MS Windows application
2. 800 x 600 resolution in 256 or 16 million colours
3. Digital Audio
4. Developed in MS Visual Basic V3.0

Developers:

Designed and developed by Dimension Technologies Pty Limited for Macquarie Multimedia

The Macquarie Australia Atlas is distibuted by Macquarie On-line. www.dict.mq.edu.au