Day: November 13, 2003

In traveling around the US and Canada Microsoft Streets and Trips has been very useful (the program is kind of a copy of DeLorme’s Street Atlas).  You can type in an address or find a museum and then ask “show me the airports within a 20-mile radius”.   It seems to have all the general aviation airports in the U.S. at least.  Sadly, however, this program runs out of data when you get beyond North America (and coverage of Mexico is thin).  Does anyone know of similar software that covers Europe?  Central and South America?  Asia?

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Any digital artistes out there care to share their expertise?  I’d like to find software that is good for preparing a photo collage.  I’d like the software to keep track of each collage element separately so that it can be repositioned or rotated but in the end I’d like to smash it all down to one huge digital file for printing on a 48″-wide printer.  PhotoShop was my first thought but it seemed to me that this would be cumbersome.  Perhaps it is the right answer, though, keeping each element of the collage in a separate layer and collapsing them all down at the very end?

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