|
I went to activate yet another Precision Mapping 9.0 install for a rebuild of my APRS UI-Webserver setup (moving the whole setup to an SSD) and was greeted by this message at
<>
*Notice: The Registration Services provided through this site were terminated March 1, 2020.
*
I.e. it is now NOT POSSIBLE to activate Precision Mapping in the normal way. ?? However there are work-arounds.
1)?? If you only want to use Precision Mapping 9 with UIview and the PMap 9 Server plugin (i.e. not use the program stand-alone outside of UIview 32),? you don't need to do anything.?? Even the "un-activated" Precision Mapping database will? work inside UIview.? Install Precision Mapping the usual way, but ignore the prompt to register the program the first time it is run.? You can then run the PMap Data with UIview indefinitely.
2) The Windows Registry is the vast and inscrutable database that contains information about everything ever added to the Windows system.? It includes data and user preferences for every program on the system. It contains data and user settings about every piece of hardware installed on the system and far more. ? You see tiny excerpts of the Registry displayed to the user when you use the Windows Device Manager,? Windows Scheduler, Sound Controls, etc. Everytime, you install a program that requires a registration key or activation code, almost always the "magic numbers" you enter into the program are stashed away in the the Registry.
[A rare exception is UIview when you complete the setup by entering your callsign, name and registration code during the first-time setup. UIview stores this info in the file "UIreg.bin" located in the program's own folder, rather than in the registry.? However, the vast majority of Windows programs stash this kind of license data in the registry, often in encrypted format.]
For Precision Mapping 9.0, add the following lines to the Windows Registry:
?? Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
?? [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\CtrlSoftM7]
?? "CLSID1309P"=""
Open a basic text editor like Windows Notepad or similar.??? Copy/paste the lines above into it.? Save the file as something like "Pmap9.reg" .?? Be sure the file name does NOT have the normal extension .TXT. ? and? ensure the file is saved in basic raw text format; i.e. not as a Word document or similar. ?? .REG files are basic text files, but have the "magical" property of being treated differently by Windows. ? Double-clicking a file ending in .TXT normally makes it open in Notepad or WordPad. Double-clicking a .REG file causes Windows to try to add it to the Windows Registry.? It will only process the entry, if it meets the exact structure shown above.
From the Windows File Explorer,? RIGHT-click the file, and choose "Merge...". ? This reads the file entries into the Windows Registry.
Each time you start the stand-alone Precision Mapping, it will prompt to register. Dismiss the prompt and continue with the program.? This will happen indefinitely. This workaround works on all flavors of Windows from Windows 2000 to the latest Win 10.
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Preparing to retire, I found several original Precision Maping disks. Are they of any value now? Bob On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 6:46 PM WA8LMF via groups.io <wa8lmf= [email protected]> wrote: I went to activate yet another Precision Mapping 9.0 install for a rebuild
of
my APRS UI-Webserver setup (moving the whole setup to an SSD) and was
greeted
by this message at
<>
*Notice: The Registration Services provided through this site were
terminated
March 1, 2020.
*
I.e. it is now NOT POSSIBLE to activate Precision Mapping in the normal
way.
However there are work-arounds.
1) If you only want to use Precision Mapping 9 with UIview and the PMap
9
Server plugin (i.e. not use the program stand-alone outside of UIview
32), you
don't need to do anything. Even the "un-activated" Precision Mapping
database
will work inside UIview. Install Precision Mapping the usual way, but
ignore
the prompt to register the program the first time it is run. You can then
run
the PMap Data with UIview indefinitely.
2) The Windows Registry is the vast and inscrutable database that contains
information about everything ever added to the Windows system. It
includes
data and user preferences for every program on the system. It contains
data and
user settings about every piece of hardware installed on the system and
far
more. You see tiny excerpts of the Registry displayed to the user when
you
use the Windows Device Manager, Windows Scheduler, Sound Controls, etc.
Everytime, you install a program that requires a registration key or
activation
code, almost always the "magic numbers" you enter into the program are
stashed
away in the the Registry.
[A rare exception is UIview when you complete the setup by entering your
callsign, name and registration code during the first-time setup. UIview
stores
this info in the file "UIreg.bin" located in the program's own folder,
rather
than in the registry. However, the vast majority of Windows programs
stash
this kind of license data in the registry, often in encrypted format.]
For Precision Mapping 9.0, add the following lines to the Windows Registry:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\CtrlSoftM7]
"CLSID1309P"=""
Open a basic text editor like Windows Notepad or similar. Copy/paste
the
lines above into it. Save the file as something like "Pmap9.reg" . Be
sure
the file name does NOT have the normal extension .TXT. and ensure the
file
is saved in basic raw text format; i.e. not as a Word document or similar.
.REG files are basic text files, but have the "magical" property of being
treated differently by Windows. Double-clicking a file ending in .TXT
normally makes it open in Notepad or WordPad. Double-clicking a .REG file
causes Windows to try to add it to the Windows Registry. It will only
process
the entry, if it meets the exact structure shown above.
