Oziexplorer mapping programme

Hello Barnray

Thanks for helping mate, however I have since scanned the port & entered the info but still no position indicated where to from here.

G'day res.q.guy

I found your suggestion helpful & followed the advice however still no joy.
It has to be something small that were missing must be surely 99.5% there.
Any other suggestions.

Thanking you

Hello olcoolone

Your handle does it mean that you use old cologne mate.
In answer to your question no I have no little lights at bottom left of screen.

Goto www.smartersafety.com.au and scroll down to OziExplorer Help tab - Might answer lots of questions. Good luck, the grief will be worth it

Gday grinner & mad dog

Grinner I followed up on your suggestion regarding Gps info did the scan got the info & inserted it. You mentioned getting a sat fix well I was inside at the time but a swag of numbers like binary notation scrolled through. I then went outside led on mouse began to flash but still no cigar.

Surely there cant be anything wrong with the mouse.

Mad dog I will check that site out and let you know how it goes thanks for your help.

Hi madog

I checked on the smarter safety site and it proved very helpful.
I now can view the sat / position info and also get my ground position but not on the map only in the sat info box. I am using the correct map.

Your thoughts please

George,

Do you have Moving Map switched on?

Moving Map / Moving Map Control / Start

Dear Madog

I followed up your suggestion of utililising moving map / moving map control & start. I had looked at it before but not had a result because of an idiosyncrasy with its layout. However this time I got results on the world map of oziexplorer even had moving map & flashing map show up at bottom left hand corner of screen so it does work.

However it all comes to a halt when I exit world map & start up on the local area map which is hema 4wd because the moving map toolbar isnt available on these maps.

The idiosyncrasy I mentioned is when you click on start in moving map control box. Start disappears & stop appears & then the position arrow displays.
If you hit stop & get start the arrow goes away so the show of stop means things will work which seems a little silly.

The other strange thing is when your on moving map control box & you click on those other little yellow boxes for a more detailed map it says unavailable.
So how can I go from the world map site on oziexplorer to the other maps without losing my position arrow.

Getting very close now just need a little more of a push. I am most obliged to you mate & Ill make it up to you for your help so most appreciated.

George

If it can't find a more detailed map than the world map, it sounds like it doesn't know where the maps are.

Under File - Configuration - map images:- make sure the path to the maps is correct.

George,

You are moving forward, just got to manage the odd speed hump mate, and don't worry we all have them when starting out.

If you hit stop & get start the arrow goes away so the show of stop means things will work which seems a little silly......yep, bit like hitting Start to shut down in Windows.

I reckon LexM has nailed it with the map file paths -check my OziExplorer Help Page for notes on setting up your File / Configuration.

G"day Madog

I seem to have ground to a halt. Ive looked at the map file path, tried a few things but nothing worked.

I just not sure of what it wants in those 4 spaces in file paths. Its almost certain that there is where the problem lies. I have the hema australia 4wd raster map collection installed but it wont communicate with oziexplorer because the hema maps arent in the same file, how do I discover what details of oziexplorers world map file name is.

Once again thanks

George
When you copied the maps to your PC, did the CD/DVD have .map files as well as image file i.e. .ecw or .ozfx3.

If you havent copied over the .map files, then Ozi wont be able to use them in Moving Map.

Laurie

Further to what Zebra400 said.

If you have the .ecw files with no .map files then you have to do :-

File - import map - ecw maps

G'day Lex

Thanks 4 ur help mate and also to Laurie, Roger, Olcoolone, Grinner, Resqguy ,Banray plus anyone else Ive missed. Your all tremendous people and I wouldnt have succeeded without your help.

I tried to follow all the advice as best I could but this sunday I hit load on the world map and down come the menu as before nothing happened I tapped the screen to remove the menu and wella world map vanished to be replaced by a local map . I jumped in the car drove some kays locally and everything went along nicely.

I was beginning to think the whole thing was going to drag on longer then the Blue Hills radio serial. Now I vaguely remember something in the vast repositry saying first time round you had to load maps and then on it would happen all by itself.

Once again thank you all
George