Directions Magazine has announced an expansion of services for its subscribers and visitors by launching “MapMart on Directions,” an online store for purchasing maps and digital geographic data. The new store represents a strategic collaboration with MapMart, a division of IntraSearch, that provides the ability to research, select, and purchase an extensive array of paper and digital map data products, as well as softwares.
Each visitor’s experience to the MapMart on Directions online store is enhanced by the ability to interactively select his or her area of interest from a map-based interface. The visitor can zoom to a region of interest and they will be shown the areas for which each data product is available for purchase, with most products available for immediate downloading. In addition, the MapMart on Directions website is powered by a 10 megabyte burstable pipe for the fastest possible downloads, thereby assuring customer satisfaction.
Several unique products will be featured on the site as well as a vast amount of free data. MapMart on Directions will allow visitors to download the entire U.S. Geological Survey portfolio of digital elevation model data. In addition, the site will contain an historical library of aerial imagery from the 1930s through today to provide a temporal perspective for research, planning, and land development applications.