From the Windows File Explorer, RIGHT-click the file, and choose
"Merge...".
This reads the file entries into the Windows Registry.
Each time you start the stand-alone Precision Mapping, it will prompt to
register. Dismiss the prompt and continue with the program. This will
happen
indefinitely. This workaround works on all flavors of Windows from Windows
2000
to the latest Win 10.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
**
|
On 4/18/2020 11:49 PM, Robert Bruninga wrote: Preparing to retire, I found several original Precision Maping disks.
Are they of any value now?
Bob
Only if they are Precision Mapping 9.0.?? Any earlier versions have been impossible to activate for many years now, even before Undertow shut down the activation server.??? Even just for use inside UIview, they won't work. (The security/activation process on earlier versions of Precision Mapping was far more draconian than on the final ver 9.0. It actually required registering the PMapOCX control twice - once for the standalone program and a second time for use inside UIview.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen H. Smith??? wa8lmf (at) aol.com Skype:??????? WA8LMF EchoLink:? Node #? 14400? [Think bottom of the 2-meter band] Home Page:????????? -----?? NEW!??? 60-Meter APRS!?? HF NVIS APRS Igate Now Operating ------ ?? <> Live Off-The-Air APRS Activity Maps ?? <> Long-Range APRS on 30 Meters HF ?? <>
|
Bob can they be store on some FTP server so we could download? i dont know if Precision is still in business today??? 73 gervais ve2ckn ________________________________ De : [email protected] < [email protected]> de la part de Robert Bruninga <bruninga@...> Envoy¨¦ : 18 avril 2020 23:49 ? : [email protected] < [email protected]> Objet : Re: [UI-View] It's Finally Happened! Precision Mapping Reg Server Shutdown !! Preparing to retire, I found several original Precision Maping disks. Are they of any value now? Bob On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 6:46 PM WA8LMF via groups.io <wa8lmf= [email protected]> wrote: I went to activate yet another Precision Mapping 9.0 install for a rebuild
of
my APRS UI-Webserver setup (moving the whole setup to an SSD) and was
greeted
by this message at
<>
*Notice: The Registration Services provided through this site were
terminated
March 1, 2020.
*
I.e. it is now NOT POSSIBLE to activate Precision Mapping in the normal
way.
However there are work-arounds.
1) If you only want to use Precision Mapping 9 with UIview and the PMap
9
Server plugin (i.e. not use the program stand-alone outside of UIview
32), you
don't need to do anything. Even the "un-activated" Precision Mapping
database
will work inside UIview. Install Precision Mapping the usual way, but
ignore
the prompt to register the program the first time it is run. You can then
run
the PMap Data with UIview indefinitely.
2) The Windows Registry is the vast and inscrutable database that contains
information about everything ever added to the Windows system. It
includes
data and user preferences for every program on the system. It contains
data and
user settings about every piece of hardware installed on the system and
far
more. You see tiny excerpts of the Registry displayed to the user when
you
use the Windows Device Manager, Windows Scheduler, Sound Controls, etc.
Everytime, you install a program that requires a registration key or
activation
code, almost always the "magic numbers" you enter into the program are
stashed
away in the the Registry.
[A rare exception is UIview when you complete the setup by entering your
callsign, name and registration code during the first-time setup. UIview
stores
this info in the file "UIreg.bin" located in the program's own folder,
rather
than in the registry. However, the vast majority of Windows programs
stash
this kind of license data in the registry, often in encrypted format.]
For Precision Mapping 9.0, add the following lines to the Windows Registry:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\CtrlSoftM7]
"CLSID1309P"=""
Open a basic text editor like Windows Notepad or similar. Copy/paste
the
lines above into it. Save the file as something like "Pmap9.reg" . Be
sure
the file name does NOT have the normal extension .TXT. and ensure the
file
is saved in basic raw text format; i.e. not as a Word document or similar.
.REG files are basic text files, but have the "magical" property of being
treated differently by Windows. Double-clicking a file ending in .TXT
normally makes it open in Notepad or WordPad. Double-clicking a .REG file
causes Windows to try to add it to the Windows Registry. It will only
process
the entry, if it meets the exact structure shown above.
From the Windows File Explorer, RIGHT-click the file, and choose
"Merge...".
This reads the file entries into the Windows Registry.
Each time you start the stand-alone Precision Mapping, it will prompt to
register. Dismiss the prompt and continue with the program. This will
happen
indefinitely. This workaround works on all flavors of Windows from Windows
2000
to the latest Win 10.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
**
|
On 4/19/2020 7:44 AM, Gervais Fillion wrote: Bob
can they be store on some FTP server so we could download?
i dont know if Precision is still in business today???
