COMPUTER ROUTE WRH AUTOROUTE • Autoroute, the first software package
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from NextBase, is claimed to be able to plot the best road route to any destination in the UK.
It is designed to bring computer routeing within reach of smaller businesses and frequent travellers, and runs on all IBM-compatible personal computers.
Its database contains 108,000km of Ordnance Survey mapped roads, including motorways, A, B and minor roads, most ferries and over 6,000 place names. It only includes the A roads inside major towns and cities, but gives more detailed coverage of the rest of the UK including surrounding islands, apart from Northern Ireland.
The user can express a preference for driving on certain kinds of road, vary the speed of travel, or even tell the program to avoid individual roads or places.
The program is designed to calculate the fastest, shortest and cheapest routes between two places and all can be displayed together, with an estimate of the journey time and the length of each route.
Users can move around the on-screen map with a computer "mouse", and shrink and expand the map from covering all of Britain to a few square kilometres with varying degess of detail.
It costs £130; for details contact NextBase, March House, Chtu-t. Road, Hindhead, Surrey GU26 6PR, phone (0372) 69011.