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- │ MAPIT Detailed World Mapping System v1.40 │
- │ SEE BELOW FOR PRODUCT INFORMATION │
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- │ This is a VENDINFO Product Information Record │
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- │ 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. │
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- │ 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 │
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- 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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