73
gervais ve2ckn
1)?? Undertow Software is still in business, but hey have completely exited the consumer/retail mapping business. Undertow's main business today is providing professional electronic mapping to computer-aided dispatching ("CAD") systems used by police, fire, utilities, etc. All three major consumer off-line mapping vendors (Microsoft with Streets and MapPoint, Delorme with Street Atlas? and Topo North America, and Undertow Software with Precision Mapping) discontinued their products within the same 18-month period. They all appear to be victims of the explosion of smartphone-based on-line mapping (Google Maps, Microsoft Bing/Expedia, MapQuest. etc).? People seem to foolishly assume that cellular data has 100% coverage (which it isn't). Further, people seem to be willing to absorb the costs of endlessly downloading map images on expensive cellular data plans. The loss of these products, which would provide full-zoomable scalable street-level maps of ALL of North America WITHOUT an Internet connection is a major blow to APRS operations in the field.? There are vast areas of the US and Canada that DO NOT HAVE cellular data coverage or Internet access. The disappearance of these CD/DVD-based off-line products has killed several APRS applications: -? The death of MapPoint in 2013 killed APRSpoint, and the UIpoint plug-in for UIview. -? The death of Street Atlas Classic? killed APRSplus. -? The death of Precision Mapping has crippled UIview. 2)?? It would be completely useless to upload old Precision Mapping CD/DVD? ISOs to an FTP server.?? You cold download and install them, but THEY WON'T RUN until they are "activated". Activating them depends on receiving an "unlock code" by registering them on the Undertow "RegisterMyApp" server which no longer exists. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen H. Smith??? wa8lmf (at) aol.com Skype:??????? WA8LMF EchoLink:? Node #? 14400? [Think bottom of the 2-meter band] Home Page:????????? -----?? NEW!??? 60-Meter APRS!?? HF NVIS APRS Igate Now Operating ------ ?? <> Live Off-The-Air APRS Activity Maps ?? <> Long-Range APRS on 30 Meters HF ?? <>
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Funny you guys mentioned this.
When I started with UI-View way back when, I used Street Atlas 5.0 and made
up all of the maps I would need.
Since then, I have painstakingly made sure that I still have copies of those
maps.
Roger made a great program but like someone said here, it is an orphan with
no one to step up and continue his work.
I would love to upgrade to something easy (what is easy?) and install
something new. The latest Street Atlas I have is from 2014.
Anyway, that's my $0.02 for this thread. Carry on.
73,
Phil N1BOW
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-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto: [email protected]] On Behalf Of Gervais Fillion Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2020 7:44 AM To: [email protected]Subject: Re: [UI-View] It's Finally Happened! Precision Mapping Reg Server Shutdown !! Bob can they be store on some FTP server so we could download? i dont know if Precision is still in business today??? 73 gervais ve2ckn ________________________________ De : [email protected] < [email protected]> de la part de Robert Bruninga <bruninga@...> Envoy¨¦ : 18 avril 2020 23:49 ? : [email protected] < [email protected]> Objet : Re: [UI-View] It's Finally Happened! Precision Mapping Reg Server Shutdown !! Preparing to retire, I found several original Precision Maping disks. Are they of any value now? Bob On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 6:46 PM WA8LMF via groups.io <wa8lmf= [email protected]> wrote: I went to activate yet another Precision Mapping 9.0 install for a rebuild
of
my APRS UI-Webserver setup (moving the whole setup to an SSD) and was
greeted
by this message at
<>
*Notice: The Registration Services provided through this site were
terminated
March 1, 2020.
*
I.e. it is now NOT POSSIBLE to activate Precision Mapping in the normal
way.
However there are work-arounds.
1) If you only want to use Precision Mapping 9 with UIview and the PMap
9
Server plugin (i.e. not use the program stand-alone outside of UIview
32), you
don't need to do anything. Even the "un-activated" Precision Mapping
database
will work inside UIview. Install Precision Mapping the usual way, but
ignore
the prompt to register the program the first time it is run. You can then
run
the PMap Data with UIview indefinitely.
2) The Windows Registry is the vast and inscrutable database that contains
information about everything ever added to the Windows system. It
includes
data and user preferences for every program on the system. It contains
data and
user settings about every piece of hardware installed on the system and
far
more. You see tiny excerpts of the Registry displayed to the user when
you
use the Windows Device Manager, Windows Scheduler, Sound Controls, etc.
Everytime, you install a program that requires a registration key or
activation
code, almost always the "magic numbers" you enter into the program are
stashed
away in the the Registry.
[A rare exception is UIview when you complete the setup by entering your
callsign, name and registration code during the first-time setup. UIview
stores
this info in the file "UIreg.bin" located in the program's own folder,
rather
than in the registry. However, the vast majority of Windows programs
stash
this kind of license data in the registry, often in encrypted format.]
For Precision Mapping 9.0, add the following lines to the Windows Registry:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\CtrlSoftM7]
"CLSID1309P"=""
Open a basic text editor like Windows Notepad or similar. Copy/paste
the
lines above into it. Save the file as something like "Pmap9.reg" . Be
sure
the file name does NOT have the normal extension .TXT. and ensure the
file
is saved in basic raw text format; i.e. not as a Word document or similar.
