Re: Obtaining digital maps for OziExplorer


"GSV Three Minds in a Can" <GSV@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have Anquet, I like it, but currently it doesn't allow me to connect
to my Garmin 60CSx despite claiming to do so (this also includes the
latest version to date standing at 6.08). A royal pain since I've
spent many hours planning and saving routes within Anquet before trying
the GPS connection. To be fair support are useful, they answered my
questions in a day or so (basically saying that they're working on it).
However I need to download routes to my GPS asap so I'm now looking at
OziExplorer. From what I can see no maps are supplied with Ozi, it
works with our own scanned/digital maps. No problem with that. So my
question is, I'm wondering if it's possible to extract the digital maps
from my copy of Anquet to be used in Ozi (i.e. rather than printing the
screen which wont allow me to cover a large area)?

The easy way is to print the screen (or rather use the print map function,
which Anquet probably has) to a 'virtual printer' (ISTR there's a free
trial one called 'fineprint' or something - google for it). That allows
you to print at 4000 dpi or something daft, capture it as a .jpg or
whatever, and then route it around to Ozi.

Frankly too much larger tiles and Ozi will never finish loading them
anyway (and Ozi has nice functions to move to adjoining map segments, plus
you can join maps together with the free Ozi utility - as long as you
never want to use them in some other program).

--
GSV Three Minds in a Can
Failed to parity check ...
Global warning, you were to give them some global warning, you dumb drone!

Using tiff files in Oziexplorer is one way of having large files with no
problems of speed of loading. Using a 330meg file of the Lake District. From
hitting load map, map available in about two (2) seconds. The biggest
problem was in stitching the tiles together in Photoshop to get the original
map. That map then prepared in Oziexplorer's Img2ozf.

Mike Mason


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