Hi,
Here's a little utility that I wrote to help take extracts of my Ozi maps to load on OziCE. It allows you to select which maps sets to include and just picks maps that overlay a given geographic area (based on Lats & Longs). It copys them to a selected directory and then you can stick them on your PDA or memory card. It save a lot of time trying to work out which maps you need.

I wasn't sure where to upload it - so if one of the moderators could let me know?

I hope anybody using it finds it useful. You'll need MS .NET 2.0 framework.

Cheers,
Greg

Attached Files

OziMapSelect.zip (249.9 KB, 147 views)

Hello

Here is a listing of other useful Oziexplorer 3rd Party Utilities

http://members.shaw.ca/davepatton/ozi/utilities.html

..maybe you should contact Dave (website creator) and get yours listed as well...though I notice some one else appears to have previously made a similar program to your OZiMapSelect ie "Map Selector by Peter Eisenhuth" but the link to download no longer works so maybe yours is a timely replacement

Cheers
Greg

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Thanks for the tool. I haven't tested it yet, hopefully it will do the map-crop I'm hoping for. I found this forum post while looking for something that could crop a large Australia map down to my local area for testing with OziCE on a 256MB SD.
It will be my first test of PDA with GPS using just a map of the local area.

I have been using this program recently on a Vista PC. It is great and saves lots of time and effort.
A word of advice on Vista;
You need to re-index your map files in Ozi before you start then go to your r o o t drive and copy this file (usually) C:\Users\"Your user Name"\AppData\Local\Oziexplorer\System Files\MapFolderIndex.fdx2

Copy it to Oziexplorer like this C:\Oziexplorer\System Files\MapFolderIndex.fdx2
The program will not work in Vista if you do not do this.
Cheers
bshwckr

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Hi.

I was looking fo a program like this for some time now. I think this one from gcolon will be very useful.
But I can't manage to put in the right coordinate-format. Could it be I'm in the northern and western hemisphere? I get strange info-screens although i think i put in the right set of coordinates.

Can anybody help me on this problem.

Thanks, Vincent, Netherlands.

Vincent,
I've not been using this program yet, but your problem entering coordinates reminds me of a similar problem I had with an other program (I'm Dutch as well).
Try and set the language of your computer and keyboard (temporarely) to English.
There may be a problem in how the program reads certain signs.

Edit:
Meanwhile I've used the program and indeed you have to switch to English in the country-settings:
(for us Dutch) Start->instellingen->landinstellingen
Alter "Nederland" to f.i. Engeland (verenigd koninkrijk).
Probably you will have to restart the system.
Afterwards, don't forget to switch back to 'Nederlands' (Nederland) or certain values, decimals etc. will be shown in a 'false' format.

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Pocileh
http://www.ourwebspot.nl/English_index.html

Do you happen to know or you have to do this every time you've added/deleted maps?
In that case a small batchfile would be appropriate.

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Pocileh
http://www.ourwebspot.nl/English_index.html

One more remark:
is there a way to make the program to store the directories it needs, the Oziexplorer and download directory?

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Pocileh
http://www.ourwebspot.nl/English_index.html

I think OziExplorer now understands the command the full stop, meaning using a period instead of a comma as used in Europe is the option for typing in a co-ordinate. Its a guess.

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Oziexplorer is no problem. Cannot remember ever having one.
Ozi might be a bit confusing entering co-ordinates because the way you enter (spaces) them is interpreted by Ozi and that can be a different format as what you intended to enter.

In this case it's clearly a problem related to the country relevant settings.
When my system is set to Dutch format the program won't work, when I switch to English, it works like a charm.

This is the same problem as the one I encountered with Jackaroo's OziMapgrabber (see around posting 100 of that thread)

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Pocileh
http://www.ourwebspot.nl/English_index.html

@Pocileh
and
@Nicko

Dear contributors...

Thanks a lot. Everything worked out fine with changing the country settings!
This software is a very nice piece of equipment since I have a big memorycard with Ozice installed.
I Planned to visit parts of Switzerland and France in one journey.
So many maps to take with me.

This is what I also do: after loading a nice indexmap and in the index map dialogue setting up the folder wich contains my holiday maps i make a printscreen of this. The jpg I make from this screenshot gives me a view of all the maps i have from a particular destination. This is since Ozice lacks a index map function.

Thanks again...

I believe it is necessary every time you add/delete maps. A batch file would be good or perhaps Greg can issue a Vista version?
bshwckr

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Don't thank me I gave you a furfy

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Furfy, furfy, I had to do a google on that: Click
Well, willing to help is always ok!...

Gr. V.

Tried to get the needed MapFileIndex.fdx2 copied by a batch-file, also starting Ozimapselector. Finally I managed and if somebody is interested....Mind this is for Vista only as far as I know!!

Took a lot of effort to find the right expressions but finally came up with:

cd \
c:
cd c:\My programs\Ozi\OziExplorer\System Files\
copy "c:\Users\******\AppData\Local\OziExplorer\System Files\MapFolderIndex.fdx2"
cd \
cd c:\My programs\OziMapselect\
OziMapSelect.application


It looks a bit strange, but this was the only way in Vista I could persuede the system to do the things I wanted.

Some explanation.
I created a directory "My programs\OziMapselect" in the root of the C-drive. Extracted the Ozimapselect zip-file to this directory.
I created a sub-directory "System Files" in my OziExplorer-directory, because this sub-directory did not exist.
The full path to this subdirectory in my system is:
c:\My programs\Ozi\OziExplorer\System Files\

The batch file I've put in the OziMapselect directory and the full path to it is:
c:\My programs\OziMapselect\start.bat

So what happens when I start the batch-file:
1. cd \ --> Make sure I'm in the root of the current drive (Why? I'm on the C-drive allready, but this step was necessary on my system)
2. c: -> Dunno why but I had to point the system to the c-drive.
3. cd c:\My programs\Ozi\OziExplorer\System Files\ -> point to the System Files location in OziExplorer
4. copy "c:\Users\******\AppData\Local\OziExplorer\System Files\MapFolderIndex.fdx2" --> Now copy the file 'Mapfolderindex.fdx2' Watch it! you have to use the " -signs (hyphens?) So your command should look exactly like mine.
The '******' represent your username on your system, in my case it is 'Ron' so replace those ******-es.
An existing MapFolderIndex.fdx2-file will be overwritten!! but that's what you want.
5. cd \ --> switch back to the root
6. cd c:\My programs\OziMapselect\ -->Switch to the Ozimapselect-directory
7. OziMapSelect.application --> Start Ozimapselect.

I don't no why I had to follow this sequence, but when I tried to change from one directory to an other in one command (as I was used to in DOS) it would not work.
Neither could I use a plain copy-command like:
copy c:\Users\******\AppData\Local\OziExplorer\System Files\MapFolderIndex.fdx2 c:\My programs\Ozi\OziExplorer\System Files\MapFolderIndex.fdx2

I still have to alter the country settings from 'Nederlands' to 'English' before starting the batch file, but copying the file manually is not needed anymore. Make sure the maps are recently indexed in Oziexplorer thou.

Once the batchfile is started a Dos-windows will quickly open and then close again as long as the batch-file is active.
It's crude, but it works.

Note: Were you see **** I used X-ses but for some reason the forumsoftware alters them to *. Must be to filter out bad words I guess

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Pocileh
http://www.ourwebspot.nl/English_index.html