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SA Map Grabber For UI-View32

SA Map Grabber allows you to easily create maps for UI-View32 from the DeLorme Street Atlas.

When you run SA Map Grabber, Street Atlas should automatically start and display the default view of the whole of the USA. You can then select the area for which you want to create a map in Street Atlas. SA Map Grabber will float on top of Street Atlas, but you can minimize it if it gets in the way.

When you have selected the required map in Street Atlas, input a description in  SA Map Grabber. If you wish, you can input a more meaningful file name than the default MAP0001, MAP0002, etc, so you can easily identify your maps in Explorer.

Press the Grab button, the displayed map in Street Atlas will be automatically saved in your UI-View32 Maps folder, and a suitable INF file created.

If you are using UI-View32 V1.35 or earlier, then any maps you create won't be available in the "Load A Map" list until you restart UI-View32. Later versions of UI-View32 have a "Refresh Map List" option on the Map menu.

By default, SA Map Grabber saves the maps as Portable Network Graphics (PNG) files. This fomat produces much smaller files than BMP, but it can only be used by UI-View32 V1.68 or later and UI-View(16) V2.40 or later. For use with earlier versions of UI-View32 or UI-View(16), you should select BMP on the Format menu.

Hint

If you hide the tool bars and the status bar in Street Atlas, you will maximize the map area. You may also wish to create maps at a higher screen resolution than you normally use in order to make the maps as large as possible.

Street Atlas Versions

This version of SAGrab should work ok with Street Atlas V4, V5, V6, V7, V8 and V9. It will not work with any of the new style versions of Street Atlas, e.g. Street Atlas Deluxe, Street Atlas 2002 and Street Atlas 2003. These programs have a completely different structure to the old versions of Street Atlas. Even if it was possible to work out the format of the saved map files (Delorme do not publish it), it is impossible for an external program to feed in key strokes, which the Map Grabber needs to do.