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REGISTER.DOC
VERSAMAP Order Form (version 1.30)
Make checks payable to Charles Culberson. Persons living outside
the United States can register VERSAMAP by obtaining a Postal Money
Order payable in U.S. dollars from their National Post Office; or by
personal check in their local currency at the current exchange rate.
Send order form and comments to:
Charles Culberson
8 Ritter Lane
Newark, DE 19711
USA
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VERSAMAP Order Form (version 1.30, continued)
Item Cost
1. VERSAMAP, registered copy , $15 ______
Most recent version of mapping program plus Helvetica fonts
and maps VMAP3.MAP (31,000 points) and VMAP5.MAP (6,000
points).
2. Printed Manual, $15 ______
Printed copy of VERSAMAP instruction manual with soft
cover. The text of the printed manual is identical to the
text of the instruction manual, VMAP.DOC, included on the
VERSAMAP disk.
3. VERSAMAP Micro World Database, $15 ______
Includes complete set of 5 maps, VMAP1.MAP (195,000 points)
to VMAP5.MAP (6,000 points). See page 35 of instruction
manual for details.
4. World Data Bank II in VERSAMAP .PKV format (data only supplied
on high density 3.5" or 5.25" floppy disks). See page 32 of
instruction manual for details of this database.
Region Comments
Africa Suez Canal divides Africa and Eurasia
Eurasia includes Japan and Taiwan
Latin America Mexico to Chile, including Antarctica
North America Canada, United States (Hawaii is in Oceania)
Oceania Indonesia, Philippines, Australia, New
Zealand, and Pacific Islands
------- Circle regions wanted -------
Region Number of Cost
Disks
Africa 2 $10
Eurasia 5 $25
North America 3 $15
Latin America 2 $10
Oceania 1 $ 5
Total cost of World Data Bank II files: ______
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VERSAMAP Order Form (version 1.30, continued)
Item Cost
5. USGS Digital Line Graph data in VERSAMAP .GRV format (data only
supplied on high density 3.5" or 5.25" floppy disks). See page
36 of instruction manual for details of this database.
-------------- Circle sections wanted --------------
USGS States on disk(s) Number of
Sections Disks
01 CT, MA, ME, NY, VT, NH, RI 1
02 DE, MD, OH, NJ, PA, VA, WV 1
03, 04 FL, GA, NC, SC 1
05 AL, AR, LA, MS, TN 2
06 IA, IL, IN, KY, MO 2
07 MI, MN, WI 1
08 TX (TX in section 09 also) 1
09 TX, OK (TX in section 08 also) 1
10 CO, KS, NE 1
11 MT, ND, SD, WY (MT in section 15 also) 1
12 AZ, NM 1
13, 14, 21 CA, HI, NV, UT 1
15 ID, MT, OR, WA (MT in section 11 also) 1
16 thru 20 AK 5
Total cost of USGS Digital Line Graph files
(number of disks x $5 per disk): ______
6. $5 charge for shipping to addresses outside the U.S.
or Canada: ______
7. $7 charge for checks drawn on foreign banks in foreign
currency. Except for Canadian banks, I cannot accept
checks drawn on foreign banks in U.S. currency. There
is no charge for checks drawn on U.S. banks. ______
Minimum order is $15. Total cost of items 1 through 7,
or $15, whichever is greater. ______
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VMAP.DOC
VERSAMAP (version 1.30)
1 July 1993
Copyright 1991, 1992, 1993 by Charles H. Culberson
8 Ritter Lane
Newark, Delaware 19711
CONTENTS PAGE
1. Introduction 2
2. Computer Requirements for Running VERSAMAP 3
3. Disclaimer 3
4. Registration 3
5. Plotting the Default World Map 4
6. Finding your Way with Latitude and Longitude 5
7. Keys with Special Functions in VERSAMAP 7
a. Exit the program 7
b. Using a mouse 8
c. Moving around windows 8
8. Running VERSAMAP 9
a. VERSAMAP Defaults 9
b. VERSAMAP Pull-down Menus 9
1. Projection menu 10
2. Map Design menu 14
3. Input/Output menu 23
4. Run menu 31
9. Sources of Digital Map Data for use with VERSAMAP 31
a. World Data Bank II 32
b. Micro World Data Bank II 34
c. USGS Digital Line Graph Data 36
d. Importing Your Own Data into VERSAMAP 40
10. Use of VERSAMAP with Graphing Programs 42
11. Program Compatibility with Software and Hardware 43
a. Video Compatibility 44
12. Installing VERSAMAP 45
13. VERSAMAP Order Form 49
14. Acknowledgements 52
15. Glossary 53
16. Index 55
VMAP.DOC version 1.30 Page 1
1. Introduction
Welcome to VERSAMAP! VERSAMAP is a versatile mapping program which
will transform spherical latitude, longitude values into planar x,y
map coordinates and plot them on a map projection of your choice.
VERSAMAP can print the resulting map on the screen and on dot matrix
or laser printers. Maps can be exported as .PCX, .PIC, .CGM, or
ASCII files, for use with paint programs, word processors, and
presentation or technical graphics programs. VERSAMAP is supplied
with Courier and Helvetica fonts which allow text to be added to
maps displayed on the screen.
The shareware version of VERSAMAP contains the following files:
VMAPREAD.ME -- how to get started
VMAP.EXE -- the mapping program
VMAP4.MAP -- digital map of the world (16,000 points)
VMAP.DOC -- instruction manual
VMTAIWAN.PKV -- sample map of Taiwan from World Data Bank II
VMOAHU.GRV -- sample map of Oahu from USGS DLG database
VMAPUSER.PRN -- sample file containing data in ASCII format,
study this file to learn how to plot your own
data with VERSAMAP
VM_FIX.MPS -- a small file used to concatenate World
Digitized binary map files
VM_FIX.MP1 -- a small file used to concatenate World
Digitized ASCII map files.
REGISTER.DOC -- VERSAMAP order form
MSHERC.COM -- driver for Hercules mono graphics
COUR_CGA.FON -- fixed-space Courier font for CGA, MCGA
COUR_EGA.FON -- fixed-space Courier font for EGA, Hercules
COUR_VGA.FON -- fixed-space Courier font for VGA
The following additional files are supplied with the registered
version of VERSAMAP:
HELV_CGA.FON -- proportional Helvetica font for CGA, MCGA
HELV_EGA.FON -- proportional Helvetica font for EGA, Hercules
HELV_VGA.FON -- proportional Helvetica font for VGA
VMAP3.MAP -- digital map of the world (31,000 points)
VMAP5.MAP -- digital map of the world (6,000 points)
Additional, more detailed maps are also available; see Section 13,
pages 49-51 for details. Please make backup copies of these files
before running the program.
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2. Computer Requirements for Running VERSAMAP
MS-DOS 3.0 or higher;
CGA, MCGA, EGA, VGA, or Hercules mono graphics;
640K memory;
a math coprocessor is not required but VERSAMAP will run
3-4 times faster if one is installed.
VERSAMAP will not change your AUTOEXEC.BAT or CONFIG.SYS files, it
will not alter your keyboard settings, and it will not write any
files to disk without your permission.
Instructions for installing VERSAMAP on hard or floppy disks are
given in Section 12, page 45.
3. Disclaimer
Users of VERSAMAP must accept this disclaimer of warranty:
"VERSAMAP is supplied as is. The author disclaims all warranties,
expressed or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties
of merchantability and of fitness for any purpose. The author
assumes no liability for damages, direct or consequential, which may
result from the use of VERSAMAP."
Do not use this program for navigation! Use the proper aeronautical
or nautical charts for navigation.
4. Registration
Shareware distribution gives users a chance to try software before
buying it. VERSAMAP is a "shareware program" and is provided at no
charge to the user for evaluation. If you find this program useful
and find that you continue to use VERSAMAP after a reasonable trial
period, you must register the program. The registration fee will
license one copy for use on any one computer at any one time. You
must treat this software just like a book. An example is that this
software may be used by any number of people and may be freely moved
from one computer location to another, so long as there is no
possibility of it being used at one location while it's being used
at another. Just as a book cannot be read by two different persons
at the same time.
Registration of the program is $15 for which you will receive a copy
of the most recent version of the program; Helvetica fonts for CGA,
EGA, and VGA; and 2 additional digital map files, VMAP3.MAP (31,000
points) and VMAP5.MAP (6,000 points). Registration entitles you
support, by mail, telephone, and on CompuServe, concerning problems
you encounter with VERSAMAP. An order form is included in the file
REGISTER.DOC, and also on page 49 of this manual.
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You are encouraged to share a copy of VERSAMAP with your friends for
evaluation. Please encourage them to register their copy if they
find it useful.
Anyone distributing VERSAMAP for any kind of remuneration must first
contact Charles Culberson at the address on the order form for
authorization. This authorization will be automatically granted to
distributors recognized by the Association of Shareware
Professionals as adhering to its guidelines for shareware
distributors, and such distributors may begin offering VERSAMAP
immediately. However Charles Culberson must still be advised so
that the distributor can be kept up-to-date with the latest version
of VERSAMAP.
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,
FAX 616-788-2765, or send a CompuServe message via CompuServe Mail
to ASP Ombudsman 70007,3536.
5. Plotting the Default World Map
Before reading the rest of the manual, let's plot a map of the
world. This will familiarize you with the operation of VERSAMAP.
The rest of the manual should make more sense once you have actually
used VERSAMAP.
VERSAMAP has built in defaults which plot a world map, from 80 N to
80 S latitude, and from 180 W to 180 E longitude, on a Mercator
projection. The default settings will not print any files to disk.
To run VERSAMAP with the default settings:
1. place the VERSAMAP disk containing the files,
VMAP.EXE and VMAP4.MAP, in your disk drive
2. change to that drive
3. type VMAP
4. press the Enter key.
A screen with a menu bar across the top will appear once the program
has loaded. The pull-down menus are selected by pressing the Alt
key, followed by the highlighted letter of the desired menu; or by
pointing and clicking the left mouse button.
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To plot the world map:
1. press the Alt key, to access the menus
2. press R, to select the Run menu
3. press Enter, to select the Size 100% option and begin
the plot.
To plot the default map, the map file, VMAP4.MAP, must be in the
current directory.
When the map begins plotting, the top line of the screen will
display (1) a reminder that pressing the Esc key will terminate
plotting and return you to the menu bar; (2) the name of the map
input file being read, VMAP4.MAP in this case; and (3) the number of
points which have been read from the input file, VMAP4.MAP.
The menu bar will reappear when the map is finished plotting. The
default map takes 40 seconds to plot on a 16MHz 386SX computer
equipped with a math coprocessor; it takes 18 minutes to plot on a
5 MHz IBM PC without a math coprocessor.
To exit the program and return to DOS:
1. press the Esc key, to halt plotting;
2. press the Alt key, to access the menus;
3. press P, to select the Projection menu;
4. press X from the Projection menu to exit the program.
Pressing the Esc key halts program execution and returns you to the
menu bar. Pressing Esc will not exit the program.
Please read the rest of the instruction manual before attempting to
plot maps which do not use the default parameters.
6. Finding your Way with Latitude and Longitude
To use this program you should be familiar with the concepts of
latitude and longitude.
Latitude is the angular distance (in degrees) of a point on the
earth's surface north or south of the equator. The maximum values
of latitude are 90 N (north pole) and 90 S (south pole). The
equator is 0 N/S latitude.
Longitude is the angular distance (in degrees) of a point on the
earth's surface east or west of the meridian that passes through
Greenwich, England. The maximum values of longitude are 180 W and
180 E (the international date line). The meridian passing through
Greenwich is 0 E/W longitude.
Latitude and longitude values in VERSAMAP are entered as degrees,
minutes, seconds. There are 60 seconds in 1 minute, and 60 minutes
in 1 degree. One degree of latitude is equal to 60 nautical miles
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(1 nautical mile = 6076 feet = 1.852 kilometers = 1.1508 statute
miles). One minute of latitude is equal to 1 nautical mile. One
second of latitude is equal to 101 feet (31 meters).
For example, the position for Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, written as
degrees, minutes, and seconds (22 degrees, 53 minutes, 43 seconds
south latitude; 43 degrees, 13 minutes, 22 seconds west longitude)
is,
Deg Min Sec
latitude = 22 53 43 S
longitude = 43 13 22 W
The position for Paris, France (48 degrees, 50 minutes, 14 seconds
north latitude; 2 degrees, 20 minutes, 14 seconds east longitude)
is,
Deg Min Sec
latitude = 48 50 14 N
longitude = 02 20 14 E
If you are unfamiliar with the use of latitude and longitude to
locate points on the surface of the earth, please consult an
encyclopedia or an atlas.
When plotting maps with VERSAMAP it is useful to have an atlas handy
to determine the latitude/longitude coordinates of the area you wish
to plot. An easy to use, up-to-date, and reasonably priced atlas is
the
Quick Reference World Atlas. 1992. Rand McNally & Company,
Chicago. 64 pages. $4.95. ISBN 0-528-83422-3.
A easily understandable introduction to the theory of map
projections is the book:
Porter W. McDonnell. 1991. Introduction to Map Projections.
Second edition. Landmark Enterprises, 10324 Newton Way,
Rancho Cordova, California 95670. 198 pages.
ISBN 0-8247-6830.
A detailed discussion of the map projections used in this program,
showing actual plots, is given in:
John P. Snyder and Philip M. Voxland. 1989. An Album of Map
Projections. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1453.
U.S. Government Printing Office. 249 pages. $14.
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7. Keys with Special Functions in VERSAMAP
Esc
Pressing the Esc key halts program execution and returns you to the
menu bar. Pressing Esc will not exit the program.
If you are in the process of plotting or printing a map, the program
checks the Esc key each time the record number or point, shown in
the upper right corner of the screen, is updated. Consequently, the
program may take several seconds to respond after Esc is pressed.
There is one situation in which pressing Esc will not return you to
the menu bar. If you are in the LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE LIMITS or
SELECTION OF STANDARD PARALLELS windows, and have entered an
incorrect latitude or longitude value, VERSAMAP will issue an error
message and force you to enter a correct value before you can leave
the window.
