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Dear All,
 
I happened to come across the above. If you will excuse the advertising
element to this, I think we have just the thing that you need.
 
On May 24th at the GIS '95 Exhibition at the National Exhibition Centre
in Birmingham (UK not Alabama!) we will be formally publishing our
Bartholomew GB Maps on CD product. This is a CD containing raster (TIFF)
imagery in the same style as our road atlas and at a 1:250000 scale in
50 by 50km National Grid tiles. Combined with this are selected vector
overlays containing classified roads, administrative boundaries, postcode
areas, districts and sectors, and a 27,000 name Gazetteer of settlements.
There is an installation programme which will set things up for immediate
use with a choice of Mapinfo, Atlas*GIS or Arcview 2. For Arcview and
Mapinfo appropriate workspace/project files are included to ensure that
the vectors are fully symbolised and so forth. (a DXF version is also
included for anyone wanting it).
 
Using these desktop mapping packages you can then import or create
your own overlays, such as your 1800 counties map, and simply add
it in to the data from us. You can also link whatever attributes you
like to the line, polygons, town points. Having the fully symbolised
raster backdrop solves the problem of poor quality output or screen
display.
 
The good news is that the CD is free for a 30 day evaluation which
gives you access to a fully configured sample of the Edinburgh area.
The bad news is that the rest of the CD is encrypted, but I will
happily sell you an access code for 900 pounds UK. In effect we are
selling the access code and not the CD. Discounts will be available
for Universities.
 
Enough commercial! but if you want some free wine do come to the
launch at 4pm Weds 24th May GIS '95 on the Bartholomew stand.
 
Tim Rideout
Bartholomew
12 Duncan Street,
Edinburgh, EH9 1TA,
Scotland, Europe.
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