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LE QUÉBEC À DOS DE SOURIS V.5
ELECTRONIC ATLAS
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For technical assistance please contact:
Robert Boivin (514) 990-5303
Email: [email protected]
Working language
Click on Setup (Réglage) on the menu bar and select Français or
English, or press @ .
This change is automatically saved and remains valid for future sessions.
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General informations
Information about population, name of MRC, immatriculation of cities and towns and the postal code of the city-hall are
grouped into a scrollable list.
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Locating a town
Click on the Towns Index button, or press
t on the
keyboard. A list of all cities, towns and villages will appear
in a window.
Type the name of a town; the list will scroll down as you are
typing. For example, if you want to locate the city of
AYLMER and you type the letters « AYL », the list will
scroll down to the first name in the list starting with the
letters « AYL ».
Click on the proper name in the list . The programme will
load the appropriate map. When the map is displayed on
the screen, a frame will flash around the name of the
selected city or town.
Click in the flashing frame; if there is no municipal map
available for the selected city or town the frame will
disappear. If the municipal map is available, the programme
will load it.
It will also load the list of all street for this town and the street names for some
neighbouring towns. The button Street Index is activated.
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Locating a street on a municipal map
Click on Street index on the menu bar or press s on the keyboard. The list of streets appears in a window. This window
operates exactly like the window used for selecting a city or a town. To find a street in the list, proceed in the same way as you
did to find a city.
Abbreviations used by the software:
BOULEVARD
CHEMIN
CRESCENT
MONSEIGNEUR
MONTÉE
PLACE
SAINT
SAINTE
TERRASSE
BD
CH.
CR.
MGR
MTE.
PL
ST
STE
TER
BLV
BOUL B
C
M
P
Example :
If You type B de la Gappe ,
BLV.-DE-LA-GAPPE will appear on the screen.
When you are typing a name, all spaces are
converted into hyphens and all letters are
automatically converted to upper case.
Downtown option
To have a better view of the downtown area for the cities
of Montréal and Québec, click on the Downtown option.
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Local search button
Sometimes an existing street name may appear
in the list in a form slightly different from the
one you expected. Tyep FORTIN in the street list
and
click on the button Local search . Thee
programme will search for all occurrences of the
name FORTIN in Laval.
Click on the name in theresult list to see the
street on the map.
Search thrue the whole province and Last search buttons
To search for a street name thrue
the whole province, type the street
name, and click on the button
Search thrue the whole province.
In this example, the software found
48 matches of FORTIN street.
Click on the name in the result list
to see the street on the map.
Click on the button Last search
to see the list again.
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Intersection option
There are three different ways to call an intersection:
1) Click on the button Street index; select the option Intersections; type the street name then click on that name in the list.
2) Click on the button Street index; type the street name; press and hold down the
3) Press the
B
key then click on that name.
x key while a street is flashing on the screen.
A list of intersections for the selected street will appear.
Type the name of a second street
then click on its name in the list or
click on the button “See
intersections one by one” .
A flashing dot will indicate the
selected intersection on the map;
clicking with the left button will
show the next intersection and
clicking with the wright button
will stop the sequence if you
choosed to see intersections one by
one.
In the same way you may find an
address on the Montreal Island.
( Address are available only for
the Montreal Island )
Please note that you must type an equal sign to allow the program to distinct between an address or a numeral avenue.
To see address values between block of streets on the
map of Montreal click on either one of the
“North-South” or “West-East ”button.
To alternate between North or West view
press the B key down and click on the map with
the right button of the mouse.
To cancel the viewing double-click on the map or press
the space bar.
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Alias option
This option lets you create an alias for a
street name. It could be useful, for
example, if a street name changes before
the next update of this software.
Click on the Street Index button, type the
name of the street for which you want to
create an alias, and type the equal sign
( = ) at the end of the line.
Type the new name in the window, and click on OK to validate the alias.
In this example, an alias is created
to find CH.-FRASER in Aylmer,
by typping FRASER-ROAD.
To remove an alias from the list,
click on Street Index, and type the \ character in the window. Scroll down the list to the name of the alias that you want to
remove and click on this name. You will be asked to confirm before the alias is removed from the list.
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Copy and paste
The button << shows or hides the contents of the clipboard.
To copy the entire map shown on the screen onto the clipboard
press the # key or
$ key.
