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1. Purpose************************************************************************
  Ortelius is a Desktop-Mapping-Program for OS/2. It is useful for creating 
  thematic maps that may be printed or exported. 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...)

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
   Comments to
   a) Dipl.-Geogr. Christian Bressler
      Liegnitzer Str. 15
      D-10999 Berlin
      Germany
   b) christian.bressler@rz.hu-berlin.de
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Copyright (C) Christian Bressler 1996..98. All rights reserved.
Ortelius was developed using SPEED-PASCAL 1.5.
