BG-Map
UserLetter
News for BG-Map
Users
No. 17 - June, 2002
Mark Glicksman, Editor
In This Issue:
• New BG-Map and BG-BASE Web Discussion Forum
• BG-Map 2002 Upgrade Has Been Released
• Update – BG-Map and BG-BASE 6.0 (Windows BG-BASE)
• New BG-Map Users Manual
• BG-Map Highlighted Feature – Preselected Tour Book Maps
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We’ve talked
about it for a long time, and it’s finally arrived – the new BG-Map and BG-BASE
web discussion forum. We hope that this
will be come the place where you will come to discuss technical
issues, and to meet and greet other BG-Map and BG-BASE users. The forum is
divided into 5 sections: BG-BASE
General Discussion Forum moderators
will include me, as well as the BG-BASE folks – Mike, Philip, and Kerry. The forum is open
to active users of BG-BASE and/or BG-Map.
You can access the forum from the BG-Map Users Support Website – www.bg-map.com/userdata - just
click on “Online Discussion”. There
will also be a link to the forum from the BG-BASE website – www.bg-base.com When you access
the forum for the first time, click on “Register” to apply for an
account. You will receive your
acceptance notification and account activation key by e-mail. Posting a message
is easy. Just choose a forum section,
and select “Start a New Thread” to begin a new discussion, or select an existing
discussion and reply to it. We hope to see you there! |
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The latest
version of BG-Map – BG-Map 2002 has been released. You should either have already received you upgrade CD or are
in process of receiving it. The new
version includes a number of changes and new feature requested by users. It also includes many bug fixes and
performance enhancements. Among the new
features are: Compatibility
with BG-BASE for Windows For a complete list of new features, see the “BG-Map 2002 Supplement” packaged with the upgrade CD, or see the TechNote of the Users Support Website – “What’s New in BG-Map 2002”. |
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BG-BASE 6.0 (Windows
BG-BASE) is here. It has been
installed in at least one garden – Montgomery Botanical Center. BG-Map 2002 works
with BG-BASE 6.0, as well as with the previous version 5.0. It has been designed to automatically
detect Windows BG-BASE and adjust its operation accordingly. Running BG-Map and BG-BASE
6.0 Simultaneously Windows 95/98/ME The good news is that there will be much
less need to run both simultaneously because quad_up is now be built into
BG-Map. If BG-Map detects Windows BG-BASE, Quad_Up will run automatically
each time you start BG-Map. Quad_Up
can also be run from a menu command in BG-Map, again only if BG-Map detects
Windows BG-BASE.
Windows NT/2000/XPYou will be able to run
BG-Map and BG-BASE 6.0 simultaneously under Windows NT/2000/XP. This has been tested, and it works. |
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Yes, there will be a completely new and updated BG-Map Users Manual. Expect to see it around September. |
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The idea for this
new feature came from John Frett at the University of Delaware. He was interested in using Visitors
QUICKFinder to create maps for his classes showing the locations of a number
of selected plants that students are required to observe. The problem was that Visitors QUICKFinder’s
“Create a Tour” has a limit of 6 plants per tour. John needed to include dozens of plants. So, the Preselected
Tour Book Map was born. It is the ideal tool to use for creating “plant walk”
tour maps for classes or to highlight plants of seasonal interest for your
visitors. To create a map
showing the locations of up to 99 plants, all you have to do is compile a
list of their accession numbers, either as a BG-BASE saved list or using a
simple text processor, such as Windows Notepad. You specify the starting point of the tour, and BG-Map does the
rest – creating a map showing all the plant locations, numbered in a logical
sequence – either walking distance or alphabetically. The map is accompanied by a plant list,
that you can either print out directly or import into a spreadsheet or word processing
program. Preselected Tour
Book Maps are included in the BG-Map 2002 upgrade. |
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Visit the BG-Map USERS SUPPORT AREA at
www.bg-map.com/userdata
(Don't forget to update your census data)
BG-Map Botanical Garden Mapping System
E-mail: glicks@bg-map.com
Tel: 1.247.5777 ext. 283
Fax: 1.248.4439