a useful program (fwd) mappad

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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 19:27:27 NST
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>From: maher@geology.wisc.edu (Lou Maher)
Subject: MapPad--a useful freeby
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Colleagues of the Quaternary Listserv:

Those of you who use Microsoft Windows and also work with data
that are logically associated with specific geographic sites may
be interested in a remarkable free program called MapPad.

The creator of MapPad, John Keltner, NOAA Paleoclimatology
Program, described its operation in the January 1995 Newsletter of
the INQUA-Commission for the Study of the Holocene Working Group
on Data-Handling Methods.  Because many more people could use this
program than are reached by the Newsletter, I am taking the
liberty of abstracting John's article on what MapPad does and how
to get a copy.

MapPad allows you to show on a map, the position of all the sites
you have assembled in a data file that you can create, edit, or
delete.   Examples of such data might be a list of the pollen
sites in North America, dinosaur sites in Asia, mineral localities
in Africa, last interglacial sites in the northern hemisphere,
ocean cores in the north Atlantic, volcanoes of South America,
diamond properties in Africa, wine shops in Europe....

The operation of MapPad is quite intuitive.  Your sites of
interest appear on a map that can be resized by clicking and
dragging.  Click on a point, and you will see its name.  Push a
button, and you can read and edit the information about that site
in your database.  The beauty of MapPad is that you control what
it shows.  You can create different kinds of data files to show on
a single map, or you can create your own databases for different
regions of the world.  Currently available are maps for Africa,
Asia, Beringia, Europe, the Indo-Pacific, Latin America, and North
America, as well as a North Polar projection.  The data are kept
in a simple ASCII text file which you can share with your
colleagues by e-mail.  MapPad's Help section tells you how to make
your own database, and it comes with a sample that you can use
immediately.  You can set up MapPad to show its commands in
English, German, or French.

To get your copy of MapPad simply use your World Wide Web client
(e.g. Mosaic) and come on down the Infobahn to NOAA
Paleoclimatology's home page (the URL is
   http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/paleo.html). 
Look for the signs announcing MapPad.  (Alternatively you may come
via anonymous ftp to Paleo's ftp server (ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov)  and
cd to the /paleo/softlib directory and  get mappad10.zip.)

Once you get the zipped MapPad file, unzip it to a temporary
directory (e.g. c:\tmpdir) on your hard drive and then from the
Windows' Program Manager select File and Run and then type:
c:\tmpdir\setup.exe  and simply follow the installation
instructions.

MapPad was executed by John Keltner (jkeltner@ngdc.noaa.gov).  The
U.S. Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, through their Paleoclimatology Program, has
provided the computer resources for its distribution.  MapPad is
provided free of charge and may not be resold.

You can also pick up a self-unzipping copy of MapPad from the
INQUA File Boutique.  By World Wide Web, the Boutique's URL is:
   http://geology.wisc.edu/~maher/inqua.html 
You should take a copy of MAPPAD1Z.EXE, place it in a temporary
directory (e.g. c:\tmpdir).  It can be unzipped merely my typing 
MAPPAD1Z  and touching the 'enter' key.  Install the program in
Windows as described above.  You can also get the program by
anonymous ftp.  (ftp  geology.wisc.edu  (or  ftp  144.92.137.14). 
Logon as  anonymous, and give your e-mail address as the password. 
The path to the subdirectory is   /pub/inqua).  Type   binary   to
insure you get a working binary copy of the file, and then type  
get mappad1z.exe    to move it to your computer.

Best,
Lou Maher
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  Louis J. Maher, Geology & Geophysics, Univ. Wisconsin, Madison WI 53706
  maher@geology.wisc.edu       Phone: (608) 262-9595  Fax: (608) 262-0693
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