WordMap is an “add-on” to Microsoft Word that helps you to put simple maps into your Word documents. But WordMap does more than simply place images in your document. It allows you to rapidly colour up areas on simple base maps in order to display data. WordMap makes it practical for someone with no prior knowledge of map-making to include useful and professional looking maps in their presentations. If you are not already familiar with the techniques for inserting pictures into Word documents (such as “clip art” or digital photos) we recommend that before going further you experiment with pictures in Word following the guidance in Word’s help files and the various books on using Word. To install “WordMap” you must have Microsoft Word already installed on your computer. If Word is currently open on your computer, close it down before installing WordMap. Run “WordMapZip.exe” by double-clicking on it in Windows Explorer, then follow the instructions on the screen.

Word Map

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The “Satellite” program downloads a tile of Landsat imagery from a NASA web site. The image is centred on a latitude and longitude location specified by the user and covers an area of 7.5 minutes of longitude by 7.5 minutes of latitude. After the image has been downloaded it is automatically processed to be projected to a suitable Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) projection for the location. The image can then be saved either in its raw latitude and longitude state or in the UTM projection, or both. The images are automatically calibrated so that they can be used directly in mapping programs. Clearly the program requires that your computer has a reasonable internet connection.

Satellite

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'Africa 3D' uses a mixture of 'LandSat' imagery and 3D terrain data from NASA's space shuttle to create a 3D image of any location in Africa. To create a new surface you must have a good internet connection, but once created it can be distributed on disk for use by other users without good connections. As well as creating 3D views it can be used to generate contours, cross-sections along routes, flooding simulations, and 'line-of-sight' studies (useful for designing telecommunication infrastructure). The cross-sections are useful for selecting the best routes for roads and water pipes. 'Africa 3D' is also useful for disaster preparedness since it can be used to identify areas of greatest slope and places potentially subject to flash-flooding. The contours, routes, and other data can be exported in forms readable by GIS programs and already calibrated to the appropriate UTM projection.

Africa 3D

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This program is a tool for stretching a bitmap image (a raster image), trimming it to a box, and calibrating it. This is primarily of use when dealing with a scanned image of a paper map. Often when making a scan it is hard to get the image precisely aligned; sometimes with old maps the paper has stretched. It can be useful where you want to make a tiled map from a number of original images. The program can also be useful when dealing with maps of an unknown projection because the map can be stretched to fit another coordinate system.

RasterStretch

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