Alt
Pull-down menus are selected by pressing the Alt key, followed by
the highlighted letter of the desired menu. Individual menu items
are selected by pressing the highlighted letter of each item; by
moving through the menu with the up or down cursor keys, and then
pressing Enter to select the item; or by moving the mouse cursor
over the desired item and pressing the left mouse button.
Exit the program
To exit the program and return to DOS:
1. press the Esc key, to halt plotting or erase the current
window;
2. press the Alt key, to access the menus;
3. press P, to select the Projection menu;
4. press X from the Projection menu to exit the program.
If a window is on the screen or a map is in the process of being
drawn, you must press Esc before you can access the menus and exit
the program.
Letter T
Pressing the letter T toggles the menu bar on and off; and replaces
it with the name of the current projection, and the time taken to
draw the current map. You must press T a second time, or press Esc,
to redisplay the menu bar and reactivate the pull-down menus.
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Letter B
Pressing the letter B erases the menu bar and changes the background
color of the menu bar to the background color of the map. This
feature is useful if you use a screen-capture program to print maps
to disk or printer. You must press B a second time, or press Esc,
to redisplay the menu bar and reactivate the pull-down menus.
Using a mouse
Most VERSAMAP features can be accessed by pointing and clicking the
left mouse button. Windows and pull-down menus can be closed by
clicking the left mouse button when the mouse cursor is outside the
window or menu box.
Moving around windows
The windows which pop up when menu selections are made contain
several types of items: (1) input fields; (2) vertical list boxes;
and (3) pushbuttons.
Input fields allow numeric and alphabetic input into the program.
An example of a window with numeric input fields is the LATITUDE AND
LONGITUDE LIMITS window selected by pressing Alt, then M, then M.
You can move within an input field with the right, left, Home, and
End cursor keys. To enter data into an input field, type the
correct characters from the keyboard, and press Enter.
Vertical list boxes allow one or more items in a list to be chosen.
An example of a window with a vertical list box is the SELECT MICRO
WORLD DATA BANK II FEATURES window selected by pressing Alt, then M,
then F. Move through the list with the up and down cursor keys, and
select the correct item(s) by pressing the Space Bar or Enter. The
item(s) selected will be highlighted or indicated with a checkmark.
If the number of items in the list is too large to fit inside the
box, a scroll bar will appear along the right side of the box,
allowing all items to be viewed.
Pushbuttons, indicated by text inside brackets, such as < OK >,
allow the user to control program execution. An example of a window
with a pushbutton is the MAP PLACEMENT ON PAGE IN INCHES window
selected by pressing Alt, then I, then P. The text inside the
brackets indicates the action to be taken when the pushbutton is
selected. The brackets of the currently active pushbutton are
highlighted, and its text is shown in all capital letters. To
select a pushbutton, tab to that button and press Enter.
Use the Tab key to move between items when more than one list box or
pushbutton occur in a window.
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8. Running VERSAMAP
VERSAMAP Defaults
Each map projection in VERSAMAP has built in latitude/longitude
defaults which are active the first time you access the projection
during each session with VERSAMAP. These defaults allow you to plot
maps using each map projection without getting error messages. The
defaults are only active the first time you access a particular map
projection. For instance, if you access the Mercator projection,
then the Equirectangular projection, and finally return to the
Mercator projection, the latitude limits of the grid will be those
of the previous Equirectangular projection, 90 N/S, and you will get
an error message if you attempt to plot a Mercator projection
without changing the graticule.
VERSAMAP Pull-down Menus
The following paragraphs provide a detailed discussion of each
VERSAMAP pull-down menu. For your first experience with VERSAMAP
you should run the program with its default settings (see Section 5
above).
When VERSAMAP is started, the following menu bar appears at the top
of the screen.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Projection Map Design Input/Output Run
-----------------------------------------------------------------
When you begin plotting a map, by selecting an option in the Run
menu, the menu bar is replaced by the following line. This line is
not a menu bar, it is for your information only.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Esc: goto menu Input file: Reading record:
-----------------------------------------------------------------
While a map is plotting, the top line of the screen displays (1) a
reminder that pressing the Esc key will terminate plotting and
return you to the menu bar; (2) the name of the current map input
file; and (3) the number of points which have been read from the
input file.
Once the map is completed, the menu bar reappears on the top line.
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Projection menu
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Projection Map Design Input/Output Run
+----------------------------------------------------------------
| Mercator |
| Equirectangular |
|---------------------------|
| Equidistant conic |
| Conformal conic |
| Albers equal-area |
|---------------------------|
| Gnomonic |
| Stereographic |
| Orthographic |
| Vertical Perspective |
| Azimuthal equidistant |
| Azimuthal equal-area |
|---------------------------|
| Hammer equal-area |
| Robinson |
|---------------------------|
| Exit |
+---------------------------+
This menu lists the map projections on which you can plot your map.
To simplify mathematical calculations, VERSAMAP assumes that the
Earth is a sphere of radius 6,371 km.
Mercator
On this projection, meridians and parallels are parallel lines
perpendicular to each other. Meridians are equally spaced,
parallels are unequally spaced. The north and south poles cannot be
plotted because they project to infinity.
The scale is true along the equator, or along two parallels
equidistant from the equator. Since the scale increases rapidly
away from the equator, the areas of polar regions are greatly
exaggerated compared to those of equatorial regions.
The Mercator projection is commonly used for maps of the world, and
is designed so that straight lines on the map are rhumb lines (lines
of constant compass bearing). This is a useful property in
navigation and many nautical charts use Mercator projections.
Equirectangular
Meridians and parallels are equally spaced parallel lines
perpendicular to each other. The scale is true along the two
standard parallels and along all meridians. The scale along
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parallels is too small between the equator and the standard
parallels, and too large between the standard parallels and the
poles.
The map can be visualized as projected on a cylinder which
intersects the globe at two standard parallels equidistant from the
equator. VERSAMAP allows the user to select the latitude of the
standard parallels.
The fact that meridians and parallels are equally spaced makes
interpolation easy. The projection is useful for maps of small
regions, since distortion is not large if one of the standard
parallels is chosen to bisect the region under consideration.
Equidistant Conic
Meridians are equally spaced lines converging at a point beyond one
of the poles. Parallels are equally spaced circular arcs centered
on the point where the meridians converge. The poles are circular
arcs of infinite scale. Distortion on the projection is
intermediate between that of equal-area and conformal conic
projections.
The scale is true along meridians and along two standard parallels.
VERSAMAP allows the user to select the latitudes of the standard
parallels.
Conformal Conic
Meridians are equally spaced lines converging at a point, which is
one of the poles. Parallels are unequally spaced circular arcs
centered on the point where the meridians converge. The pole
opposite the point of convergence cannot be shown.
The scale is true along two standard parallels, which VERSAMAP
allows the user to select. The projection is conformal: the scale
is the same in all directions at a given point.
Albers Equal-Area Conic
Meridians are equally spaced lines converging at a point beyond one
of the poles. Parallels are unequally spaced circular arcs centered
on the point where the meridians converge. The poles are shown as
circular arcs of infinite scale.
The scale is true along two standard parallels, which VERSAMAP
allows the user to select. Since the projection is equal area, the
scale at any point on a meridian is the reciprocal of the scale
along a parallel at that point.
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Gnomonic
The primary feature of gnomonic projections is that great circles
plot as straight lines. Thus the shortest distance between two
points on this map is the straight line connecting them.
The range of the Gnomonic projection must be less than 90 degrees,
relative to the center of the map. The scale of the projection is
only correct at the map center.
Stereographic
The polar aspect of the Stereographic projection is commonly used
for maps of polar regions.
The range of this projection must be less than 180 degrees, relative
to the center of the map. The map scale is constant along any
circle centered on the map center.
Orthographic
The projection has the appearance of a globe, and resembles the
Earth as seen from a great distance in space.
The range of the projection cannot be more than 90 degrees, relative
to the center of the map. Map scale is only true at the center of
the map.
Vertical Perspective
The Vertical Perspective projection shows the Earth as it appears
from any point above the Earth's surface. The projection provides
views of the Earth resembling those seen from space.
The area of the Earth's surface that can be displayed by this
projection is less than 1 hemisphere. VERSAMAP allows the user to
select the distance above the surface from which the Earth is
viewed. The default distance is 35,840 km (the distance of
geosynchronous communication and weather satellites above the
equator).
Azimuthal Equidistant
On this projection, the distance between the map center and any
other point on the map is true. By centering the map at the
location of interest, you can determine the distance from that point
to any other place on the Earth.
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This projection can show the entire globe. The scale of the map is
true along any straight line radiating from the center of the
projection.
Azimuthal Equal-Area
This projection is recommended for equal-area maps of nearly
circular regions of the globe.
The projection can show the entire globe. The scale of the
projection is only correct at the center of the map.
Hammer Equal-Area
This projection is useful for equal area maps of the entire world.
The central meridian is a straight line. Other meridians are curves
concave to the central meridian and intersecting at the poles. The
equator is a straight line; other parallels are arcs concave toward
the nearest pole.
The scale of the projection is only correct along the equator and
the central meridian.
Robinson
This projection is useful for general purpose world maps with a
pleasing visual appearance.
The central meridian and all parallels are straight lines. Other
meridians are curves concave to the central meridian.
The map scale is true along 38 N and 38 S latitudes.
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Map Design menu
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Projection Map Design Input/Output Run
-----------------------------------------------------------------
| Map Boundaries |
| Standard Parallels |
| Graticule Type |
| Geographic Features |
|-----------------------|
| Add Text to Map |
| Select Font |
| Display Previous Text |
|-----------------------|
| Save Map Design |
| Recall Map Design |
+-----------------------+
This menu allows you to modify the design of your map. You may
change the boundaries of the map; select the standard parallels, if
any; define the type of grid superimposed upon the map; select the
geographic features that you wish to plot; add text to the map; and
save your selected map parameters for recall at a later time.
Map Boundaries
After selecting this item, a window appears in which the latitude
and longitude limits of the map projection are entered. Data
entered on this screen define the area to be plotted, and the
spacing of latitude and longitude grid marks on the finished map.
The items in the LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE LIMITS window depend on the
selected map projection. The following items as displayed for
non-azimuthal projections (Mercator, Equirectangular, Equidistant
conic, Conformal conic, Albers equal-area, Hammer equal-area,
Robinson).
Northernmost latitude of the map?
Southernmost latitude of the map?
Degrees of latitude between grid marks?
Westernmost longitude of the map?
Easternmost longitude of the map?
Degrees of longitude between grid marks?
For the non-azimuthal projections, you define the map boundaries by
specifying the northern and southern latitudes, and western and
eastern longitudes of the map.
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VERSAMAP requires that the grid spacing you select for non-azimuthal
projections yield equally spaced divisions between the northern- and
southernmost latitudes, and between the western- and easternmost
longitudes. You will get an error message, requiring you to edit
the data, if the degrees between grid marks that you have chosen do
not yield equally spaced divisions along the axes. For example, the
northernmost latitude of the default Mercator projection is 80 N and
the southernmost latitude is 80 S. The difference between the
northernmost and southernmost latitudes is 160 degrees of latitude.
The Degrees of latitude between grid marks for the default Mercator
projection is 20 degrees, which divides evenly into the distance
between the northernmost and southernmost latitudes (160/20 = 8.00).
However, you would get an error message if you tried to set the
Degrees of latitude between grid marks to 19 degrees, since 19 does
not divide evenly into 160 (160/19 = 8.42)!
For azimuthal projections (Gnomonic, Stereographic, Orthographic,
Vertical Perspective, Azimuthal equidistant, Azimuthal equal-area)
the following items are displayed in the LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE
LIMITS window.
Central latitude of the map?
Degrees of latitude between grid marks?
Central longitude of the map?
Degrees of longitude between grid marks?
Range of map in degrees?
The map boundaries of azimuthal projections are defined by
specifying the position at the center of the map (central latitude,
central longitude), and the range of the map. The range of the map
is the arc distance, in degrees, from the center of the map to the
edge of the map. Note, that in VERSAMAP, all azimuthal map
projections plot with a circular shape. Since the central meridian
of the azimuthal projections is a straight vertical line, the Range
of map in degrees is best thought of as the distance in latitude,
along the central meridian, from the center of the map to the top
edge of the map.
For azimuthal projections, VERSAMAP requires that the Degrees of
latitude between grid marks that you select, yield equally spaced
divisions when divided into 180 degrees; and that the Degrees of
longitude between grid marks that you select, yield equally spaced
divisions when divided into 360 degrees. You will get an error
message, requiring you to edit the data, if the degrees between grid
marks that you have chosen do not yield equally spaced divisions
when divided into 180 or 360 degrees. For example, the Degrees of
latitude between grid marks for the default Stereographic projection
is 30 degrees, which divides evenly into 180 degrees (180/30 =
6.00). However, you would get an error message if you tried to set
the Degrees of latitude between grid marks to 25 degrees, since 25
does not divide evenly into 180 (180/25 = 7.2)!
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For the Vertical Perspective projection (satellite view), the item
Range of map in degrees is replaced by Distance above surface in
kilometers. As the distance from the Earth's surface increases, the
area (range) of the Vertical Perspective projection increases. The
default distance, 35840 km, is the distance of geosynchronous
communications and weather satellites above the equator.
Once you have entered the items in the LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE LIMITS
window and pressed the < OK > button, the program checks for errors
in the latitude/longitude limits of your map projection, and for
errors in grid spacing. If the program detects an error, it prints
an error message on the screen telling you to correct the mistake.
For instance, the program will not allow a Mercator projection to be
plotted if the Northernmost latitude is 90 N (north pole) or if the
Southernmost latitude is 90 S (south pole). Try entering 90 N as
the Northernmost latitude limit for a Mercator projection. In this
case, an error message will appear, forcing you to edit the data.
If you get an error message, you must correct the error before you
can leave the window!
Standard Parallels
After selecting this item, a window appears in which the latitudes
of the standard parallels are entered.
Conic Map Projections:
The conic projections in this program (equidistant conic, conformal
conic, Albers equal-area) require that you select 2 standard
parallels of latitude. The scale of the map is true along the
standard parallels; the spacing of the parallels determines the
angle between meridians on the map.
