Over the 10 years since Panorama first appeared, the world has changed.
As a result many of the country borders no longer make sense.

In version 1.14 there is a new point database, licenced from Versamap (who
sell similar software to Panorama for Windows). http://www.versamap.com.
Full details are given below. I'd like to thank Charles Culberson of
Versamap for his help, and Rodney West for finding the new database.

Version 1.13 (which was never released) had some changes made by Paul Skirrow.
Again the details are given below.

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Version 1.13

1. Grid lines are now plotted every 10 rather than every 15.

2. All lines in the output file have a round join which means you can make
them very thick without making them go spikey (and you dont need to set
the join type yourself either).

3. You can specify your own blob sizes in the city file by using negative
numbers representing the blob  size in units of 0.1mm. For example:

     57.13  -2.09  -10  Blob
     52.0    1.13  -20  Ipswich

Blob will be indicated by a 1mm circle while Ipswich will be indicated by
a 2mm circle, regardless of  the Detail setting, but you must still enable
cities in the Select menu

Notes on Designing Coastlines

You can save the Draw file from Panorama directly into Artworks. It may
complain about the wrong text length but you can safely tell it to
continue and it will work.

In Artworks you can select the coastline, clone it and change the line
thickness and colour to add a dark blue coastline beside the land.

This works very well for Britain, but some places like Africa are divided
into separate countries where each country has its own coastline.  You
can join the two coastline segments either by selecting them and choosing
Join shapes or by zooming in and dragging the end point of one segment
over the end point of its neighbour.

Paul Skirrow,

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The Versamap Micro World Database was derived from Micro World Data Bank II,
a digital map database containing 179,000 points, placed in the public
domain by Fred Pospeschil and Antonio Riveria.  Micro World Data Bank II was
itself derived from World Data Bank II, a much larger digital map database,
containing 6 million points, developed by the Central Intelligence Agency.


Enhancements to version 2.01 include:

1)     Added 290 new islands.  Database now contains all islands with areas
       > 1,000 square miles (2,590 square km).

2)     Added 11 new lakes and lagoons.

3)     Added the Panama and Suez Canals.  The Suez Canal, including the
       Great Bitter Lake was added to the coastline.  The Panama Canal was added as
       a lake, Gatun Lake, plus 2 rivers representing the locks at either end of
       the lake.

4)     Corrected the Australian coastline between Cape Jaffa and the Murray
       River.

5)     Corrected the Bangladesh coastline at the mouth of the Ganges River.

6)     Corrected the Netherlands coastline at the Meuse estuary.


Enhancements to version 2.00 include:

1)     Added over 100 new islands.  Database now contains most oceanic
       islands with areas > 50 square miles (130 square km).

2)     Added over 40 new lakes. Database now contains all lakes with areas
       > 720 square miles (1865 square km).

3)     Added political boundaries for Hong Kong and Macao.

4)     Corrected the Australian coastline at Murray River mouth.

5)     Improved boundaries for the lower reaches of the Ganges and
Brahmaputra Rivers.

6)     Added polyline breaks where coastline and island boundaries crossed
       180 longitude.  No polylines in version 2.00 cross 180 longitude.


Enhancements to version 1.50 include:

1)     Boundaries for Eritrea, Slovakia, Croatia, Bosnia-Hercegovina,
       Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia, taken from Relational World Data Bank II,
       version 2.3.

2)     All islands smaller than Greenland were removed from the Coastline
       category, and placed in the Island category

3)     Boundaries for the following islands in the Caribbean Sea, taken from
       World Data Bank II.

       Margarita, St. Lucia, Curacao, Barbados, St. Vincent, Grenada, Bonaire,
       Antigua, La Tortuga, Grand Cayman, Aruba, St. Kitts, Barbuda, Marine
       Galante, Nevis, Montserrat.

4)     Boundaries for Lakes Albert and Chad in Africa, taken from World Data Bank II.


Enhancements to version 1.30 include:

1)     Canadian Provinces taken from World Data Bank II.
    
2)     Australian States taken from the Digital Chart of the World.

3)     Boundaries for the following countries that formed from the Soviet
       Union, taken from the Digital Chart of the World.

       Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia,
       Lithuania, Georgia, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan.

4)     Improved boundaries for Israel.

5)     Improved political boundaries in the southern Arabian Peninsula.  The
       original borders for southern Arabia in Micro World Data Bank II were
       deleted and replaced by borders taken from World Data Bank II, except for
       the border between Oman and the United Arab Emirates at the Strait of Hormuz
       which was taken from the Digital Chart of the World.  The border between
       North and South Yemen was removed.

6)     Removed the border between East and West Germany, and the air
       corridors to West Berlin that were in the U.S. State file.

7)     Points were added to the database so that, at the highest level of
       detail, no points were more than 32 nautical miles apart.

8)     Additional data from World Data Bank II was added to the following
       regions to correct missing or bad points in Micro World Data Bank II:

a)     the coastline of Northwest Spain near El Ferrol was corrected;

b)     added points for the Rhine River and the Bodensee along the boundary
       between Germany and Switzerland;

c)     added missing portion of the Dnieper River in the Ukraine;

d)     corrected the data for the Koylma River in Siberia;

e)     added detail to the Blue Nile, to the Senegal River, to the Nelson
       River in Canada, to Falcon Reservoir on the Texas_Mexico border, and to the
       Columbia River.

f)     corrected the coast of China near Hong Kong.


2.     Additional maps

Boundaries between Scotland and England and between Wales and
England, taken from the Digital Chart of the World

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