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> 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 +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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