Message-ID: <9@dudley.win-uk.net> Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 07:46:19 -0400 From: Eric Dudley <mailto:eric@DUDLEY.WIN-UK.NET> Subject: Map Maker - free GIS for Windows for development projects To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L
Map Maker - Free GIS for Windows -------------------------------------------------------------------The Map Maker project is designed to promote the wider use of maps as management tools, primarily in developing countries. The Map Maker software is available for free to non-profit making institutions, students, and academics and is available over Internet.
Map Maker is a simple Geographical Information System (GIS) designed to allow non-expert users to create and manipulate maps. Map Maker is suited to such things as monitoring eco-systems, planning urban infrastructure, monitoring primary health care statistics, and illustrating any number of geographically based resarch topics.
Using a variety of tools you can navigate around the map, measure distances and areas, draw polygons, lines, and symbols, and display and edit data. Graphic objects on the map may be related to data in a database, and databases may be created directly from the map. Map Maker can print maps directly onto any printer or plotter supported by Windows 3.1 or can produce images for inclusion in documents produced on compatible Windows word processors, such as Microsoft Word, Word Perfect, and Lotus Ami-Pro.
Map Maker can use scanned images, in colour or black and white, or else you can import vector graphics as DXF files from programs such as AutoCAD, or else ArcInfo export files or Atlas GIS BNA files. In addition Map Maker has a number of tools to make it easy to make your own field surveys. Non-expert users with no previous experience of surveying can make their own surveys to prepare maps relating to their own interest whether it be the extent of a field, an urban development, or objects on an archaeological site.
The software, manual and demo files can be downloaded from the World Wide Web at:
www.ibmpcug.co.uk/~MapMaker/
or using file transfer (FTP) from
win-uk.net/pub/users/MapMaker/mm.zip
Eric Dudley, tel:44 1223 67854 fax:44 1223 350349