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┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ MAPIT Detailed World Mapping System v1.40 │
│ SEE BELOW FOR PRODUCT INFORMATION │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ This is a VENDINFO Product Information Record │
│ │
│ This record is a means of conveying information about a software │
│ product from the author to distributors and users. It contains a │
│ normal, "human-readable" section (you're reading it now), followed │
│ by a compressed data record. The data record contains a great │
│ deal of information in a form useable by automated tools. This │
│ allows BBSes, disk vendors, etc. to test automatically for │
│ permission to distribute, and to automatically extract product │
│ information for use in BBS files databases, vendor catalogs, etc. │
│ │
│ The VENDINFO file standard is published and is freely useable. │
│ │
│ The VENDINFO toolset includes a free end-user viewer, processing │
│ tools for use by distributors (BBSes, shareware disk vendors, │
│ etc.), and the editor used by author/publishers to produce these │
│ records. These tools are either free or very-low cost shareware. │
│ The toolset can be obtained from many sources, including the │
│ originators of VENDINFO: │
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│ Rams' Island Software Voice: 303-841-2848 CompuServe: 76244,324 │
│ 7644 E. Lakecliff Way BBS: 303-841-6269 FidoNet: 1:104/333 │
│ Parker, CO 80134-5904 USA RIME: RAMSISLE │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
VENDINFO standard v1.00, produced by VendEdit v1.00, 16-Apr-1994
===== Product Information ==============================
Product: MAPIT Detailed World Mapping System
Version: 1.40
Version Date: 15-Apr-1994
Product Type: Software
Basic Distribution Policy (see License, below, for details):
Shareware, subject to distribution restrictions
Product Description: MAPIT v1.4 <ASP> World-wide mapping for work,
school, or fun. Print detailed, professional-
quality, customized maps or include in word
processing documents. Add your own lines,
text, and figures to within 100 feet and show
the day and time ANYWHERE in the world.
Record live GPS data, zoom to any detail,
measure distances, calculate azimuth angles,
and plot great circles and range curves with
associated areas.
Category: Mapping/cartography
Keywords: MAPS MAPPING GPS CARTOGRAPHY HAM RADIO
Required Packages: MAPIT14
This Package: MAPIT14
Required Configuration
Processor Family: Intel 80x86 (minimum 80286 (AT))
Clock Speed: 16 MHz
Minimum OS: MS-DOS 3.3
Standard RAM: 500K
Hard Drive Space: 1500K
Required:
Hard drive
Keyboard
Mouse
Won't Work With:
Monochrome Display Adapter (MDA)
Hercules Graphics Card
Color Graphic Adapter (CGA)
Orders:
Address: Allison Software
166 Shady Lane
Apollo, PA 15613, USA
Phone: 412-727-2198
CompuServe: 72600,1200
Internet: 72600.1200@compuserve.com
Support:
Address: Allison Software
166 Shady Lane
Apollo, PA 15613, USA
Phone: 412-727-2198
CompuServe: 72600,1200
Internet: 72600.1200@compuserve.com
===== Information for Users ("READ-ME") ================
MAPIT - Your Graphics Notepad on the World
MAPIT is an integrated world-wide mapping system of amazing detail
which helps you create customized maps for work, school, or fun.
Use MAPIT to
* print detailed, publication-quality, customized maps,
* merge maps with word processing documents,
* record and plot live GPS data,
* add your own customized detail with 100' precision,
* zoom to any level and navigate around the world,
* show day and time anywhere in the world,
* measure distances, calculate azimuth angles, and plot great
circles and range curves and calculate associated areas.
A powerful reference tool, MAPIT contains a wealth of information and
is just plain fun to use.
Import your own data. Mark locations with figures (simple line
drawings). Document with stroked and hidden text.
Record real-time Global Positioning System (GPS) data from your car,
boat, or plane on your laptop and use MAPIT's sophisticated GPS
Utilities Package to import and view your exact track.
School age children will amaze teachers and friends with accurate,
detailed maps of foreign countries and states. And your little ones will
love to color-fill the oceans, lakes, islands, and countries imported
into their favorite paint brush program.
More serious users have a choice of exporting data in the colorful .PCX
screen dump file format or in the ultra-detailed HP-GL/2 graphics
plotting language format accepted by many laser printers and pen
plotters. They can even merge this data into publication-quality
compound (text and graphics) documents supported by modern word
processors.
MAPIT displays a true Mercator projection, the choice of navigators.
Layout great circle tracks between multiple points totaling their
distances. Dynamically plot range curves measuring the enclosed area as
you go.
