{"id":300,"date":"2006-11-07T14:22:49","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T12:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/test\/"},"modified":"2007-03-15T19:59:57","modified_gmt":"2007-03-15T18:59:57","slug":"oziexplorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2006\/11\/oziexplorer\/","title":{"rendered":"Convert external maps to OziExplorer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many map software vendors like German TOP 50 do not include export functions. Printing, however, is usually not a problem.<\/p>\n<p>I therefore suggest to use the print function for exporting map data. Just print your desired map area into a PDF file (TOP 50 nicely allows to set anchor points for that).<\/p>\n<p>A PDF printer driver will be already installed on many systems (if not, please go to sourceforge and download <a href=\"http:\/\/pdfcreator.sourceforge.net\">pdfcreator<\/a>). Write down the upper left and lower right GPS coordinates of your rectangle as you will need them later in OziExplorer.<\/p>\n<p>You will need to download also two graphics packages: <a href=\"http:\/\/netpbm.sourceforge.net\">netpbm<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foolabs.com\/xpdf\/\">xpdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Move your PDF print export and all downloaded executables into one directory. After running the following script you will see a bmp file that can be imported and calibrated in OziExplorer. Happy navigating!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/scripts\/ozi.cmd\">ozi.cmd<\/a><br \/>\n|wj_ozi.cmd| <\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 27.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many map software vendors like German TOP 50 do not include export functions. Printing, however, is usually not a problem. I therefore suggest to use the print function for exporting map data. Just print your desired map area into a PDF file (TOP 50 nicely allows to set anchor points for that). A PDF printer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2006\/11\/oziexplorer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Convert external maps to OziExplorer<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics-biology","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}