GPS for Dummies.pdf - Engineering Surveyor

246Part III: Digital Mapping on Your Computer Works in many languages: Localized versions of OziExplorer are availablein a number of different languages, including English, German, French,Spanish, and Italian. Provides real-time tracking: If you have a laptop connected to a GPSreceiver, OziExplorer displays a moving map with your real-time, currentposition and other travel information. (For more on using a laptop intandem with a GPS receiver, see Chapter 9.) Is easy to use: OziExplorer boasts a large number of features, such asannotating maps and extensive import and export capabilities, all ofwhich are easy to use. Figure 15-1 shows a demo map that comes withOziExplorer and the program’s toolbar and menu-based user interface. Supports an extensive number of map formats: OziExplorer can accessmany popular digital map data formats (such as DRG, a Digital RasterGraphics map) and can associate georeferenced data with common graphicsfile types. For example, you can take a file that you created in Paintor some other graphic program and turn it into a smart map (a map wheregeographic coordinates are associated with individual pixels). Loadinggraphics files and calibrating the data to create digital maps are discussedin upcoming sections of this chapter.Figure 15-1:A demomap inOziExplorer.