Thread: Australia in 1:250k zone maps, who wants

nope, Ozi explorer maps are from just about anything else

OZI explorer (aka Ozi) is the name of the program that reads the maps, talks to the GPS and does the navigating type stuff

OZI explorerCE (aka Ozice) does it on PDA type gps's

The maps I have are from the Natmap premium pack of DVD's

Theres a simple conversion to get them to work in OZI which is done by a combination of the electronic map cutting software that comes with the natmapdvd's (which is copyrighted) that pulls the bits of the maps (whichs is freely distributable so long as you do the disclaimer thing correctly) out you want and saves them

The next step (which is bloody time consuming on most PCs) is to convert the Ozi maps to the Ozce format

Ozi reads both formats but the Ozice map format tends to cut the colour count back a little bit, its not noticable on PDA's but when you look at them on ozi it is.

Unfortunately I had to delete the Ozi format maps to make some room on the Hd for a backup but kept the Ozice maps as I dont want to convert the buggers again.

When I can free up the drive space I'll redo the zone strip maps of aus and to a 10 disc distribution under the same idea as for the CE ones.

As i just got GPSdash to run on the mio I'll also experiment with cutting out maps for that.

You can put me down for a copy please

I would like a copy as well. Happy to copy and send on to others as well.

Ian

I will have a copy too please

knock knock..

some discretion should be used when chatting in public ........

Licence Granted: Geoscience Australia grants to the Licensee a non-exclusive,
non-transferable licence to access, display, reproduce, adapt and print the Product, and
combine it with other data held by the Licensee.

exluding the formatting this is the exctract of the legalease thats on the CD I had this double checked by the legal eagles at work way back in the piece and from their breif reading of it the laymans terms is..

So long as i dont deliberately skew the data
So long as I dont try to profit from the reproduction
so long as I dont go into Mass production of the whole lot
providing I dont try to duplicate, modify or distribute the reading software The raw data I can do pretty much what I like with including

Reformatting so it can be used with other software
Cut it to size for individual areas.

heres the website
http://www.ga.gov.au/nmd/products/ma...r250k/#licence

i know the license on the DVD set, i bought them..

the CD has a different license as the maps from the cd are not the same quality as the dvd and are freely available for download..

i suggest you go re read it ....

eg.

"Commercialise", in respect of the Product or a product or service derived from the Product, includes distributing, giving away, selling, letting for hire, or by way of trade, offering or exposing for sale or hire any article embodying the Product or any product or service derived from or incorporating the Product.

Licence Granted: Geoscience Australia grants to the Licensee a non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to access, display, reproduce, adapt and print the Product, and combine it with other data held by the Licensee. The Licence is limited to personal use of the Product or use within the Licensee's organisation only. Any other requests for permission (including provision of data within the Product to third parties, or through WWW access) should be referred to Geoscience Australia. Geoscience Australia warrants that the grant of the Licence does not infringe the Intellectual Property rights of any person. All rights not expressly granted to the Licensee are reserved.

Originally Posted by incisor

i know the license on the DVD set, i bought them..

the CD has a different license as the maps from the cd are not the same quality as the dvd and are freely available for download..

i suggest you go re read it ....

eg.

"Commercialise", in respect of the Product or a product or service derived from the Product, includes distributing, giving away, selling, letting for hire, or by way of trade, offering or exposing for sale or hire any article embodying the Product or any product or service derived from or incorporating the Product.

Licence Granted: Geoscience Australia grants to the Licensee a non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to access, display, reproduce, adapt and print the Product, and combine it with other data held by the Licensee. The Licence is limited to personal use of the Product or use within the Licensee's organisation only. Any other requests for permission (including provision of data within the Product to third parties, or through WWW access) should be referred to Geoscience Australia. Geoscience Australia warrants that the grant of the Licence does not infringe the Intellectual Property rights of any person. All rights not expressly granted to the Licensee are reserved.

not going by what the legal eagles of the repro section said. (I asked them about it before i offered it up the first time around but only got a couple of answers)

so long as i dont claim to own it or profit by what I do with it and make the legalease avalable with it (should be on the DVD unless i screwed up) it should be ok...

Will go and reconfer with them and then the natmap guys themselves...

Till then this offer is closed....