There are 2 constraints on selection of the standard parallels:
1. they must lie between the northern- and southernmost
latitudes of your grid; and
2. they cannot be symmetrical about the equator. Standard
parallels at 20 N and 20 S are not allowed.
The program places default values for the standard parallels at 1/6
and 5/6 of the distance between the northern- and southernmost
latitudes of the grid.
When this screen appears, the cursor will be in the first position
of the degrees column of the northernmost standard parallel. If the
default values are acceptable, TAB to the < ok > button and press
Enter to continue.
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To change the values, TAB to the line to be edited, enter the new
value in the field you wish to edit, and press Enter. The cursor
will skip to the next field. Enter a new value if desired and press
Enter. Continue until you have edited the last field. When done,
TAB to the < ok > button and press Enter.
If you attempt to enter standard parallels which are equally spaced
about the equator, the program will print an error message and force
you to change the latitude of one or both of the parallels.
Equirectangular Map Projection:
This projection requires 2 standard parallels at equal distances
north and south of the equator. You may only select the northern
standard parallel. The other parallel is automatically placed in
the southern hemisphere at an equal distance from the equator.
The program places default values for the standard parallels at 1/2
the distance between the northern- and southernmost latitudes of the
grid if the northern- and southernmost latitudes lie in the same
hemisphere. If the northern- and southernmost latitudes of the grid
lie in opposite hemispheres, then the standard parallels are placed
at 1/2 the distance between the equator and whichever of the
northern- or southernmost latitudes of the grid lies closer to a
pole.
When this screen appears, the cursor will be in the first position
of the degrees column of the northernmost standard parallel. If the
default values are acceptable, TAB to the < ok > button and press
Enter to continue.
To change the values, enter a new value in the field being edited
and press Enter. The cursor will skip to the next field. Enter a
new value if desired and press Enter. Continue until you have
edited the last field. When done, TAB to the < ok > button and
press Enter.
Graticule Type
This window allows you to select the type of grid that you wish
superimposed on your map. You have several choices,
(1) the outer boundary of the grid shown as a solid line and the
interior grid points plotted as individual points (the default);
(2) the outer boundary of the grid shown as a solid line and no
interior grid points plotted;
(3) all grid points connected by lines;
(4) all grid points plotted as individual points with no lines
connecting them; and
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(5) no grid (the map will be plotted without any latitude or
longitude markings).
To get a quick view of the appearance of the different grid choices,
select a grid type, then enter a null string (i.e. no file
specification) for the map input filename, and finally plot the map.
In this case, the program will plot the graticule, but no map, on
the screen.
In VERSAMAP, the azimuthal map projections (Gnomonic, Stereographic,
Orthographic, Vertical Perspective, Azimuthal equidistant, Azimuthal
equal-area) are truncated to fit a circular shape, and points that
lie outside the bounding circle are not plotted. Due to the complex
shape of the grid for these projections, the outside boundary of the
map may not be well marked when graticule type 4 (all grid points
plotted as individual points) is selected. To indicate the edge of
the map for azimuthal projections with graticule type 4, VERSAMAP
plots a bounding circle, composed of discrete points spaced 3
degrees apart.
Geographic Features
After selecting this item, a window appears which contains a list of
geographic features (coastlines, islands, lakes, rivers, countries,
U.S. States, Canadian Provinces, Australian States) in Micro World
Data Bank II (MWDB-II) files which can be plotted by VERSAMAP. Move
through the vertical list with the up and down cursor keys, and
toggle the features on or off with the space bar. Checkmarked
features will be plotted. The defaults plot all features. Move to
Proceed and press Enter to exit the window.
The map files supplied with VERSAMAP (file extension .MAP) are an
enhanced version of MWDB-II and can be used to plot the different
features. Please note that the original MWDB-II files (file
extensions .ALL, .CCI, .PNT) do not contain data for Canadian
Provinces or Australian States.
VERSAMAP has the ability to plot as many as 9 map files, one after
the other. Features selected by accessing the Geographic Features
option in the Map Design menu only affect features plotted for the
first map file (which will be the default map input file, VMAP4.MAP,
until you enter a new filename in the Map Input Filenames option of
the Input/Output menu). When you enter a MWDB-II filename in the
Map Input Filenames option, VERSAMAP automatically prompts you for
the geographic features that you wish to plot for that particular
file.
In addition to MWDB-II, VERSAMAP allows geographic features to be
plotted from 2 other digital map databases: (1) World Data Bank II
(WDB-II), a digital map database covering the entire world, which
contains 36 different geographic categories; and (2) U.S. Geological
Survey Digital Line Graph (USGS DLG) data, a database covering the
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United States, containing 72 different geographic features. These
are the most detailed map databases that can be plotted with
VERSAMAP; they are described in Section 9. Geographic features for
WDB-II and USGS DLG map files are selected when you enter their
filenames in the Map Input Filenames option of the Input/Output
menu.
Add Text to Map
You may chose the size, color, orientation, and content of text to
be entered on the map. When you select this option, a window
appears containing 6 boxes labeled Text #, Size, Color, Angle, PIC
Font, and Text. The use of each box is described below.
Text #:
VERSAMAP allows you to store 100 text strings (and their associated
size, color, angle, PIC font, and position) in memory to be recalled
later. The Text # box allows you to select the number of the text
string to be entered.
Size:
This box allows you to select the point size of the text that will
be written on the map. The fixed-space Courier font has 3 possible
sizes: 8, 10, 12 point. The proportionally spaced Helvetica font
has 6 sizes: 8, 10, 12, 14, 18, and 24 point. The height of the
font in inches is equal to the point size divided by 72. A 24 point
font has letters 1/3 inch high.
Color:
You may print text in 1 of 6 colors; white, green, cyan, red,
magenta, or yellow.
Angle:
You may print text in 1 of 4 orientations. Selecting 0 prints the
text horizontally from left to right; selecting 90 prints the text
vertically with the first letter at the bottom; selecting 180
prints the text horizontally, upside down, from right to left;
selecting 270 prints the text vertically with the first letter at
the top.
PIC Font:
The PIC Font number has no effect on maps which are not exported as
PIC files.
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The text that you enter on the map will be incorporated in any Lotus
PIC graphics file that you export. Text in PIC files can be printed
in 1 or 2 fonts. These Lotus fonts are not the same as the Courier
and Helvetica fonts supplied with VERSAMAP.
The PIC Font box allows you to select the font number, 1 or 2, with
which you want the text string to be printed when you print your PIC
file. For instance, the PrintGraph utility from Lotus 1-2-3 version
2.2 allows you to chose 2 fonts from a list of 11 possible fonts
(block1, block2, bold, forum, italic1, italic2, Lotus, Roman1,
Roman2, script1, script2).
If you plan to export maps as PIC files, I recommend that you
prepare a test map annotated with both the Courier and Helvetica
fonts in all possible point sizes. Export this test map from
VERSAMAP as a PIC file, import the file into your graphics program,
and print the PIC file from within your graphics program. This will
give you an idea of the appearance of each font in its various
sizes.
Text:
Type the text that you want printed on the map in the Text box, and
press Enter to store the string. You must press Enter to save the
text string!
For maps displayed on the screen or printed with the Print Map, Save
as PCX, or Save as CGM options, a degree sign, , can be printed by
holding down the Alt key and typing the number 248 on the numeric
keypad.
To incorporate a degree sign, , into a CGM file that is to be
imported into an application running under Microsoft Windows, hold
down the Alt key and press 176 on the numeric keypad. This will
show up as a stippled block, , and an underline character, _, in
VERSAMAP, but will print a degree sign when the CGM file is printed
from within Windows.
To incorporate a degree sign, , in a map exported as a PIC file
hold down the Alt key and press 176 on the numeric keypad. This
will show up as a stippled block, , and an underline character, _,
in VERSAMAP, but will print a degree sign when the PIC file is
printed.
Text strings can have a maximum length of 56 characters. With 12
point or larger text, you may not be able to fit 56 characters
across the map.
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Positioning text on the map:
After selecting the text parameters, tab to the < ok > button, and
press Enter. The window will disappear, and the text string
previously entered in the Text box will be printed in the upper left
corner of the map. The mouse or the cursor keys are used to place
the text string in the desired position on the map. The horizontal
and vertical pixel position of the cursor is continuously updated in
the upper right corner of the screen.
The menu bar is erased when you press the < ok > button. It is
replaced by a reminder that pressing Esc will restore the menus. To
access the menus again you must press Esc or click the left mouse
button on the top line of the screen. This will terminate text
addition, and reactivate the menus.
If you have a mouse, move the mouse cursor to the position at which
you want the text to appear, then press the left mouse button. The
mouse cursor represents the lower, left corner of the text string.
The text string will appear in the new position. Pressing the left
mouse button toggles the text string on and off. The program will
beep if the position you have chosen is too near the edge of the map
to print the full text string.
You can use the up, down, right, and left cursor keys to position
the text string if you do not have a mouse. The cursor position is
represented by a plus sign, +. The plus sign is not visible until
you press one of the cursor keys. The distance the cursor moves is
controlled by pressing the numbers 3, 2, or 1. Pressing the number
3, causes the cursor to move 50 pixels each time a cursor key is
pressed; pressing the number 2, causes the cursor to move 10 pixels
each time a cursor key is pressed; and pressing the number 1, causes
the cursor to move 1 pixel each time a cursor key is pressed. Once
the cursor is in the correct position, press Enter. The center of
the + represents the lower, left corner of the text string.
Pressing Enter, toggles the text string on and off. The program
will beep if the position you have chosen is too near the edge of
the map to print the full text string.
Once you have placed the text in the correct location, press Esc (or
click the left mouse button on the top line of the screen) to
terminate text addition, and reactivate the menus.
To enter a second text string on the map, press Esc to activate the
menus and select the Add Text to Map option in the Map Design menu.
Place the highlight bar over the number 2 in the Text # box, and
press Enter. Then proceed to modify the text parameters as
necessary. The second text string will print in the upper left
corner of the screen when the < OK > button is pressed; this string
will overprint any text already present in the upper left corner.
However, the original text will be restored when you move the second
text string to a new location on the screen.
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Text that you enter on the map will be incorporated into maps that
you print or save using the Print Map, Save as PCX, Save as PIC, and
Save as CGM options in the Input/Output menu. Text entered on maps
is not incorporated into maps saved with the Save as ASCII option,
since most technical and business graphing programs have the ability
to annotate imported graphs.
Select Font
This option allows you to select the font used to print text on the
screen. You may select a fixed-space Courier font or a
proportionally spaced Helvetica font.
The fonts used by VERSAMAP are stored in 6 files with the file
extension .FON:
COUR_CGA.FON, COUR_EGA.FON, COUR_VGA.FON
HELV_CGA.FON, HELV_EGA.FON, HELV_VGA.FON
The program will select the correct font for your video adapter.
The fonts labeled _CGA are for CGA and MCGA adapters, those labeled
_EGA for EGA and Hercules adapters, and those labeled _VGA for VGA
adapters. After making backup copies, you may delete the
unnecessary font files to save disk space. The Helvetica fonts are
only included in the registered version of VERSAMAP.
The font files must be in the same directory as the VERSAMAP
program, VMAP.EXE.
After selecting this option a window titled SELECT FONT appears.
The default font is fixed-space Courier. If this is acceptable,
press Enter. To select the Helvetica font, highlight Helvetica with
the down arrow key, and press Enter.
You may add text in both fonts to the same map. However, using both
fonts on the same map is not recommended. The length of a text
string depends on the font and point size; text which fits on a map
in one font and point size may not fit on the map in the second
font. Use only one font per map if you plan to export a map as a
.PIC or .CGM file. The .PIC and .CGM files exported by VERSAMAP
allow only 1 font to be specified, that font will be the last font
selected before exporting the file.
Display Previous Text
This option allows you to redisplay, on the screen, all previously
defined text strings. Once text is redisplayed it can only be
erased by redrawing the map.
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Save Map Design
This option allows you to save the map parameters you have selected
in a configuration file for recall at a later time. After selecting
this item, a window titled SELECT FILENAME FOR CONFIGURATION FILE
appears. Type in the filename and press Enter. Once you have
entered the filename and pressed Enter, a second window titled ARE
YOU FINISHED EDITING THIS SCREEN will appear. Your configuration
file will be written to disk immediately after you press the < YES
> button.
Recall Map Design
This option allows you to recall a previously defined configuration
file. After selecting this item, a window titled RECALL MAP DESIGN
appears. This window contains a vertical box, listing all
configuration files (file extension .CNF) in the current directory.
Move to the desired file and press Enter to load the file into
VERSAMAP. The configuration file will be loaded immediately after
you press Enter.
VERSAMAP does not automatically display a new map when a
configuration file is loaded into the program. To display the new
map, you must manually plot the map by selecting the checkmarked
option in the Run menu. If the new map includes text, you must also
redisplay the text using the Display Previous Text option in the Map
Design menu, once you have redrawn the map.
Input/Output menu
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Projection Map Design Input/Output Run
-----------------------------------------------------------------
| Map Input Filenames |
| Report Map Parameters |
| View Disk Directory |
|-----------------------|
| Print Map |
| Select Printer |
|-----------------------|
| Save as PCX |
| Save as PIC |
| Save as CGM |
| Save as ASCII |
+-----------------------+
This menu allows you to enter filenames for input and output files,
to display a report describing the currently selected map, to view
the contents of any disk directory, to print the map on dot matrix
and laser printers, and to save maps as disk files.
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You may export maps produced by VERSAMAP: (1) by copying the screen
directly to your printer; (2) as PCX graphics files; (3) as Lotus
PIC graphics files; as CGM (computer graphics metafile) graphics
files; and (5) as ASCII files.
Maps exported by methods (1) and (2) are limited by the resolution
of your monitor. Even with a VGA monitor, the screen resolution
(640 pixels horizontally, 480 pixels vertically) is fairly coarse.
Lotus PIC and CGM files are independent of monitor type and have
much greater resolution (3200 dots horizontally, 2311 dots
vertically) than PCX files. If you have a choice, export your maps
as PIC or CGM files. This is particularly true if you have a CGA or
EGA monitor. Theoretically, the most detailed maps are obtained by
saving them as ASCII files. The resolution of ASCII files produced
by VERSAMAP is limited only by the resolution of the input map
boundary files. As a practical matter, however, the detail shown on
any exported map will be limited by the resolution of the printer on
which it is finally printed.
