martes, 8 de abril de 2008

GPS: Offroad Maps and PDA Soft




Today everybuddy know Tomtom and planning road routes, but there is a huge world refering to GPS, tracking routes,... and a big problem of this world is the existence of hundred formats, depending of the software which we are using which depends of the hardware platform/System operative.

In internet there are avaiable many free maps, but perhaps the format isn't the fomat which we need, sometimes is used oziexplorer format (.map + .ozf3) and this software is only available for Windows and Windows mobile.
Due this I've made an easy diagram explaining the steps for this conversion.


Symbian: SmartComGPS
Map formats: ogf2
Calibration formats: .map
Track formats:

PalmOs: PathAway
Map formats: .prc(container)
Calibration formats: .prc(container), .pwm
Track formats: