Re: [Gpsbabel-misc] Conversion to Ozi Explorer

[Alex M. <al...@co...>]

>I am attempting to convert a list of waypoints from EasyGPS to Ozi Explorer.
>For the conversion I selected Ozi Explorer waypoint as the output type and 
>named the file
>test.wpt.  It stated that the conversion was successful.  When I open the 
>file in Ozi
>there are no waypoints displayed, and it doesn't produce any errors.  I 
>tried a second
>conversion, and this time looked at the extension that is listed in 
>GPSbabel for the Ozi
>Explorer waypoint, which is *.ozi.  Ozi explorer does not recognise this 
>file extension.
>
>In addition I tried all the *.txt formats in GPSBabel, and tried to import 
>these into Ozi,
>same result, no waypoints displayed

The file extension shouldn't make a difference to OziExplorer, except that 
it won't show
the file by default in the "load waypoints" file-open dialog.  The data is 
still the same.
Either way, we should probably change that from ".ozi" to ".wpt" to clear 
up any further
confusion.

Is there *anything* in your "test.wpt" or "test.ozi" output file?  You can 
open it with notepad
or your favorite test editor.  It should look similar to:

OziExplorer Waypoint File Version 1.1
WGS 84
Reserved 2
Reserved 3
... waypoint data ...

I just ran a couple of tests using GPSBabelfront and GPSBabel Version 
1.1.1_beta09232003
and seem to get valid output every time converting from EasyGPS and GPX to
OziExplorer format.  That's opening with OziExplorer v3.95.3b shareware.

...
Alex