Map Input Filenames
After selecting this item, a window appears in which the names of
the input boundary files are entered. Up to 9 map boundary input
filenames may be entered. The map boundary input files are the
files which contain the latitude, longitude coordinates that you
wish plotted on your map.
The default file name for the first input file is VMAP4.MAP in the
current directory. VMAP4.MAP is the world map included on the
VERSAMAP disk. The default file names of the remaining 8 map input
files are null strings (i.e. no file name). The program displays
the current path, but no filename, for input files which have not
been defined.
When the window is first displayed, the cursor is located at the end
of the first input file name. Type in the correct path name and
press Enter to accept the path name.
Symbol type, color, and size:
Once you enter a filename, a second window will appear which allows
you to specify the symbol used to plot the points in that file.
The symbol type determines whether your data is plotted as lines, as
individual points, or as crosses, squares, diamonds, or triangles.
If you select the symbol type Line, all points on a particular
polyline will be connected by straight lines. This is the default
symbol type for all files.
The other symbol types (Point, Cross, Square, Diamond, and Triangle)
allow you to superimpose individual latitude/longitude points on a
map created from a digital map database.
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If you have a color monitor, VERSAMAP allows you to chose the color
of the symbols used to plot each file.
In addition, you may chose the size of the crosses, squares,
diamonds, and triangles used to plot your data. The size that you
enter is the radius of the symbol in pixels. The maximum size is 99
pixels. Size has no effect on the Line and Point symbol types,
these two types are always 1 pixel wide.
Once you have entered the symbol type, color, and size for the first
input file, tab to the < ok > button and press Enter.
Geographic Features
If you select an input file from Micro World Data Bank II (file
extension .ALL, .CCI, or .MAP), World Data Bank II (file extension
.PKV or .PKD), or USGS Digital Line Graph Data (file extension .GRF
or .GRV) the program will prompt you to enter the geographic
features that you wish plotted for this file. You may select
different geographic features for each of the files that you input.
Once you select Proceed on the Geographic Features list box, the
window disappears, and you are prompted for the name of the second
map input file (if any). If you wish to input a second map boundary
file, type its name and press Enter. Continue until you have
entered all of your map input files.
Once you have entered the last map input file that you wish plotted,
TAB to the next filename. Erase the current path and then press
Enter again. Entering a null filename stops further input of map
boundary input files.
The program does not require any input map boundary files. If you
do not wish to input data, erase the default path name of the first
input file and press Enter. In this case, only the map graticule
(if any) will be plotted on the screen.
VERSAMAP will accept map boundary input files from the following
public domain, shareware, and commercial digital map databases:
World Data Bank I, World Data Bank II, Micro World Data Bank II, The
World Digitized, Cartog, and U.S. Geological Survey Digital Line
Graph Data. In addition, VERSAMAP will accept input in an ASCII
text format. Section 9 contains a detailed discussion of the
various map databases that VERSAMAP recognizes.
VERSAMAP recognizes the various databases by their file name
extensions. The file names that you enter on this screen must have
one of the extensions given in Section 9. However, the names that
you enter can have different extensions. For instance, your first
file could be from Micro World Data Bank II with the extension .ALL,
your second file could be from the U.S.Geological Survey Digital
Line Graph database with the extension .GRF, and your third file
could be from World Data Bank II, with the extension, .PKV.
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Report Map Parameters
The Versamap parameter report lists various information about the
map: the projection type; the grid type; the latitude/longitude
limits of the map; the maximum/minimum values of the transformed x,y
map coordinates; scale and area errors at selected points on the
map; and the names of the map input files.
The X-axis Length and Y-axis Length, listed under Relative Length of
Axes, are used to scale maps exported as ASCII file(s) to technical
and business graphics programs. The use of these two parameters is
described in Section 10.
Use the up, down, Home, and End keys to scroll through the report.
Press F1 to print the report, Esc to return to menu bar.
View Disk Directory
This window allows you to view the contents of any disk and
directory. Disk drives are indicated by the letters <drive> to the
right of the drive letter. To select a disk drive, move the
highlight bar over the drive letter and press Enter. Directories
are indicated by the letters <dir> to the right of the directory
name. To select a directory, move the highlight bar over the
directory and press Enter. The path which has been selected is
displayed immediately above the vertical list box.
The files in the directory are listed after the last directory
listing.
Print Map
Maps displayed on the screen may be printed on dot matrix or laser
printers. When you select this item, a window titled MAP PLACEMENT
ON PAGE IN INCHES appears, which allows you to define the dimensions
and page placement of the printed map.
This option copies the entire screen, except the menu bar, to the
printer. The default settings place the map in the center of the
page, and set the width (the entire screen width) at 6 inches. The
width and height of the printed map are dependent. Adjusting the
width automatically fixes the height. Any text displayed on the map
will be printed. The grid spacing, and other information about the
printed map that you need to annotate it, can be obtained from the
Report Map Parameters option in the Input/Output menu.
Use the Tab key to move between items. To print the map, tab to the
< OK > button and press Enter. The map will begin printing
immediately after you press the < OK > button. The Print Map option
is slow! On an Epson LQ-800, 24-pin, dot matrix printer, the
default map takes 1.2 minutes to print on a 33 MHz 486 computer with
VGA, 3.3 minutes to print on a 386SX computer with VGA and a math
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coprocessor, and 36 minutes to print on a 5 MHz IBM PC with EGA and
no math coprocessor.
Press Esc to exit a map that is currently being printed.
Select Printer
Before you print a map, you must select the type of printer which
will print the map. When you select this item, a window titled
SELECT PRINTER TYPE AND PORT appears. You may select one of three
printer types: Epson 9- or 24-pin dot matrix, or Hewlett-Packard
LaserJet II. If your printer is not compatible with one of these
printers, select None.
You may also select the printer port. Lpt1 is the default.
Save as PCX
Before saving the map as a bit-mapped .PCX paint file, you must
specify the filename and path of the file. After selecting this
item, a window titled SELECT .PCX FILENAME appears. Type in the
correct filename and press Enter. Since the .PCX file will be
written immediately after you press Enter, the map you wish to save
must be displayed on the screen. The menu bar is not saved as part
of the file.
Maps are exported exactly as they are displayed on the VERSAMAP
screen. When you print these maps from within a paint program, you
may want to print them as black lines on a white background. You
can do this by using the color eraser (or color invert) tool of your
paint program to change the line, symbol, and text colors to black,
and the background to white.
Any text displayed on the screen (except the menu bar) will be
included in the .PCX file. If you do not want text to be included
in the .PCX file, redraw the map.
The grid spacing, latitude/longitude limits, and other information
that you may need to annotate the map, can be obtained from the
Report Map Parameters option in the Input/Output menu.
PCX files produced by VERSAMAP have been successfully imported into
Microsoft Paintbrush and PC Paintbrush IV Plus.
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Save as PIC
Save as CGM
Before saving a map as a vector based .PIC or .CGM graphics file,
you must specify the filename and path of the file. After selecting
one of these items, a window titled SELECT .PIC FILENAME or SELECT
.CGM FILENAME appears. Type in the correct filename and press
Enter. Since the file is written as the map is being plotted on the
screen, you must select the .PIC or .CGM filename before you plot
the map. Once you have specified the filename, redisplay the map
using the Size 100% or Size 70% options in the Run menu. The file
will be written to disk as the map is drawn. The menu bar is not
saved as part of the file.
Any text strings which have been defined with the Add Text to Map
option in the Map Design menu will be included in the .PIC or .CGM
file, even if the text strings are not displayed on the screen. If
you do not want text to be included in the exported file, erase any
previously defined text strings.
To include text in a .PIC or .CGM file, perform the following steps:
(1) draw the map on the screen,
(2) annotate the map using the Add Text to Map option,
(3) select a name for the .PIC or .CGM file using the Save as
PIC or Save as CGM options, and
(4) redraw the map using the same size option (Size 100% or
Size 70%) that was used in step 1.
The file will be written to disk as the map is drawn on the screen
in step 4. Text added to the map in step 2 is not redisplayed on
the screen when the map is redrawn in step 4; however, it is
included in the .PIC or .CGM file. Select the Display Previous Text
option in the Map Design menu to redisplay text previously added to
a map.
The grid spacing, latitude/longitude limits, and other information
that you may need to annotate the map, can be obtained from the
Report Map Parameters option in the Input/Output menu.
PIC files produced by VERSAMAP have been successfully imported into
the PrintGraph utility of Lotus 1-2-3, versions 2.01 and 2.2;
WordPerfect for DOS, versions 5.0 and 5.1; DrawPerfect, version 1.1;
MS Word for Windows 2.0; and Freelance Plus, versions 2.0 and 3.01.
CGM files produced by VERSAMAP have been successfully imported into
WordPerfect for DOS, versions 5.0 and 5.1; DrawPerfect, version 1.1;
MS Word for Windows 2.0; Freelance Plus, version 3.01; Harvard
Graphics for DOS versions 2.3 and 3.0; and CorelDRAW version 2.0.
Many PIC and CGM files produced by VERSAMAP are too large to import
into Freelance, Harvard Graphics 2.3, and CorelDRAW.
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Save as ASCII
This option allows the transformed x,y map coordinates to be
exported to technical or business graphing programs which can plot
large data sets (see section 10, Use of VERSAMAP with Graphing
Programs). After selecting this option, a window titled SELECT
ASCII MAP OR GRID OUTPUT appears. This window allows you to chose
one of two items: (1) Output map data in ASCII format, or (2) Output
grid data in ASCII format.
To output your map as a series of ASCII files, perform the following
steps:
(1) draw the map on the screen,
(2) name each of the ASCII output files by selecting the Output
map data in ASCII format item from the SELECT ASCII MAP OR
GRID OUTPUT window,
(3) name each of the ASCII grid files by selecting the Output
grid data in ASCII format item from the SELECT ASCII MAP OR
GRID OUTPUT window,
(4) redraw the map using the same size option (Size 100% or
Size 70%) that was used in step 1.
The file(s) will be written to disk as the map is drawn on the
screen in step 4. The Save as ASCII option does not export text
defined with the Add Text to Map option. Text displayed on the
screen is ignored when the x,y map data is written to disk.
Output map data in ASCII format:
After selecting this item, a window titled ENTER FILENAMES FOR MAP
OUTPUT FILES appears in which the names of any ASCII output files
that you wish to write to disk are entered.
VERSAMAP will transform the latitude, longitude coordinates from the
map boundary input files into planar x,y map coordinates and output
them to disk in ASCII format. These output files can be imported
into graphing programs for the production of publication quality
maps. The use of the ASCII output map files in graphing programs is
discussed in Section 10.
The program will output up to 9 files, one for each of the map
boundary input files. You may choose any path names for these
files.
Output files are not required by VERSAMAP. If you do not want to
print a particular output file to disk, erase any characters in the
file name, and press Enter.
To enter an output file name, TAB to the filename you wish to edit,
type in the path name and press Enter. The cursor will then move to
the next output file name.
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Each output file corresponds to the input file of the same number.
For instance, if you have 5 input files, the fifth output file will
contain the transformed latitude/longitude coordinates from the
fifth input file.
If you decide to print a particular output file, you do not need to
print the output files corresponding to the other input files. For
instance, if you have 3 input files, you can print the output files
corresponding to the first and third input files, but not the second
input file. Input a null string for any output file that you do not
want to print to disk (i.e. erase any characters in the file
specification and press Enter).
Data records in the ASCII map output files have the following
format.
X coordinate | space (ASCII 32) | Y coordinate |
carriage return (ASCII 13) | line feed (ASCII 10)
Data in most digital map databases is organized as polylines; each
polyline corresponds to a series of points which can be connected by
straight lines. In the map output files, the beginning of each new
polyline is indicated by a dummy point in which the x and y
coordinates are both equal to 5.000000 (5 times the maximum x
coordinate of 1.000000). In a map output file, any point with an x
coordinate of 5.000000 is a dummy point which indicates the
beginning of a new polyline, and which will plot outside the
boundaries of the map.
Output grid data in ASCII format:
After selecting this item, a window titled ENTER FILENAMES FOR
GRATICULE OUTPUT FILES appears in which the names of any ASCII
output graticule files that you wish to write to disk are entered.
VERSAMAP will transform the latitude/longitude coordinates of the
grid type that you have selected into planar x,y map coordinates and
output them to disk in ASCII format. These output grid files can be
imported into graphing programs for the production of publication
quality maps. The use of ASCII output grid files in graphing
programs is discussed in Section 10.
The program will output 1 or 2 grid files, depending on the
graticule type that you chose. You may choose any path names for
these files.
Output grid files are not required by VERSAMAP. If you do not want
to print a particular grid file to disk, erase any characters in the
file name, and press Enter.
To enter a grid file name, TAB to the file to be edited, type in the
path name and press Enter. The cursor will then move to the next
grid file name (if there is one), or to the next screen.
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In most cases, a single grid file will be written to disk. The only
exception, the OUTSIDE BOUNDARY PLUS INTERIOR POINTS grid type,
writes two files to disk: the first file contains the interior
points, the second the outside boundary.
Grid files have the same record format as the map boundary files
listed in the previous section.
Run menu
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Projection Map Design Input/Output Run
-----------------------------------------------------------------
| Size 100% |
| Size 70% |
+-----------+
This menu contains 2 items. Selecting Size 100% will plot the
largest possible map on the screen. Selecting Size 70% will plot a
smaller map with margins around all sides. The Size 70% option
allows you to add text in the margins of the map without writing
over the map itself.
Your map will begin plotting immediately after either item is
selected. The program will cease plotting and return to the menu
bar if Esc is pressed while the map is being drawn.
9. Sources of Digital Map Data for use with VERSAMAP
VERSAMAP will generate maps from the following databases, available
commercially, as shareware, or in the public domain. In addition,
the program will accept input in a simple ASCII format. VERSAMAP
recognizes the various databases by their file extensions. The most
complete databases are (1) the Central Intelligence Agency's World
Data Bank II (WDB-II), a detailed world map; (2) Micro World Data
Bank II (MWDB-II), a smaller database derived from World Data Bank
II; and (3) the U.S. Geological Survey's Digital Line Graph Data
(USGS DLG), which contains detailed maps of all 50 states.
