... My 0.02c ... Direct connect the inverter to the battery with heavy duty leads rated at least *twice* that of the max DC input. Most 12v utility sockets are...
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kiwino1@...
cqexpat
Sep 6, 2008 8:59 am
Just for the record, the nominal voltage of the battery is 12 V, but the car is actually running on 13.6 V when the engine is running because it charges the...
32736
kiwino1@...
cqexpat
Sep 6, 2008 9:13 am
Suggest you measure the voltage drop from the battery to the inverter at the power you want to use the inverter at. Put one meter connector on the plus...
32737
on6ab
Sep 6, 2008 8:14 pm
I use OziExplorer for several years now on my sailboat, compared it to many others and always come back to it despite of the fact it has no on screen wind...
32738
David Read
davidreadau
Sep 6, 2008 10:05 pm
Suggest it to Des ..... info@... Cheers Dave South Oz...
32739
egdlym
Sep 7, 2008 7:56 am
Thanks for the two inputs, chaps. I used ozie mapmerge 1.05 beta to merge tiles downloaded from ICC website. The pale purple frontiers can be seen on the...
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Teppo
tepporapo
Sep 7, 2008 8:57 am
I have lost coulour from large merged maps as well. They were OZF2's that I merged... colour lost during merge operation is true some times. I tried to merge a...
32741
egdlym
Sep 7, 2008 4:54 pm
The number of colours set in my mapmerge config is 256, which is the max it will do. Does this mean 256 shades of Red, 256 of Green etc? Usually that is...
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Dave Patton
canadadcp
Sep 7, 2008 5:27 pm
... No. 256 totals colors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indexed_color ... Take a look at one of the input images in a graphics program such as IrfanView that ...
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rwcx183
Sep 7, 2008 7:55 pm
... Richard, 256 colors means 256 unique RGB combinations. This is generally known as a color palette. In most cases, the 256 colors in the palette are out...
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egdlym
Sep 8, 2008 4:52 pm
Thanks J.G. and others. Is it possible in mapmerge to select the specific tints which have been lost? I would like to get the frontiers back, in pale purple, ...
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richard877rme
Sep 8, 2008 7:53 pm
... I, too, merge the maps downloaded from the ICC in Catalunya Spain. I always use the same, basic, default settings. When I merge a lot of maps and I have...
32746
rwcx183
Sep 9, 2008 2:11 am
... in ... or ... Richard, I'm not aware of any way to choose which specific colors that MapMerge uses in the merged map image. You can of course, choose the ...
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kiwino1@...
cqexpat
Sep 9, 2008 2:24 am
If you download these on-line maps from the Internet that saves in a whole heap of small square pieces, you can actually use programs as Photoshop to merge...
32748
bon_go1000
Sep 9, 2008 6:24 am
... you can preprocess your maps using a graphics software (like photoshop). so you can define color ranges to be replaced by a single color, i.e. similar...
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Dennis Pogson
dennispogson
Sep 9, 2008 7:41 am
Programs such as Paintshop Pro's earlier versions have the facility to reduce the number of colors, edit the palette, and save the palette to apply it to...
32750
rwcx183
Sep 9, 2008 2:17 pm
... to reduce the number of colors, edit the palette, and save the palette to apply it to another map. You can reduce all the map images to 256 colors, load...
32751
Ed
jungle_ghost...
Sep 9, 2008 5:57 pm
I have a question. I just purchased a new SD/MMC card .. more space. On the original card I had CeExplorer Version 2.0. I took the new card and copied my old...
32752
egdlym
Sep 10, 2008 10:18 pm
Thanks for all the suggestions. I have Paint shop pro version 5 and didnt know it could handle sid format. Seems a bit of hassle converting sid to anything...
32753
Dennis Pogson
dennispogson
Sep 11, 2008 7:44 am
The "hastle" consists of hitting the Prt Scr key once whilst the .sid image is on screen. This coverts it to a bitmap which PSP can open and convert to most...
32754
Dave Patton
canadadcp
Sep 11, 2008 1:35 pm
... There is nothing inherently 'wrong' with using the MrSID image format for georeferenced images. Some MrSID images may have poor georeferencing information,...
32755
rwcx183
Sep 11, 2008 2:11 pm
... Done correctly, there is no actual, or even potential loss of accuracy, as the very same .sdw file used to georeference the MrSID image, can also be used...
32756
Teppo
tepporapo
Sep 11, 2008 7:40 pm
I have all my maps in ozf2 format and merging by PSP or so is ouf of the question (lazy). Just to clarify, this is what I mean by loss of colours: ...
32757
Dave Patton
canadadcp
Sep 11, 2008 8:38 pm
... Can't really tell, because we would at a minimum need to look at the original image, but your 'colorloss.jpg' image has 163716 unique colors (out of the...
32758
Teppo
tepporapo
Sep 11, 2008 8:41 pm
So, even if the map is *.ozf2 format it does not mean that it is 256 color image, I thought so.......
32759
Dave Patton
canadadcp
Sep 11, 2008 9:42 pm
... No, that's not what I said, nor implied. You can take a true black and white image (i.e a 2-color image) and display it in any number of programs, take a...
32760
redback20001
Sep 12, 2008 4:29 am
Hello All. Can anyone please tell me of any Maps of Victoria Australia for OziExplorer that are about the next size up from a street Directory? I am trying to...
32761
Michael
m_p_sutton
Sep 12, 2008 8:39 am
308 maps covering 30km x 30km each, at a scale of roughly 6m/pixel. They're in ozf2 format, so ready for use on a PDA. There's 1.6Gb in total, approx...
32762
kiwino1@...
cqexpat
Sep 12, 2008 11:43 pm
Just for info. This site is doing the same as the communists in China. They block you if you are outside Australia. I can't get into it, can anyone copy it to...
32763
Pom
alanmdavison
Sep 13, 2008 2:16 am
I am downloading the files at the moment (1.6GB) via a torrent if and when done I will advise pom...
