Ortelius V. 1.14 running on @Macarlo's Warp 4.0

Ortelius 1.14 Released


Ortelius version 1.14 just released and the file (ortl114e.zip, 482Kb) was uploaded on Hobbes.

Ortelius is a Desktop-Mapping-Program for OS/2. It is useful for creating thematic maps that may be printed or exported. Ortelius was developed using SPEED-PASCAL 1.5.
These are the typical steps while creating an ORTELIUS-Map:
- Import geometric data in one of the supported file formats (IDRISI4,
Atlas-BNA, AutoCad-DXF, ESRI-Ungenerate, MapInfo-Interchange and
PCMap ASCII).
- if neccessary, edit geometry: i.e. define layers, insert a map title,
add a scale of miles, north arrow ...
- read attribute data as dBase-III/IV-files.
- Join geometry and topical data using a numerical key (ID).
- Select/combine one of the following data-display options:
- Choroplethe-Map
- Charts
- scaled Symbols.
- Edit legend and map title
- Print (Printer, Plotter, OS/2-Metafile)
- if neccessary: Export geometry (Atlas-BNA, DXF...)

 Installation

Put the Diskette in a diskdrive, open an OS/2-commandline-window and select the
diskdrive (i.e. A:). Enter the command 'INSTORT'. In the installation-program
now select the target drive and directory for Installation (i.e. 'C:\ORTELIUS')
and click 'Install'. All program-files will be copied to the target directory
now, ORTELIUS-specific entries will be added to OS2.INI and a program-folder will
be created on the desktop.
If you want to remove this installation, just open the ORTELIUS-folder, start the
installation-program again and click on the 'Deinstall'-button.

How to use the program

All procedures of this program will be found in the pull-down-menus. Please note the context-sensitive hints in the statusbar. Some functions can be selected by using buttons in the toolbar.
Online help is available by selecting a menu-item and pressing Alt+F1.

 Some Hints

Some elements of a map may be moved when holding down mousebutton 1 and may be edited when clicking on mousebutton 2 (title, legend, north arrow).
Map objects (polygons, lines, points) in the current layer can be selected when clicking with mousebutton 1. Afterwards you will be able to
- get further information about this object or edit some attributes,
- delete the selected object or
- move the selected object into another map-layer using the
page-up/page-down-key.

The fillstyle-palette is a 'non-modal' dialog that may show up permanently if
desired. That way you pick up a fillstyle just when you need it without opening the dialog again and again. All entries of a palette are editable by clicking
on a field in the set with mousebutton 2.

Layers have global attributes for all map-objects contained. These attributes can be changed by clicking on a layer name in the layer-dialogs's listbox with mousebutton 2.

You may select map-objects either by using their location defining a
selection-circle with the mouse (this will select all objects fully encircled)
or by attribute (i.e. ID from..to, layer, data value from..until). Such a
selection can be exported (file menu), deleted (Del) or moved for one layer
to top or bottom. Clicking mousebutton 2 opens a window with descriptive
statistics for the selected objects.
Statistics may be saved to a textfile.

Attributal data are editeable. A changed database will be saved in a
dBase-IV-formated file.

Restrictions

No computer software is free of errors. Please note the license-terms, that you will find in the online-documentation (F1).

Printing is not really WYSIWIG

Importing PCMap-files you got to have an ASCII-version of the segment-file (*.PAL), an ASCII-poly documentation (*.PIR) and a map description file (*.PII) that references the segment and area documentation files. Only the map-objects and their attributes are imported, no textobjects, legends or symbols.

When exporting an ORTELIUS-Map to Illustrator-format you will loose any pattern- information of filled polygons other than solid or empty.

 CONTACT AUTHOR:

Dipl.-Geogr. Christian Bressler
christian.bressler@rz.hu-berlin.de
Liegnitzer Str. 15
D-10999 Berlin
Germany
@Macarlo, Inc.
@Macarlo's Shareware & Web
OS/2
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