Thread: Ozi explorer off road mapping for GPS

Originally Posted by Bushie

What is the chart meant to show ?
Are you saying NSW Topo are not able to be used in Ozi ?
Which would be incorrect, hence I'm unsure of how I am meant to be interpreting the chart.


Martyn

Hi Martyn,

The chart is a summary of the commercial and reasonably uptodate map packages available for each platform. I've spent quite a bit of time scearching for these packages on the web sites of a number of the Australian mapping vendors.

I am aware of the Festy maps but these are based on map imagery from 2005/2006 which is starting to get fairly old. Even in the brief look I had at the Nadgee sheet, there are some minor problems with the mapping. On this particular sheet there is a strip of mapping that is duplicated twice for example.

The Memory-Map topo imagery is a 2012 release of updated mapping produced by NSW department of lands. If you can let me know of an official release of the NSW topo mapping that has been published in the last 3-4 years in Ozi Explorer format please let me know and I will update my chart accordingly.

Cheers
Paul

I finally located the source for NSW topo maps from Dept of LPI, NSW. This is around $275 and contains mapping imagery from 2006.

I've found it is also possible to purchase TasMap raster images at 1:25,000 in .tif format which can be converted for use in OziExplorer. It's a tad pricey however: $1100.

cheers
Paul