A-Z Mini Birmingham Street Atlas 1.1 for Windows Mobile Pocket PC

From the publishers of London''s best selling paperback street atlas comes this publication designed for a Windowsฎ Mobile-based Pocket PC (version 2002 or later) and Pocket A-Z Viewer (included). The map covers 410 sq km (158 sq miles) of Birmingham, the same area as the current City of Birmingham Mini Street Atlas, and extends from the City of Birmingham to Hill Hook, Roughley, Sutton Coldfield, Walmley, Wishaw, Curdworth, Castle Bromwich, Chelmsley Wood, The National Exhibition Centre, Sheldon, Olton, Shirley (part), Yardley Wood, Hawkesley, Longbridge, Rubery, M5 Frankley Service Area, Halesowen (part), Quinton, Smethwick, West Bromwich (part), Hamstead, Great Bar, and Pheasey. Major buildings are colour-coded to indicate places of interest and other buildings that are open to the public.

KEY FEATURES

GPS
Connect a GPS receiver to show your location as well as direction and speed of travel.

Automatic map selection
If multiple maps are stored covering the same area, the largest scale map is selected automatically.

High quality maps
Detailed colour maps taken from the original paper version have been used.

Moving around the map
Simply click and drag the stylus on the screen to move the map.

Favourite Places
You can save positions on a map, allowing quick return later, or set a location as your home allowing the map to always start from that location.

Zooming in and out
Enlarge or reduce the map by using the magnifying glass symbols on the toolbar.

Fully Indexed
Lookup or search over 42,000 entries for a street, district name, station, hospital or selected place of interest in the index and it's position will be shown on-screen. (Stations, Postcodes and Junction indexes only avaliable on selected maps)

Extra Index Information
The index shows additional information, such as postal districts for streets and telephone numbers for hospitals. Stations in the index show whether a mainline rail or underground connection is available. If a street is too small to be shown on the map, it will still be included in the index, with a note showing its location.

Direction Finder
You can use the Pocket A-Z to show the direction of travel from one location to another. Place the 'person' icon at the start location on the map then place a 'flag' icon at the destination. Then by clicking the 'show direction' icon an arrow appears indicating the direction of travel required as the crow flies between the two points. If the map is re-centred whilst traveling, the arrow will re-adjust to show the new direction to the destination.

Additional maps are also available covering other towns and cities throughout the UK. These can be installed along-side this publication and stored on storage cards to provide a useful library of maps which can be added and removed as required.

System Requirements
Windowsฎ Mobile-based Pocket PC (version 2002 or later). Birmingham map requires approx 20Mb storage space. Installer requires PC with Windowsฎ 2000, XP or Windows Vista and a connection to a Pocket PC. It is recommended that you have a broadband Internet connection to download this map.