National Geographic Presents: 3D Globe | 
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List Price: $19.99
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 2911
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 10 x 8 x 2
MPN: cs-529s
Model: CS-529S
UPC: 781735805299
EAN: 0781735805299
ASIN: B00032HEXG
Release Date: October 15, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Condition: NEW! - ships now from the shelves of our WIDE WORLD MAPS & MORE store
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| Features:
| • | World's first atlas of the earth entirely in 3D-topography | | • | Easy, free navigation, zooming, and rotation | | • | Cartographic, topographic, political, and geophysical maps | | • | Covers origin of the earth, tectonics, volcanoes, weather, and more | | • | Extensive encyclopedia about countries; bonus map of the moon |
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Product Description
National Geographic Presents 3D Globe lets explorers discover the intricacy of our planet, through multiple perspectives. This powerful 2-CD set harnesses virtual technology to link thousands of satellite photos, rendering them into a detailed 3D globe. Zoom and rotate the globe for closer looks at the places you've always wanted to visit!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 1 more reviews...
 Beautiful! July 23, 2006
Alex Vrenios
26 out of 27 found this review helpful
I want access to a world atlas that help me understand current events. I like to listen to short wave radio broadcasts, as well. For example, I wanted to see the details associated with the Israeli-Lebanon conflict and using online media was a brutal experience over my 56k dialup connection. My hard copy atlas was helpful, but a little out of date, so I looked at software products. The MS program was expensive and it had many options that I didn't need or want. (I'm not a kid anymore and don't want online help with my homework, for example.) And the reviews were not too favorable for the MS product, either. 3D Globe comes with a free Lunar Map, as well. I have a small telescope. While this is not a necessity, it is a nice addition.
This 3d Globe thing looked like an easy to use product so I bought it. At $19 I figure I've made bigger mistakes. It arrived today so I put in CD #1. When it asked me what kind of installation I wanted, I noticed that "custom" said it would run without inserting the CD. (Don't you hate the products that make you hunt that down every time you want to use it?) I've got plenty of room on my hard drive, so off we go. After a short while it wanted CD #2, and continued. I had to go through the XP START menu to find 3D GLOBE, but now have it "pinned" so I can access it quickly. (Every other product I've got insists on putting an icon on the desktop.) But that is a trivial nit pick.
Once started, I was immediately impressed with the graphics. I zoomed in on the Moon and all the craters' names appeared. (You can toggle these on and off, I think.) The zoom-in was more than I needed, too - very nice.
Now for the "big test." I brought up the Earth at Night - gorgeous. I switched to Political Globe and brought up the control box. I selected FIND and searched for Mundelein, IL (a former residence). The zoom was only one level, so I didn't see the detail I was looking for, but considering the size of the planet, that may have required an order of magnitude more disk space, and it's enough for me.
I searched for what I thought was a fictitious town in Iran (from a TV show), but it was there! I selected the Nile River and it, too, was centered and I could zoom into it, as well.
Over all, this is a real bargain and I am very pleased with it.
 Why is 3D Globe so good? December 20, 2007
rmckim (Midwest US)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
3D Globe doesn't seem to DO anything much. Click on a city name and it does nothing. Click on ANYTHING and it does nothing. It doesn't even zoom closer than a standard state highway map. So the globe rotates and shows night and day... and you can look up cities and countries. You can do that with an encyclopedia. By comparison, Encarta is a thrill ride IMHO.
To me this software performs like something from the $1.00 CD clearance rack.
Excellent Product, August 1, 2007
Lurie Moran (Chicago, Illinois USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This product lived up to all expectations.The product is user friendly and gives a tremendous amount of information on the differenct workd areas.
3D Globe review October 26, 2007
Jordon C. Andrade (Tampa, FL United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This product is as advertised by National Geographic.3D Globe is very much an atlas in digital form. 3D Globe provides the user with the ability to navigate around the world, with the option of selecting specific countries and researching statistics of every kind on the selected nation,including its history. The navigation tools that are afforded to the user permit the user to acquire closeup views of national boundaries, regions, states, and cities within countries. Additionally, 3D Globe provides the researcher with tools to examine ecological regions that occupy the world as well as climate patterns. A user, for example, can locate volcanoes, deserts, continental drift patterns, mountain ranges, etc... 3D Globe also has an excellent Moon feature. When selected, the Moon feature provides the viewer with a completely mapped out view of the Moon that can be navigated as the world can be navigated in the Globe views. This is an excellent learning tool for children, students, and the entire family. 3D Globe can be used as a digital reference source for research or just for fun! I highly recommend this product as a supplement to an atlas or as an atlas replacement.
Won 'em over January 23, 2008
AlwaysHaveAnOpinion (Austin TX)
I gave this as a gift in the Fall to a very paper-oriented individual . .they wanted a real globe or update Atlas. They were skeptical, but were quickly won over by this product. I thank the other reviewers who shared their objectivity, and together we've "dragged" a software skeptic into the world of "stronger" globe options!
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