270 Important Civil War Maps of Virginia On CD - A Must Have Collection for Civil War Buffs.

The biggest challenge to Civil War history buffs is finding really high resolution, detailed maps from that time period. Originals are extremely costly and historical books have only small images. This problem has been solved by this powerful 3 CD collection - offering full-sized high resolution images of historically significant maps of Civil War Virginia.

(PRWEB) March 25, 2004 -- "One of the biggest frustrations of any history buff is working with maps that are too small to really appreciate the detail and information being conveyed" states Steven Chabotte. "Our historical map cd collections have solved this problem by bringing high resolution full scale maps to the historical hobbiest at a bargain price."

Modern technology meets history. By utilizing a special Windows based map compression/imaging software called MrSID from Lizardtech, it is now possible to compress full sized historical maps that are normally 100-200MB in size down to less than 10MB each - with no loss of detail.

This tremendous software has allowed us to create a massive collection of Virginia and other state Civil War map collections at an extremely affordable price. In fact, this process has allowed us to offer 270 large sized maps of Civil War Virginia on just 3 CDs. These maps, if printed full size, are often as large as 36" wide so they are quite large and fully detailed.

Installing MrSID (included on each map CD) on your Windows based computer allows you to explore the full breadth and detail of each of these historically significant maps. It also offers a variety of features to manipulate the maps: including the ability tp print all or a portion of a map and to export all or a portion of a map in TIFF format for use in other graphics program.

According to Steven Chabotte, President of Big-Web Development Corp "This technology has made it possible for the student of history to finally own highly detailed historically significant maps for a very small investment. Each CD sells for less than $10 and in addition to Civil War maps, we offer a variety of other historically significant maps on CD as well as reproduction prints of the maps in a variety of sizes."

For more information on our historical map CDs and other historical reproduction products, please visit our website at http://www.ushistoricalarchive.com