ISYS OUTDOORS Newsletter 2007/08 Three Cuillins £14.99 In this Newsletter MapWise 25 Three Cuillins MapWise 25 Isle of Skye and the Small Isles MapWise 25 Snowdonia MapWise 25 Yorkshire Dales MapWise 25 Dartmoor Competition Competition 2 Hints and Tips Humour? This is the Newsletter for users of ISYS OUTDOORS Software: Hillwalker, MapWise, PhotoMaps and Alpiniste. PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS NEWSLETTER, as it will not be read. ISYS OUTDOORS contact details are at the end. If you are a Registered User of ISYS Software, select which publication you receive from ISYS, by visiting the User Area of the website isysoutdoors.com. This month we have 5 new OS Explorer Map products just added to the MapWise 25 Series. These join the existing MapWise 25 Explorer Products: Lake District, Isle of Arran and the composite Isle of Wight X4. Other areas are still covered with the Six Tiles, Twelve Tiles, Twenty Tiles and Fifty Tiles programs which allow you to select mapping from anywhere in Britain. These new programs are not being made available to our resellers before the end of September so we can offer them you at these remarkable prices until then. MAPWISE 25 THREE CUILLINS ISYS have done it again! Exceptional software at great prices. The latest MapWise 25 program from ISYS OUTDOORS is MapWise 25 covering the Three Cuillins: the Black and Red Cuillins of Skye and the Rum Cuillin. These areas are the most rugged in Britain and really benefit form the greater detail of the OS Explorer 1:25,000 mapping. The price is £14.99 for a downloaded version and £24.99 for the CD. The software is full v6.2 with 3-D maps, full Route Card facilities including GPS support and, of course, it will integrate with all other v6 programs. It combines especially well with The Munros (Info or Max), The Corbetts and the MapWise 50 (Landranger) products. MAPWISE 25 ISLE OF SKYE AND THE SMALL ISLES If you would prefer a greater area, then we have the whole of Skye, Canna, Rum, Eigg and Muck. The area includes the Shiant and Crowlin Isles, Eillein Flodigarry, the Isles of Scalpay, Longay, Staffin, Rasaay and Rona and Oigh-sgeir. I think that the Explorer tile NG1000 must be the emptiest tile in Britain. It contains only the tiny island of Humla, a vaguely circular isle just 50m across; that is why this tile is included without charge! The total area is 54 tiles. As each tile is 10km square, the total area is 5400 sq km. The cost is £39 to download or £49 for the CD. The normal price for 54 tiles is £108. To take advantage of these prices, guaranteed only until end September, visit our website at www.isysoutdoors.com. MAPWISE 25 SNOWDONIA Wales has not been ignored in this flurry of new programs! The Snowdonia National Park is covered in its entirety - 42 tiles for £75 (or £85 if you would like the CD). MapWise 25 Snowdonia will integrate well all other ISYS OUTDOORS v6 products but especially with MapWise 50 Wales and Hillwalker Mountains of Wales (info or Max). MAPWISE 25 YORKSHIRE DALES Nor England! Again we have taken the National Park as the guideline area but beating all competitors in area and price with 33 tiles (3,300 sq km) for £59 download (CD £69). The file size is 207Mb so you will need broadband but it is still quicker than by post. MapWise 25 Yorkshire Dales will integrate well all other ISYS OUTDOORS v6 products but especially with MapWise 50 England or England North and Hillwalker Lite Peaks, Moors and Dales. MAPWISE 25 DARTMOOR Again the National Park provides suitable and well-defined boundaries to Dartmoor. No one else can compete with the 1,900 sq Km (19 tiles) for £35 Download (or CD for £45). MapWise 25 Dartmoor will integrate well all other ISYS OUTDOORS v6 products but especially with MapWise 50 England or England South and Hillwalker Lite Peaks, Moors and Dales. COMPETITION £100 It is a few months since we ran a competition. These were very popular, so here is another for you. Can you encapsulate the essence of ISYS in a tiny graphic? If you have looked at the dates of the files on any of our CDs and DVDs, you might have noticed that HW.ico file is unchanged since 1998. This is the icon file which holds the icon of two hills, loch and sun. ISYS would like to update this icon for 2008. So here is the challenge: create a new icon for ISYS to reflect our outdoors image. The size is very restricted - just 32 pixels square, but you can use full colour. You can use Paint (provided with Windows) or any other graphics package. Once you are happy with your creation, email to support (at) isysoutdoors (dot) com with the subject line as "icon". Sorry to be picky but copyright of all entries transfers to ISYS and we do not guarantee to use the winning entry, but we will give the prize. Closing date is end September 2007. COMPETITION 2 A different kind of competition now. A couple of our users also have OS mapping from our competition and wondered how to upgrade to ISYS software. Until end September, we will offer to upgrade any other OS mapping products to the latest ISYS products and latest OS maps for our standard upgrade price: half the new price of a new product. As areas will not match exactly, give me a call to discuss what you have and what you would like. 0845 166 5701 or 0141-943 1533. HINTS AND TIPS In Hillwalker and Alpiniste, when you select a hill and choose a photograph from the Treasure Chest, it is shown full screen with a teal border if the screen is larger than the photograph. If you want to keep the photograph on the screen but also see some other aspects of your chosen hill, you can grab a corner of the photoscreen and drag it to a smaller size. To reduce the size of the photograph (not just the image), right click and select resize. Repeat to get an even smaller picture. You can then display many photographs at once. If you click a Photo Map (or an Image Map) then you can see the name of the feature that you have clicked. This is especially useful if you have the full GB Gazetteer supplied with MapWise 50 and MapWise 250 Great Britain. Select the Magic Eye (the button with the square surrounded by squiggly lines) and choose Search for points every click. Also ensure that the gazetteers that you want to search are all ticked and that the Click Fuzziness is quite high, say 100 for the OS gazetteer. This feature is also quite useful to name points on a Route Card but if your computer is not fast enough, cut down the gazetteer to search. Always run the highest version of ISYS software. Programs within the same level will integrate (eg all version 6 programs will integrate), allowing each program to pick up the features of the others. You only ever need to run one program, the one with the highest version. If all versions are the same, choose one at random. All the other icons can be deleted without upsetting the software. To delete an icon, right click and select Delete. Don't try to uninstall a program as then the features will not be available, but the icon can be safely deleted. Walk long and safely. Iain R White ISYS OUTDOORS www.isysoutdoors.com support (at) isysoutdoors (dot) com 0845 166 5701 0141-943 1533 HUMOUR? Two professors went on a trip to a tropical island. They were sitting on the veranda, talking. "Have you read Marx?" asked the first one. The second one said, "Yes. And I think it's caused by these wicker chairs." Thanks (I think) to Robert of Kilbarchan for this contribution. The secretary walked into her boss' office and announced, "I'm afraid I have bad news for you." "Kelly", said the boss, "Why do you always bring me bad news? Try to be more positive." "OK", she said. "The good news is you're not sterile..." (Dead as a doornail? I though phrase was "As dead as a dodo". Any thoughts? My thanks to Alan in Milngavie who points out that there are indeed two expressions. The Doornail one is much older than the Dodo one as the Dodo died out only when our sailors started wandering about the world's oceans. A nail which is hammered right through wood and then clinched or hammered flat on the other side is strong but cannot be used again. It is said to be dead. The things you learn from an off the cuff comment!)