Re: Mapping Software

[MacWheel99@xxxxxxx]

> From: barsa2@ibm.net (Al Barsa, Jr.)
>  
>  Hi,
>  
>  Does anyone know of software that runs on the AS/400 that does truck 
>  routing, and draws maps?

I worked for a short time at Sam Young Trucking in Northern Indiana in 1984 
... they were using an IBM S/34 at the time, which I am sure has since been 
upgraded.  There was a data base of distances on various interstate highways 
between points of I-whatever cross a state line & connect with another 
interstate or some major city.

This could be used to make reports to the ICC regarding mileage a truck was 
in different states in transit, and to help plot the shortest route between 
two points.  When some coordinates became important to us that were not in 
our data base, we dialed into a Rand McNally data base to get the info & 
there was a small financial ding for it, which we then added to our own data 
base for any future use.  This did not involve any maps & was all home brew 
software written in RPG.

I did see an article in an IBM publication many years ago, perhaps even 
decades, about mapping software used by utility companies to determine where 
to lay electric lines so as to avoid coming within certain distances of 
schools & other critical locations.  I have since seen that while most 
companies use Auto Cad for drawings, there is a great abundance of drawing 
software for various nitches that can have internal rules relevant to a 
particular industry.

Al Macintyre  ©¿©
http://www.cen-elec.com MIS Manager Programmer & Computer Janitor
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