Member - Doug T (W.A) posted:

Actually i have the Raster Satellite image map in there too and it works through Oziexplorer,I don't know how you have yours set up , if it works then fine, I was trying to give a help hint to some whose don't.While on the subject of maps Andrew , do you have the 3D map , if so is it worth buying.

Member - Andrew (QLD) posted:

sorry, din't mean to knock you.......

I have the Ozi3D, though i use it in conjunction with 1:12000 and 1:25000 aerial photographs and developing my own Digital Elevation Model with a 30m grid! Looks great :-) Unfortunately, i now tend to hit the 2,000,000 gridpoint limitation ;-)

If you have Ozi registered, then probably the only benefit you will gain from purchasing it is the lifting of the limitation of 100,000 points for the 3D grid. For example, using the free elevation data in conjuction with the free 1:250,000 topos from Geoscience Australia will allow me to produce a 3D model at the best setting of around 25km x 20km (500km2). Change the "Set 3D grid size in pixels" to the next highest resolution and you will have a 4 fold increase in coverage area due to the limitations. Obviously it depends of what Pixel Scale your digital maps are as to how the settings need to be massaged.

I would suggest that you download Ozi3D (trial version) and play with it, as there is a setting now under Ozi to download your elevation data automagically for free (good resolution for small scale maps, around 250m IIRC).

Andrew

Member - Andrew (QLD) posted:

I agree with your map management system in that each mapset should be in a seperate sub-directory to reflect the benefit of set the map file path under configuration.

From the help file for setting the map file path:

Map File Path - the Folder where the map (.map) files are kept. OziExplorer will always look in this folder and its subfolders for maps, the preferred choice is to create a folder called MAPS under the OziExplorer folder. You could the create subfolders under the MAPS folder to separate your maps into various categories. Even though you can open a map file from any folder the map find function and moving map "find next map" will look in the Map File path folder as the default.

Andrew