Garmin Topo USA and OZIexplorer compatibility
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spressomon
Expedition Leader
To revive this thread: Anyone done this? I like my NG maps...but want the Ozi user interface features.
whitethaiger
Adventurer
CLynn85 said:
Probably not. What format are those garmin maps in? Ozi can handle all the popular image formats. Next question would be how the georeferencing data is supplied.
spressomon said:
Same answer as to Carl's question about Garmin maps.
Remember, you can get all the USGS topos for Ozi for free from various sources on the net.
craig
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The Garmin MapSource data is stored in a proprietary vector data format. Ozi largely only supports Raster data. To understand the difference, think of raster data like Adobe Photoshop (MS Paint, a scanned image, etc) and vector data as Adobe Illustrator (Corel Draw, AutoCAD, or a dot to dot).
Craig
Craig
craig
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spressomon said:
I'd love to try and help but I'm a bit confused by this statement. The original subject was about Garmin Mapsource Topos but if I read your question correctly you are asking about getting USGS Topographic maps into Ozi. Do I understand your question correctly?
If so, you can download USGS DRGs as GeoTIFFs and bring them into Ozi. You will need the free GeoTiff extension for Ozi and it only supports uncompressed GeoTiffs so try a GeoTiff or two before downloading or ordering a bunch.
Craig
spressomon
Expedition Leader
craig said:
Yeah...the NG (National Geographic) Topo maps is what I was asking about. As I understand it OziExplorer allows easy toggle between active GPS screen and a non-active/connected screen to scroll around while still nav'ing. However since I asked about this Scott clued me into a relatively easy toggle of sorts that is already in NG...I'll try it out to see if it's what I want.
Thank you,
Dan
