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    God Damn computers

    Well I'm ere again, after the lapdog crashed and burnt we lost all the map stuff and for the last two weeks we have been trying to get oziexplora up an runing,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,well I;d be better off performing brain surgery at the royal north shore ......................

    got the thing to communcate with the GPS thought we'd loaded the maps but every time you try to get a map from the gps location it says bugger off no map found........when you try to load a map from the name search you get silly boy I told you once bugger off no maps found

    mick mick where are you mick................

    anybody got any ideas

    tar

    Tony

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    Hi Tony,

    Two files need to be in the system for each map...an *.ozf2 file and a *.map file.

    Were your maps from the CD that was going around?

    You need to make sure that all files are down loaded and that you point Ozi to the correct directory for the *.map file.

    Well I think that that is the go...but I'm not a brain surgeon either :roll: :wink:
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    G'Day mate

    I'v had the c d 's for a couple of years now theres 7 in the set,Ime shure that last time we (mick)just loaded them into oziexplora an hey presto it worked.

    So I have no idea whats going on I'm much better with a spanner...

    Tony

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    This hard by forum.

    Open Oziexplorer

    Presuming that you have loaded all the files then go to "file" in the top menu bar and select "configuration" from the drop down menu.

    A dialogue box called "configuration" will appear.

    The opening box will have a tab called "system" and in that box there will be a section called "File Paths". One of those will give you the opportunity to search for the directory for the *.map files called "Map File Path" the open file icon on the right hand side will allow you to browse for the files...browse and locate the files.

    This might require a telephone conversation.

    I'll pm you my phone number and maybe we can talk tomorrow evening or there abouts.
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    Re: God Damn computers

    Originally posted by tony
    Well I'm ere again, after the lapdog crashed and burnt we lost all the map stuff and for the last two weeks we have been trying to get oziexplora up an runing,
    tis why the surpreme being gave us backups.....
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    Re: God Damn computers

    ,[/quote]
    tis why the surpreme being gave us backups.....[/quote]


    Yep but its apain puting the desk top in the rangie........

    Tony

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    Yep - sorry tont been away with work for a while.

    Tony has the Topo View disks and needs the .map files that are on the OZI explorer disk - or you can download them from the OZI site i think.. they are usually on the OZI disk under extras i think
    they can also be downloaded from here oziexplrer.com go to "Australian Page" where they are listed under "Australian TopoView maps produced by the LPI of NSW"

    there is a file for each of the cd's

    download them into the file in OZI explorer program file called "maps" - these .map files are the data that goes with the Topo view maps you have.

    once you have done that you need to go into congiguration under image files or something like that and tell the program to look in c:/programs/oziexplorer/maps or similar ( the place you just loaded the maps into.

    if you load your topo view disks onto your hard drive then this is the best place to put them too.

    if you run from the cd then you need to tell the program in configuration to look at your cd rom drive for the map files.

    its a bit hard to tell you how to do it online, im donwloading the program now so i can do screen shots and talk you through it

    im off to work again soon - will get back in a day or so and see how ya went - should have it up and running for the weekend. - though i think im off to cobar friday

    mick

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    YEEYAH>>>>>WHOOPI>>>>>>>>DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO


    Thanks guys for all your help, its working moving map an all,

    still have a bit of a problem with the curser going mad when I connect the GPS but its only a minor inconvenience

    it works

    thanks mick, Mahan I'll still give you a bell at 2015 HRS

    Tony

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    Originally posted by tony
    YEEYAH>>>>>WHOOPI>>>>>>>>DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO


    Thanks guys for all your help, its working moving map an all,

    still have a bit of a problem with the curser going mad when I connect the GPS but its only a minor inconvenience

    it works

    thanks mick, Mahan I'll still give you a bell at 2015 HRS

    Tony
    Good stuff .....look forward to the chat
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    RE - computer picking the gps us and making the mouse do strange things...

    This happens because the computer picks up the usb > serial adapter and goes wow a usb device looks like a mouse - i know what to do with mouses ( mice ) it makes the pointer work......

    the way to stop this happening, is to unplug the serial to GPS cable and just plug the usb part of the cable in, let windows recognise it - it should say something like a:
    " new usb device detected " then will say -
    " your usb device is ready to use"

    once this happens, pulg the other half of the cabe in and then fit the gps.... should now work ok

    also there is a program called "ozi explorer com port detector" on the OZI site - this program will find what com port the gps is using so you can set OZI - this is also where some people have problems.


    Great to see you got it going Tony, FYI GPSOZ run a OZI exploere basic and advanced course - i did it and it was a worthwhile course to do - the onglong support from brian at GPSOZ is great

    Mick

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