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Psi-Mapper/London 3.1 for Psion Series 5 (C) UK 1997-99 Steve Litchfield ======================================================================== Released May 1999 Changes for 3.1 (over 3.0) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Bug fix in the Centre Select function; now made freeware throughout; ------------------------------------------------------------------ Psi-Mapper update information and new versions can be found at http://3lib.ukonline.co.uk/ Requires Psion Series 5 or compatible with approximately 200k of free system memory to run in. ******************** IMPORTANT!! ******************************** This text file documents the history of the program, its installation, and some of the more technical aspects to running it. For general help in using and understanding Psi-Mapper/London, please browse through the *extensive* on-line help. The on-line help is the only documentation of most of Psi-Mapper/London's features, so work through it properly! 8-) *********************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is Psi-Mapper/London, released as freeware. The program and concept are (C) 1997 Steve Litchfield. With the exception of the road data, all data sets are public domain and were collated using public domain and other freely available reference works, and data gathered from privately-owned GPS units. Data sets remain the copyright and responsibility of the original contributors. No liability whatsoever can be accepted for any inaccuracies in this program or any of its data sets. The road data is "Based upon the Ordnance Survey map with the written permission of The Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office, (C) Crown Copyright MC 0055" ============ Installation ============ If you unzipped MAP5LO31.ZIP OK, you should have ended up with 2 files. One will be this text file 8-) The other is an SIS file. (Experts) If you know what a .SIS file is, just double-click on each one in Win95 Explorer or tap on it on the Series 5 and you'll be installed in no time. (Beginners) If you *don't* know what a .SIS file is, this must be one of the very first third party applications you've ever installed. Don't worry, it's all quite painless: IF you have the 'older' PsiWin 2.01 or if you've downloaded Psi-Mapper/London directly onto the Psion 5, the best way to proceed is to copy the "mapperlo.sis" file into a suitable place on your Psion. If the file appears on the system screen with a question mark beside it, this just means you haven't yet upgraded your Series 5 to accept EPOC install files. Grab a copy of the special INSTEXE.EXE program from the same place as you obtained Psi-Mapper/London and tap on it on your Psion. You should now see a nice little icon beside the "mapperlo.sis" file and can tap on it to complete your installation. IF you have PsiWin 2.1, just double-click on the "mapperlo.sis" file to launch EPOC Install on the PC itself and to complete the installation of the program. If all went well, you should now have a new "MapperLo" icon on your Extras bar. For the technically-minded, Psi-Mapper/London and its overlays etc. will end up in \System\Apps\MapperLo on your chosen disk. ================================== In this distribution are the following overlays, Contributor information also included where known or appropriate. Vector overlays (i.e. lines and labels) (Thanks to Tony Crocker for contributing these) RAILTRAK.MP8 - a vector overlay of the main-line railway routes TUBELINE.MP8 - a vector overlay of all the tube lines, laid out properly (i.e. geographically, not diagrammatically) TUBEZONE.MP8 - a vector overlay of the tube charge zones Optional item overlays (i.e. specific points and labels and reference info, note that some of them cover the whole M25 area and others just the central "A-Z" area): The following 5 were all contributed by Eddie Slupski (thanks!) HOSPITAL.MP7 - Hospitals FOOTBALL.MP7 - Football clubs EMBASSY.MP7 - Embassies SPORTCEN.MP7 - Sports Centres JUNCTION.MP7 - Motorway exits/junctions MAINLINE.MP7 - main-line railway routes - (contributed by Tony Crocker) TUBE.MP7 - tube (underground) stations, with their line name(s) shown as abbreviations PLACES.MP7 - places of interest, with their phone numbers HOTELS.MP7 - a large selection of hotels across London NCP_PARK.MP7 - NCP car parks in London POLICE.MP7 - Police stations - (contributed by Peter Osmond) PIZZA.MP7 - selected Pizza restaurants across London KENTUCKY.MP7 - Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants - (contributed by someone, but I can't remember who!) GOLF.MP7 - golf courses across London MARKETS.MP7 - markets, with their optimum visiting times (contributed by Tony Crocker) THEATRES.MP7 - theatres across London - (contributed by Tony Crocker & Gordon Drayson) BIGMACS.MP7 - some MacDonalds restaurants - (contributed by Tony Crocker) Notes: 1) Each of the .MP7 overlays listed above has an associated .MBM file of the same name. These are the on-screen icons for overlays, and will be used if present in the main \System\Apps\MapperLo folder. If they are not present, a default 'star' icon will be used .... 2) Each of the overlays includes reference information for each item (for example, telephone contact numbers), and this can be displayed by turning 'Overlay Reference Fields' On. 3) Whether using the supplied vector overlays or contributing your own, please note the low (100m) resolution used by Psi-Mapper/London. It's no good expecting or drawing every last detail, as the resulting data file size would be far too large. The Psi-Mapper vector overlays are *approximate* representations only of the real world, and should not be taken as gospel! Editing your custom place database & custom item overlays --------------------------------------------------------- Although the program allows you to add places and items, you'll need to use the supplied CustomEd.opo utility to do editing of your custom places file or other overlays, i.e. for deleting mistakes and unwanted entries. This functionality *may* be added into the main program in due course. Printing or grabbing a current map screen ------------------------------------------ You may well want to grab a map screen as a standard picture file, for including in WORD, printing or editing using SKETCH. Grabbing the Series 5 screen is done with pressing 'Control', 'Shift', 'Fn' and 'S' simultaneously (it's easier to do than it sounds) and lo and behold a dialog will appear asking where you want the graphic file to be created. You can then use SKETCH's 'import EPOC picture file' function to use the graphic in other ways on your Series 5. Small print: ------------ 1) You can contact me via email at slitchfield@cix.co.uk, or at slitchfield@ukonline.co.uk 2) Thanks to all the testers and contributors out there, who have supplied ideas, support, bug-reports, data, code fragments etc. You are too numerous to mention! If *you* find a bug or spot an error etc in any of the overlays, then please get in touch! 3) Disclaimer: I accept no responsibility for anything happening to you as a result of inaccurate information within Psi-Mapper! I try to keep the overlays up-to-date as possible, but that is as far as my liability goes! 4) Do not use this application while on the move! If you crash your car while looking at your Psion, don't blame me!! Steve Litchfield