To copy a part of the map onto the
clipboard, click on the shears icon tool,
bring the mouse pointer where you want to
start the copying, press and hold down the
left button of the mouse, while dragging the
mouse pointer on the screen; a rectangle
will be drawn and its contents will be sent to
the clipboard when the mouse
button is released.
The contents of the clipboard
may be printed on paper using
the Print option in the menu.
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Zoom option
To zoom in or out, click on the magnifying glass icon
using the left button of the mouse.
To zoom in; click on the map using the left button of the mouse.
Press and hold down the
While the
F
F
key and click on the map to zoom out.
key is pressed down you may zoom in or out using the mouse wheel.
Define an area on the map by dragging with the mouse while the left button is pressed down. Releasing the left button will
produce a zoom in of that area or a zoom out if if the
F
key is pressed down.
To return to normal viewing click on the map using the RIGHT button of the mouse. The image of the zoomed map will be
automatically put in the Windows clipboard and it will then be resized to its normal viewing.
Legend option
Click on the Legend button to
to see the legend of the map beeing displayed.
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Reference map option
It is possible to visualize the map that was displayed prior to the one presently displayed on the screen.
Click on the Reference map option or press e on the keyboard. The previous map is displayed in a smaller window.
If a regional map is being displayed on the screen, the previous map window will display the map of the province of Quebec
with a flashing circle indicating the area covered by the regional map.
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Print option
To print the map displayed on the screen or to print the clipboard contents,
select the Print option on the menu bar, or press
p on the keyboard, or click
on the printer icon.
( You may also print from “Acrobat Reader” by clicking on the PDF button )
Choose the options you want for the printing.
Click on the button OK ; the Windows print manager will let you make the
final adjustments before you print.
Select the printer and its properties.
Click on OK .
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Kilometres option
To measure distances between two or more points on the map, click on
the Kilometres option or press m on the keyboard.
Place the mouse pointer on the first point on the map and click on the left
button of the mouse; move the mouse pointer to the second point and
click again. Repeat this operation as many times as you wish.
Double clicking will produce anchors along the measuring path.
When the last point is reached, click on the right button of the mouse.
The map will automatically scroll when the mouse pointer reaches the
edge of the screen. Holding down the F key forces the map to scroll
faster.
It is possible to draw several routes on the same screen. Each route may
be of a different color . The thickness of the drawing line may also be
changed but it will remain the same for every route drawn on the same
screen.
The color window may be turned off and on. When it is not visible on the
screen, a button with colored dots appears in the meter window to let you reactivate it.
The routes may be saved on your hard drive.
Distances are shown in metres when a street map is displayed on the
screen. On all other maps, they are shown in kilometres. Click on the X
button of the meter window to put an end to measuring.
Distances are shown in metric measures. To change it to imperial , click
on the words Metres or Kilometres.
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Route option
Use the Kilometres option to draw a route on the map. Once the outline is completed, select Route from the menu option and
select Save route ; type a name in the window and press E to save the data on your hard disk.
To load a route from the disk, select Route from the menu option, select Load route, and click on its name in the window. It is
also possible to load a route from a Marker ; see Marker option.
To erase a route from the disk, select Route from the menu option and select Load route. Check off Erase route, and click on
its name in the window. You will be asked to confirm the operation before the route is erased.
The meter
The value shown on the frame of the meter refers to the
scale value that was used to draw the paper map.
The first window of the meter shows the distance between
mouse clicks while drawing a route.
The second window of the meter shows the total distance
of the route. You may type a value directly into this
window.
This button with resets the meterto 0.
This button allows you to display the color palette.
This button let s you erase the last part of a drawn
route. Using this button several times makes it
possible to erase an entire route, segment by segment.
Distances are shown in metres when a street map is
displayed on the screen. On all other maps, they are shown
in kilometres. Click on the X button of the meter window
to put an end to measuring; the image is then automatically
transfered to the clipboard.
This button allows you to type additional
information which will appear on the map.
To draw a white arrow on the map, first draw a line on the
map, then click on this button:
Or press the
X
key.
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Use the following keys to resize the memo box:
O N H
Use the
C
key to alternate between the
leftt and right justification of the text.
Using the memo box and the measurement tool
one may create a nice legend on the map.