Which of the above digital map databases you use depends on the size
of the area you wish to map. For world maps, MWDB-II is the best
choice. Although WDB-II can be used to draw world maps, it contains
so many points that it plots very slowly when used to plot such a
large area. WDB-II is best used for maps of continental size or
smaller. The USGS DLG data is the best digital map database for
plotting maps at the state or county level in the United States.
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World Data Bank II (WDB-II)
File extensions PKV, PKD
A database, developed by the Central Intelligence Agency, covering
the entire world. Latitude and longitude are given to the nearest
second. The original database is divided into 13 files containing
data for Asia, Europe-Africa, North America, and South
America-Antarctica. The complete set of 13 files contains 6
million, 20 character ASCII records, which require 120 million bytes
of disk space. WDB-II was last updated in January 1987.
WDB-II was digitized using all available source information. Maps
used ranged in scale from 1:750,000 to 1:4,000,000. Nominal scale
was 1:3,000,000. At 1:3,000,000 scale, 1 inch equals 47 statute
miles (1 cm equals 30 km). Successive points in the database are
never more than 127 seconds (approximately 2 miles or 3 km) of
latitude or longitude apart.
To make WDB-II easier to use on microcomputers, Micro Doc (3108
Jackson Street, Bellevue, NE 68005) has reformatted WDB-II in a
binary format (.PKD file extension). The binary format reduces
storage requirements by a factor of 10 (to 12 million bytes), and
vastly reduces the time required to draw maps. VERSAMAP can plot
maps using the binary form of WDB-II (.PKD file extension), and from
an enhanced version of Micro Doc's .PKD files (.PKV file extension),
developed specifically for VERSAMAP.
VERSAMAP can plot the following geographic features from World Data
Bank II in the .PKV or .PKD file formats.
Geographic Features in World Data Bank II
Rank Feature Name
PKV PKD
Major Category: International Boundaries or Limits of
Sovereignty
1 1 International Boundaries
2 2 Indefinite or in dispute
3 3 Separation line, land
4 4 Separation line, sea
5 5 Separation line, islands
6 6 Continental Shelf, Persian Gulf
7 7 Demilitarized zone, Israel
8 8 No defined boundary
Major Category: Coastlines, Islands, and Lakes
9 1 Coastlines, Islands, Lakes
10 2 Islands and lakes, large
11 3 Islands and lakes, medium
12 4 Islands and lakes, small
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14 6 Intermittent lakes, large
15 7 Intermittent lakes, small
16 8 Reefs
17 9 Salt pans, large
18 10 Salt pans, small
21 13 Ice shelves, large
22 14 Ice shelves, small
23 15 Glaciers
Major Category: Rivers
24 1 Rivers
25 2 Rivers, large
26 3 Rivers, medium
27 4 Rivers, small
28 5 Rivers, double lined
29 6 Intermittent rivers, large
30 7 Intermittent rivers, medium
31 8 Intermittent rivers, small
33 10 Canals
34 11 Canals, small
36 13 Canals, irrigation
Major Category: Internal Political Boundaries
37 1 U.S. States
38 1 Canadian Provinces
39 3 Boundaries in Great Lakes
40 Australian States (not available in)
41 Scotland and Wales ( .PKD format)
The WDB-II .PKV files, developed specifically for VERSAMAP, differ
from Micro Doc's .PKD files in 2 respects.
First, .PKV files contain political boundaries for the new countries
which have formed from the Soviet Union, for Australian States, and
for Wales and Scotland. These borders are not included in Micro
Doc's .PKD files, nor in the original ASCII version of WDB-II.
Second, inspection of the above table shows that the ranks, of
individual geographic features in Micro Doc's .PKD files, are not
unique to a single major category (International Boundaries,
Coastlines, Rivers, or Internal Boundaries). The duplication of
ranks between major geographic categories means that .PKD files
cannot be concatenated into a single large file without losing
information about which category a particular rank corresponds to.
To alleviate this problem, ranks in the specially modified .PKV
files have been redefined so that they are unique for each
geographical feature (see above table). This modification allows
.PKV files to be concatenated into a single large file for each
continent.
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For use with VERSAMAP, the modified .PKV files were concatenated
into 5 files, each file containing all geographic features for a
particular region. The 5 regions are (1) Africa, (2) Eurasia
(Europe and Asia), (3) Oceania (Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand,
and the Pacific Islands), (4) Latin America (including Antarctica),
and (5) North America (Canada and the United States). The .PKV
files for individual regions or for the entire world are available
on high density, floppy disk from the author. See the VERSAMAP
Order Form on page 49 for details.
As an example of the detail available in WDB-II, the file,
VMTAIWAN.PKV, which contains all data from WDB-II for the island of
Taiwan, is included on the VERSAMAP disk. To plot the map of
Taiwan,
1. Set the map boundaries at 26 N to 21 N latitude, and 119 E to
123 E longitude using the Map Boundaries option in the Map
Design menu (use a grid spacing of 1 degree, i.e. 001 00 00).
2. Import the file VMTAIWAN.PKV into VERSAMAP using the Map Input
Filenames option in the Input/Output menu. Toggle all
geographic features on in the SELECT WORLD DATA BANK II FEATURES
list box.
3. Plot the map using the Size 100% option in the Run menu.
When VERSAMAP plots maps using Micro Doc's packed .PKD files, it
determines the major category of data being plotted from the third
letter of the filename of the input file. In Micro Doc's file
naming scheme, this letter is unique for each of the 4 major
geographic categories. The third letter must be B for .PKD files
containing International Boundaries or Limits of Sovereignty; it
must be C for Coastlines, Islands, and Lakes; it must be R for
Rivers; and it must be P for Internal Political Boundaries. This
restriction on filenames is not necessary when you use .PKV files,
since geographic ranks in .PKV files are unique.
Micro World Data Bank II (MWDB-II)
File extensions PNT, ALL, CCI
A database, covering the entire world, containing 178,000 latitude,
longitude points. Latitude and longitude are rounded to the nearest
minute and stored as six byte binary records. This database was
derived from WDB-II, and can be ordered from its developer (Micro
Doc, 3108 Jackson Street, Bellevue, NE 68005). An enhanced version
of MWDB-II, containing boundaries for the new countries which have
formed from the Soviet Union, for Canadian Provinces, and for
Australian States is available from the author. See the next
section, VERSAMAP Micro World Database, for details.
VERSAMAP can plot the following geographic features from MWDB-II:
coastlines, islands, lakes, rivers, countries, and U.S States.
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MWDB-II contains several types of digital map files. The first type
(file extension .PNT) contains points from a single geographic
feature at 5 levels of detail. The second file type (file extension
.ALL) contains points for all geographic features at a single level
of detail. A third MWDB-II file, MWDB5.CCI, contains only country,
coastline, and island points at the lowest level of detail. The
.ALL and .CCI files are made from the .PNT files using the utility
program, SELECT.EXE, supplied with MWDB-II. SELECT.EXE allows the
user to build customized map files containing any number of
geographic features and levels of detail. To save disk space,
MWDB1.ALL and MWDB2.ALL, the 2 largest files, are not included in
the MWDB-II package. They are constructed by the user from the .PNT
files and SELECT.EXE upon receiving MWDB-II.
Summary of Micro World Data Bank II Files
Filename Size(bytes) # Points Comment
MWDB1.ALL 1,068,408 178,068 The entire database
MWDB2.ALL 652,500 108,750
MWDB3.ALL 157,176 26,196
MWDB4.ALL 82,560 13,760
MWDB5.ALL 27,180 4,530
MWDB5.CCI 19,110 3,185
COAST.PNT 449,802 74,967 Coastlines
ISLAND.PNT 211,026 35,171 Islands
LAKE.PNT 90,708 15,118 Lakes
RIVER.PNT 169,164 28,194 Rivers
COUNTRY.PNT 134,154 22,359 Country borders
STATE.PNT 13,554 2,259 U.S. State borders
The mapping programs, Expert Maps and Finger Maps, contain a digital
map named WORLD.MAP. This map is a copy of the map file MWDB3.ALL
from MWDB-II, and can be used in VERSAMAP.
VERSAMAP Micro World Database
File extension MAP
A database containing 195,000 latitude, longitude points. Latitude
and longitude are rounded to the nearest minute and stored as six
byte binary records. This database is an enhanced version of
MWDB-II described in the previous section. Both map databases have
the same file structure. Enhancements incorporated in the VERSAMAP
Micro World Database include (1) borders for the new countries which
have formed from the Soviet Union; (2) borders for Eritrea,
Slovakia, and the Yugoslav Republics, (3) borders for Canadian
Provinces; (4) borders for Australian States; (5) more detail for
U.S. State boundaries; (6) increased detail for the borders of
Israel, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen; and (7) removal
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of the borders between East and West Germany, and between the Yemen
Arab Republic and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen.
VMAP1.MAP through VMAP5.MAP, the digital map files supplied with
VERSAMAP Micro World Database, are enhanced versions of the
equivalent .ALL files in MWDB-II.
VERSAMAP can plot the following geographic features from VERSAMAP
Micro World Database: coastlines, islands, lakes, rivers, countries,
U.S States, Canadian Provinces, and Australian States.
VERSAMAP Micro World Database Files
Filename Size Number Avg distance between points
(bytes) Points nautical miles km
VMAP1.MAP 1,170,108 195,018 4 7
VMAP2.MAP 716,496 119,416 6 11
VMAP3.MAP 185,610 30,935 19 35
VMAP4.MAP 97,614 16,269 33 61
VMAP5.MAP 34,452 5,742 72 134
The complete set of VERSAMAP Micro World Database .MAP files is
available on floppy disk from the author. See the VERSAMAP Order
Form, page 49, for details.
USGS Digital Line Graph Data (USGS DLG)
File extensions GRF, GRV
A database developed by the U.S. Geological Survey containing
detailed maps of all 50 states. The database divides the United
States into 21 sections. The digital data for each section contains
the following major categories: (1) streams and rivers, (2)
coastlines and lakes, (3) roads, (4), railroads, (5) political
boundaries, (6) administrative boundaries, (7) cultural features,
and (8) hypsography. Each major category contains numerous minor
categories characterized by the size of the geographic feature. The
most recent data in the database dates from 1980.
Data in the USGS DLG database were derived by digitizing 1:2,000,000
scale maps from the National Atlas of the United States at a
resolution of 0.001 inch. At 1:2,000,000 scale, 1 inch equals 32
statute miles (1 cm equals 20 km). Successive points in the
database are never more than 127 seconds (approximately 2 miles or
3 km) of latitude or longitude apart.
The database is available on CD-ROM (US GeoData - 1:2,000,000-Scale
Digital Line Graph (DLG) Data) and can be ordered from the Earth
Science Information Center, U.S. Geological Survey, 507 National
Center, Reston, VA 22092. Phone number: 1-800-USA-MAPS.
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VERSAMAP can plot maps using DLG data in the graphic file format
(.GRF file extension) directly from the above CD-ROM. These .GRF
files consist of 20 character ASCII records, in which latitude and
longitude are given to the nearest second. The entire set of .GRF
files, covering all 50 states, occupies 144 million bytes of space
on the CD-ROM.
To reduce storage requirements, and speed plotting, the ASCII .GRF
files have been converted to the binary, packed WDB-II format
mentioned above. The .GRF files in packed WDB-II format have the
file extension .GRV. The packed .GRV files occupy 8 times less disk
space (18 million bytes) and plot 2.5 times faster than the original
ASCII .GRF files. Packed .GRV files, for the 21 sections of the
United States or for the entire country, are available on high
density, floppy disk from the author. See the VERSAMAP Order Form,
page 49, for details.
As an example of the detail available in the USGS DLG data, the
file, VMOAHU.GRV, which contains all data from the US GeoData CD-ROM
for the island of Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands, is included on the
VERSAMAP disk. To plot the map of Oahu,
1. Set the map boundaries at 22 N to 21 N latitude, and 159 W to
157 W longitude using the Map Boundaries option in the Map
Design menu (use a grid spacing of 1 degree, i.e. 001 00 00).
2. Import the file VMOAHU.GRV into VERSAMAP using the Map Input
Filenames option in the Input/Output menu. Toggle all
geographic features on in the SELECT USGS DIGITAL LINE GRAPH
FEATURES list box.
3. Plot the map using the Size 100% option in the Run menu.
VERSAMAP can plot the following geographic features using DLG data
in either .GRF or .GRV file formats.
Geographic Features Included in USGS DLG Data
# Feature Name
Rivers and Streams
1 River, double line, shoreline
2 River, double line, centerline
3 River, perennial, <30 km
4 River, perennial, <100 km
5 River, perennial, <350 km
6 River, perennial, >=350 km
7 River, intermittent, <30 km
8 River, intermittent, <100 km
9 River, intermittent, <350 km
10 River, intermittent, >=350 km
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11 River in lake, perenn. <30 km
12 River in lake, perenn. <80 km
13 River in lake, perenn. >=80 km
14 River in lake, interm. <30 km
15 River in lake, interm. >=30 km
16 Braided stream
17 Canal, navigable, <20 km
18 Canal, navigable, <80 km
19 Canal, navigable, >=80 km
20 Canal, other, <20 km
21 Canal, other, <80 km
22 Canal, other, >=80 km
23 Ditch
24 Intercoastal waterway
Water Bodies
25 U.S. coastline and Great Lakes
26 Lake, island, perennial <30 km
27 Lake, island, perennial <80 km
28 Lake, island, perennial >=80 km
29 Lake, intermittent <30 km
30 Lake, intermittent <80 km
31 Lake, intermittent >=80 km
32 Marsh, swamp, <50 km
33 Marsh, swamp, >=50 km
34 Dry lake, alkali flat
35 Glacier, <50 km
36 Glacier, >=50 km
Roads and Trails
37 Interstate highway
38 Interstate, proposed
39 Divided highway, limited access
40 Other hwy, limited access
41 Other hwy, non-limited access
42 Other hwy <10 km from major hwy
43 State secondary, all weather
44 Light duty, all weather
45 Unimproved, fair or dry weather
46 Highway, tunnel
47 Auto, ferry
Railroads
48 Railroad, main line
49 Railroad, branch line
50 Railroad, other
51 Railroad, tunnel
52 Railroad, ferry
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Political Boundaries
53 International treaty line
54 National boundary, land
55 National boundary, water
56 State boundary, land
57 State boundary, water
58 County, large city, land
59 County, large city, water
60 City boundary, >1.0 million
61 City boundary, >0.5 million
62 City boundary, small
Administrative Boundaries
63 National park <20 km
64 National park >=20 km
65 National park closure line
66 Indian reservation <20 km
67 Indian reservation >=20 km
68 Indian reservation closure line
69 Military reservation <405 ha
70 Military reservation >=405 ha
71 Mil. reservation closure line
Cultural Features
72 Alaska pipeline
World Data Bank I
File extension DAT
A database, covering the entire world, developed by the Central
Intelligence Agency. World Data Bank I contains 79,000 points
representing world coastlines. Latitude and longitude are given to
the nearest second. Data are stored as 20 character ASCII records
on 5, 5.25 inch, 360K disks, which can be ordered from the National
Technical Information Service, United States Department of Commerce,
5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, VA 22161.
