GOM - the Global Overlay Mapping System

System Requirements and Supported Browsers

The Global Overlay Mapping System is written as a series of Javascript-controlled web-pages, with many accompanying graphic images. Some of these are quite large, and so a reasonably modern computer is recommended. I would suggest a Pentium-1, with processor speed of 133Mhz and 32Mb of RAM as a minimum system. It may well run on an older computer, but the time taken to load and display maps will increase. Your video card should be capable of High Color (16bit) or True Color (32bit) operation. The maps can be seen on a 256-color display, but the resulting images are not as good as with the higher resolutions.

Although the Global Overlay Mapper was designed and built for computers running the Windows operating system, there is no reason why Mac and Linux machines should not be able to use the Global Overlay Mapper as well. The main requirement is a modern web-browser, that is Javascript and CSS enabled, and conforms to normal web standards.