To estimate distances between several points on a
map, click on the Kilometres option. Press and
hold down the S key, and click on any point of
the map.
Black and blue circles are drawn on the map, and
the distance between circles is shown in the meter
window.
You may draw up to five concentric circles of a
specific distance on the map.
Click the
button to reset the meter.
Enter the each value in the blue box.
Press and hold down the S key, and click on any
point of the map.
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Measurement chart option
Select this option from the menu to consult the chart of distances between cities or towns.
Click on a name of town in the left column, then click on a name of town in the right column.
The distance between the two towns and a suggested itinerary will be shown.
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Scrolling the map
You can scroll the map by clicking the buttons on the horizontal or vertical scroll bar. You can also use the cursor keys on
the keyboard.
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If you prefer, you can click on the map with the left button of the mouse and, keeping the button down, move the mouse
pointer in any direction.
To save the coordinates of the map shown on the
screen, press
_ . Press + to retrieve a map
previously saved.
The Scroll option on the menu bar allows you to scroll the
map in any of eight directions.
The scroll speed can be increased or decreased by clicking on
one of these buttons .
To set the default speed , click on the button
To stop the scrolling, click on the button
or click anywhere on the map.
When the map reaches the end of the visible area, a button
with a yellow arrow appears on the screen, click on it to view
the next part of the map.
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Markers: setup
You can create as many groups of 600 markers as you need. Each group of
markers will have its own configuration, stored in a control file (.CTL).
Click on Setup on the menu bar and select Markers: setup.
The white window shows a palette of 6 icons that can be used on the
maps. The user can modify the palette by choosing among the 24 icons
available.
A double-click on any of the 24 icons updates the palette with the 6
icons on that line.
To assign a particular icon to the palette, click on the desired icon and
drag the square image on one of the six markers in the palette.
Click on one of the two buttons to select the display mode: transparent
or opaque.
To erase or to rename a group of markers, choose the appropriate option and click on
its name in the list. The user is aked to confirm befgore a group is erased.
The group « DEFAUT » can be neither erased nor renamed.
To activate a group of markers, click on its name in the list.
To create a new group of markers, click on the Add a new group button.
Type in a name for the new group and click on the OK button.
The new group becomes the active group.
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To create a marker
To create a marker on the map, press and hold down the F key,
and click with the left button of the mouse on any point of the map.
Repeat this operation to create more markers.
To remove a marker, press and keep down the x key on the
keyboard, then click on the marker with the left button of the mouse.
To change a marker, click on the marker with the right button of the
mouse, then click on the appropriate icon in the palette.
Markers option
This option is available only if at least one marker exists.
To locate a marker on the maps, click on the Marker
option on the menu bar, then select Next marker or
Previous marker, or press
* or ( on the keyboard.
The programme will search for the map containing the
next or previous marker and it will display the map on the
screen.
To find a particular marker, select the Find a particular
marker option , and type its name in the dialogue box. To
see the list of all existing markers, select List of markers ;
you may then click on one of the names in the list.
To erase all the markers on all the maps, select Erase all
markers on the menu bar. You will be asked for a
confirmation before all the markers are erased.
To move a marker to a different location on the map, click
on the marker with the left button of the mouse and keeping the button down, drag the marker to a different point on the
map.
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Each marker has its own reference card. The marker can be given a name and the card can be filled with 10 lines of
information. Double click on a marker to access the card.
Click on Marker’s name and type the name in the
windows.
Type additional lines of information and press
E to validate each line.
To erase one line of information, press and hold
down the C key and click on the line.
It is possible to associate an existing route to a
marker. Type the name of that route on one line ,
add the suffix . PRC at the end of the line. When you
click on that line, the software will display the
selected route.
The software can display BMP, RLE and WMF type
pictures, as long as they are in the current directory. Type the picture file name on one line of information, including its
extension, and click on that line to see the picture.
To start any other programme from the reference card of a marker, type an asterisk followed by the name of that programme
on one line .
Example :
*c :\windows\pbrush.exe
This line will execute the MsPaint programme supplied with Windows.
*pbrush.exe/c:\test\test.bmp Separate parameter with a slash.
To change the appearance of the
name of a marker click on the
Polices / Fonts button.
Select the font name and the other
options.