The World Digitized
File extensions MPS, MP1
A shareware database containing 100,000 latitude, longitude points
rounded to thousandths of a degree. The database is available (in
both binary and ASCII format) from shareware disk vendors.
The World Digitized database is subdivided into directories, one
directory for each continent. This useful feature reduces plotting
time since the user can select only those areas he wishes to map.
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Each of the World Digitized directories contains 2 or more map
files. If you wish to plot the entire World Digitized database from
VERSAMAP, you will have to concatenate the individual .MPS(binary)
or .MP1(ASCII) files, since VERSAMAP will not accept more than 9
input files. The VERSAMAP disks contain 2 files, VM_FIX.MPS and
VM_FIX.MP1, which must be used to concatenate World Digitized files
for use with VERSAMAP. These 2 files, VM_FIX.MPS and VM_FIX.MP1,
force a line break at the end of each World Digitized file when it
is concatenated.
For example, to concatenate the World Digitized binary .MPS files in
the Europe subdirectory for use with VERSAMAP, use the following
form of the DOS copy command:
COPY /B E0.MPS+VM_FIX.MPS+E1.MPS+VM_FIX.MPS+E2.MPS+
VM_FIX.MPS+E3.MPS EUROPE.MPS
where EUROPE.MPS is the concatenated file.
A similar procedure (without the /B switch) is used to concatenate
the World Digitized ASCII .MP1 files for use with VERSAMAP:
COPY E0.MP1+VM_FIX.MP1+E1.MP1+VM_FIX.MP1+E2.MP1+
VM_FIX.MP1+E3.MP1 EUROPE.MP1
Spurious diagonal lines will be plotted if you do not insert the
VM_FIX.MPS or VM_FIX.MP1 files between the World Digitized files
when they are concatenated for use with VERSAMAP.
Cartog
File extension BIN
The mapping program CARTOG (Byte Magazine, page 329, December 1987)
includes the database WORLDMED. This database contains 15,000
latitude, longitude points rounded to hundredths of a degree and
stored as 6 byte binary records. The mapping program and the
WORLDMED database are available on disk from Byte Magazine.
Importing Your Own Data into VERSAMAP
File extension PRN
In addition to the above file formats, VERSAMAP will also accept
latitude, longitude values in the following ASCII format. The line
header field is used to indicate the beginning of each new polyline;
-1 indicates the beginning of a new polyline, 0 indicates subsequent
points within the polyline.
Latitude and longitude are entered as decimal degrees; negative
values represent South latitude or West longitude. Use the
following formula to convert latitude and longitudes given as
degrees, minutes, and seconds to decimal degrees:
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Decimal lat/lon = degrees + minutes/60 + seconds/3600
For example, the decimal position for Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (22
degrees, 53 minutes, 43 seconds south latitude; 43 degrees, 13
minutes, 22 seconds west longitude) is:
Decimal latitude = -(22 + 53/60 + 43/3600) = -22.8953
Decimal longitude = -(43 + 13/60 + 22/3600) = -43.2228
The decimal position for Paris, France (48 degrees, 50 minutes, 14
seconds north latitude; 2 degrees, 20 minutes, 14 seconds east
longitude) is:
Decimal latitude = +(48 + 50/60 + 14/3600) = +48.8372
Decimal longitude = +( 2 + 20/60 + 14/3600) = + 2.3372
Decimal latitude and longitudes, input into VERSAMAP, are rounded to
the nearest second. The program cannot distinguish between
positions less than 101 feet (31 meters, 1 second of latitude)
apart.
Record Format for User Supplied Data
field #1 - line header: -1 for new polyline
0 for point within polyline
field separator: one or more spaces (ASCII 32)
field #2 - latitude: decimal degrees, south latitude is
negative
field separator: one or more spaces (ASCII 32)
field #3 - longitude: decimal degrees, west longitude is
negative
end of record: carriage return (ASCII 13),
line feed (ASCII 10)
Records with this format can be generated by most word processors,
text editors, and spreadsheets.
The file VMAPUSER.PRN on the VERSAMAP disk is a short file using the
above ASCII format. The file contains 6 individual points in the
Pacific and Atlantic Oceans which plot as points; plus 5 points in
the Indian Ocean which plot as a box when the points are connected
by lines. You can use VMAPUSER.PRN to study the appearance of the
different symbol shapes, sizes, and colors that VERSAMAP can plot.
To plot the file, (1) select the Map Input Filenames option in the
Input/Output menu; (2) erase the default map name, VMAP4.MAP; (3)
type VMAPUSER.PRN for the filename; (4) and press Enter. When the
window titled ENTER SYMBOL TYPE, COLOR, & SIZE appears, (1) select
symbol type Open square; (2) the color yellow; (3) size 03 pixels;
and (4) press Enter on the < OK > button. When asked for the next
filename, erase the pathname and press Enter to end filename input.
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To display the file, select the Size 100% option in the Run menu.
The screen will show 10 individual points, marked by yellow squares.
The box in the Indian Ocean plotted as 4 individual points, because
all symbol types, except Line, plot as points.
To plot the Indian Ocean points as a box, repeat the above steps,
but choose symbol type Line. In this case, the first six individual
points plot as yellow dots, 1 pixel in size; but the last 5 points
in the Indian Ocean are connected by lines, and plot as a rectangle.
To view the contents of VMAPUSER.PRN, type the following command at
the DOS prompt and press Enter (the word TYPE is part of the
command).
TYPE VMAPUSER.PRN
Comments may be added to each line of the file after the last digit
of longitude; however, the comment must not contain blank spaces or
commas.
10. Use of VERSAMAP with Graphing Programs
VERSAMAP can be used to prepare publication quality maps in
conjunction with suitable graphing programs. To be useful in
preparing maps, a graphing program should be able to:
a) handle large data sets;
b) use more than 1 data set per graph;
c) physically separate the x and y axes, so that they do
not show on the figure;
d) connect individual points on the graph with lines; and
e) exclude data which exceeds the X- and Y-axis limits.
To print a map using a graphing program, import the map grid and the
output map boundary files into the program.
If there are two map grid files, the points in the first map grid
file should be plotted as dots, and the points in the second map
grid file should be connected by lines. If there is only one map
grid file, you can connect the grid points by lines or not,
depending on how you want the graticule to appear.
The X- and Y-axes are scaled using the values of X-axis Length and
Y-axis Length listed under Relative Length of Axes on the VERSAMAP
Parameter Report. The relative X-axis Length is defined as 1.000000
for all maps; the relative Y-axis Length may be less than or greater
than unity, depending on the projection and graticule chosen.
Starting values of the X- and Y-axes should be set at 0. The ending
values of the X- and Y-axes will depend on your graphing program,
but in general they will be one or both of the values listed under
Relative Length of Axes on the VERSAMAP Parameter Report.
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You should configure the graphing program for data clipping (i.e.
exclude points which lie outside the limits of the X- and Y-axes).
This will prevent the dummy points (X = 5.000000), which indicate
new polylines (see Section 8, Map Output Filenames), from being
plotted.
Map and grid output files produced by VERSAMAP have been
successfully imported into the technical graphing programs, Grapher
and SigmaPlot. For use with SigmaPlot, dummy points (X,Y =
5.000000) which indicate line breaks in map output files must be
converted to dashes (X,Y = --------), indicating missing data,
before the files are imported into SigmaPlot. Changing the dummy
points from 5.000000 to -------- can be done using the replace
command in Edlin or the search and replace command in a word
processor.
11. Program Compatibility with Software and Hardware
Compatibility With Other Software
VERSAMAP has been tested successfully on computers running under DOS
versions 3.00, 3.30, 4.01, 5.00, and 6.00. VERSAMAP should run on
any computer with DOS 3.0 or higher.
Map output files produced by VERSAMAP have been successfully
imported into the following programs.
File Imported Successfully
Program Version PCX PIC CGM ASCII
CorelDRAW 2.0 yes yes yes
DrawPerfect 1.1 yes yes yes
Freelance Plus 3.01, 2.0 yes yes
Grapher 1.75 yes
Harvard Graphics 3.0, 2.3 yes
Lotus 123, PrintGraph 2.2, 2.01 yes
Microsoft Paintbrush 2.0 yes
Microsoft Word 2.0 yes yes yes
PC Paintbrush IV Plus yes
SigmaPlot yes
WordPerfect 5.1, 5.0 yes yes
PIC and CGM files produced by VERSAMAP are often too large to import
into Freelance Plus, Harvard Graphics 2.3, and CorelDRAW 2.0.
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Hardware Compatibility
VERSAMAP has been tested successfully on the following computer
systems. The last column gives the time required to plot the
default world map, VMAP4.MAP, on each system.
Micro- DOS CPU Monitor Disk Math Co- Time
processor Version MHz Type processor (min)
8088 3.30 5 CGA,Herc Floppy No 18.11
3.00 5 EGA(mono) Floppy Yes 3.92
80286 3.30 10 VGA(mono) Hard Yes 0.96
80386sx 4.01 16 VGA Hard Yes 0.66
80386sx 5.00 16 VGA Hard No 2.05
80386sx 6.00 25 VGA Hard No 1.76
80386 5.00 25 VGA Hard No 1.19
80486 5.00 33 VGA Hard Yes 0.17
Maps displayed by VERSAMAP have been printed successfully on the
following printers with the Print Map option.
9-pin dot matrix: IBM Proprinter
24-pin dot matrix: Epson LQ-800.
InkJet: HP DeskJet Plus
Laser: HP LaserJet-II, -III, -IIIsi.
Video Compatibility
VERSAMAP has been tested successfully on systems with CGA, Hercules,
EGA, and VGA adapters and monitors. The program runs in high
resolution CGA mode (640 x 200 pixels) on computers equipped with
MCGA adapters.
Several users have reported that VERSAMAP versions 1.17 and lower
will not run in VGA mode on computer systems equipped with both VGA
and Hercules graphics adapters. The present version of VERSAMAP has
been modified to run in EGA mode (640 x 350 pixels) when it detects
the presence of both VGA and Hercules graphics adapters.
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Several users have reported that VERSAMAP versions 1.20 and lower
would not run on their systems because it did not recognize the type
of video adapter (VGA, EGA, CGA, Hercules) in their computer. The
present version of VERSAMAP has been modified to allow users to
force the program to run in a particular video mode. This is done
by adding an additional parameter after the word VMAP on the DOS
command line when VERSAMAP is started. VERSAMAP now recognizes the
following command line parameters:
Valid command line parameters are:
Command Line Result
VMAP Run VERSAMAP, allow program to select video mode
VMAP VIDEO Display video monitor and adapter determined by
program
VMAP HELP Display list of valid command line parameters
VMAP CGA Force program to run in high resolution CGA mode
VMAP HGC Force program to run in Hercules monographic mode
VMAP EGA Force program to run in color EGA mode
VMAP EGAMONO Force program to run in monochrome EGA mode
VMAP EGA64 Force program to run on EGA adapters with only
64K memory
VMAP VGA Force program to run in color or monochrome VGA
mode
If VERSAMAP cannot recognize the video system in your computer, you
will receive the error message "VERSAMAP 1.30 does not support your
monitor and/or video display adapter!". If you receive this error
message, and you know the type of video adapter and monitor in your
system, you can force VERSAMAP to run in that video mode by using
one of the above commands.
For instance, to force VERSAMAP to run in color EGA mode on a
computer known to contain an EGA video adapter and a color EGA
monitor, type the following command at the DOS prompt and then press
Enter.
VMAP EGA
12. Installing VERSAMAP
VERSAMAP is distributed in several different forms: (1) as a set of
uncompressed files, (2) as a compressed .ZIP file, and (3) as a
compressed, self-extracting .EXE file. VERSAMAP installation is a
simple process of copying the contents of the VERSAMAP distribution
disk(s) to your hard drive or to a second floppy disk, and expanding
the files if necessary.
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VERSAMAP does not require a hard disk, but you may not have enough
free disk space available, if you attempt to save digital maps
output by VERSAMAP onto the floppy disk containing the VERSAMAP
files. This is especially true for low density floppy disks.
To run VERSAMAP, once it has been installed, change to the directory
containing the VERSAMAP files, type VMAP at the DOS prompt, and then
press the Enter key.
Hard and Floppy Disk Installation
Self-extracting version
To expand the self-extracting form of VERSAMAP onto a hard disk or
any size floppy disk:
1. Insert the VERSAMAP distribution disk into disk drive A.
2. Change to drive A using the DOS Change Directory command
(e.g., CD A:).
3. Type the name of the self-extracting file (e.g., type VMAPS if
the self-extracting file is VMAPS.EXE) at the DOS prompt, press
the Enter key, and follow the instructions on the screen. Once
the instructions have been displayed, you may abort installation
and return to DOS by pressing N.
Hard and Floppy Disk Installation
ZIP version
You will need a copy of the PKUNZIP utility program to expand the
compressed .ZIP form of VERSAMAP. PKUNZIP is available from most
shareware distributors and bulletin boards.
