Hi,

My name is Andy McKenzie, and I'm a UK based hydrogeologist.

My interest in Ozi is through using it as an aid to flight planning
for pleasure flights around the south of England. I keep a database
of
airports and navigation beacons, and use Ozi to plan routes and
subsequently upload them to a Garmin 12. After the flights I then
download the  track of the flight to Ozi, and see how good I was at
flying a straight line (usually not very!).



Andrew Mckenzie
Information Management Programme (Groundwater), BGS
+ (0)1491 69 2295 Fax - + (0)191 69 2345

I hope I've got the address right.  I am from upper New York state
(Adirondack mountains), and use Ozi with both a Garmin 12xl and a Magellan
tracker with Magellan DGPS unit on a backpack.  I use it for trail and
natural resource location mapping on timber/recreation  management
properties.  Ozi (especially the most recent versions) has a real advantage
for me in that I can map many trail segments as a complete system, but
either replace or edit only one as necessary.  The ability to show 30 tracks
while storing each seperately is critical to me.  The ability to visually
edit track points sould use some work, but at least there is some ability to
edit the occasional "flyer" in a track.

My big wish:  I wish someone would tell me how to translate Ozi track files
into ArcInfo shape files.  Some aspects of property management are conducted
by a contractor using ArcInfo, and it would be nice if I could include track
files (the trail systems) as data layers on an ArcInfo map of forest cover
types.

I'm a big Ozi fan - mostly due to great support from Des and company!

I have been canoeing in the Churchhill river and surronding watershed since
1987.  Nothing too adventurous, just paddling and fishing with my buddies.
You are right, N. Sask. is a piece of heaven here on earth.  Our trips use
to be like clockwork, every June, but with commitments to new families and
such we only seem to make it every other year.

I have read a couple of books on paddleing in the Barrens.  It sounds like
quite the adventure.  Keep in touch I would love to hear of your trip.  Do
you keep a log of your trips, and have you published them online anywhere?

Terry McMillan
mcmillant@...

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Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: [OziUsers-L] Introduction


> What part of northern SK is of interest to you? Is your interest canoeing
> orientated? The reason I ask is that we spent  2 months in '97 and '98
> paddling Reindeer Lake, and Nokomis/Oliver Lake.This summer we will be
> paddling on Bathurst Inlet in NWT/Nunavut...but certainly  northern
> Saskatchewan  is God's Country! Once the "BarrenGround bug"  shakes us
> loose, we hope to continue exploring the northern rivers and lakes of SK.
>
> Rich Dempsey
> ridem@...
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dawn & Terry McMillan" <mcmillant@...>
> To: <OziUsers-L@egroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 5:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [OziUsers-L] Introduction
>
>
> I did not know you did custom CD's.  I may be interested in maps for
> northern Saskatchewan, 73P/nn.  Do you have maps for this area?
>
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> > *If* you want maps near the US border, adjacent USGS quadrangles
> > usually show *some* detail in Canada too.
> > See: http://216.36.33.21/~mgreger/GIS/exchange.html
>
> Thanks Dave, I'll keep that in mind if I'm down near the border.

Of course, you're welcome to hike and boat in the US too  ;-)

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What part of northern SK is of interest to you? Is your interest canoeing
orientated? The reason I ask is that we spent  2 months in '97 and '98
paddling Reindeer Lake, and Nokomis/Oliver Lake.This summer we will be
paddling on Bathurst Inlet in NWT/Nunavut...but certainly  northern
Saskatchewan  is God's Country! Once the "BarrenGround bug"  shakes us
loose, we hope to continue exploring the northern rivers and lakes of SK.

Rich Dempsey
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----- Original Message -----
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To: <OziUsers-L@egroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 5:22 PM
Subject: Re: [OziUsers-L] Introduction


I did not know you did custom CD's.  I may be interested in maps for
northern Saskatchewan, 73P/nn.  Do you have maps for this area?

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From: Gordon Hamm

To: OziUsers-L@egroups.com

Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2000 8:50 PM

Subject: RE: [OziUsers-L] Introduction

Hi Terry,

As I mentioned in my introduction I produce Canadian topo maps under license from Natural Resources Canada, they can be purchased in Alberta through Mountain Equipment CO-OP and Maptown in Calgary, go to www.mapconnect.com to see what is available. I also do custom map cdroms, any 40 maps scale 1:50 000 price $165.00. All the maps are calibrated to be used with Oziexplorer. I can also send you a map index if you have further interest.

 

Gordon Hamm

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CANADA                                     GPS Mapping Software   
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Fax (250)334-1896
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-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2000 7:13 AM
To: OziUsers-L@egroups.com
Subject: [OziUsers-L] Introduction

Hi,

 

My name is Terry McMillan and I live in Alberta, Canada.  I am a computer professional and received my first and only GPS (Garmin 38) as a thank you from a client.

