MAPIT14.INF MAPIT (v 1.4) Allison Software 166 Shady Lane Apollo, PA 15613 USA 412-727-2198 CompuServe 72600,1200 Member, Association of Shareware Professionals. Product Description: 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. System Requirements: MAPIT requires a fast IBM compatible running DOS 3.1 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 less than 1 MB. Obtaining Shareware MAPIT: You can download Shareware MAPIT from this BBS where it is stored in the files MAPIT14A.ZIP, MAPIT14B.ZIP, and MAPIT14C.ZIP. Because these files total some 913,000 bytes and may take a significant amount of time to download, you may rather order a single 3.5" 1.44 MB diskette directly from the author for a flat $5 charge. Please see ordering information at the end of this file. Installing MAPIT. If you download MAPIT, you need to UNZIP all the files into a disk directory before running the install program found in the first file. > PKUNZIP MAPIT14A > PKUNZIP MAPIT14B > PKUNZIP MAPIT14C > INSTALL The install program will ask where you want the MAPIT data stored (C:\MAPIT) and complete the installation for you. Shareware Distribution: You are free to copy and distribute the pre-installed but UNZIPPED Shareware MAPIT IN ITS UNMODIFIED ENTIRETY to friends or colleagues. Please label the diskette[s] "Shareware MAPIT". ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shareware MAPIT Offer, V1.4 Allison Software 166 Shady Lane Apollo, PA 15613, USA (412) 727-2198/CompuServe 72600,1200 Dear John, Please send me a copy of Shareware MAPIT. Enclosed is $5 to cover the cost of this transaction. Forward my copy to: Date: Thanks, Please Note: MAPIT is shipped on 3 1/2" diskettes. Payment must be in US FUNDS by check drawn on a US BANK made payable to "Allison Software", by International money order, or by MasterCard or VISA Credit card orderers may CompuServe Email this completed form to John B. Allison 72600,1200 __ __ __ |__| Check Enclosed |__| VISA |__| MasterCard Name on card (printed): ____________________________________________ Card # ____________________________________ Exp. date ______/______ .