Comments on Klokan Technologies GmbH: OziExplorer OZF format specification + open-source...

Oh my. There's already a project called ozfenc. Le...

2010-04-12T13:33:49.084+02:00

Oh my. There's already a project called ozfenc. Let's see what it can do.

Yay! That's terrific! I recently made a few extre...

2010-04-12T12:18:01.969+02:00

Yay! That's terrific!

I recently made a few extremely large TIFF files (almost 4 GB) that are OK according to TatukGIS and several other programs, but inaccessible in Ozi and even Img2Ozf. Des Newman explained that a major update is in progress and will get rid of these limitations. But I can't wait that long :)

What is more important: Img2Ozf always creates sub-100% zooms from the original image; it is not possible to create zoom levels from separate files (that is, prepared externally). Therefore digital sources like OpenStreetMap have a decent look only at 100% and perhaps 50%; anything less and the map is unusable even for preview, so lesser zooms must be converted into separate OZF files and switching between them becomes more difficult.

It seems that I finally will be able to code my own version of Img2Ozf :)

I came across a map my parents had from an old sch...

2010-03-04T06:58:48.991+01:00

I came across a map my parents had from an old school that had been torn down.It is dated 1914. It is a map of Europe and was published by a company in Chicago, Illinois that no longer exists. I am amazed at the countries that no longer exist. I very much enjoyed reading your article. Thank you very much for all the information.
Candy Caudill, Indiana,USA

Hi! First of all, thanks for your interest to oze...

2010-01-27T16:14:01.683+01:00

Hi!

First of all, thanks for your interest to ozex and swampex projects.

You know, I hope Ozex will never has such Boeing-like GUI as Ozi Explorer or QLandKarte has :) It is very annoying in real life - when you are trying to press some 8x8 icon during the offroad competition e.g. :)

Moreover, I had a success with decoding Garmin maps (even encrypted) by adding decoding routines to libgarmin. If you're interested in it, contact me by email.

Unfortunately, I have no time at all to support these projects.

Best wishes,
Daniil Smelov
Ozex's author.