.REG files are basic text files, but have the "magical" property of being
treated differently by Windows. Double-clicking a file ending in .TXT
normally makes it open in Notepad or WordPad. Double-clicking a .REG file
causes Windows to try to add it to the Windows Registry. It will only
process
the entry, if it meets the exact structure shown above.
From the Windows File Explorer, RIGHT-click the file, and choose
"Merge...".
This reads the file entries into the Windows Registry.
Each time you start the stand-alone Precision Mapping, it will prompt to
register. Dismiss the prompt and continue with the program. This will
happen
indefinitely. This workaround works on all flavors of Windows from Windows
2000
to the latest Win 10.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---
**
|
Hi All,
Anybody know of the last or latest data update for this PM 9. If there is, where can I get the updates?
Thanks for suggestions.
Aloha,
--Stan Y.
KH6HHG
Maui, Hawaii
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At 10:37 AM 4/19/2020, you wrote: Funny you guys mentioned this.
When I started with UI-View way back when, I used Street Atlas 5.0 and made
up all of the maps I would need.
Since then, I have painstakingly made sure that I still have copies of those
maps.
Roger made a great program but like someone said here, it is an orphan with
no one to step up and continue his work.
I would love to upgrade to something easy (what is easy?) and install
something new. The latest Street Atlas I have is from 2014.
Anyway, that's my $0.02 for this thread. Carry on.
73,
Phil N1BOW
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gervais
Fillion
Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2020 7:44 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [UI-View] It's Finally Happened! Precision Mapping Reg Server
Shutdown !!
Bob
can they be store on some FTP server so we could download?
i dont know if Precision is still in business today???
73
gervais ve2ckn
________________________________
De : [email protected] <[email protected]> de la part de Robert Bruninga
<bruninga@...>
Envoy¨¦ : 18 avril 2020 23:49
? : [email protected] <[email protected]>
Objet : Re: [UI-View] It's Finally Happened! Precision Mapping Reg Server
Shutdown !!
Preparing to retire, I found several original Precision Maping disks.
Are they of any value now?
Bob
On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 6:46 PM WA8LMF via groups.io <wa8lmf=
[email protected]> wrote:
I went to activate yet another Precision Mapping 9.0 install for a rebuild
of
my APRS UI-Webserver setup (moving the whole setup to an SSD) and was
greeted
by this message at
<>
*Notice: The Registration Services provided through this site were
terminated
March 1, 2020.
*
I.e. it is now NOT POSSIBLE to activate Precision Mapping in the normal
way.
However there are work-arounds.
1) If you only want to use Precision Mapping 9 with UIview and the PMap
9
Server plugin (i.e. not use the program stand-alone outside of UIview
32), you
don't need to do anything. Even the "un-activated" Precision Mapping
database
will work inside UIview. Install Precision Mapping the usual way, but
ignore
the prompt to register the program the first time it is run. You can then
run
the PMap Data with UIview indefinitely.
2) The Windows Registry is the vast and inscrutable database that contains
information about everything ever added to the Windows system. It
includes
data and user preferences for every program on the system. It contains
data and
user settings about every piece of hardware installed on the system and
far
more. You see tiny excerpts of the Registry displayed to the user when
you
use the Windows Device Manager, Windows Scheduler, Sound Controls, etc.
Everytime, you install a program that requires a registration key or
activation
code, almost always the "magic numbers" you enter into the program are
stashed
away in the the Registry.
[A rare exception is UIview when you complete the setup by entering your
callsign, name and registration code during the first-time setup. UIview
stores
this info in the file "UIreg.bin" located in the program's own folder,
rather
than in the registry. However, the vast majority of Windows programs
stash
this kind of license data in the registry, often in encrypted format.]
For Precision Mapping 9.0, add the following lines to the Windows Registry:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\CtrlSoftM7]
"CLSID1309P"=""
Open a basic text editor like Windows Notepad or similar. Copy/paste
the
lines above into it. Save the file as something like "Pmap9.reg" . Be
sure
the file name does NOT have the normal extension .TXT. and ensure the
file
is saved in basic raw text format; i.e. not as a Word document or similar.
.REG files are basic text files, but have the "magical" property of being
treated differently by Windows. Double-clicking a file ending in .TXT
normally makes it open in Notepad or WordPad. Double-clicking a .REG file
causes Windows to try to add it to the Windows Registry. It will only
process
the entry, if it meets the exact structure shown above.
From the Windows File Explorer, RIGHT-click the file, and choose
"Merge...".
This reads the file entries into the Windows Registry.
Each time you start the stand-alone Precision Mapping, it will prompt to
register. Dismiss the prompt and continue with the program. This will
happen
indefinitely. This workaround works on all flavors of Windows from Windows
2000
to the latest Win 10.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
---
**
|
On 4/19/2020 5:04 PM, Stanley T. Yamato wrote: Hi All,
Anybody know of the last or latest data update for this PM 9.? If there is, where can I get the updates?
Thanks for suggestions.
Aloha,
--Stan Y.
