Street Atlas USA is a CD-ROM containing colorful, detailed maps of the entire United States. The maps not only label major highways, populated places, rivers, lakes, and mountains, but also show individual street names (with block numbers in large urban areas), airports, parks, and other points of interest. Using a variety of simple tools, you can explore the farthest reaches of the country while seated at your Macintosh.
When you launch Street Atlas USA, a map window and a floating toolbox fill the screen. The tools are self-explanatory, so there’s little need to consult the 24-page User's Manual. You can begin by entering a telephone number, zip code, or city name to locate a particular section of the country. Thanks to efficient indexing, response time is phenomenal even on slower Macs. After you find a location of interest, clicking on a button displays it in the map window. If you already know the approximate geographic location, you can zoom in by selecting the area of the map you want to see in more detail. Either way, the map window updates in seconds.
The license specifically prohibits use for “navigation, tracking, or any other purpose requiring exact measurements,” nor may you “copy any screen display or map printout for publication, outside distribution, or sale in any form.” You are allowed to use Street Atlas USA as a “general visual reference” for planning trips, for example, but in my exploration of familiar areas I uncovered a number of inaccuracies, such as through-roads not connecting, railroads appearing where none exist, and towns missing or misplaced (Los Altos in Los Angeles County instead of Santa Clara County, for example). Other users have reported similar data-integrity problems.
Street Atlas USA is DeLorme’s first Mac product, and it shows in the Windows-inspired user interface. As mentioned, you can zoom in by selecting an area of the map, but the initial mouse-click always defines the upper left comer of the marquee. Also, if the area of interest lies just beyond the visible area of the map, you can’t pan over with a hand cursor; instead you must click on a point where you want the map centered, or click on the appropriate button on the compass rose to jump a full screen in that direction.
It’s hard not to like Street Atlas USA. For the most part, it delivers what it promises at a great price. Most troubling are the inaccuracies discovered in the data, but DeLorme pledges to fix all reported errors in subsequent annual updates. Despite its flaws. Street Atlas USA is a fun, relatively inexpensive, practical demonstration of the power of CD-ROM.
Linzmayer, Owen W. (October 1994). Street Atlas USA 2.0. Macworld. (pg. 73).
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Emulating this? It could probably run under: 
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