[aprssig] Re: WINAPRS maps?

[Mark Sproul]

Stephen is correct

Of these, Precision Mapping is the ONLY company that embrases 
developers. Street Atlas threatened to sue me when I first approached 
them over 10 years ago about utilizing their product into mine.

Precision Mapping developer model is very good if you are using 
Visual Basic or Microsoft Foundation Class for your development 
environment. Since I use neither of these, it is very difficult. I 
got it working very well with Prec Map 3.0/3.5. With PMAP 5.0 I got 
it working but had to limit the screen to square.

2 years ago I wrote my own map engine utilizing the TIGER data. All 
of the map companies start with TIGER data. This is VERY GOOD data 
and they are doing LOTS of work to improve it. The advantage here is 
that you can download the latest version of the data from the census 
bureau and do not have to wait for Pmap, Street Atlas or the Sproul 
brothers to come out with the maps for it. Also I have LOTS more 
control over the map features than ANY of the other programs. Each 
and EVERY line type is defined and can be enabled or disabled and can 
be set to any color the user wants.

The most recent versions of WinAPRS and MacAPRS do an fantastic job 
of speeding TIGER map drawing up. The first time it takes awhile, 
then from then on, everything is MUCH faster.

Mark


At 11:16 AM -0800 1/19/05, 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.
>


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