It can contain a variety of high quality maps of Great Britain. These can include small scale maps such as town plans, medium scale maps of regions of Great Britain and large-scale maps of all or specific parts of the country. A user can effectively 'drill down' through the maps to find the location of a postcode unit. It imports custom information about a particular business from a database, including the name, address, telephone number, etc. Information can be imported from a text file or ODBC connection.
Coloured icons can show different types of outlets, marketing areas or population density.
As much additional information as is necessary can be included to meet the needs of the customer. An optional extra is route finding and navigation. Map Address Locator solutions offers a flexible, extensible and efficient solution for a business which operates nationally, regionally or locally with a large number of outlets, customers, marketing regions distributed throughout the country. It requires at least 64 MB of random access memory and sufficient hard disk space to accommodate all of the software, map and postcode data. This depends largely on the size of the geographical region of interest.