The following instructions describe the steps necessary to unzip the
compressed .ZIP file into a subdirectory called VERSAMAP on hard
drive C.
1. First, use the DOS MKDIR command to create the VERSAMAP
subdirectory to hold the uncompressed files
(e.g., MKDIR C:\VERSAMAP).
2. Use the DOS COPY command to copy the VERSAMAP .ZIP file and the
unzipping program, PKUNZIP.EXE, into subdirectory VERSAMAP.
3. Change to the VERSAMAP subdirectory using the DOS Change
Directory command (e.g., CD C:\VERSAMAP).
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4. To unzip the VERSAMAP files from a file called VMAP.ZIP, type
the following command at the DOS prompt,
PKUNZIP VMAP.ZIP
and press the Enter key.
To unzip the VERSAMAP files onto floppy disk(s), you may need to
unzip the files, one file at a time. Consult the PKUNZIP
instructions for the commands necessary to extract the VERSAMAP
files onto a floppy disk. The help screen for PKUNZIP can be
displayed by changing to the directory containing PKUNZIP, typing
PKUNZIP at the DOS prompt, and pressing Enter.
Hard Disk Installation
Uncompressed version
To install VERSAMAP in a directory called VERSAMAP on a hard disk
(i.e. drive C):
1. Insert the VERSAMAP distribution disk into a floppy disk
drive (i.e. drive A).
2. Copy the files from the disk in drive A to your hard disk by
typing the following command at the DOS prompt
XCOPY A: C:\VERSAMAP /S /V
and pressing Enter. This command will copy all files and
subdirectories from the disk in drive A into directory VERSAMAP
on your hard drive. The XCOPY command will create a VERSAMAP
directory if it does not already exist on your hard drive. If
the VERSAMAP directory does not exist, you will be prompted by
the following message after entering the command:
Does VERSAMAP specify a file name
or directory name on the target
(F = file, D = directory)?
Answer the question by pressing the letter D to create the new
directory. The above message is not displayed if a VERSAMAP
directory already exists on your hard drive. In this case, the
XCOPY command will overwrite any files of the same name in the
existing VERSAMAP directory.
3. Remove the first VERSAMAP distribution disk from disk drive A.
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4. Repeat steps 1 to 3 if you received the VERSAMAP software on
more than 1 floppy disk.
VERSAMAP is now installed.
Floppy Disk Installation
Uncompressed version
These instructions assume that you are copying the VERSAMAP files to
a second floppy disk with a capacity equal to or greater than the
VERSAMAP distribution disk(s).
To install the uncompressed form of VERSAMAP onto a floppy disk
(i.e., drive B):
1. Place a blank, formatted disk in drive B.
2. Insert the VERSAMAP distribution disk into disk drive A.
3. Copy the files from the disk in drive A onto drive B by typing
the following command at the DOS prompt
XCOPY A: B: /S /V
and pressing Enter. This will copy all files from the disk in
drive A onto the disk in drive B.
4. Remove the first VERSAMAP distribution disk from disk drive A.
5. Repeat steps 1 to 4 if you received the VERSAMAP software on
more than 1 distribution disk. If your drive B is a high
density floppy drive, you may copy all VERSAMAP files onto the
same high density disk.
VERSAMAP is now installed.
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13. VERSAMAP Order Form (version 1.30) page 1/3
Make checks payable to Charles Culberson. Persons living outside
the United States can register VERSAMAP by obtaining a Postal Money
Order payable in U.S. dollars from their National Post Office; or by
personal check in their local currency at the current exchange rate.
Send order form and comments to:
Charles Culberson
8 Ritter Lane
Newark, DE 19711
USA
------------------ Registration, version 1.30 ------------------
Date: __________________________________________________________
Where did you obtain VERSAMAP? _________________________________
Your Name: _____________________________________________________
Address: _______________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________
Please circle the floppy disk size that you would like the VERSAMAP
files supplied on.
5.25" 360K 5.25" 1.2M 3.5" 720K 3.5" 1.4M
--------------------------- Comments ---------------------------
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13. VERSAMAP Order Form (version 1.30, continued) page 2/3
Item Cost
1. VERSAMAP, registered copy , $15 ______
Most recent version of mapping program plus Helvetica fonts
and maps VMAP3.MAP (31,000 points) and VMAP5.MAP (6,000
points).
2. Printed Manual, $15 ______
Printed copy of VERSAMAP instruction manual with soft
cover. The text of the printed manual is identical to the
text of the instruction manual, VMAP.DOC, included on the
VERSAMAP disk.
3. VERSAMAP Micro World Database, $15 ______
Includes complete set of 5 maps, VMAP1.MAP (195,000 points)
to VMAP5.MAP (6,000 points). See page 35 of instruction
manual for details.
4. World Data Bank II in VERSAMAP .PKV format (data only supplied
on high density 3.5" or 5.25" floppy disks). See page 32 of
instruction manual for details of this database.
Region Comments
Africa Suez Canal divides Africa and Eurasia
Eurasia includes Japan and Taiwan
Latin America Mexico to Chile, including Antarctica
North America Canada, United States (Hawaii is in Oceania)
Oceania Indonesia, Philippines, Australia, New
Zealand, and Pacific Islands
------- Circle regions wanted -------
Region Number of Cost
Disks
Africa 2 $10
Eurasia 5 $25
North America 3 $15
Latin America 2 $10
Oceania 1 $ 5
Total cost of World Data Bank II files: ______
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13. VERSAMAP Order Form (version 1.30, continued) page 3/3
Item Cost
5. USGS Digital Line Graph data in VERSAMAP .GRV format (data only
supplied on high density 3.5" or 5.25" floppy disks). See page
36 of instruction manual for details of this database.
-------------- Circle sections wanted --------------
USGS States on disk(s) Number of
Sections Disks
01 CT, MA, ME, NY, VT, NH, RI 1
02 DE, MD, OH, NJ, PA, VA, WV 1
03, 04 FL, GA, NC, SC 1
05 AL, AR, LA, MS, TN 2
06 IA, IL, IN, KY, MO 2
07 MI, MN, WI 1
08 TX (TX in section 09 also) 1
09 TX, OK (TX in section 08 also) 1
10 CO, KS, NE 1
11 MT, ND, SD, WY (MT in section 15 also) 1
12 AZ, NM 1
13, 14, 21 CA, HI, NV, UT 1
15 ID, MT, OR, WA (MT in section 11 also) 1
16 thru 20 AK 5
Total cost of USGS Digital Line Graph files
(number of disks x $5 per disk): ______
6. $5 charge for shipping to addresses outside the U.S.
or Canada: ______
7. $7 charge for checks drawn on foreign banks in foreign
currency. Except for Canadian banks, I cannot accept
checks drawn on foreign banks in U.S. currency. There
is no charge for checks drawn on U.S. banks. ______
Minimum order is $15. Total cost of items 1 through 7,
or $15, whichever is greater. ______
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14. Acknowledgements
To save disk space, the VERSAMAP mapping program, VMAP.EXE, has been
compressed with the PKLITE Professional executable file compressor.
When you run VMAP.EXE by typing VMAP at the DOS prompt, the program
will automatically expand as it loads into memory.
VERSAMAP uses the Hercules graphics driver, MSHERC.COM, and the font
files, COURA.FON, COURB.FON, COURE.FON, HELVA.FON, HELVB.FON,
HELVE.FON, supplied with Microsoft BASIC 7.0. Portions(C) 1982-1989
Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
VERSAMAP uses routines from the PCX Programmer's Toolkit, Copyright
(c) Genus Microprogramming, Inc. 1988-1990.
VERSAMAP uses the QuickWindows Advanced User Interface Library which
is Copyrighted 1990 by Software Interphase, Inc.
The boundary files, VMAP1.MAP through VMAP5.MAP, contain data from
Micro World Data Bank II, a digital map database placed in the
Public Domain by Fred Pospeschil and Antonio Riveria.
The enhanced World Data Bank II files (.PKV file extension)
distributed with VERSAMAP are derived from the packed, binary
version of World Data Bank II (.PKD file extension) developed and
placed in the Public Domain by Fred Pospeschil (Micro Doc, 3108
Jackson Street, Bellevue, NE 68005, USA).
CorelDRAW is copyrighted by Corel Systems Corporation. Brother is
a registered trademark of Brother Industries, Ltd. Epson is a
registered trademark of Epson America, Inc. Expert Maps is a
trademark of Expert Software. Finger Maps is Copyrighted by Poisson
Technology. Grapher is a trademark of Golden Software, Inc.
Harvard Graphics is a registered trademark of Software Publishing
Corporation. Hewlett-Packard is a registered trademark of
Hewlett-Packard Company. Hercules is a registered trademark of
Hercules Computer Technology. IBM is a registered trademark of
International Business Machines Corporation. Lotus, 1-2-3, and
Freelance are registered trademarks of Lotus Development
Corporation. Microsoft is a registered trademark, and Microsoft
Windows is a trademark of the Microsoft Corporation. Okidata is a
registered trademark of Oki America Inc. PC Paintbrush is a
registered trademark of ZSoft Corporation. PKUNZIP is a registered
trademark, and PKLITE Professional is a trademark of PKWARE Inc.
SigmaPlot is a trademark of Jandel Corporation. WordPerfect and
DrawPerfect are registered trademarks of WordPerfect Corporation.
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15. Glossary
The following definitions are taken from:
John P. Snyder and Philip M. Voxland. 1989. An Album of Map
Projections. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1453.
U.S. Government Printing Office. Pages 2 to 4.
Aspect: Conceptual placement of a projection in relation to the
Earth's axis (polar, equatorial, oblique).
Azimuthal projection: Projection on which the azimuth or direction
from a given central point to any other point is shown correctly.
Central meridian: Meridian passing through the center of a
projection, often a straight line about which the projection is
symmetrical.
Conformal projection: Projection on which all angles at each point
are preserved.
Conic projection: Projection resulting from the conceptual
projection of the Earth onto a tangent or secant cone, which is
then cut lengthwise and laid flat.
Cylindrical projection: Projection resulting from the conceptual
projection of the Earth onto a tangent or secant cylinder, which
is then cut lengthwise and laid flat.
Equal-area projection: Projection on which the areas of all
regions are shown in the same proportion to their true areas.
Shapes may be greatly distorted.
Equatorial aspect: Aspect of a projection on which the center of
projection or the origin is some point along the Equator.
Equidistant projection: Projection that maintains constant scale
along all great circles from one or two points.
Graticule: Network of lines representing a selection of the
Earth's parallels and meridians.
Great circle: Any circle on the surface of the Earth (assumed to
be a sphere) formed by the intersection of the surface with a
plane passing through the center of the Earth. It is the
shortest distance between any two points along the circle and
therefore important for navigation. All meridians and the
Equator are great circles.
Latitude: Angle made by a perpendicular to a given point on the
surface of the Earth and the plane of the Equator, north or south
to 90 degrees. One of the two common geographic coordinates of
a point on the Earth.
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Longitude: Angle made by the plane of a meridian passing through
a given point on the Earth's surface and the plane of the (prime)
meridian passing through Greenwich, England, east or west to 180
degrees. One of the two common geographic coordinates of a point
on the Earth.
Meridian: Reference line on the Earth's surface formed by the
intersection of the surface with a plane passing through both
poles and some third point on the surface. This line is
identified by its longitude. On the Earth, this line is half a
great circle.
Oblique aspect: Aspect of a projection on which the center of the
projection or the origin is located at a point which is neither
at a pole nor along the Equator.
Parallel: Small circle on the surface of the Earth formed by the
intersection of the surface with a plane parallel to the plane of
the Equator. This line is identified by its latitude. The
Equator (a great circle) is also treated as a parallel.
Polar aspect: Aspect of a projection on which the Earth is viewed
from the polar axis.
Scale: Ratio of the distance on a map to the corresponding distance
on the Earth; usually stated in the form 1:5,000,000, for
example.
Secant cone, cylinder: A secant cone or cylinder intersects the
Earth's surface along two separate lines.
Small circle: Circle formed by the intersection of the Earth's
surface and a plane that does not pass through the center of the
Earth. Parallels of latitude, other than the Equator, are small
circles.
