Xpress Maps is the initial map background/graphics to be used with Casablanca Columbus map animation software.  The software contains two different volumes: Xpress Maps and Epress Maps Volume 2.

Casablanca Expert Chet Davis presents detailed tutorials for maximum success with Columbus 2 and Columbus 3 software in his Casablanca Foolproof Volume 4 - Columbus Intensive:Animating Travel Maps. This 2-disk DVD is available in the Casablanca Expert Online Store.

Here are the contents of the two volumes:

Xpress-Maps (Volume 1)

Xpress-Maps contains the following 81 maps:

01) Africa with 02) Egypt, 03) South-Africa

04) Antarctic

05) Asia with 06) China, 07) India, 08) Israel / Jordan, 09) Japan / Korea

10) Australia with 11) New Zealand

12) Europe with 13) Island - 14) Scandinavia - 15) Baltic - 16) Great Britain - 17) Ireland - 18) Denmark - 19) Germany with 20) Northern Germany, 21) Middle Germany, 22) Southern Germany, 23) Germany North Sea, 24) Germany East Sea, 25) Germany Ruhrgebiet - 26) Poland - 27) The Netherlands - 28) Belgium - 29) France with 30) Provence, 31) Corsica - 32) Austria - 33) Switzerland - 34) Alps - 35) Italy with 36) Toscana, 37) Sardinia, 38) Sicily - 39) Balkan - 40) Spain with 41) Pyreneans - 42) Balearic with 43) Ibiza, 44) Mallorca, 45) Minorca - 46) Portugal - 47) Greece with 48) Crete - 49) Turkey - 50) Cyprus - 51) Canary Islands with 52) Fuerteventura, 53) Gomera, 54) Gran Canaria, 55) Hierro, 56) Lanzerote, 57) La Palma, 58) Tenerife

59) North America with 60) Alaska - 61) Canada - 62) USA with 63) USA Northwest, 64) USA central northern part, 65) USA Northeast, 66) USA Southwest, 67) USA central southern part, 68) USA Southeast, 69) Florida, 70) Hawaii - 71) Central America - 72) Central Mexico - 73) Caribbean - 74) Cuba - 75) Jamaica - 76) Haiti - 77) Puerto Rico - 78) Antilles

79) South America with 80) South America northern part - 81) South America southern part

To see detailed close-ups of the above maps from Express Maps Volume 1, click here:

Maps 1-28: http://www.macrosystem.de/images/Xpress_s1_e.jpg

Maps 29-56: http://www.macrosystem.de/images/Xpress_s2_e.jpg

Maps 57-81 http://www.macrosystem.de/images/Xpress_s3_e.jpg

Xpress-Maps Volume 2

Xpress-Maps contains 88 additional maps.  Here is the explanation from the developer of Xpress Maps:

"Many detailed maps of the African, Asian, Australian and South American continent with destinations like Manaus, Alice Springs, Yaxian or Timbuktu (do you know where it is?) and islands like the Seychelles, Galapagos or Madagascar give you the travel bug, sweating Sahara trekkers and wrapped up North Pole visitors now have the fitting maps.

The second emphasis is on the more detailed European maps: Where Xpress-Maps had a map of "France", Xpress-Maps 2 delivers "North", "East" and "South-France". Eastern Europe, which was somewhat underrepresented in Xpress- Maps, has been treated to 8 maps, meaning that journeys to Bulgaria, Russia or Ukraine can now also be illustrated.

Last but not least, we've also considered sailors and seafaring travellers, adding 12 sea charts of all kinds of small and larger seas in the Pacific up to the Agais. Now, cruises across the world seas or sailing the Baltic Sea can be put to film."