Preparing .OZF2, .OZFX3 and .MAP Files (NOT SUPPORTED!)

Note that reading .ozf2, .ozfx3 files is an unsupported feature of Maps n Trax, and only some of these files can be imported.Although Maps n Trax can read some of .ozf2, .ozfx3 files, it can only read the older versions of each of these formats and will only read them when correctly paired with a .map file of the same name.  It uses GDAL to read and convert these files and will only read the same files that GDAL can read.Therefore in order to determine if Maps n Trax can read a particular ozf/map file pair, try it with GDAL first.  GDAL is a free download, and includes some tools that can be used to read and convert these files.

  • Run the ‘gdal_translate’ command on the command line (eg, in DOS or Terminal) in the form:

gdal_translate <source_path> <dest_path>

For example:

gdal_translate Documents/Maps/home.map Desktop/home.tiff

If ‘gdal_translate’ cannot be found by your system, you may have to specify the fully qualified path (eg, /Library/Frameworks/GDAL.framework/Versions/Current/Programs/gdal_translate ).

The source file should be the .map file.  GDAL will determine which ozf image goes with it according to the information contained within the .map file.  ‘gdal_translate’ outputs to GeoTIFF by default so there is no need to include any other arguments on the command line.