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- MAPIT (v 1.2)
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- Allison Software
- 166 Shady Lane
- Apollo, PA 15613 USA
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- (412) 727-2198 CompuServe 72600,1200
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- Member, Association of Shareware Professionals.
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- Product Description:
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- MAPIT - Detailed world mapping on your screen.
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- MAPIT is an integrated world-wide mapping system of amazing detail
- which lets you insert your own text, figures, and graphics.
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- Use MAPIT to:
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- * produce detailed, customized maps on your laser printer or plotter
- or include them in your word processing documents,
- * enter, record, and track your own data,
- * plot great circle and range curves,
- * display, analyze, and solve location-related problems,
- * communicate in pictures and words,
- * create private databases to distribute data easily and efficiently,
- * do all of the above with 100 foot precision - ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD.
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- A powerful reference tool, MAPIT contains a wealth of information and
- is just plain fun to use.
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- Insert or import lines to customize features. Add your own figures.
- Document and communicate with stroked and hidden text. Enter MAPIT's
- seven user-extensible scalable stroked text fonts at any size and angle.
- Hide a screen's-worth of information behind a small marker, popping it
- up at the click of a mouse.
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- MAPIT displays a true Mercator projection, the choice of navigators.
- Layout great circle tracks between multiple points totaling their
- distances in statute miles, nautical miles, or kilometers. Dynamically
- plot range curves up to half way around the world.
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- Create colorful screen shots with the .PCX file creation command and
- ultra-detailed plots on any laser printer supporting the HP-GL/2
- graphics plotting language. Include these maps in your word
- processing documents.
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- MAPIT includes almost 6000 international cities and 19,000 US cities
- with their 1990 populations. Click on any city to pop up its size.
- The underlying vector-based geographic database consists of over 5
- million points organized by coastlines, lakes, rivers, canals, reefs,
- salt flats, national boundaries, and US and Canadian state and
- provincial boundaries. Believe me, you'll find places in this database
- you never imagined existed.
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- If you are looking for more than just a pretty picture -- or perhaps
- need many different pretty pictures, let MAPIT be the end of your
- graphical quest. MAPIT, your electronic notepad on the world.
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- What's New in Ver. 1.2?
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- * HP-GL/2 file/printer support. Create professional laser quality
- plots (maps) directly on your HP LaserJet III laser printer or
- pen plotter.
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- * Direct .PCX color file creation of part or all of the screen.
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- * Dynamically plotted Great Circle routes showing the shortest
- distance between two points anywhere on earth as you move your mouse.
- Reports To/From azimuth bearings for HAM operators and navigators.
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- * Dynamically plotted range circles (curves on a flat map). Watch
- as your range circles flip over the poles. Also reports area
- falling within a radius.
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- System Requirements:
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- MAPIT requires a fast IBM compatible running DOS 3 or later, 512KB RAM,
- an EGA or VGA display, and a mouse. Hard disk requirements vary based
- upon data options, but are considerable, ranging from 3 to 28 MB. The
- shareware version requires under 1 MB. Registration ranges from $39
- and up (+ S&H) depending upon options.
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- Registrants receive the most recent version, more detailed data
- (as ordered), a printed manual, a full-use license, and mail/phone
- product support. VISA and MasterCard are accepted. ASP Member.
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- Packaging:
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- MAPIT is distributed on a single 3.5 inch floppy. There are extra
- .PCX screen dumps included for the Vendor's use in advertizing.
- They are packaged in PCX.ZIP. You may eliminate PCX.ZIP and distribute
- the remaining system on a single 720 KB floppy.
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- You may also distribute this version of MAPIT on two 360 KB floppies
- by copying all files except MAPITB.PAK to the first floppy while
- putting MAPITB.PAK on the second.
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- The improved installation program works with either one or two floppies.
- Just enter "a:install".
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- Legal Considerations:
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- You may distribute copies of the Software IN ITS UNMODIFIED ENTIRETY
- on a commercial basis for a fee not to exceed TEN DOLLARS total,
- or you may post the Software on electronic bulletin boards if you package
- the Software so that each diskette must be downloaded IN ITS UNMODIFIED
- ENTIRETY.
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- If you post it, you must compress or otherwise package the Software
- in either a combined file named "MAPIT12.ext" or as two separate files
- named "MAPIT12A.ext" and "MAPIT12B.ext" where ".ext" reflects the type
- of compression or packaging used.
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- You may not list the Software in advertisements, catalogs, or other
- literature as "FREE SOFTWARE". Shareware is "Try-Before-You-Buy"
- software, not free.
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