UBD Australian City Streets
Submitted: Sunday, Nov 13, 2005 at 19:11
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Pajman Pete (SA)
I was in the RAA the other day and say this package. Only $41 and it has electronic maps of
Adelaide,
Brisbane,
Canberra,
Melbourne,
Newcastle,
Perth,
Sydney and
Wollongong. You can read off Lat/Long or
Grid.
BUT. The maps are in some weird format called .CMP Has anyone seen this before? It would be nice to work out a way of importing the maps into OziExplorer.
You can export them a screen at a time and they can be referenced and work quite
well, but that would take a long time for
Sydney :-)
Thanks
Pete
Reply By: Topcat (WA) - Sunday, Nov 13, 2005 at 19:33
Sunday, Nov 13, 2005 at 19:33
They are map files which are acceptable to OziExplorer. Just copy them into your OziExplorer Map Directory. Cheers.
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Reply By: Mad Dog (Australia) - Sunday, Nov 13, 2005 at 20:37
Sunday, Nov 13, 2005 at 20:37
It would be nice but it's not possible Pete, the maps are in a special format. All that can be done is screen captures and stiching.
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Follow Up By: Topcat (WA) - Sunday, Nov 13, 2005 at 22:52
Sunday, Nov 13, 2005 at 22:52
I don't know what version of UBD Street Maps you are talking about but I have the 2005 version which has the .map conversion as part of the package which works
well with OziEplorer. Cheers
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Follow Up By: The Explorer - Sunday, Nov 13, 2005 at 23:17
Sunday, Nov 13, 2005 at 23:17
Topcat - do you have UBD or Streetsmart? I had a look at the UBD website and there is no mention of the "conversion" you speak of and in fact there is no 2005 edition mentioned either? I know Streetsmart maps can be imported into Ozi...is this what you are talking about?
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Greg
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Follow Up By: Topcat (WA) - Sunday, Nov 13, 2005 at 23:29
Sunday, Nov 13, 2005 at 23:29
Yeh. Correction mate.
Mine is a Streetsmart Version. But I do believe there is a Geotiff version out there. I think I saw it for sale on E-Bay a few months ago. Cheers
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Reply By: The Explorer - Sunday, Nov 13, 2005 at 23:16
Sunday, Nov 13, 2005 at 23:16
Topcat - do you have UBD or Streetsmart? I had a look at the UBD website and there is no mention of the "conversion" you speak of and in fact there is no 2005 edition mentioned either? I know Streetsmart maps can be imported into Ozi...is this what you are talking about?
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Greg
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Follow Up By: Blaze - Monday, Nov 14, 2005 at 00:01
Monday, Nov 14, 2005 at 00:01
Hi greg,
Any idea what website I can find Streetsmart software on and pricing etc. My other half would love to be able to find her way around the city.
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Follow Up By: The Explorer - Monday, Nov 14, 2005 at 16:45
Monday, Nov 14, 2005 at 16:45
Streetsmart
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Follow Up By: Pajman Pete (SA) - Tuesday, Nov 15, 2005 at 00:40
Tuesday, Nov 15, 2005 at 00:40
It is Version 2.1 which installs as "UBD on Disk 2005" and contains 2005 maps. Not a bad toy and I have already found it useful in
Adelaide and
Brisbane. Would have beennice to link it up to Ozi, but it was cheap and I'm having fun with it anyway!
Cheers
Pete
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Follow Up By: The Explorer - Tuesday, Nov 15, 2005 at 09:56
Tuesday, Nov 15, 2005 at 09:56
No worries - I have seen quite a few posts on the OziExplorer
forum enquiring about the compatability of UBD maps but as far as I know no one has come up with a way of converting them into a format that is useable (or gone to the trouble of doing screen captures and recalibrating "on mass"). UBD could no doubt do it if they wanted - I wonder what they have to say?. Some of the other commercially available streetmaps of the cities that can be used with OziExplorer are a bit expensive which lowers their appeal.
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Greg
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