pointMapper Manual

For an introduction to PointMapper, see "what is PointMapper?" nearby.

Installation

PointMapper works when installed at a webserver, or on a local file system. As illustration, note that the maps in the pointMapper examples directory work locally: just point your browser at the index.html files of the examples after installing locally.

PointMapper is distributed as a compressed tarball: pointmappper-1.6.tar.gz. To install, unzip and untar in the directory of your choice:

cd <myinstall>
gzip -d pointmappper-1.6.tar.gz
tar xvf pointmapper-1.6.tar

This creates the following directory structure:

pointmapper
pointmapper/1.6   
pointmapper/examples
pointmapper/basemaps

PointMapper ships with a selection of world and US maps. Additional maps are available from the map catalog, and take the form of tarballs that should be untarred in the basemaps directory. For example: 

cd <myinstall>/pointmapper/basemaps
tar xvf sanfrancisco.0.tar

will add the files sanfrancisco.0.xml and sanfrancisco.0.swf to 

pointmapper/basemaps
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