Ozi Explore & Natmap Help me please.

I'll give it a go if you are not in a big hurry. I should get down to Melb in next week or so for other things and happy to give you a hand.

Contact me on epv at virtual dot net dot au

In case you are that computer illiterate :) it is written in code so web spiders do not grab the address. at = @ dot =.

Isn't this great! Just what the Exploreoz idea is all about. Good on you.

roughly where in melbourne and what sort of gps
are you loading from cd or have you saved maps to hard drive

steve

If you get down Geelong way I can help, have nice warm home, beer and plently of food for a weekend oziexplorer brain jamb session. You can camp in the backyard or squeeze in the house. You just have to put up with a couple of gregarious little girls jumping all over you.

Give the GPS Australia forum a try www.gpsaustralia.net/ If they cannot help online I know that some of the members are from melbourne.

If you get lost and end up in South West WA I'll help out:)
Cheers
Greg

Pamnoel,
I also had a lot of dramas setting my Oziexplorer/NATMAP relationship. Despite all the questions on forums I finally went to the Oziexplorer website and found the directions on how to set it up.

If this is of any assistance go to:

www.oziexplorer.com

go to the link on the left side of the page "Australian Page" this will take you to the page that deals specifically with NATPAP.

then scroll down to the link "Using the maps with Oziexplorer"

This will take you to an area which you need to sort through and find the version of NATMAP you have. I followed the directions and it has worked fine ever since.

My tip is to copy and save all your NATMAP map files in a folder in the Oziexplorer folder under programs on your C drive. This negates the requirement to always carry the CDs with you.

Best of luck.

Wizard
Gold Coast

If you install both Natmap and OziExplorer as default settings, you should have no trouble.

Install Natmap first, preferably in the default "C" drive directory.
Install Ozi Explorer, then run the Napmap utility on the Ozi Installation CD.
This will tell Ozi exactly where to find the Natmap *.Map files and by default this is C:\NATMAP\......etc.
Only if you install Natmap on another Drive or partition, e.g. "D" drive and/or directory, do you need to change the settings within OziExplorer to tell it to look for that specific (non-default) place.

It really is that easy.

Thanks to everyone that has taken the time to answer it is greatly appreaciated I have someone coming up in the next few days to start me off and I will keep all instructions that have been sent by you guys and will keep up on the GPS Link when I get a bit more knowledgabel with the programs to see if I can link up the GPS and Computer in Pat the Patrol who knows I might even stop getting lost driving to Eildon By the way will this program show me where the Trout are hiding in the Lake and Pondage at Eildon as I shaw can't catch the smart little buggers very often. It's getting to the dynamit stage I swear. It was easier in the Navy when we lobbed a depth charge in on a Friday for the religious meal to be picked up by the AWB ( Action Working boat for yey land lubberrs) many a meal was enjoyed at the expence of you tax paying public. All in the name of drill practice of course. As you can tell Lucky for the crew I obviously wasn't the Navigator or we would still be in Nam trying to get out Vaung Tau. by the way which way is OZ from Nam East or West.
May all your problems be little ones so you can send them home with their mothers and fathers and leave us Grans to plot our next trip around OZ