Changes affect only the selected
marker. If you want your choices to
be the default configuration for each
new marker, click on the button
Use theese parameters for each new marker
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Twenty pictogrammes are available with the font “CARTOVISION”.
Only the first character of a marker’s name will be shown on the map if the font “CARTOVISION” is selected.
Example:
You name a marker #Test and you select the font “CARTOVISION”. The character # will be replaced by the pictogramme of
a house and the word Test will not be shown on the map.
You may create your own pictograms and iclude them into the font CARTOVISION.TTF or any other font you wish. To do so
you will need a special program that will let you create or modify any font library.
CartoVision was using the software “Font Creator” produce by High-Logic. Visit their web site to get more information
http://www.high-logic.com
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Memo option
To add information on the map before it is printed, click on
the Memo button , and type your text in the text box. The
box may be dragged to a different location on the map.
This option may also be used when measuring distances on
the map.
Regions option
In this option, check marks are
used to show which administrative
region is currently displayed on
the screen. You may also click on a
region name to have the map of
that region displayed on the
screen.
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Canada Post Forward Sortation Area (F.S.A.)
To see the limits of the Canada Post
Forward Sortation Area, click on the
F. S. A. button and type the name of a
town or type the 3 first digit of a postal
code then click on its name in the list.
To zoom in, moove the mouse pointer onto a zone on the
map, hold the
B
key (atching will appear on the
selected zone), and click the left button of the mouse.
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Hold down the B key and click on a highlighted
zone to load a more detail map.
Instead of pressing the B key you may use both
buttons of the mouse; pressed down the right button
and click with the left button into the highlighted zone.
Export the map into a file
Click on Menu then click on
Export the map into a file
Choose either option The visible map or The
clipboard content to be exported.
Type a filename and choose the destination
folder.
Choose the file type :
Bitmap (BMP)
Jpeg
(JPG)
Portable Network Grafic (PNG)
Windows Enanced Metafile
(EMF)
Windows Metafile
(WMF)
The Save button will become active once all
the parameters are entered.
If you want to use the same settings each
time you export the picture of the map;
click on the button Set as default settings .
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Sharing and backup control files.
Some important information could have been entered by the user concerning markers, alias and routes. You may want to
share this information with other users or you may want to backup this information on a different media.
Type of files
Markers . . . CTL
Alias . . . . . AJT
Routes . . . . PRC
To save theese files or to load them from a different source; click on Setup then
click on Markers selection
Click on the button
Backup copy
Select the folder for the copy
in the window at the right.
Select the files then click on
the button > to copy the
files from the program folder
to the backup folder or click
on the button < to copy
from the backup folder to the
program folder.
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Most of the time the geographical North is located on the top center
of the map.
For some technical reasons the geographical North may be
oriented differently. The compass will show the geographic North
for any showned map.
PDF Option
Click on the button PDF to see the map in a 800 dpi. vectorial format using « Adobe Acrobat Reader ».
This type of map could be zoomed and printed without any lost in quality.
To visualise the map covering the area between the 52° latitude and the limit of Canada and U.S.A. press
the B key and click on the button PDF. Please take note that this is a very large map and depending
of the type of computer that is used it may take some times to fully appear on your screen.
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Preferences selection
Show thedrop-down help box.
Select this option to see the drop-down help
box when the mouse cursor is over an item on
the screen.
Show the name of the infrastructures.
Select this option to see the infrastructure
name when the mouse pointer is placed over a
white numbered dot on the map.
If that option is not selected you still can see
the name of the infrastructure by pressing the
B
key.
Adjust the towns and the streets index box to
the last selected name.
If this option is selected the streets and towns
index box will automatically scroll to the last
selected name; otherwise it will be reset at the
first name in the list.
Lock the numeric key pad
Some keys on the laptop computers have a double action. In example the key u could represent the letter U or it could
represent the value 4.
Depending of the setup of each particular computer this duality may cause some difficulty when typing the name of a street or
the name of a town into the program.
Unselect the option « Lock the numeric key pad » only if you encounter such difficulty; otherwise leave it selected.
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Georeference:
"Québec à dos de souris" uses 2 different types of projection to georeference its maps.
Universal Transverse Mercator UTM
Here is an interesting link covering the UTM projection:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transverse_Mercator_projection
The UTM system employs a series of sixty zones across the world, each zone is assign a number. Five zones cover up the
province of Quebec from West (zone 17) to East (zone 21). The unit of measurement is the metre.
