Modifying MapSend to accept maps from other installations



When installing Mapsend from a CD the program is installed in its own folder. Subsequent installations are installed in separate folders. There is no option to add subsequent installations to the original. This means that each installation must be run as a separate program. This can be very inconvenient, particularly if the areas covered by the separate installations share common boundaries.

To overcome this follow the following procedure:

Note that this only works with Mapsend reading maps from the hard drive, not CD)





1.Copy the map information from the new map by copying the folder called "street_xxx" from its \Map folder to the prime MapSend program folder \Map.

2.Open the "map.ini" file found in the \Map folder of the prime MapSend folder, find the "[ADD_MAPS_REF]" section and add a line along the lines of



0=\Street_ABC\map.ini

1=\Street_DEF\map.ini

2=\Street_GHI\map.ini



3.Save the file.



4.Open the \Data\fips.txt file of the prime installation and enter lines in the form as follows, depending upon which maps are being imported (copy from the fips.txt file for each of the imported Mapsend states)



87; ABC; Firstland;

85; DEF; Secondland;

99; GHI; Otherpalce



5.It is then safe to delete the original Mapsend installations.



All areas are now covered when running the first installation, including search functionability.