Psi-Mapper/London 2.3 for Psion Series 5 (C) UK 1997 Steve Litchfield
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Released September 17 1997

Changes for 2.3 (over 2.1)
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Thames representation extended further; added in a dozen or so named
London bridges; road display thickness lowered at low zoom settings;
clearing selections no longer redraws the map; custom place selection
bug fixed; CustomEd.opo utility released for /London; proper 'Go Back'
help system implemented;
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Registration fee: 14 or equivalent

Registration address (send cheque to) :

Steve Litchfield
22 Grays Crescent
Woodley
Reading, Berks
RG5 3EN

or register electronically on Compuserve with GO SWREG no. 7035,
or with a credit card at http://www.swregnet.com/1219p.htm

Psi-Mapper update information and new versions can be found at
http://3lib.ukonline.co.uk/

Requires Psion Series 5 with approximately 200k of free system memory to
run in.

Psi-Mapper/London is shareware and 100% fully working. This does not
make it a free program! Yes, you can copy it freely to friends or
acquaintances, or even upload the original ZIP file to ftp sites,
bulletin boards, but if you like it and continue to use it, then you are
honour-bound to register the program by sending me a cheque for 14
(pounds).

Registration gets you:
a) a clear conscience that you're using paid-for software, and that
   you're helping support future development of the program and other
   quality Psion shareware software.
b) a special code that will personalise your copy of Psi-Mapper/London,
   and remove the opening and closing shareware screens. No need to
   re-install the software, just use the registration menu option and
   type in the code!

********************    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-)
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This is Psi-Mapper/London, released as shareware. 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
permission of The Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office, (C)
Crown Copyright MC 0055"

If you'd like to contribute an item or vector data set, then go right
ahead, subject to the restrictions on copyright mentioned at the end of
this text file.

Note that Psi-Mapper/GB is also available, covering the whole of
Great Britain (to a lower resolution).

Components and Installation.
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This is the full distribution of Psi-Mapper/London. See the web site
for updates and news.

Please also note that it may help to disable the Series 5's
auto-switch-off facility while installing Psi-Mapper, as otherwise
you'll leave PsiWin transferring files while you make a cup of tea,
only to come back and find that the S5 has switched off right in the
middle of the procedure.

If you unzipped Psi-Mapper/London OK, you should have ended up
(depending on the way you did the unzipping) with either:

(i) about 50 or so separate files.

    On the Series 5 disk you wish to install on, make sure viewing of the
    \System folder is turned on and then go into \System\Apps and make a
    new folder \MapperLo. Thus you'll now have a folder whose path reads
    something like \System\Apps\MapperLo. Use PsiWin to COPY all the
    files into this new folder. A good way to do this is to highlight all
    files (by clicking on the first one, then shift-clicking the last one
    in the list) and then right-mouse-button dragging and dropping them
    all in one go using the RIGHT mouse button. Note that you DON'T want
    to CONVERT any of these files, they're all already in Series 5
    format!

(ii) a few text files (including this one) plus a folder called
     \MapperLo.

    On the Series 5 disk you wish to install on, make sure viewing of
    the \System folder is turned on and then go into \System\Apps.
    Using the RIGHT mouse-button, drag and drop the \MapperLo folder
    across into \System\Apps. If all goes well, the \MapperLo folder
    will appear underneath \Apps, i.e. you'll end up with
    \System\Apps\MapperLo, containing all the Mapper/London program and
    data files. Note that you DON'T want to CONVERT any of the
    Psi-Mapper/London files, they're all already in Series 5 format!

Thus Psi-Mapper/London and the overlays etc are in
\System\Apps\MapperLo

If all went well, you should now have a new Psi-Mapper/London icon on
your Extras bar.

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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
EMBASSIE.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)
PETROL.MP7    - filling stations - (contributed by 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!


GPS owners
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If you own a GPS unit (Global Positioning Service), you will be able to
hook it up to your Psion running Psi-Mapper to provide a moving-map
display.

See the file GPSNOTES.TXT for more details. Some people have had
trouble with Psi-Mapper/London locking up in GPS mode. Two points: (i)
if a lock-up does occur, don't reset your Psion, just kill Psi-Mapper
with Control-Esc. (ii) to help us debug the problem, there is now a
debugging mode built-into the GPS section. Contact me for the password
and then we'll proceed together in ironing out the compatibility
problems between Psion and GPS.


Editing your custom place database & custom item overlays
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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
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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:
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1) Reverse engineering of the program is strictly forbidden. Attempts to
   try and 'crack' the methods used by me to protect Psi-MAPPER from
   reverse translation are also forbidden. If you would like to create a
   complementary program and use my data-sets, then please get in touch
   with me!

2) You can contact me via email at slitchfield@cix.compulink.co.uk, or
   at slitchfield@ukonline.co.uk from where I can e-mail you back your
   registration code.

3) If you give Psi-Mapper to a friend (as is encouraged with shareware!),
   then do *not* give your friend your MAPPERLO.REG registration file, as
   this is unique to you and contains *your* name, and subsequent
   piracy will tell the world who started the outbreak!

4) 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!

5) Note on copyrights etc.: be careful to only make use of publicly
   available and public domain data sources when compiling any overlays or
   town/item plans, unless of course you sourced the information (from
   memory?) in the first place!

6) 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!

7) 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
