restaurants, parking garages, hospitals, museums, walking tours, and much more in San Francisco, Boston, New Orl
eans, and New York.
Each CD-ROM contains information about a single city, and Macmillan Digital plans to publish CD-ROMs for several international cities late this year, a spokesperson says. This review is based on a beta version of the San Francisco disk.
It's easy to find information quickly through a series of nested topic indexes. All referenced items appear on maps of the city and surrounding areas, which you can zoom in on for more detail and print. There are short movies and plenty of high-quality still photos. Any San Franciscan will know the featured hotels, restaurants, and attractions; there aren't many off-the-beaten-track surprises. But if you have the time to follow the guide's recommendations, you won't be disappointed often or miss any must-see spots.
The guide contains sections designed for special-interest groups, such as gay/lesbian, seniors, families, students, and people with disabilities. Included are suggested itineraries--for example, for literary
enthusiasts, Dashield Hammett sites, City Lights book store, Jack London landmarks, and so on. And there's loads of San Francisco trivia. For example, how many roll calls and body searches was an Alcatraz island prisoner subjected to each day? (Answer: 13.)
I Left My Heart in San Francisco
