[aprssig] Re: WINAPRS maps?

[Earl Needham]

At 12:16 PM 1/19/2005, Stephen H. Smith wrote:
>Ken Kinyon wrote on 1/19/2005, 11:01 AM:
>
>  > Precision Mapping 7
>  > Street Atlas 2005
>  > Street Atlas version 7
>  > MapPoint 2004
>  > Can I use any of these?
>
>NO
>NO
>NO and
>NO
>
>You have to either download US Government "Tiger" files from a Census
>Bureau website (these are the "raw ingredients" of the displays produced
>by APRSworld and findu)
>       or
>locate the rather dated simple outline maps designed for WinAPRS years
>ago.  These are available at the TAPR website in the WinAPRS FTP area.

         One other possibility would be to find Precision Mapping 
5.0.  WinAPRS works pretty well with that, but it's a little "long in the 
tooth".

         7 3
         Earl


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