The program creates pie charts, reports, and spreadsheets, as well as thematic maps. Data can be exported to Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. It includes 1990 census data. Users can use their own data or purchase National Decision Systems demographics separately. It exports maps into PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and Windows applications that can open bitmap files, and it produces pie charts, reports, labels, spreadsheets, and thematic maps.
Users can put maps on Web sites and in promotional materials.
Included are 1990 nationwide census data and several nationwide street-level maps. Daytime populations, business data, demographic updates, consumer spending figures, lifestyle clusters, and crime-risk data are available separately. Users can download data from the program to a PalmPilot palmtop computer or any laptop to track their position through a global positioning system receiver. When connected to a GPS by a portable computer, the program provides verbal directions using GPS Voice Navigation. It also exports maps into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other applications that accept bitmap files.