Drawing lines on charts/maps .....

Auntie Podes,

The answer will be found in opening the map image file, not the .map file and creating a line on that map. However, you're indicating you have tried this with a drawing program and it won't work.

Can you let us know what drawing app you have tried and someone with knowledge of how to draw a line in an image will be able to help.

On OSX, the free Preview app does this easily and you simply re-save the file as PDF, PNG, JPG or TIFF as you wish. No idea about PC applications, but assume they have something similar. If you save the map image file to a different name or format, you will have to recalibrate it when you import it back into Ozi. If you keep the file name and type the same, it should work fine.

Tim

Wouldn't the start line be relaid for each race to allow for wind direction?

Hello

Two ways you could do this without modifing the actual image.

Create a track file of the lines you wish to diplay in Ozi and save it, then use "File - check calibration of map". In the Options section you can load a track file and then save the calibration file (*.map) which will then load the track file everytime that map file is opened.

Other way is to create a project in OziExplorer (use Options - Project Manager). With this function you can associate map and tracks (and waypoints etc) together as a "project" and then when you open the project all files are loaded together.

Read the help file for more specific instructions.

Cheers
Greg

Can't remember the details but pretty sure you can use the Project Manager function in Oziex to load Tracks, Map features, lines etc etc every time you load a particular map.