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- MAPIT
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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 - a detailed, user-extensible world map/graphics notepad.
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- Pushing the envelope of affordable technology, MAPIT brings to your PC
- an integrated world-wide mapping application using data which, up to
- this time, existed only in large mainframe-resident databases.
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- Whether you are a secretary, scientist, salesman, or sea captain, MAPIT
- enables you to investigate, analyze, organize, record, track, reproduce,
- and communicate your graphical and textual data and concepts in pictures
- as well as in words. A powerful vector-based reference tool, MAPIT
- contains a wealth of information and is just plain fun to use.
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- MAPIT enhances communication. The large database is supplemented by
- a private database to which you can add your own graphics and textual
- information for easy and efficient distribution to others. If your
- problem can be stated in terms of location - what is the current
- position (of my trucks, supertankers, sales force), where were they
- yesterday, what is their status at this moment? What are the locations
- of those stores and who is in charge in each one? How far has that
- disease, the new species, or the competition spread? What resources
- do I have allocated at that site at this moment, how can I improve the
- logistics? - MAPIT can help you visualize, analyze, and record the answer
- to within 200 feet - ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD!
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- You can zoom to virtually any detail (the current world data supports
- zoom factors of 750) and can insert colored lines to delineate your
- own features to within 200 feet. You can create and enter figures
- in multiple locations at any magnification with adjustable visibility.
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- MAPIT supports two types of text: scalable stroked text in 7 faces
- (including Italic and Old English) fixed in size to either the map
- or to the screen and hidden text - up to 2400 hardware characters
- collapsed to a small marker expandable with the click of the mouse.
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- Almost 6000 international cities are displayed, ordered by population.
- Click on the marker, and the city's size pops up. 20,000 US cities
- with their 1990 populations are similarly available. The underlying
- geographic database consists of over 5 million points organized by
- coastlines, lakes, rivers, canals, reefs, saltflats, national boundaries,
- and US and Canadian state and provincial boundaries. Believe me,
- places you never even imagined are to be found in this database.
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- The map is displayed in Mercator projection, the choice of navigators.
- (Detail is insufficient for coastal piloting.) Great circle distances
- can be calculated between any two points and the results shown in
- statute miles, nautical miles, or kilometers.
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- So 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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- System Requirements:
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- System requirements are an IBM 386SX (or more powerful) compatible
- running DOS 5 (for data RESTORE compatibility of the extended data sets),
- 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
- 30 MB. The shareware version requires under 1 MB. Registration ranges
- from $39 (+ S&H) upward 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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- Legal Considerations:
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- THIS IS A TWO-DISK SET. BOTH ARE NEEDED FOR PROPER OPERATION.
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- Full legal considerations are covered in the file README.DOC.
- MAPIT (the Software) is Copyright 1992 John B. Allison
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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 SIX DOLLARS per diskette,
- 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 "MAPIT10.ext" or as two separate files
- named "MAPIT10A.ext" and "MAPIT10B.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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- Please Help Us Serve You Better:
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- Please send us a copy of any reviews or articles you print regarding
- this product. Thank you for supporting the shareware marketing concept.
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