 

I use OZI as an expansion of the GPS and a general interest in maps.  Unlike our friends to the south in the USA it is not easy to get digital maps and have to pay for what is currently out there or scan your own.  So I also have the challenges of scanning and stitching maps.  Main uses are for fishing, camping , hiking and canoeing.

 

I have also dabbled into using my Palm to interface with the GPS.

 

Terry McMillan

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Thanks Dave, I'll keep that in mind if I'm down near the border.

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> > I use OZI as an expansion of the GPS and a general interest in maps.
> >  Unlike our friends to the south in the USA it is not easy to get
> > digital maps and have to pay for what is currently out there or scan
> > your own.  So I also have the challenges of scanning and stitching
> > maps.  Main uses are for fishing, camping , hiking and canoeing.
>
> *If* you want maps near the US border, adjacent USGS quadrangles usually
> show *some* detail in Canada too.
> See: http://216.36.33.21/~mgreger/GIS/exchange.html
>
> Dave Herzstein
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This mial is to introduce myself

I´m Pedro, from Argentina.
I use Ozi a lot during my trips, here in the country and overseas.

Here in Argentina we have a lot of oportunities to drive off road, or
almost, in many places at the Andes.
In such case I use a small laptop (Toshiba Libretto) running Ozi loaded with
satelite images. It shows me exactly where I am and also generates the track
for future maps.

I´ve done in last november a trip trough Bolivia, Peru, Brasil, up to
Manaos. Then by boat on Amazonas to Santarem and from there back south to
Argentina. 12000 km (8000 miles) in total. The tracks and maps that I used
are available for Ozi users.

Last month I made a trip to South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe. We passed
trough the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, south to north, from Kutse to
Maun.

In all my trips I carry the laptop and Ozi, doing moving map on line.

All maps, tracks and Wpts are available for exchange.

Pedro Gutovnik
gutovnik@...
Garmin GPSIII+
Eagle Map Guide Pro

Hi,
My name is Jon Blakely and I live in Auckland, New Zealand. I have
been using Oziexplorer now for several years and OziCE since Des
introduced it last year. I started off by scanning and stitching my
own charts but now that the latest beta version supports Maptech
charts I am now using these and saving them as .BMP for use in my
Sharp handheld PC. I use Ozi for navigation (along with paper charts)
when out racing or cruising in my 30ft yacht, which is most weekends.
I also use a program called JVComm32 on my home PC to download HF
weather faxes from a HF receiver and store them in my synchronised
file so that while I am away I can remotely synchronise my handheld
via a GSM phone and download the latest marine weather faxes.

Jon
jon.blakely@...

I downloaded a copy and am reviewing it now.  I think it would be useful
when people ask me how long it takes to traverse a section of trail.  I have
tracks for just about all of the trails around here.  It would nice to be
able to user control the speed scale on the left hand side of the screen.
When walking you do not go over 10 miles per hour but the scale I saw went
to 30 mph.  Overall looks pretty nice.

<Bill>

Brought to you from beautiful Unalaska/Dutch Harbor, Alaska.

----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2000 9:27 AM
Subject: [OziUsers-L] Some free software to try (no catch!!)...


> Hi all,
> Thought you guys might want to try some software I wrote for my own
> use. Reads in track plots generated from Ozi (as well as a small
> waypoint file you have to create) and displays the either the track
> on a blank map or a speed vs. time plot.
> Some features:
> - can animate track plot proportional to real time with...
> - moveable/changeable speedometer and clock display (unfortunately,
> speed has fairly large error due to time resolution in plot file)
> - can drag cursor between points (in either display mode to give
> average speed, delta time
> - drag a slider to move cursor around track to display local speed,
> time, distance from start
> - plots 9 waypoints on track plot or track breaks
> - track is interpolated for smooth animated display
>
> Nothing too clever, but useful for measuring trip times between
> points, etc. Animation is pretty cool (you can see the pause when you
> stop for a light, etc.)
> Large (2 megs) due to run-time engine (written in prog. similar to
> LavView). Just unzip and run install. Uninstalls cleanly.
> (Win95/98/NT)
> Anyway, give it a try and let me know what you think. I've asked for
> an email to release a password so I can see how many have downloaded
> it. Zip file and sample screenshots at
> http://www.playground.net/~rayp/gps.htm
>
> Cheers,
> Ray
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Hi perhaps we should set up an account with free drive or similar
venue to
exchange maps and charts useful with Ozi.
Cheers
     Oliver Fleming

Now the list is operative, I suggest that we can start a discussing
threat about suggestions to be included in Ozi, or things that it
needs to improve.
I would also ask the owner of this list to keep a summary of these
somewhere...

