A Question on Oziexplorer

Hi, I am having a look at the Oziexplorer tool and have a couple of questions.

I have a copy of NATMAPS and am trying to use it with the OZI tool to plan a trip I want to make.

I will purchase the tool if I find it useful to do this. At the moment I currently don't have a GPS so may not get the full benefit of this tool.

I may be using this tool incorrectly and this is the base of my question.

I am finding it very difficult to plan a trip that goes over a large distance (Canberra to Proserpine area). I want to go the back way and take my time but because I can't get an over all view of where I am it is hard to plot the trip. I have an index map of Australia which helps but it is not good enough for what I want.

The tool that comes with NATMAPS seems automatically loads up the next map when navigating from place to place (Oziexplorer requires you to do this manually). But this tool does not allow you to put waypoints etc.

Perhaps Oziexplorer is not the right tool for what I want - I do not know, but it does appear to offer many good features but not the one I need (I think).

It would be nice if OZI kept another screen open which showed you where you were and allowed you to plot on this, drilling down to another map when you wanted more detail - or does it???

Also, I don't know if this is just the trial version of the product but I find the Cursor Zoom facility very unclear and hard to read (this may be the maps??? or my resolution - 800x600) - the Natmaps tool is able to display OK though.

Thanks in advance,
Richard