MAPIT includes almost 6000 international cities and 19,000 US cities
with their 1990 populations. 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.
MAPIT comes network-ready for multi-user installations. The large
read-only main database can be located on a shared disk for more
efficient operations.
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. Home, school, lab, or office, MAPIT can do the job!
MAPIT, your electronic notepad on the world.
===== Packing List =====================================
As released by the author or publisher, this package contained the
following files in addition to this VENDINFO.DIZ:
Filename Size Date Time CRC32
FILE_ID.DIZ 435 15-Apr-1994 01:40a 52ECDDFC
INSTALL.EXE 31929 15-Apr-1994 01:40a A4D5DC97
INSTALL.FIL 7535 15-Apr-1994 01:40a 22585135
INSTALL2.FIL 8947 15-Apr-1994 01:40a EAADDF09
MAPITA.PAK 251545 15-Apr-1994 01:40a 7274A4B7
MAPITB.PAK 321987 15-Apr-1994 01:40a B3822058
MAPITC.PAK 302650 15-Apr-1994 01:40a A5177D22
README.TXT 22960 15-Apr-1994 01:40a 52F499A1
===== Installation =====================================
Install MAPIT:
The shareware version of MAPIT is distributed as a one, two, or
three disk set. The installation process copies MAPIT to your hard
drive.
Insert the first MAPIT diskette into floppy drive A: (or B:) and
enter
C:> A:INSTALL
The install program will ask where you want the MAPIT data stored
(C:\MAPIT) and complete the installation for you.
The Install program normally runs MAPIT for you the first time.
MAPIT REQUIRES A MOUSE. Unless you have a mouse physically attached
to your computer AND have installed its driver, you will be unable
to operate MAPIT. You can exit MAPIT from the keyboard by entering
<CTRL>Q.
If you see a cursor when you run MAPIT, everything is okay. SKIP
THE NEXT SECTION.
How to Install a Mouse:
Install the mouse driver by issuing the following command at the
command prompt.
C:> "path"\MOUSE (e.g. C:\WINDOWS\MOUSE)
where "path" is the path to the directory containing the mouse
driver.
Place this command in your AUTOEXEC.BAT so MOUSE is always available.
Caution: Windows is smart and will show a mouse cursor without the
mouse driver's being installed. If the cursor doesn't appear when
you run MAPIT, <CTRL>Q out and try to edit a file with the standard
DOS editor from the DOS prompt (EDIT VENDINFO.DIZ). If you don't
have a mouse cursor in the editor, the driver isn't loaded. Try
loading it from the DOS prompt as above, and if that works, add the
same command near the end of your AUTOEXEC.BAT but before any call
to WINdows.
How to Run MAPIT:
Run MAPIT with the shareware data by entering
C:> MAPIT (or MAPIT DEMO)
Each time MAPIT runs, it looks for the private database
EXTENDED.MP3. If not found, it creates a zero length EXTENDED.MP3.
To run MAPIT with the Columbus demo, copy COLUMBUS.MP3 over
EXTENDED.MP3 before runing MAPIT.
C:> COPY COLUMBUS.MP3 EXTENDED.MP3
C:> MAPIT
You may also wish to print the text file COLUMBUS.TXT to have a
hardcopy in front of you as you run the demo.
Follow the instructions in Hidden Text 1 (Press Left Mouse button in
triangle 1) to follow the Columbus demo and learn to use MAPIT. When
you are finished with the Columbus demo, delete EXTENDED.MP3.
Establishing your Time Zone:
MAPIT dynamically displays a calculated day and time for any place
in the world based on your computer's clock and the value you assign
the environmental variable TZ which you can set in your AUTOEXEC.BAT
file. Use the following syntax to establish TZ:
set TZ=tzn[+|-]hh[:mm[:ss]]dzn
where
tzn - three-character standard time zone name.
hh:mm:ss - offset from GMT in hours and optionally minutes
and seconds. Use positive for west, neg for east.
dzn - three-character savings time zone name.
example:
C:> SET TZ=EST5EDT // Eastern Std/Daylight Time with a
// 5 hour offset west of Greenwich.
If you fail to set TZ, your time zone defaults to "PST8PDT", Pacific
Standard and Daylight Time, next best thing to visiting California!
For More Information:
After installing MAPIT, see README.TXT, MAPIT.TXT, and GPS_UTIL.TXT
for documentation covering the operation of the programs provided
with Shareware MAPIT.
