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Hi George.

To set a Route your first create all the Waypoints you want - maybe the towns you are travelling though and other points such as important intersections or points of interest. I treat this process as one of the delights of trip planning.

Create a Route and add the desired waypoints to the Route and you're in business.

If you haven't used Oziexplorer much, I suggest you read the tutorials and work your way through all the options. For example, you may need to turn on the option to display the route on the map. Don't forget to save the data you create.

Hope this assists. Cheers

Hello - easiest way, in the example you provide, would be to use this program

Google Map directions to GPX File

Follow the simple instructions on this page regarding loading the "link" so that it appears as a bookmark or favourite in your web browser.

Once you have done this open Google Maps and "Get Directions". When you are happy with the route it has chosen for you click on the GMaptoGPX link you installed previously as a bookmark/favourite and the information from google maps will be extracted and appear on the screen as text.

To create a track file from the data click on the track icon - copy and paste all the text displayed to a blank text file in notepad and save as Nameofyourchoice.gpx

Save the file - you can then import this into OziExplorer using Load - Import GPX file. The track will appear on you map. If you are using this track in moving map as a guide, move it down from position 1 to position 2 etc using the track control (read Ozi Help file). If you are using OziCe load it using the Track toolbar.

To create Waypoints for route creation go back to the GMaptoGPX page and click on points. As before, copy and paste the data into notepad, save as *.gpx and load into OziExplorer. You can then, using oziExplorer create a route using the waypoints (read Ozi Help file).

The GMaptoGPX program can create a "route" from google maps but it doesnt seem to be of a type that OziExplorer reads...but hard work doene for you if you get the waypoints and the track file as described anyway.

This may sound complicated but its actually very easy and only takes a minute of two once you do it a few times.

Cheers
Greg

George,

Briefly, just to get you started:

To set up a route,

First, create a string of waypoints, one at every major change of direction. To create waypoints, click the " 1 wpt" symbol in the topline bar. Mouse to the required place and click, move click etc. (To move the map click and drag as usual, but don't click without dragging, or you'll create an unintended waypoint.) Turn off the waypoint facility by clicking the " 1 wpt " button again. To remove an unwanted waypoint, with the waypoint function turned off, mouse to the unwanted waypoint and RIGHT click to reach the delete function.

Second, link the required waypoints with a route. To do this - click the "show/hide Route Editor" button (hand with pencil in the top line) and the editor window appears. Select any Route (R1 etc) in the editor window and double click to display the "Route Properties" box. Here you will have a list on the left hand side (LHS) of all the waypoints you created previously. You need to create a list, in the required order, in the right hand column. Click in the LHS column and click "ADD", again and again.... (You can also select a block in the usual windows way and add the block.) You can also remove waypoints from the RHS by selecting ( click) and using the BLACK "X" button.

When you've got this far, click the "OK" button. To see your route, click the "show" button in the top row. You can continue editing, create more waypoints and insert them for a more detailed route. Importantly - once you've created a route, you can remove waypoints from it, but don't delete any till you've read up on what the "relink" button does!

Note that towards the top right on the Ozi screen is a string of buttons including "waypoint" and "route" which are highlighted - this is a warning that you have unsaved waypoint and route data. Clicking these will save your data.

This is a very simplified description just to help you get started. As said above, read the Ozi tutorial - Ozi is very powerful, and fortunately has extensive help.

Once you've set it up with a gps on a laptop (or similar) it can display both your route (a route is the planned travel) and also the actual travel (a plot) as you drive.

It's not easy to get into, but worth every minute of effort.

Cheers

John