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The current version and title of the CD is:
Adirondack Park Geographic Information -- Volume 1.4, December 17, 1998
New York State Adirondack Park Agency
There are three top-level directories. /APAdata includes Adirondack Park GIS data created or accumulated by the Adirondack Park Agency. /Ob2 directory includes Oswegatchie/Black River watershed project data and reports. Directory /ArcExpr includes an executable file to install ArcExplorer 1.0 on a Windows 95 or NT system.
- No GIS data found on the CD should be used for legal jurisdictional or boundary determinations.
- The use of ESRI data formats and products does not constitute an endorsement of ESRI Inc. products by New York State, the Adirondack Park Agency, or the participants of the Oswegatchie/Black Watershed study projects.
A PC, Macintosh, or UNIX computer with at least a 2x speed CD-ROM device should be able to read the contents of the CD. A fairly current version of an Internet web browser is desirable, though there are many readme.txt text files throughout the directory structure.
Recommended Display Property Settings:
- Minimum: SVGA, High Color (16 bit), 1024x768
- If high color (16 bit) is not an option on your display device, some map graphic elements will not have unique colors when the display is set to 256 colors.
To utilize ArcExplorer projects, as of March 1998, ArcExplorer only works on a Windows 95 or NT system.
The CD was written as a CD-ROM (Mode 1) Multisession CD.
File names conform to ISO 9660 level 1 compliant DOS names (8+3 restricted character set).
ArcExplorer is provided as one method to manipulate GIS coverages. Other GIS software is available for the same purpose. With this type of software, you can adjust your viewing scale within reasonable limits of the source data, you can point at the map data to query feature attributes, you can perform logical selections based on feature attributes, and you can view additional data layers to make maps more meaningful.
The ArcExplorer setup file is located at /ArcExplr/aesetup.exe. Run this file and follow the instructions. As of March 1998, ArcExplorer only works on a Windows 95 or NT system.
Prior to configuring Netscape for the ArcExplorer helper, ArcExplorer should be setup on the local PC.
In Netscape select the Options menu and press General Preferences... In the Preferences window, select the Helpers tab. Press the Create New Type... button. Enter application as the Mime Type and arcexplorer-project as the Mime Sub Type in the Configure New Mime Type window, then press OK. With this new type selected in the scrolling list of file types, enter aep in the File Extensions input field. Under Action, select the Launch the Application radio button, then press the Browse... button to find where ArcExplorer.exe is located on the PC. Since the name ArcExplorer is longer than eight characters, you will probably have something that looks like C:\ESRI\ARCEXP~1\ARCEXP~1.EXE in the input field. That's OK. Now press OK in the Preferences window and you should be all set to automatically start ArcExplorer when you press a hyperlink to a file with a .aep extension.
Prior to configuring Internet Explorer for the ArcExplorer helper, ArcExplorer should be setup on the local PC.
If ArcExplorer is already installed, Internet Explorer version 3.0 or newer should already know what to do with a ".aep" file type. You will be asked if you want to save the ArcExplorer project to disk or run ArcExplorer using the project on the CD. This is your preference. If your CD drive is drive "D" then you should have no problem opening the project on the CD.
Adirondack Park Geographic Information CD-Rom home.
Adirondack Park Agency home page.
New York State Adirondack Park Agency -- Revised: December 17, 1998