 Voice 2.0, January, 2003
 Copyright (C) 1991-2003 Ivan Lee Herring
         All Rights Reserved

"Voice is a shareware program. This means that you may test it free of charge for 30 days. You may also distribute it freely to others so they may try it." 

Terms & Registration Information
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Voice is Shareware.  For information on registration ($20), see the "License Registration" topic in the online documentation (see Help/Help Topics), or the included LICENSE.DOC and ORDER.TXT files.


Description
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Vector's Voice: Vector Overlay Information Classification Extrapolation. Vector overlays multiple vector layers on a base image. Displays object location and the selected objects attribute data. Prints the selected map.  If you NEED USDA soils information/maps then this will provide a transient solution (Progress IS Improvement). Import DLG files (.opt {.dlg}) into Shape format. Import NRCS Soil databases (Statsgo, Ssurgo). View Shape files, their attributes, and imported NRCS soil database attributes. Print map. Requires Microsoft Windows (R) 95/98 OS. After 30 days requires registration: $20


Installation
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Uninstall any previous version of Voice or Vector. Create a voice directory, move the zip file into the directory and Unzip the zip file. Create an icon for the program and place in the selected Desktop/Menu. Uninstall ... delete the directory and files.

Vector Features
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Import DLG files (.opt, .dlg, .*a) into Shape format. 
Import USDA NRCS Soil databases (Statsgo, Ssurgo).
View Shape files, their attributes, and imported NRCS soil database attributes.
A 2D Vector editor for adding changing or deleting shapes.
Search, Classify objects according to their attributes.
Print displayed map.

Included in the voice directory will be several html files that contain information about Voice and data.

Data Available at...
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USGS : DLGs: http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/doc/edchome/ndcdb/ndcdb.html
and http://edcdaac.usgs.gov/dataproducts.html
USGS National Atlas (of Shape files): 
http://www-atlas.usgs.gov/atlasftp.html
USDA NRCS: http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/  , 
http://www.ftw.nrcs.usda.gov/soils_data.html  , 
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/TechRes.html

My web page lists all the best (current) sites I could find and information about similar subjects: http://www.ezl.com/~ilh2o/



Known Problems
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The display and mapping of soils database information needs extreme refinement and everything else needs to be sanded and polished.


To do: 
Import other data (Tiger, Ascii XY, DXF, BTS NTAD). 
Map selected Soil parameters. Print selection of Soil database.
Conversion-registration of images to vector data map parameters.


Reporting Bugs
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If you experience an uncaught exception, General Protection Fault (GPF), or something you believe is a bug (or just do not like how something 'works'), please send e-mail to ilh2o@ezl.com  Please do not assume someone else will report it.  I will try to resolve reported bugs as quickly as possible.  However, I can't resolve bugs that are not reported.


Please describe the problem in as much detail as possible. In your e-mail message, please include the following information: The portion of the program that created the fault. The program version, operating system and version (as shown in the About dialog box).


Feature Requests
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Please let me know what features you would like to see in the next release-version so that i can prioritize them based on your input. You may e-mail feature requests to me at the following address:
     ilh2o@ezl.com

To-Do list for planned enhancements: see...  my home page...  http://www.ezl.com/~ilh2o/


Contact Information
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Current status and To Do: my home page...
 http://www.ezl.com/~ilh2o/ 
 (that is an o not a zero)
e-mail:  ilh2o@ezl.com
  Ivan Lee Herring
  580 Western
  Collinsville, IL 62234 USA.