----- Vendor Packaging -----------------------------------------------
Packaging:
You can distribute MAPIT on a single 1.44MB diskette, two 720KB
diskettes, or three 360KB diskettes. Place MAPITA.PAK on the first
diskette along with the install files and all files except
[optinally] those listed next, place MAPITB.PAK on the first or
second diskette, and MAPITC.PAK on the first, second, or third.
The installation program works with one, two, or three floppies or
from a single directory of a CD-ROM or hard drive. Just enter
"a:install".
If you post MAPIT on a BBS, you must compress or otherwise package
MAPIT in either a combined file named "MAPITXX.ext" or as three
separate files named "MAPITXXA.ext", "MAPITXXB.ext", and
"MAPITXXC.ext" where XX reflects the current version number (e.g.
"14" for version 1.4) and where ".ext" reflects the type of
compression or packaging used.
===== Warranty =========================================
ASP Member:
This program is produced by a member of the Association of Shareware
Professionals (ASP). ASP wants to make sure that the shareware
principle works for you. If you are unable to resolve a
shareware-related problem with an ASP member by contacting the
member directly, ASP may be able to help. The ASP Ombudsman can help
you resolve a dispute or problem with an ASP member, but does not
provide technical support for members' products. Please write to the
ASP Ombudsman at 545 Grover Road, Muskegon, MI 49442-9427 or send a
Compuserve message via CompuServe Mail to ASP Ombudsman 70007,3536.
LIMITED WARRANTY
THIS SOFTWARE AND DOCUMENTATION ARE PROVIDED FOR EVALUATION ONLY, ON AN
"AS IS" BASIS. ALLISON SOFTWARE DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES RELATING TO
THIS SOFTWARE, WHETHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED
TO ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE. NEITHER ALLISON SOFTWARE NOR ANYONE ELSE WHO HAS BEEN INVOLVED
IN THE CREATION, PRODUCTION, OR DELIVERY OF THIS SOFTWARE SHALL BE
LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES ARISING
OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE SUCH SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ALLISON
SOFTWARE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES OR CLAIMS.
THE PERSON USING THE SOFTWARE BEARS ALL RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND
PERFORMANCE OF THE SOFTWARE.
This agreement shall be governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania and shall inure to the benefit of Allison Software and any
successors, administrators, heirs and assigns. Any action or proceeding
brought by either party against the other arising out of or related to
this agreement shall be brought only in a STATE or FEDERAL COURT of
competent jurisdiction located in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. The
parties hereby consent to in personam jurisdiction of said courts.
===== License for Use and Distribution =================
The collection of software described in this file and contained on
these disk[s] is the Shareware Version of MAPIT and is
Copyright 1992 - 1994 John B. Allison.
MAPIT is NOT a public domain program but is the property of John B.
Allison. This software and accompanying documentation and data are
protected by United States copyright law and also by international
treaty provisions.
TRIAL USE LICENSE
Allison Software grants you a limited license to use this software for
evaluation purposes for a period not to exceed twenty-one days. If you
continue using this software after the twenty-one evaluation period, you
MUST make a registration payment to Allison Software. (See the file
REGISTER.TXT for instructions.)
You may not use, copy, rent, lease, sell, modify, decompile,
disassemble, otherwise reverse engineer, or transfer the licensed
program except as provided in this agreement. Any such unauthorized
use shall result in immediate and automatic termination of this license.
All rights not expressly granted here are reserved to Allison Software
and John B. Allison.
LIMITED DISTRIBUTION LICENSE
INDIVIDUALS may distribute MAPIT to friends or associates provided they
charge no fees for this service and convey a complete and unaltered copy
of the shareware version of this product.
All other distribution is allowed only under the terms of the attached
VENDINFO data record which is hereby incorporated by reference. Any
distribution satisfying all the distribution requirements expressed in
that data record is hereby authorized.
Permission to distribute the MAPIT package is not transferable,
assignable, saleable, or franchisable. Each vendor wishing to
distribute the package must independently satisfy the terms of this
limited distribution license.
U.S. Government Information: Use, duplication, or disclosure by the
U.S. Government of the computer software and documentation in this
package shall be subject to the restricted rights applicable to
commercial computer software as set forth in subdivision (b)(3)(ii) of
the Rights in Technical Data and Computer Software clause at
252.227-7013 (DFARS 52.227-7013). The Contractor/manufacturer is
Allison Software, 166 Shady Lane, Apollo, PA 15613.
Allison Software may revoke any permissions granted here, by
notifying you in writing. All rights not expressly granted here are
reserved to Allison Software and John B. Allison.
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