ISYS OUTDOORS Newsletter 2009/03 Half Price Software
This is the Newsletter for users of ISYS OUTDOORS Software: Hillwalker, MapWise, PhotoMaps and Alpiniste. To change your subscription to ISYS Newsletters, please visit the User section of isysoutdoors.com.
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This year has been particularly bad for Newsletters; already it is November and this is just the third “monthly” Newsletter. Never mind, here it is!
ISYS OUTDOORS will be there demonstrating all the latest software. The exhibition if free, so if you are visiting the Film Festival or just in Dundee, come along and meet us. We will have some quite special offers on the stand, so make sure that you visit.
To visit their website, click here.
The cost? £ 4, delivered by broadband download (or add £ 8.50 for CD and postage). To order, visit the webshop.
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This is the Cinderella of the MapWise Range. It has no Ordnance Survey maps yet it contains many interesting features not found anywhere else. There are two programs in the Series: MapWise Standard which has Vector maps of the British Isles and The World on a CD which has Vector Maps of the World and several different projections. The big feature of the MapWise Basic Range is Own Drawing. We are all familiar with drawing a Route on a map but Own Drawing goes much further. The first type of Own Drawing element is the Point. You can use Points plot the location of anything, eg wild orchids, re-cycling points, mills in Lanarkshire or peals of bells. Each location can be shown either as a symbol from the program such as a triangle or a square, by a symbol for example from the Wingdings character set. The symbol can be any colour and any size. Other possible own drawing elements are lines, and polygons. Using these two elements, you can draw complete areas of ground eg golf courses, farms and estates. Fields could be green polygons with a black border; water mains could be blue lines. There is an interesting variation with circles. Circles can either have a radius of a fixed number of pixels or a fixed number of metres. You would use the fixed number of pixels a a symbol and these would appear as the same size irrespective of the scale of the map. However, if the circle has the radius fixed in metres, the circle will change size with map scale, always showing the same fixed position on the ground. This is useful for the “Free Delivery within 25 miles” promotion or to show the range of a radio transmitter. All points, lines and poygons can be drawn at one of two sizes (or colours) depending on the scale of the map, or not drawn at all if the scale is below your threshold. All this sounds like very simple mapping but if you look at our Vector maps, you will now recognize the British Isles as a series of green polygons; lochs, loughs and lakes are blue polygons; the roads, rivers and railways are just lines and towns, hills, water features, low bridges and filling stations are all just points. The Own Drawing shown to the right is the start of drawing a Golf Course. This will be extended to include more woods, tees, greens, and fairways. You can also add your own maps. This feature is available to all programs and program groups which do not include Ordnance Survey maps. OS licensing forbids this feature. |
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Here is an Own Drawing of a Golf Course showing a burn on the eastern edge which is not connected as the golfers were only interested in their course, a small group of trees and the club house on the northern edge. The house is actually drawn in more detail but at this scale, the boundary obscures the detail. The colour contour is from the Vector Map as is the trig point (grey circle). The two symbols were added just to show the kind of symbols which Wingdings provides and which you can easily add. |
We have existing stocks of most v5 and v6 CD and DVD programs which are either discontinued versions or where the printing is not perfect.
If the version is below your current maximum, then these programs will be automatically upgraded to your current version but note that v5 will not work with v6 although v5 users can buy v6 discs in this offer. For example, if you have v6.2.0.65 and buy a DVD MapWise v6.0.0.18 then this will integrate with your current system and run as a v6.2.0.65 program.
These CDs and DVDs cannot be sold to first time users but are guaranteed for existing users. This is an unrepeatable offer and each program is available only while stocks last. There are extensive stocks of some programs, but very limited stocks of others. For example, there are no MapWise 50 Great Britain.
Version 6 programs are available at half price; version 5 programs at one third price. A Hillwalker Max Scotland, normal retail price £99, is £49 for v 6 and £33 for v5.
On this offer, there is no charge for p&p. You receive just the CD or DVD without the presentation case.
Please allow 10 days for despatch. To order, please telphone ISYS or email for availablility. Please be patient, we might all be in Dundee!
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Walk long and safely
Iain R White
ISYS OUTDOORS Support
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Telephone: 0141 943 1533 or 0845 166 5701
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1. How do you put a giraffe into a refrigerator?
The correct answer is: Open the refrigerator, put in the giraffe, and close the door. This question tests whether you tend to do simple things in an overly complicated way.
2. How do you put an elephant into a refrigerator?
Did you say, Open the refrigerator, put in the elephant, and close the refrigerator? Wrong Answer.
Correct Answer: Open the refrigerator, take out the giraffe, put in the elephant and close the door. This tests your ability to think through the repercussions of your previous actions.
3. The Lion King is hosting an animal conference. All the animals attend… except one. Which animal does not attend?
Correct Answer: The Elephant. The elephant is in the refrigerator. You just put him in there. This tests your memory.
Okay, even if you did not answer the first three questions correctly, you still have one more chance to show your true abilities.
4. There is a river you must cross but it is used by crocodiles, and you do not have a boat. How do you manage it?
Correct Answer: You jump into the river and swim cross. Have you not been listening? All the crocodiles are attending the Animal Meeting. This tests whether you learn quickly from your mistakes
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