? KH6HHG
? Maui, Hawaii The final service pack was issued over 5 years ago, and can be downloaded here: ?? <> Note that: 1)?? It is only a service pack (patch) to update an existing operating Precision Mapping 9.0 installation.? It is NOT a full installer for the program. 2)?? There is no update to the road database involved - it's just bug-fixes to the program. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen H. Smith??? wa8lmf (at) aol.com Skype:??????? WA8LMF EchoLink:? Node #? 14400? [Think bottom of the 2-meter band] Home Page:????????? -----?? NEW!??? 60-Meter APRS!?? HF NVIS APRS Igate Now Operating ------ ?? <> Live Off-The-Air APRS Activity Maps ?? <> Long-Range APRS on 30 Meters HF ?? <>
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And Phil you know what,even after all the years that Roger is gone,his programm is still used all over. not that the others are not good but it is still one of the simplier too operate but Roger braught his code with him when he died as mention many times in the past so it cannot be updated,,,upgraded . now with those Windows version some have difficulties running it so i am still on XP (oh sacrilege ? ) and it works no1 but i have an UIDIGI node for degepeating . 73/s Phil Gervais ve2ckn ________________________________ De : [email protected] < [email protected]> de la part de Phil Zocco <n1bow@...> Envoy¨¦ : 19 avril 2020 16:37 ? : [email protected] < [email protected]> Objet : Re: [UI-View] It's Finally Happened! Precision Mapping Reg Server Shutdown !! Funny you guys mentioned this. When I started with UI-View way back when, I used Street Atlas 5.0 and made up all of the maps I would need. Since then, I have painstakingly made sure that I still have copies of those maps. Roger made a great program but like someone said here, it is an orphan with no one to step up and continue his work. I would love to upgrade to something easy (what is easy?) and install something new. The latest Street Atlas I have is from 2014. Anyway, that's my $0.02 for this thread. Carry on. 73, Phil N1BOW
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto: [email protected]] On Behalf Of Gervais Fillion Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2020 7:44 AM To: [email protected]Subject: Re: [UI-View] It's Finally Happened! Precision Mapping Reg Server Shutdown !! Bob can they be store on some FTP server so we could download? i dont know if Precision is still in business today??? 73 gervais ve2ckn ________________________________ De : [email protected] < [email protected]> de la part de Robert Bruninga <bruninga@...> Envoy¨¦ : 18 avril 2020 23:49 ? : [email protected] < [email protected]> Objet : Re: [UI-View] It's Finally Happened! Precision Mapping Reg Server Shutdown !! Preparing to retire, I found several original Precision Maping disks. Are they of any value now? Bob On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 6:46 PM WA8LMF via groups.io <wa8lmf= [email protected]> wrote: I went to activate yet another Precision Mapping 9.0 install for a rebuild
of
my APRS UI-Webserver setup (moving the whole setup to an SSD) and was
greeted
by this message at
<>
*Notice: The Registration Services provided through this site were
terminated
March 1, 2020.
*
I.e. it is now NOT POSSIBLE to activate Precision Mapping in the normal
way.
However there are work-arounds.
1) If you only want to use Precision Mapping 9 with UIview and the PMap
9
Server plugin (i.e. not use the program stand-alone outside of UIview
32), you
don't need to do anything. Even the "un-activated" Precision Mapping
database
will work inside UIview. Install Precision Mapping the usual way, but
ignore
the prompt to register the program the first time it is run. You can then
run
the PMap Data with UIview indefinitely.
2) The Windows Registry is the vast and inscrutable database that contains
information about everything ever added to the Windows system. It
includes
data and user preferences for every program on the system. It contains
data and
user settings about every piece of hardware installed on the system and
far
more. You see tiny excerpts of the Registry displayed to the user when
you
use the Windows Device Manager, Windows Scheduler, Sound Controls, etc.
Everytime, you install a program that requires a registration key or
activation
code, almost always the "magic numbers" you enter into the program are
stashed
away in the the Registry.
[A rare exception is UIview when you complete the setup by entering your
callsign, name and registration code during the first-time setup. UIview
stores
this info in the file "UIreg.bin" located in the program's own folder,
rather
than in the registry. However, the vast majority of Windows programs
stash
this kind of license data in the registry, often in encrypted format.]
For Precision Mapping 9.0, add the following lines to the Windows Registry:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\CtrlSoftM7]
"CLSID1309P"=""
Open a basic text editor like Windows Notepad or similar. Copy/paste
the
lines above into it. Save the file as something like "Pmap9.reg" . Be
sure
the file name does NOT have the normal extension .TXT. and ensure the
file
is saved in basic raw text format; i.e. not as a Word document or similar.
.REG files are basic text files, but have the "magical" property of being
treated differently by Windows. Double-clicking a file ending in .TXT
normally makes it open in Notepad or WordPad. Double-clicking a .REG file
causes Windows to try to add it to the Windows Registry. It will only
process
the entry, if it meets the exact structure shown above.
