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- MAPIT (v 1.3)
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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 - Bringing detailed world mapping to your PC.
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- MAPIT is an integrated world-wide mapping system of amazing detail which
- lets you create customized maps for work, school, or fun.
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- Use MAPIT to:
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- * Print detailed, professional-quality, customized maps.
- * Import maps into your word processing documents.
- * Record and track data.
- * Add your own customized detail: text, hidden text, figures, and
- line data.
- * Zoom to any level and navigate around the world.
- * Plot great circles - the shortest distance between any two points.
- * Measure distances in miles, kilometers, or nautical miles.
- * Calculate to/from azimuth bearing angles.
- * Plot range curves and calculate associated areas.
- * Save your private data in compact files for easy, efficient
- distribution and retention.
- * 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. Mark locations with
- multiple copies of your own figures (simple line drawings). Document
- with MAPIT's seven stroked text fonts in any size at any angle. Use
- hidden text to hide a screen's-worth of data behind a small marker you
- can pop up with the click of a mouse.
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- School age children will amaze their teachers and friends with the
- accurate maps of foreign countries and states they can plot from MAPIT's
- database. And your little ones will love to color-fill the oceans,
- lakes, islands, and countries imported into their favorite paint brush
- program from MAPIT
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- The more serious user has 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. You can even merge this data into publication-quality compound
- (text and graphics) documents supported by modern word processors.
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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 measuring the enclosed
- area as you go.
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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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- 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.
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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. Home, school, or office, MAPIT can do the job! MAPIT, your
- electronic notepad on the world.
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- System Requirements:
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- 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 under 1 MB. Registration starts at $39 (+
- 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.
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- Packaging:
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- See the screen dump in MAPIT3.PCX for possible use in advertizing.
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- You may distribut MAPIT on a single 1.44MB diskette, two 720KB
- diskettes, or three 360KB diskettes. MAPITA.PAK should be placed
- on the first or second diskette, and MAPITB.PAK on the first, second,
- or third.
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- The installation program works with one, two, or three 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 "MAPIT13.ext" or as two separate files named
- "MAPIT13A.ext" and "MAPIT13B.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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- product.
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