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- Psi-Mapper/London 3.1 for Psion Series 5 (C) UK 1997-99 Steve Litchfield
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-
- Released May 1999
-
- Changes for 3.1 (over 3.0)
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- Bug fix in the Centre Select function; now made freeware throughout;
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-
- Psi-Mapper update information and new versions can be found at
- http://3lib.ukonline.co.uk/
-
- Requires Psion Series 5 or compatible with approximately 200k of free
- system memory to run in.
-
- ******************** IMPORTANT!! ********************************
- This text file documents the history of the program, its installation,
- and some of the more technical aspects to running it. For general help
- in using and understanding Psi-Mapper/London, please browse through the
- *extensive* on-line help. The on-line help is the only documentation of
- most of Psi-Mapper/London's features, so work through it properly! 8-)
- ***********************************************************************
-
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- This is Psi-Mapper/London, released as freeware. The program and
- concept are (C) 1997 Steve Litchfield. With the exception of the road
- data, all data sets are public domain and were collated using public
- domain and other freely available reference works, and data gathered
- from privately-owned GPS units. Data sets remain the copyright and
- responsibility of the original contributors. No liability whatsoever
- can be accepted for any inaccuracies in this program or any of its data
- sets.
-
- The road data is "Based upon the Ordnance Survey map with the
- written permission of The Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office,
- (C) Crown Copyright MC 0055"
-
- ============
- Installation
- ============
- If you unzipped MAP5LO31.ZIP OK, you should have ended up with
- 2 files. One will be this text file 8-)
-
- The other is an SIS file.
-
- (Experts)
- If you know what a .SIS file is, just double-click on each one in Win95 Explorer
- or tap on it on the Series 5 and you'll be installed in no time.
-
- (Beginners)
- If you *don't* know what a .SIS file is, this must be one of the very first
- third party applications you've ever installed. Don't worry, it's all quite
- painless:
-
- IF you have the 'older' PsiWin 2.01 or if you've downloaded Psi-Mapper/London directly
- onto the Psion 5, the best way to proceed is to copy the "mapperlo.sis" file into a
- suitable place on your Psion. If the file appears on the system screen
- with a question mark beside it, this just means you haven't yet upgraded your
- Series 5 to accept EPOC install files. Grab a copy of the special INSTEXE.EXE
- program from the same place as you obtained Psi-Mapper/London and tap on it on your Psion.
- You should now see a nice little icon beside the "mapperlo.sis" file and can tap
- on it to complete your installation.
-
- IF you have PsiWin 2.1, just double-click on the "mapperlo.sis" file to launch
- EPOC Install on the PC itself and to complete the installation of the program.
-
- If all went well, you should now have a new "MapperLo" icon on your
- Extras bar.
-
- For the technically-minded, Psi-Mapper/London and its overlays etc. will
- end up in \System\Apps\MapperLo on your chosen disk.
-
- ==================================
-
- In this distribution are the following overlays, Contributor information
- also included where known or appropriate.
-
- Vector overlays (i.e. lines and labels) (Thanks to Tony Crocker for
- contributing these)
-
- RAILTRAK.MP8 - a vector overlay of the main-line railway routes
- TUBELINE.MP8 - a vector overlay of all the tube lines, laid out
- properly (i.e. geographically, not diagrammatically)
- TUBEZONE.MP8 - a vector overlay of the tube charge zones
-
- Optional item overlays (i.e. specific points and labels and reference
- info, note that some of them cover the whole M25 area and others just
- the central "A-Z" area):
-
- The following 5 were all contributed by Eddie Slupski (thanks!)
- HOSPITAL.MP7 - Hospitals
- FOOTBALL.MP7 - Football clubs
- EMBASSY.MP7 - Embassies
- SPORTCEN.MP7 - Sports Centres
- JUNCTION.MP7 - Motorway exits/junctions
-
- MAINLINE.MP7 - main-line railway routes - (contributed by Tony Crocker)
- TUBE.MP7 - tube (underground) stations, with their
- line name(s) shown as abbreviations
- PLACES.MP7 - places of interest, with their phone numbers
- HOTELS.MP7 - a large selection of hotels across London
- NCP_PARK.MP7 - NCP car parks in London
- POLICE.MP7 - Police stations - (contributed by Peter Osmond)
- PIZZA.MP7 - selected Pizza restaurants across London
- KENTUCKY.MP7 - Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants - (contributed by
- someone, but I can't remember who!)
- GOLF.MP7 - golf courses across London
- MARKETS.MP7 - markets, with their optimum visiting times
- (contributed by Tony Crocker)
- THEATRES.MP7 - theatres across London - (contributed by
- Tony Crocker & Gordon Drayson)
- BIGMACS.MP7 - some MacDonalds restaurants - (contributed by Tony
- Crocker)
-
- Notes:
- 1) Each of the .MP7 overlays listed above has an associated .MBM file of
- the same name. These are the on-screen icons for overlays, and will be
- used if present in the main \System\Apps\MapperLo folder. If they are not
- present, a default 'star' icon will be used ....
-
- 2) Each of the overlays includes reference information for each item (for
- example, telephone contact numbers), and this can be displayed by
- turning 'Overlay Reference Fields' On.
-
- 3) Whether using the supplied vector overlays or contributing your own,
- please note the low (100m) resolution used by Psi-Mapper/London. It's
- no good expecting or drawing every last detail, as the resulting data
- file size would be far too large. The Psi-Mapper vector overlays are
- *approximate* representations only of the real world, and should not be
- taken as gospel!
-
-
- Editing your custom place database & custom item overlays
- ---------------------------------------------------------
- Although the program allows you to add places and items, you'll need to
- use the supplied CustomEd.opo utility to do editing of your custom
- places file or other overlays, i.e. for deleting mistakes and unwanted
- entries. This functionality *may* be added into the main program in due
- course.
-
-
- Printing or grabbing a current map screen
- ------------------------------------------
- You may well want to grab a map screen as a standard picture file,
- for including in WORD, printing or editing using SKETCH. Grabbing the
- Series 5 screen is done with pressing 'Control', 'Shift', 'Fn' and 'S'
- simultaneously (it's easier to do than it sounds) and lo and behold a
- dialog will appear asking where you want the graphic file to be
- created. You can then use SKETCH's 'import EPOC picture file' function
- to use the graphic in other ways on your Series 5.
-
- Small print:
- ------------
- 1) You can contact me via email at slitchfield@cix.co.uk, or
- at slitchfield@ukonline.co.uk
-
- 2) Thanks to all the testers and contributors out there, who have supplied
- ideas, support, bug-reports, data, code fragments etc. You are too
- numerous to mention! If *you* find a bug or spot an error etc in any
- of the overlays, then please get in touch!
-
- 3) Disclaimer: I accept no responsibility for anything happening to you
- as a result of inaccurate information within Psi-Mapper! I try to
- keep the overlays up-to-date as possible, but that is as far as my
- liability goes!
-
- 4) Do not use this application while on the move! If you crash your car
- while looking at your Psion, don't blame me!!
-
- Steve Litchfield