From the Windows File Explorer, RIGHT-click the file, and choose
"Merge...".
This reads the file entries into the Windows Registry.
Each time you start the stand-alone Precision Mapping, it will prompt to
register. Dismiss the prompt and continue with the program. This will
happen
indefinitely. This workaround works on all flavors of Windows from Windows
2000
to the latest Win 10.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---
**
|
So Stephen,
Which APRS software has the best mapping system that does not rely on the Internet?
Also is there any mapping software that will work with UI_View, again without the Internet
73,
John
--
This email has been checked for viruses by AVG.
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I have not used UI-View for a couple years or more due to not being able to get my Precision Map 8.0 to work on a new notebook when mine failed; think I ran into registration problems. UI-View was my favorite APRS program as it supported messaging very well for me which I have the most fun doing.
I was going to look into using . It used a program called Taho.exe to make maps. What I did not know was if tiles would be generated and saved on your PC like other Programs out there do so you do not have to be on the internet all the time to use your stored files. Using tiles the OSM maps other APRS programs use are scalable. So does Taho generate just static maps only was my question way back then???? I expected not and why I did not try using Taho.
Just thought I would throw this in incase it does provide stored tiles on your PC and supports scaling.
Jerry N7YGE
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-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto: [email protected]] On Behalf Of John Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2020 5:23 PM To: [email protected]Subject: Re: [UI-View] It's Finally Happened! Precision Mapping Reg Server Shutdown !! So Stephen, Which APRS software has the best mapping system that does not rely on the Internet? Also is there any mapping software that will work with UI_View, again without the Internet 73, John -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG.
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On 4/19/2020 8:22 PM, John wrote: So Stephen,
Which APRS software has the best mapping system that does not rely on the Internet? The majority of APRS software uses simple fixed? non-zooming non-scrolling bitmaps (i.e. fixed grids of pixels a.k.a. "pictures of maps") when used off-line.? To cover any significant area at a variety of magnifications (i.e. street level, city level, county level, state level, regional, national, etc, you have to store THOUSANDS? of overlapping pictures? at different resolutions. The fluid freely zoom-able, scroll-able views we have become accustomed to with MapPoint, Precision Mapping, Google Maps, Bing Maps, etc? are VECTOR-based image systems that store millions of coordinate pairs that represent the beginning & end of each street segment in a database.? These coordinates are used to draw line segments on-the-fly, as one scrolls and/or zooms over the map.? This is a process similar to stretching out a line in a CAD program, Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw.? The process is repeated thousands of times to draw all the street segments in the current view. All the streets in North America can be represented in about 1.5-2.5 GB of vector data. Storing the same area as fixed pixel grids (the equivalent of photos of maps) at say a dozen zoom levels from city streets to continental takes TERAbytes of data. Many programs let you view zoomable maps when connected to the Internet courtesy of Google Maps, Microsoft Bing or MapQuest. But when you save maps for off-line use, you are making? fixed a screen cap of the current view. The only current APRS program I am aware of that can do efficient vector-based off-line mapping is YAAC.? This program uses the Open Street Maps? database. ?? Most programs that use Open Streets data do so in the form of static bitmaps. ? For off-line use,? YAAC allows you to download as much or a little of the Open Streets database reformatted by the author into a scalable? vector format. ?? He has also cleaned up the awful default graphics of Open Streets; i.e. all route shields are the same "pill-capsule" outline that makes it impossible to tell the difference between an Interstate, an in-town Interstate business route, an old US highway, or a state route.?? YAAC's rendition of Open Street's data properly shows the red-white-and blue Interstate shield, the green business route shield, the black&white US highway shield, etc. ?? The one major disadvantage of YAAC is that it is written in Java, requiring you to install the hopelessly security-challenged Oracle Java runtime to use it on Windows.? At the same time, this is also an advantage -- the identical program can run on MacOS or various Linux flavors if their Java runtime is installed. Also is there any mapping software that will work with UI_View, again without the Internet NO.? We were privileged in North America, having the Precision Mapping Server plug-in and Precision Mapping.? The rest of the world has to put up with exclusively static fixed maps in UIview.?? However, Precision Mapping 9.0 is floating around the Internet on the Bit Torrent file sharing networks. As I pointed out in the first post of this thread, it can be made to work, even without Undertow's activation server. 73,
John
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On 4/19/2020 9:53 PM, Jerry N7YGE wrote:
I was going to look into using . It used a program called Taho.exe to make maps. What I did not know was if tiles would be generated and saved on your PC like other Programs out there do so you do not have to be on the internet all the time to use your stored files. Using tiles the OSM maps other APRS programs use are scalable. So does Taho generate just static maps only was my question way back then???? I expected not and why I did not try using Taho.
Just thought I would throw this in incase it does provide stored tiles on your PC and supports scaling.
