Walter Hitschfeld Geographic Information Centre Global Explorer Request CD-ROM at the Reference Desk. Global Explorer is a computerized map of the entire globe in varying levels of detail, with convenient panning, zooming and other tools to help you locate specific places or just explore the world. It provides 100,000 gazetteer items for your interest and information, as well as 100 cities with detailed street maps. Geographic data include national and provincial boundaries, water bodies, urban areas, major highways, elevation data and land coverage patterns indicating wetlands, glaciers, oil fields and other features. Gazetteer items include brief text descriptions for 20,000 points of interest which span categories from archaeological sites to volcanoes.
Airnet interface is based on commercial air travel routes throughout the world.
Profiles use text, statistics and charts to display general information about the geography, government, economy and population of countries and dependencies around the globe.