Re: Obtaining digital maps for OziExplorer

Mike Mason wrote:


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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.

PDF creator http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ has a print to
image file option.

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).

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.

Ozi will page those formats that permit it, TIFF is one of those, so
it just loads the bit it needs. Much better is Ozi's proprietary
format Ozf2 or Ozf3. You mention the Img2ozf program which will
convert images to an Ozf2 file which will permit Ozi to produce neat
zooms and thumbnails. It can also reduce the number of colours or
image size to help make the file smaller.

Ozf3 is the output of Ozi's map merge utility which is handy for
merging maps where the adjioning sheets can't simply be stitched
together as you can with OS maps. IIRC Ozf3 maps have a print size
limit but Ozf2 don't.

If you want to get a map image out of Ozf2 it can be done but only as
a b&w or colour png or bmp. Img2ozf and map merge should load any size
image. The limiting factors are time, memory or disk space.
--
Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks"
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