Jerry N7YGE
The giveaway that this is no big deal is "tiles". ? This is just another screen cap system that takes a snapshot of the current OSM screen and saves it as a calibrated bitmap. Again, as described in my last post, this will require thousands and thousands of "snapshots" to cover any significant area at a variety of scales. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen H. Smith??? wa8lmf (at) aol.com Skype:??????? WA8LMF EchoLink:? Node #? 14400? [Think bottom of the 2-meter band] Home Page:????????? -----?? NEW!??? 60-Meter APRS!?? HF NVIS APRS Igate Now Operating ------ ?? <> Live Off-The-Air APRS Activity Maps ?? <> Long-Range APRS on 30 Meters HF ?? <>
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I was just thinking the other day, wonder if the registration still works. Thanks Stephen for a work around. I started UI-View on my desktop just in time for the local weather coming through SC tonight and in the morning. Pleased to hear the siren as the watches are posted in Georgia and SC!!! It works!!!! Love this program and thanks to Roger for writing it I I first used UI-View one week after his death. I remember the tribute in the ocean in his honor I've tried other programs but I keep coming back to this one. It has so much flexibility and the last detail maps are not needed for my uses. Thanks again to Stephen for keeping his pages alive on APRS and UI-View. Lastly I would be remiss if I didnt mention and honor the Father of APRS Bob W4APR, the day I found APRS-DOS. I was hooked!!!! Thank you for such a useful program and for some like me from keyboard packet a god-send. Enjoy retirement (I'm 3 years out from reaching it also) and stop by occassionally to let us know how your're doing.... 73 Lloyd KO4L On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 10:11 PM WA8LMF via groups.io <wa8lmf= [email protected]> wrote: On 4/19/2020 9:53 PM, Jerry N7YGE wrote:
I was going to look into using
. It used a
program called Taho.exe to make maps. What I did not know was if tiles
would be generated and saved on your PC like other Programs out there do so
you do not have to be on the internet all the time to use your stored
files. Using tiles the OSM maps other APRS programs use are scalable. So
does Taho generate just static maps only was my question way back then????
I expected not and why I did not try using Taho.
Just thought I would throw this in incase it does provide stored tiles
on your PC and supports scaling.
Jerry N7YGE
The giveaway that this is no big deal is "tiles". This is just another
screen
cap system that takes a snapshot of the current OSM screen and saves it as
a
calibrated bitmap.
Again, as described in my last post, this will require thousands and
thousands
of "snapshots" to cover any significant area at a variety of scales.
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Stephen H. Smith wa8lmf (at) aol.com
Skype: WA8LMF
EchoLink: Node # 14400 [Think bottom of the 2-meter band]
Home Page:
----- NEW! 60-Meter APRS! HF NVIS APRS Igate Now Operating ------
<>
Live Off-The-Air APRS Activity Maps
<>
Long-Range APRS on 30 Meters HF
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On 4/19/2020 9:53 PM, Jerry N7YGE wrote: I have not used UI-View for a couple years or more due to not being able to get my Precision Map 8.0 to work on a new notebook when mine failed; think I ran into registration problems. The "magic number" registration code required to activate Precision Mapping is based on a hash of your machine's WINDOWS serial number -AND- the serial number of the machine's hard disk. Changing either of these will break the activation code, forcing you to go through the online registration drill again.?? At least until this March when Undertow Software shut down the activation server at <>? . However, as I pointed out in my first post in this thread, there are workarounds for Precision Mapping 9.0 .? But not for earlier versions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen H. Smith??? wa8lmf (at) aol.com Skype:??????? WA8LMF EchoLink:? Node #? 14400? [Think bottom of the 2-meter band] Home Page:????????? -----?? NEW!??? 60-Meter APRS!?? HF NVIS APRS Igate Now Operating ------ ?? <> Live Off-The-Air APRS Activity Maps ?? <> Long-Range APRS on 30 Meters HF ?? <>
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Gervais,
I actually have it running on a Windows 10 motherboard. It is a DM2800MT which are available on eBay. Works very well.
