Global Insight LITE is the new entry level data set in the Global Insight product line. Offering up-to-date political mappping and a place gazetteer, Global Insight LITE offers cost effective data for modest digital mapping requirements.
The product provides up-to-date political entities at 1:3,000,000 scale (including some first level administrative borders) and a gazetteer of over 22,000 named places. Names are spelt in the local form with a supplement layer providing alternative spellings (English conventional name, second national language or long/short form). All place names use diacritic (accented) characters where required using a standard ANSI character set (e.g. Arial, Times Roman, etc.)
Global Insight LITE is an excellent choice for users requiring medium resolution political mappiing with the ability to perform city level place name searches. Like the fuller gazetteer in Global Insight (>513,000 places), the alternative names layer allows searches to match many places with a conventional English name or spelt using a national second language. The Global Insight LITE gazetteer is derived from the most significant cities and towns from Global Insight. Place data records include country name and 1st level administrative region (where available) which assists when identifying an ambiguous name.
Global Insight LITE is a soft product. With no paper documentation or packaging, everything is downloaded from a protected area of the Europa web site. The usual manual is fully reproduced as on-line help. At charge, the prodect can be supplied on CD-ROM. Global Insights LITE offers free quarterly updates for one year.
There are an unlimited number of uses for Global Insight LITE. Potential applications include:
