OziExplorer can display up to 30 different tracks on a map. When you do this, you indicate calibration points (reference points with known latitude and longitude) on the map so that OziExplorer knows where the map is and can calculate GPS related data.įigure 1 shows two different trails (or tracks) on it, one in blue, the other in green. TIFF format, and load it into OziExplorer. What does this mean to you? You simply load the map from the CD and it is ready to use…no muss, no fuss! You can even scan a map on your home scanner, save it in. What makes these CDs so easy to use is that all of these topos come with the necessary data files that OziExplorer reads so that it can auto-calibrate each map. There are a couple of 1:100,000 scale maps and a 1:250,000 scale map on each CD too. Each 1° x 1° USGS CD has 64 of these 7.5′ topo maps on them, which make up a grid of 8×8 maps.
The main screen is displaying a portion of a 7.5′ quadrangle (1:24,000 scale) map of Garfias Mountain, Arizona, which has been loaded from a USGS CD. The following graphic, Figure 1, shows the main screen of OziExplorer. Excluding my e-mail and web browser applications, it is one of the five most commonly used programs I own and is the most used application on my laptop, which now accompanies me on all of my off-road Jeep trips.
In my opinion, it is the best piece of shareware I have ever bought.
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I spent the $65 US (now $75) and registered the software that same night. It took me only an hour or two before I was certain that this software would be a good addition to my off-road “tool box”. I downloaded the software from the Ozi web site and started playing with it.
When I asked him about his use of the GPS receiver in his Jeep, he told me about this software. He is an avid 4-wheeler with a nice Jeep CJ-7. During the spring of 1999, a ham-radio friend introduced me to a shareware program called OziExplorer.
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