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Cartographic Symbolization and Design:
ARC/INFO Methods
The file map_amls.tar.gz contains Arc Macro
Language programs for release 7.0 of the
Environmental Research Institute's geographic
information system ARC/INFO that are designed to aid
in geographic data symbolization.
The file should be unpacked with the UNIX commands:
% gunzip
map_amls.tar.gz
% tar -xf map_amls.tar
The tar file will extract into a subdirectory
"cartography" in the current directory. The use of the
AMLs can be simplified by extracting the file in
$ARCHOME. Adding the line "&atool
$ARCHOME/cartography" to the appropriate
$ARCHOME/stations file (for X windows,
$ARCHOME/stations/stat_9999) will make the AMLs available
to all users on the system, after the &station AML
directive is given (this can be in $HOME/.arc to run
everytime Arc is started by an individual or in
$ARCHOME/startup/arc.aml, if one terminal type is always
used).
The AMLs that use system programs (jenks.aml and
eyton.aml) search $ARCHOME/cartography/bin for
executables; if no executable is found, then the system
path is used. In either case, the executables must be
compiled. This can be done on any system with a c
compiler (cc or gcc). Change into the cartography/bin
directory, edit the Makefile (the only line that may need
to be changed is the "CC =" line, it defaults to the GNU
c compiler, gcc), and type make. If make crashes over
'ranlib' (this will happen on Data General Aviions, which
do not have ranlib), copy the do-nothing shell script,
ranlib, to a $PATH directory. If the tools are installed
in and make is run in $ARCHOME/cartography/bin, nothing
else needs to be done. If not, then change the Makefile's
"SRCDIR =" and "TRGTDIR =" lines; the TRGTDIR must be in
the system PATH (set or setenv will show this) and make
should be run as "make install".
These AMLs are placed in the public domain, and support
is not (in general) available. Bugs can be reported to
the address below but, see the legal notice, and keep in
mind I have no way of testing any fix.
The AMLs and map design are discussed in Cartographic Symbolization and Design:
ARC/INFO Methods, which is in the file
map_guide.tar.gz as FileMaker 3
documents, and map_guide.ps.gz. The black and white
pages are separately available in bw_post.tar.gz. The color pages are
in the file color_post.tar.gz. These must be
unpacked with the same commands for the AML file.
The document is also available as in PDF format. The AMLs have been
modified more recently than the text, so there are
some differences in usage.