Our maps of scale 1: 110 000 use the UTM system.
Modified Transverse Mercator MTM
This projection is an improved UTM projection. This system employs a series of zones numbered from East of the province
(zone 1) to West of the province (zone 10). Our maps of scale 1: 20 000 use this system.
When a georefence map is being shown on the screen, the X Y coordinates of the mouse pointer are shown in a window at the
bottom of the screen. The geographical coordinates "Latitude/Longitude" is expressed as " Degrés.decimal " (default
representation). The representation of the coordinates can be changed at any time by clicking in the coordinate window.
Letter "N" represents the latitude and the "-" sign represents the longitude.
The latitudes and longitudes coordinates could be represented as:
Degrees.decimal ( default )
Degrees Minutes.decimal
Dedrees Minutes Seconds.decimal
The UTM and MTM zones are always identified.
When either one of UTM or MTM coordinates system is selected;
letter "N" represents the latitude and letter "E" represents the longitude.
The values of the latitude and the longitude are calculated in meters according to the
involve zone.
Change coordinates representation
Click on the type of coordinates
represention you wish to use
Click on "Exit" .
Any change you make is automatically
saved on the disk.
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Search for a specific georefrenced point on the map
Click on either one of the coordinate in the
window.
Select the coordinates represention of the
georeference point that you are looking
for.
If UTM or MTM is selected you must
select the corresponding zone.
The zone is automatically detected when
either ones of the geographical coordinates
(Degrees) is selected.
Type the Latitude value and the Longitude
value in the appropiate windows.
In this exemple the latitude and the
logitude of the georeferenced point were
taken on the Victoria bridge in Montreal.
Latitude 45 . 491498
Longitude 73 . 529432
Click on "Search"
The list of every maps that correspond to the given georefence point is shown in a
window. A message is shown in the title bar if the programme does not find any
map corresponding to the given point.
Click in the list to see the map on the screen.
Please note how the maps are numbered:
"1" map of the province of Québec
from "2" to "199" regional maps. Scale 1: 110 000
"200" to "9999" street maps.
Scale 1: 10 000
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An icon will flash on the selected map.
Click on the map to stop the flashing.
View another map
Click with the right button of the mouse on
the map. The programme will calculate the
position of the mouse cursor.
The list of corresponding maps will appear
on the screen. Select the map that you want
to see.
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Find a location:
E
Type the address number and pressE
Type the name of a street and pressE
Type the name of a city and press
A flag will flash on the map near the given
address .
Select "Remember this city:" if you
search addresses very often in the same
city.
The address, area number
and the postal code appear
at the bottom of the screen.
By clicking on either button
-
+
or
other flags will
appear along the given
street showing the
corresponding address
number and postal code.
If the postal code for the desired address is known, type it in the appropriate windows and press
E
.
Note: Search of address for towns
that have a postal code containing
two zero (ie: J0K 1Z0) is not
possible since the postal code is
the same for the whole town.
Clicking directly in the address
window will allow you to type an
old city name or to type the name
of a sector in a city.
ie: Saint-Nicephore is no more a
town as it is now a sector of the
city of Drummondville. Since
some streets names may be
identical in both places, it is
needed to type the sector name to make the difference.
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Geographical names:
The software has a database of more then 120, 000 geographical names for the province of Quebec.
Clicking on a group option will show the
geographical names of that group.
Type a geographical name or type part
of its name then click on then button
"Find" The list will scroll to the first
occurence of that name. There may me a
few identical geographical names; click
on "Find" several times to find the
proper one.
In this example the are 7 lakes
"Levasseur" spead over the province of
Quebec. The geographical name is
followed by the city name where it is located. Click on any one to see it on the map.
The button
allows you to type a keyword to do a search in the whole database.
Click on the button "Search in the whole database" ;
type any keyword and press
E.
The keyword may be any part of a geographical name or city name.
Ie: "LEVASSEUR"
the search across the whole database has
found 27 occurences containing
"LEVASSEUR"among different groups
(Lakes, Islands, Bays, River etc...)
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CARTOVISION
HTTP://WWW.CARTOVISION.QC.CA
THANKS YOU FOR USING THIS
SOFTWARE AND WISHES YOU
GOOD SURFING ON ITS MAPS.
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