Phil N1BOW
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-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto: [email protected]] On Behalf Of Gervais Fillion Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2020 7:47 PM To: [email protected]Subject: Re: [UI-View] It's Finally Happened! Precision Mapping Reg Server Shutdown !! And Phil you know what,even after all the years that Roger is gone,his programm is still used all over. not that the others are not good but it is still one of the simplier too operate but Roger braught his code with him when he died as mention many times in the past so it cannot be updated,,,upgraded . now with those Windows version some have difficulties running it so i am still on XP (oh sacrilege ?? ) and it works no1 but i have an UIDIGI node for degepeating . 73/s Phil Gervais ve2ckn ________________________________ De : [email protected] < [email protected]> de la part de Phil Zocco <n1bow@...> Envoy? : 19 avril 2020 16:37 ? : [email protected] < [email protected]> Objet : Re: [UI-View] It's Finally Happened! Precision Mapping Reg Server Shutdown !! Funny you guys mentioned this. When I started with UI-View way back when, I used Street Atlas 5.0 and made up all of the maps I would need. Since then, I have painstakingly made sure that I still have copies of those maps. Roger made a great program but like someone said here, it is an orphan with no one to step up and continue his work. I would love to upgrade to something easy (what is easy?) and install something new. The latest Street Atlas I have is from 2014. Anyway, that's my $0.02 for this thread. Carry on. 73, Phil N1BOW -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto: [email protected]] On Behalf Of Gervais Fillion Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2020 7:44 AM To: [email protected]Subject: Re: [UI-View] It's Finally Happened! Precision Mapping Reg Server Shutdown !! Bob can they be store on some FTP server so we could download? i dont know if Precision is still in business today??? 73 gervais ve2ckn ________________________________ De : [email protected] < [email protected]> de la part de Robert Bruninga <bruninga@...> Envoy? : 18 avril 2020 23:49 ? : [email protected] < [email protected]> Objet : Re: [UI-View] It's Finally Happened! Precision Mapping Reg Server Shutdown !! Preparing to retire, I found several original Precision Maping disks. Are they of any value now? Bob On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 6:46 PM WA8LMF via groups.io <wa8lmf= [email protected]> wrote: I went to activate yet another Precision Mapping 9.0 install for a rebuild
of
my APRS UI-Webserver setup (moving the whole setup to an SSD) and was
greeted
by this message at
<>
*Notice: The Registration Services provided through this site were
terminated
March 1, 2020.
*
I.e. it is now NOT POSSIBLE to activate Precision Mapping in the normal
way.
However there are work-arounds.
1) If you only want to use Precision Mapping 9 with UIview and the PMap
9
Server plugin (i.e. not use the program stand-alone outside of UIview
32), you
don't need to do anything. Even the "un-activated" Precision Mapping
database
will work inside UIview. Install Precision Mapping the usual way, but
ignore
the prompt to register the program the first time it is run. You can then
run
the PMap Data with UIview indefinitely.
2) The Windows Registry is the vast and inscrutable database that contains
information about everything ever added to the Windows system. It
includes
data and user preferences for every program on the system. It contains
data and
user settings about every piece of hardware installed on the system and
far
more. You see tiny excerpts of the Registry displayed to the user when
you
use the Windows Device Manager, Windows Scheduler, Sound Controls, etc.
Everytime, you install a program that requires a registration key or
activation
code, almost always the "magic numbers" you enter into the program are
stashed
away in the the Registry.
[A rare exception is UIview when you complete the setup by entering your
callsign, name and registration code during the first-time setup. UIview
stores
this info in the file "UIreg.bin" located in the program's own folder,
rather
than in the registry. However, the vast majority of Windows programs
stash
this kind of license data in the registry, often in encrypted format.]
For Precision Mapping 9.0, add the following lines to the Windows Registry:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\CtrlSoftM7]
"CLSID1309P"=""
Open a basic text editor like Windows Notepad or similar. Copy/paste
the
lines above into it. Save the file as something like "Pmap9.reg" . Be
sure
the file name does NOT have the normal extension .TXT. and ensure the
file
is saved in basic raw text format; i.e. not as a Word document or similar.
.REG files are basic text files, but have the "magical" property of being
treated differently by Windows. Double-clicking a file ending in .TXT
normally makes it open in Notepad or WordPad. Double-clicking a .REG file
causes Windows to try to add it to the Windows Registry. It will only
process
the entry, if it meets the exact structure shown above.
From the Windows File Explorer, RIGHT-click the file, and choose
"Merge...".
This reads the file entries into the Windows Registry.
Each time you start the stand-alone Precision Mapping, it will prompt to
register. Dismiss the prompt and continue with the program. This will
happen
indefinitely. This workaround works on all flavors of Windows from Windows
2000
to the latest Win 10.
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On 4/20/2020 10:56 AM, Phil Zocco wrote: Gervais,
I actually have it running on a Windows 10 motherboard. It is a DM2800MT which are available on eBay. Works very well.
Phil N1BOW Actually, there is no major problem running UIview on any version of Windows after XP. The key consideration for Win 7-8-10 (that has been posted many many times on this list) is to not blindly accept the proposed install location during the initial setup.? DO NOT install under the \Program Files location .? Instead, override the proposed path, and enter a location directly of the root of the drive, such as: ?? C:\UIview32 Also, Win 7-8-10 lack the "Winhelp.exe" help file "player" that make UIview's extensive help system inaccessible. ? Winhelp.exe can be restored to these later versions of Windows that lack it, by downloading and installing this file: <> Full details on? these issues and many others related to running UIview in the modern era are on my website at: ?? <> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen H. Smith??? wa8lmf (at) aol.com Skype:??????? WA8LMF EchoLink:? Node #? 14400? [Think bottom of the 2-meter band] Home Page:????????? -----?? NEW!??? 60-Meter APRS!?? HF NVIS APRS Igate Now Operating ------ ?? <> Live Off-The-Air APRS Activity Maps ?? <> Long-Range APRS on 30 Meters HF ?? <>
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Gervais Fillion
Jerry N7YGE
Lloyd KO4L