All of this gazetteer information may be gleaned by clicking on special symbols that appear on the maps. You may turn the symbols off if you don't want the clutter. The maps may be zoomed in or out with buttons, or you can simply click and drag a square around whatever you wish to zoom in on. At maximum resolution, the map is about nine miles wide - anywhere on Earth. Selected major cities zoom into a map width of about two miles and contain many street names.
Additional buttons give air route mileages between two points.
While you cannot print out directly from Global Explorer, you can copy to the Windows Clipboard and paste it into another application. In addition to cities, towns, and roads, the maps show rivers, mountains, reefs, and other natural features. You may find places and things by typing their names. This is like a dictionary, in that you must spell a word correctly for it to be found. It is important to remember that there are many more features not on the list that appear on the map.