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Post by Dooghan » 11 November 05 7:33 pm

Just doing a cross post from another forum. Australia State Maps Each map is about 6Mb. So it might help to run them through photoshop or another program to resize the images before trying to calibrate them in Ozi.

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Post by Mr Router » 11 November 05 8:47 pm

Have you come to a good size ?

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Post by The Garner Family » 11 November 05 9:37 pm

Thanks dooghan!

Whenever I've visiting an area I go and visit the RACQ/NRMA and get there maps & then scan and callibrate for Ozi... they tend to have a lot of detail & the process is quite easy.

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Post by embi » 12 November 05 6:49 am

I made some Calibration files this morning

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Post by Dooghan » 12 November 05 7:27 pm

Mr Router wrote:Have you come to a good size ?
I ran them through Paint Shop Pro at 20% compression and got them down to 1.3Mb

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Post by ideology » 12 November 05 9:29 pm

Awesome - thanks for the tip!

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Post by teamkittens » 13 November 05 3:21 pm

embi wrote:I made some Calibration files this morning
I have a suspicion your calibration is a little off:<br>
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<img src="http://shogun.smugmug.com/photos/44236696-O.jpg"><br>
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(Or the Tasmanians has started placing a lot of watery caches recently)

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Post by embi » 13 November 05 3:45 pm

I was waiting for something like that....did you resize your images?

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Post by teamkittens » 13 November 05 4:03 pm

embi wrote:I was waiting for something like that....did you resize your images?
Not at all, just kept them exactly as is off the website...

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Post by embi » 13 November 05 4:22 pm

Found the problem...please retry the tas file...

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Post by teamkittens » 13 November 05 7:37 pm

embi wrote:Found the problem...please retry the tas file...
Its better now, not quite spot on yet though.

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Post by embi » 13 November 05 7:42 pm

its as accurate as I can get it

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Post by energizer61 » 13 November 05 7:54 pm

embi wrote:its as accurate as I can get it
Someone has made some 15 point calibration files at http://www.gpsaustralia.net/forums/

they are available for download from each state thread :)

they seem pretty accurate to me (only tried the tassie one so far), I can email it to ya if you like.

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Post by embi » 13 November 05 7:59 pm

Didnt even realise you can calibrate to more than 9 points...

I'd love a copy!

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Post by energizer61 » 13 November 05 8:03 pm

embi wrote:Didnt even realise you can calibrate to more than 9 points...

I'd love a copy!

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