I'll start...
What do you think guys about the method Ozi to keep their files?. I
mean that I have to navigate through too many directories too many
times to eventually save my files.
I think this is not the most Window friendly feature of Ozi, and is
something needs to be improved

By the way, I made the following suggestion to Des:
1. Sometimes, I have found the labels in UTM format to be too tiny
when printing the maps, so you cannot read it. I ask Des to let us to
choose the most significant "numbers" for the printing, just as we
use to see in any map.

> I use OZI as an expansion of the GPS and a general interest in maps.
>  Unlike our friends to the south in the USA it is not easy to get
> digital maps and have to pay for what is currently out there or scan
> your own.  So I also have the challenges of scanning and stitching
> maps.  Main uses are for fishing, camping , hiking and canoeing.

*If* you want maps near the US border, adjacent USGS quadrangles usually
show *some* detail in Canada too.
See: http://216.36.33.21/~mgreger/GIS/exchange.html

Dave Herzstein
dherzstein@...
http://www.kjsl.com/~dave

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Hi all,
Thought you guys might want to try some software I wrote for my own
use. Reads in track plots generated from Ozi (as well as a small
waypoint file you have to create) and displays the either the track
on a blank map or a speed vs. time plot.
Some features:
- can animate track plot proportional to real time with...
- moveable/changeable speedometer and clock display (unfortunately,
speed has fairly large error due to time resolution in plot file)
- can drag cursor between points (in either display mode to give
average speed, delta time
- drag a slider to move cursor around track to display local speed,
time, distance from start
- plots 9 waypoints on track plot or track breaks
- track is interpolated for smooth animated display

Nothing too clever, but useful for measuring trip times between
points, etc. Animation is pretty cool (you can see the pause when you
stop for a light, etc.)
Large (2 megs) due to run-time engine (written in prog. similar to
LavView). Just unzip and run install. Uninstalls cleanly.
(Win95/98/NT)
Anyway, give it a try and let me know what you think. I've asked for
an email to release a password so I can see how many have downloaded
it. Zip file and sample screenshots at
http://www.playground.net/~rayp/gps.htm

Cheers,
Ray

--- In OziUsers-L@egroups.com, "Rob Thomas" <robt@r...> wrote:
> Hi
>
> On 12 May 00 at 11:44, Ray Perkins wrote:
> > In latest beta version of Ozi there is a regional map which I
can't
> > get to work, it just shows a blank square. I've tried selecting a
map
> > both larger and smaller than the loaded map - nothing. This is
> > in "regular" mode, not moving map mode. Any ideas?
>
> Ok, let's try a little diagnosis:
>
> What size is your map ? (km/miles)
> What size is your map ? (pixels x pixels)
> What image format are you using?
> Does this happen with only one map or all others as well?
> Have you checked the calibration of the map? Is your map not
possibly
> skewed in some way?
> Image corrupted?
> Does it work in moving map mode?
>
> I'm using a scanned map 27x24km, about 7000x6900 pixels TIFF and my
> regional map works (and scales) well.
>
> Regards
>
> Rob
>

Thanks, Rob.
When I got home I played around some and it seems Ozi does not
recognize BSB format maps for the regional window (BMP works fine,
and BSB work in the main and the small floating window). Same thing
in moving map mode. (BSB have 4 files associated with each map - BSB,
KAP (the large file), MAP and MV1.) I may write Des with this in case
he doesn't monitor this group.

Cheers,
Ray

Hi:
My name is Rich Dempsey, home in Wyoming USA, though I spend 9 months of the
year traveling ( medical contract work) the US.

I have a Garmin 12CX.I bought the GPS and registered Ozi expressly for  use
in planning and  route-finding on our summer canoe trips in the Canadian
Arctic and sub-arctic.This July/Aug we are headed for Bathurst Inlet for 7
weeks. I have used the software to develop waypoints of various island,
channels. and fresh water sources for use in fog or poor visibility. The
area  we will be in:  67'.08" N/ 106'.14" W is too close to the Magnetic NP
for compass reliability.

Hi,

H, I'm Dave Herzstein and live in California near San Francisco.  I'm a
Magellan GPS 315 user, but the main reason I purchased OziExplorer is for
map reading.  (With a cable modem connection at home I have have
downloaded many gigabytes of USGS topo maps  ;-)

Dave Herzstein
37.53573N 121.94092W
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My name is Gordon Hamm I live in Courtenay B.C. Canada, I produce
Canadian digital maps for a living. When I first started producing
digital maps I looked for a good gps mapping program to compliment my
maps and what I settled on was Oziexplorer, and I am now the Canadian
distributor. I have worked with Des to implement certain features in
the program.

You are welcome, Sir.
Estoy apagado porque trabajo muchas horas al día, pero te prometo que antes
de un mes tendrás el regalo de San Antonio.
Un cariñoso, respetuoso y agradecido abrazo.
Yo.

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> My name is Antonio, and I am glad to find this list. I will bet that this
> will have many subscribers soon.
> I live in Spain, and am a registered user of OziExplorer for a couple of
> years.
> I own a Lowrance GlobalMap 100, so I am also registered for OziMc
> I am also the webmaster of a page dealing with GPS (in spanish) you can
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Hi all!!
My name is Antonio, and I am glad to find this list. I will bet that this
will have many subscribers soon.
I live in Spain, and am a registered user of OziExplorer for a couple of
years.
I own a Lowrance GlobalMap 100, so I am also registered for OziMc
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My name is Bill:

I live on Unalaska Island which is a part of the Aleutian island
chain and the State of Alaska.  I like to sea kayak, camp, hike,
climb, snow shoe, and some skiing.  I use a Garmin 12.

I just started using OziExplorer and am finding the program to be
very useful.  Some of the things I am using it for are to mark the
locations of photographs I take, plotting trails, establishing
routes.  One of the things I plan to do if our snow ever melts is
walk and document with routes and photographs the old Aleut trails on
the island.

I am looking forward to participating in this group.

<Bill>

Hi,
I'm Kevin......I am a New Zealander who has been living in Australia
for the past six years.....I use a Magellan Colortrak with
Oziexplorer on a  Compaq Laptop.....I am into camping and 4 wheel
driving and about to move to Ireland and explore there for a while.

Hi,

My name is Philippe, and I work in Law.

I have a Mag 315, and use it for sailing, tourism and fun. Ozi is
very usefull, mainly, for the last version, to build and load -via
datasend- my own set of points of interest. I use scanned mad, or map
found in the web.

And i live in french part of Switzerland (sorry for my english ...)

Amitiés.

Ph.

Hi

On 12 May 00 at 11:44, Ray Perkins wrote:
> In latest beta version of Ozi there is a regional map which I can't
> get to work, it just shows a blank square. I've tried selecting a map
> both larger and smaller than the loaded map - nothing. This is
> in "regular" mode, not moving map mode. Any ideas?

Ok, let's try a little diagnosis:

What size is your map ? (km/miles)
What size is your map ? (pixels x pixels)
What image format are you using?
Does this happen with only one map or all others as well?
Have you checked the calibration of the map? Is your map not possibly
skewed in some way?
Image corrupted?
Does it work in moving map mode?

I'm using a scanned map 27x24km, about 7000x6900 pixels TIFF and my
regional map works (and scales) well.

Regards

Rob

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Hi all,
I asked Des this question and his suggestion didn't work, so I'll try
here...
In latest beta version of Ozi there is a regional map which I can't
get to work, it just shows a blank square. I've tried selecting a map
both larger and smaller than the loaded map - nothing. This is
in "regular" mode, not moving map mode. Any ideas?
I'll be posting a pointer to a program I wrote which this group might
find of use once I put the latest version on my home page. It plots a
track on a blank map (from Ozi track file) and is useful for figuring
distance between any two points, avg speed, time at any point, etc.

Cheers for now,
Ray (Garmin 12 [for now!])

Hi
My name is Rod I'm an engineer, part time cartographer and avid mountain
biker.
I recently produced a topographic trail map of the Ramapo Mountains for
Bergen Co. NJ USA.
I use a CASIO E-100 for my datalogger, using flash memory to store my OZI
maps. I use DeLorme's Earthmate, for post processing, and Garmin's 12XL, for
recording tracks.
Rod

Hi all

I suppose that I should start off with a small introduction now that
there are a few people on the list.

My name's Rob and I'm an alcoh....oops, wrong group! ;-)

Well, actually, my name *is* Rob and I'm the idiot who started the
group.

I'm a programmer by profession (or should that be by trade?) and a
mountaineer the rest of the time. I am rather strongly involved in
mountain search and rescue and that's where I developed my need for a
package which could be used for mapping purposes - to assist with
search management.

I've been using Ozi for about a year and can claim (i think) to be
the person responsible for at least one Ozi feature which Des
initially believed to be too specific to one use but appears to have
implemented anyhow.

We've actually been quite lucky: we (the SAR team) were donated a
stack of CD's containing all the 1:50 000 maps required to cover our
area: 64 CD's worth! So...now we can produce our own maps at any
given scale for any part of our area.

Oh...and I live in South Africa.

Who else is out there?

Regards

Rob

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