Standard parallel: A parallel of latitude along which the scale of
the map is correct. There are one or two standard parallels on
most cylindrical and conic map projections
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16. Index
Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1, 52
Add Text to Map. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14, 19, 21, 28, 29
Administrative boundaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36, 39
Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32, 34, 50
Alaska pipeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39
Albers equal-area. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10, 11, 14, 16
ALL. . 3, 8, 10, 11, 13, 15, 17, 18, 20, 22-25, 31, 32, 34-38, 42,
47, 48, 52, 53
Alt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4, 5, 7, 8, 20
Antarctica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32, 34, 50
ASCII. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2, 22-26, 29-33, 37, 39-41, 43
Aspect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12, 53, 54
Association of Shareware Professionals . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Australia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34, 50
Australian states. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18, 33-36
Azimuthal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10, 12-15, 18, 53
Azimuthal equal-area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10, 13, 15, 18
Azimuthal equidistant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10, 12, 15, 18
BIN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40
Boundary file. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25
Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34, 50, 51
Canadian provinces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18, 33-36
Cartog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25, 40
CCI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18, 25, 34, 35
Central latitude of the map. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
Central longitude of the map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
CGA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2, 3, 22, 24, 27, 44, 45
CGM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2, 20, 22-24, 28, 43
Chile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50
CNF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
Coastlines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18, 32-36, 39
Color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8, 19, 24, 25, 27, 41, 45
Compatibility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1, 43, 44
Computer graphics metafile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24
Configuration file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
Conformal conic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10, 11, 14, 16
Conic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10, 11, 14, 16, 53, 54
CorelDRAW. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28, 43, 52
Countries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18, 33-36
COUR_CGA.FON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 22
COUR_EGA.FON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 22
COUR_VGA.FON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 22
Courier. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 19, 20, 22
DAT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39
Data clipping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43
Default. . . . . . . . . .1, 4, 5, 9, 12, 15-18, 22, 24-27, 41, 44
Degree sign. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
Degrees of latitude between grid marks . . . . . . . . . . .14, 15
Degrees of longitude between grid marks. . . . . . . . . . .14, 15
Digital Line Graph . . . . . . . . . . . 1, 18, 25, 31, 36, 37, 51
Digital map. . . . . . . . . . 1-3, 18, 24, 25, 30, 31, 35, 36, 52
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Directory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5, 22-24, 26, 39, 46, 47
Disclaimer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1, 3
Disk directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23, 26
Display Previous Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14, 22, 23, 28
Distance above surface in kilometers . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
DOS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3, 5, 7, 28, 40, 42-48, 52
Dot matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 23, 26, 27, 44
DrawPerfect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28, 43, 52
Easternmost longitude of the map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
EGA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2, 3, 22, 24, 44, 45
Equal-area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10, 11, 13-16, 18, 53
Equatorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10, 53
Equidistant conic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10, 11, 14, 16
Equirectangular. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9, 10, 14, 17
Eritrea. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Error message. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7, 9, 15-17, 45
Esc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5, 7-9, 21, 26, 27, 31
Eurasia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34, 50
Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32, 34, 40
Exit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1, 5, 7, 10, 18, 27
Export . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20, 22, 24, 29
F1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
Filename . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18, 23-25, 27-29, 34-36, 41
FON. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 22, 52
Font . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 14, 19, 20, 22, 52
Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 25, 29-33, 37, 39-41, 50, 51
Freelance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28, 43, 52
Geographic Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35, 36
Geological Survey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 18, 25, 31, 36, 53
Germany. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
Gnomonic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10, 12, 15, 18
Grapher. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43, 52
Graphing program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42, 43
Graticule Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14, 17, 18, 30
Great circle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53, 54
GRF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25, 36, 37
Grid file. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30, 31, 42
Grid type. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18, 26, 30, 31
GRV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 25, 36, 37, 51
Hammer equal-area. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10, 13, 14
Harvard Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28, 43, 52
Hawaii . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50
HELV_CGA.FON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 22
HELV_EGA.FON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 22
HELV_VGA.FON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 22
Helvetica. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2, 3, 19, 20, 22, 50
Hercules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2, 3, 22, 44, 45, 52
Import . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20, 28, 34, 37, 42, 43
Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1, 55
Indonesia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34, 50
Input field. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Input file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5, 9, 18, 24, 25, 30, 34
Input/Output menu. . . . . . .1, 18, 19, 22, 23, 26-28, 34, 37, 41
Installing VERSAMAP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1, 3, 45
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Islands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18, 32, 34-37, 50
Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32, 35
Japan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50
Lakes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18, 32-36, 38
Laser. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 23, 26, 44
Latin America. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34, 50
Latitude . .1, 2, 4-9, 11, 14-18, 24, 26-30, 32, 34-37, 39-41, 53,
54
Latitude and longitude limits. . . . . . . . . . . . . 7, 8, 14-16
Letter B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Letter T . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
List box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8, 25, 26, 34, 37
Longitude. . 1, 2, 4-9, 14-16, 18, 24, 26-30, 32, 34-37, 39-42, 54
Lotus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20, 24, 28, 43, 52
MAP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-31, 34-37, 39-44, 50, 52-54
Map Boundaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14, 15, 34, 37
Map Design menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1, 14, 18, 21, 23, 28
Map Input Filenames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18, 19, 23, 24, 41
Math coprocessor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3, 5, 27
MCGA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2, 3, 22, 44
Menu . 1, 4, 5, 7-10, 14, 18, 19, 21-23, 26-28, 31, 34, 37, 41, 42
Menu bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4, 5, 7-9, 21, 26-28, 31
Mercator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 9, 10, 14-16
Meridian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 11, 13, 15, 53, 54
Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50
Micro Doc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32-34, 52
Micro World Data Bank II . . . . . . .1, 8, 18, 25, 31, 34, 35, 52
Microsoft Windows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20, 52
Microsoft Word . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43
Mouse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1, 4, 7, 8, 21
MP1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 39, 40
MPS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 39, 40
MSHERC.COM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 52
MWDB-II. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18, 31, 34-36
New Zealand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
North America. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32, 34, 50
Northernmost latitude of the map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Oahu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 37
Oblique. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53, 54
Oceania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34, 50
Oman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Ombudsman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Order form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-4, 34, 36, 37, 49-51
Orthographic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10, 12, 15, 18
Output file. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29, 30
Output grid data in ASCII format . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29, 30
Output map data in ASCII format. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29
Paintbrush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27, 43, 52
Parallel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10, 11, 16, 17, 54
PCX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2, 20, 22-24, 27, 43, 52
PIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2, 19, 20, 22-24, 28, 43
PIC font . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19, 20
PKD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25, 32-34, 52
PKUNZIP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46, 47, 52
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PKV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2, 25, 32-34, 50, 52
PNT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18, 34, 35
Point size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19, 22
Polar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10, 12, 53, 54
Political boundaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33, 34, 36, 39
Polyline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24, 30, 40, 41
Print Map. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20, 22, 23, 26, 44
Printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8, 23, 24, 26, 27
Printer port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27
PrintGraph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20, 28, 43
PRN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2, 40-42
Projection menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1, 5, 7, 10
Pull-down menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Pushbutton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Railroads. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36, 38
Range of map in degrees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15, 16
Recall Map Design. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14, 23
REGISTER.DOC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2, 3
Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1, 3, 49
Report Map Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23, 26-28
Rivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18, 33-37
Robinson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10, 13, 14
Run menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1, 5, 9, 23, 28, 31, 34, 37, 42
Satellite. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
Save as ASCII. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22, 23, 29
Save as CGM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20, 22, 23, 28
Save as PCX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20, 22, 23, 27
Save as PIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22, 23, 28
Save Map Design. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14, 23
Scotland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Select Font. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14, 22
Select Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23, 27
Self-extracting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45, 46
Shareware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4, 25, 31, 39, 46
SigmaPlot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43, 52
Size 100%. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 28, 29, 31, 34, 37, 42
Size 70% . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28, 29, 31
Slovakia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Sources of digital map data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1, 31
Southernmost latitude of the map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Soviet Union . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33-35
Standard Parallel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16, 17, 54
States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18, 19, 31, 33-37, 39, 49-51
Stereographic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10, 12, 15, 18
Streams. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36, 37
Suez canal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50
Symbol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24, 25, 27, 41, 42
Tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8, 16, 17, 21, 25, 26, 29, 30
Taiwan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 34, 50
Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2, 8, 14, 19-23, 25-29, 31, 41, 50
Text # . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19, 21
U.S. Geological Survey . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 18, 25, 31, 36, 53
U.S. states. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18, 33
United Arab Emirates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
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United States. . . . . . . . . . . .19, 31, 34, 36, 37, 39, 49, 50
User supplied data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41
USGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1, 2, 18, 19, 25, 31, 36, 37, 51
USGS DLG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 18, 19, 31, 36, 37
VERSAMAP Micro World Database. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34-36, 50
Vertical perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10, 12, 15, 16, 18
VGA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2, 3, 22, 24, 26, 44, 45
Video. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1, 22, 44, 45
View Disk Directory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23, 26
VM_FIX.MP1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 40
VM_FIX.MPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 40
VMAP.DOC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 50
VMAP.EXE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2, 4, 22, 52
VMAP1.MAP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36, 50, 52
VMAP2.MAP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
VMAP3.MAP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2, 3, 36, 50
VMAP4.MAP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 4, 5, 18, 24, 36, 41, 44
VMAP5.MAP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2, 3, 36, 50, 52
VMAPREAD.ME. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
VMAPUSER.PRN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 41, 42
VMOAHU.GRV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 37
VMTAIWAN.PKV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 34
Wales. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
WDB-II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18, 19, 31-34, 37
Westernmost longitude of the map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Windows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1, 7, 8, 20, 28, 52
WordPerfect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28, 43, 52
World Data Bank I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25, 39
World Data Bank II . . . . 1, 2, 8, 18, 25, 31, 32, 34, 35, 50, 52
World Digitized. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25, 39, 40
X-axis Length. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26, 42
XCOPY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47, 48
Y-axis Length. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26, 42
Yemen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35, 36
Yugoslav Republics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
ZIP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-47
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VMVENDOR.DOC
VERSAMAP
Version 1.30
VENDOR INFORMATION
This file provides information for shareware distributors who
wish to distribute the shareware program VERSAMAP.
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Part 1: Author Information
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Author: Charles H. Culberson
Address: 8 Ritter Lane
Newark, DE 19711
U.S.A.
Phone: 302-731-0694
CompuServe: 70511,3134
Member: Association of Shareware Professionals
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Part 2: Program Information
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Program Name: VERSAMAP
Version: 1.30
Program Category: Geography
Keywords: maps, geography
One Sentence Description:
Draws maps which can be printed or exported as PCX, PIC, CGM,
or ASCII files.
Short Description:
VERSAMAP draws outline maps on 13 map projections. The digital
world map supplied with the program includes boundaries for the
new countries that have formed from the Soviet Union, for
Canadian Provinces, and for Australian States. VERSAMAP can
plot maps using data from the CIA's World Data Bank II and from
the U.S. Geological Survey's Digital Line Graphs. Maps can be
printed on the screen and on dot matrix or laser printers.
Maps can be exported as .PCX, .PIC, .CGM, or ASCII files. Text
may be added to maps using Courier or Helvetica fonts supplied
with the program.
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Long Description:
VERSAMAP is a menu driven program with a graphical user
interface, which allows the user to draw outline maps on 13 map
projections. VERSAMAP allows great flexibility in designing
maps: the latitude/longitude boundaries and type of grid
superimposed on the map may be specified. Text may be added to
maps with Courier or Helvetica fonts supplied with the program.
VERSAMAP can plot maps from the following digital map
databases: (1) The World Digitized, (2) Micro World Data Bank
II, (3) World Data Bank II, and (4) the U.S. Geological
Survey's Digital Line Graphs. Individual geographic features,
such as coastlines, rivers, islands, and political boundaries,
can be plotted from Micro World Data Bank II, World Data Bank
II, and the USGS Digital Line Graphs. The program can also
plot data supplied by the user in a simple ASCII file format.
Digital map files supplied with VERSAMAP are updated versions
of Micro World Data Bank II and include boundaries for the new
countries that have formed from the Soviet Union, for Canadian
Provinces, and for Australian States. Additional, more
detailed digital maps, from World Data Bank II and from the
USGS Digital Line Graph database, may be purchased from the
author.
Maps drawn with VERSAMAP can be printed on Epson compatible dot
matrix or Hewlett-Packard compatible laser printers; and
exported as .PCX, .CGM, .PIC, or ASCII files for use with paint
programs, word processors, and presentation graphics programs.
System requirements to run program:
MS-DOS 3.0 or higher;
CGA, MCGA, EGA, or VGA video display adapter and color monitor;
or Hercules mono graphics;
640K memory;
an Epson compatible dot matrix printer, or a Hewlett-Packard
compatible laser printer are optional;
a mouse and a math coprocessor are optional.
Registration Information:
Registration of the program is $15 in the United States and
Canada, for which the user receives (1) a copy of the most
recent version of the program, (2) additional digital map
files, (3) the Helvetica font files, and (4) support by mail,
telephone, and on CompuServe. A registration form is included
in the file REGISTER.DOC.
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Part 3: Distribution Requirements
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Limited Distribution License:
As the exclusive copyright holder for VERSAMAP, Charles H.
Culberson authorizes distribution only in accordance with the
following restrictions.
VERSAMAP may be distributed as the following set of 15 files,
VMAPREAD.ME -- how to get started
VMAP.EXE -- the mapping program
VMAP4.MAP -- 16,000 point digital world map
VMTAIWAN.PKV -- World Data Bank II map of Taiwan
VMOAHU.GRV -- USGS Digital Line Graph map of Oahu
VMAP.DOC -- instruction manual
VMAPUSER.PRN -- sample file in user supplied data format
VM_FIX.MP1 -- small file used to concatenate World
Digitized binary map files
VM_FIX.MPS -- small file used to concatenate World
Digitized ASCII map files
REGISTER.DOC -- registration form
MSHERC.COM -- driver for Hercules mono graphics
COUR_CGA.FON -- Courier font for CGA, MCGA
COUR_EGA.FON -- Courier font for EGA, Hercules
COUR_VGA.FON -- Courier font for VGA
VMVENDOR.DOC -- shareware vendor information
Distribution of VERSAMAP is forbidden, unless the distribution
disk(s) contains the complete set of 15 files.
The VERSAMAP package - including all related program files
and documentation files - CANNOT be modified in any way and
must be distributed as a complete package, without exception.
The person receiving a copy of the VERSAMAP package MUST be
made aware that he or she does not become a registered user
until Charles H. Culberson has received payment for
registration of the software. This requirement can be met by
including the complete VERSAMAP package, which contains
appropriate registration reminders.
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The following additional information and restrictions are
intended for Shareware Distributors who wish to distribute
VERSAMAP.
ASP Disk Vendor and BBS Member Information:
Vendors and bulletin board operators who are Association of
Shareware Professionals (ASP) Members are hereby given
permission to distribute VERSAMAP in accordance with the
distribution restrictions listed above. ASP Members do not
need to request permission to distribute this package.
Other (Non-ASP) Vendor Information:
Shareware Distributors who are not ASP Associate Members,
but who wish to distribute VERSAMAP must comply with the
following restrictions (in addition to those listed above).
In order to ensure that only current versions are
distributed, you must request permission from Charles H.
Culberson to distribute VERSAMAP.
You may not list VERSAMAP in advertisements, catalogs, or
other literature which describes VERSAMAP as "FREE
SOFTWARE". Shareware is "Try-Before-You-Buy" software, it
is not free.
Computer Clubs:
Computer Clubs and User Groups wishing to add VERSAMAP to
their disk library may do so in accordance with the
distribution restrictions listed above.
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Directory of PC-SIG Library Disk #3638
Volume in drive A has no label
Directory of A:\
VMVENDOR DOC 9361 7-01-93 1:30a
VMAP DOC 167556 7-01-93 1:30a
VMTAIWAN PKV 6932 7-01-93 1:30a
VMOAHU GRV 6402 7-01-93 1:30a
VMAPUSER PRN 660 7-01-93 1:30a
VM_FIX MPS 9 7-01-93 1:30a
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