Converting Map files

Why? Er...dont really know to be honest.
I think it was on the oziexplorer website where I was put on to it.

Depends on your PDA. I think it's only the PDAs with ARM cpus that can use ECW files in Oziexplorer. I know mine can, but it's an 'ancient' PDA

Hairy,
I made the same mistake. As said above, when you save the map in teh viewer, I adjust the view to a practical size and this will take practice as to what is a good size, I then use "Save Current view", when Natmap Viewer asks select the pulldown and choose .ECW and point it to you Ozi map folder on your PC. Once the process is complete, and the said size will govern the time taken for this, open Ozi on your PC and select File>>Import Map and select ECW. Ozi will ask for the folder in which you placed teh .ECW. Once the import is complete you can navigate back to the Ozi Map folder and you will notice that there is now a .MAP file with teh same name as teh .ECW file. You need to drop both of these files onto your Pocket PC.

Hope this helps. Give me a yell if any probs.

Toytruck

I seem to have a problem typing THE:-)

Thanks for that! Ill have a bit of play.

For a while there I thought "teh" was some sort of file type! LMAO!!

Cheers

Nope,
just me.........and I haven't even had a Sunday refreshment yet......

Toytruck

Bin there. Now I got the latest premium Natmap and it come with six moaic maps one for each zone. Also one mosaic of entire continent but I think the accuracy falls of too much.

I loaded the entire thing and dropped the sat maps to save room on the drive. I think I will drop the lot except the six mosaics for that reason. I can play with the other maps on the desktop if I want to.

There is a useful looking 20m map with all the main roads too.

I read mention of someone using a 12" screen with a laptop so I will be looking for one soon. My Yvonne dont like the laptop sitting on her knees all day so I gotta do something.

Owen

Interesting. I managed to convert to ozf2 format a couple of years back for use in a friends PDA that could not utilise the ECW format.
Total size with reduced colours (64) and 50% size - 620,011,842 bytes.

Neville

Yes - comments on their website are confusing. They say "Mosaic map is too big to convert" .....but then they say.."it will be too big when converted".

Interpretation - you can convert it but file will be too big to use in OziCe as it has file size limitations. Solution - do what you did and reduce colours and/or image size to make resulting OZF3 file of an acceptable size (or buy new PDA). No idea why they don't suggest reducing file size as an option on the website - their comments are a bit misleading.

Cheers
Greg