Effortless automatic trip logger

Dick S · Newbie

Effortless automatic trip logger

Radar · Guru

When is a Android app coming.

At the moment I use my photos to tell me where I was.

Dick S · Newbie

Sorry. Not sure when Ill be able to do this. It means my learning quite a lot before actually starting the project. So hard to make any promises.

PeterD · Guru

Android already has the ability to keep track of your movements - How to View Your Location History

dorian · Guru

If you want to know where you've been, just ask Google.

Cupie · Guru

Thanks for that, I'll see if I can put it on our iPhone.

Currently/lately I have started using a daily diary but the problem is that I can't read a lot of my writing & it becomes rather repetitious & boring, but at least/most it lets me know where I was on a particular day.

Warren-Pat_01 · Guru

Radar,
Mr Google tells me where I've been each month. Last month he said I had been around 15% of the world (6,500kms). I have Google Maps, Fuel Map.

Looking at Fuel Map just a while ago, Diesel here at Capella is shown as 193.9 (it's 199.9), Clermont varies from 224.9 down to 209.7 (Puma).

Peter_n_Margaret · Guru

I use OziExplorer.
Some of last year's trip.

21 Tracks map NT.jpg

Cheers,

Peter

Scubadoo · Veteran Member

Ditto with OziExplorer. Turn on tablet each morning. Triplog is automagically recorded for the day. We still have all the daily logs from way back in 2003 when we toured Australia for 3 years. It all still performs faultlessly today during our continuing full-time travels here in NZ.

gdayjr · Senior Member

Where do we obtain this OziExplorer app?

Peter_n_Margaret · Guru

gdayjr wrote:
Where do we obtain this OziExplorer app?

From OziExplorer. biggrin

Cheers,

Peter

PeterD · Guru

I not that the OziExplorer for Windows has not been updated since Feb 2016. They also say it will work with Win 10, how does it go on Win 11?

ExplorOz Traveller is under continual maintenance and was recently updated. It does similar things.

Mike Harding · Guru

PeterD wrote:
I not that the OziExplorer for Windows has not been updated since Feb 2016.

Which suggests that after about 20 years of development it is a very stable product:

Ozi Explorer

Software should not be updated simply for the sake of it - such behaviour use to be popular amongst a set of people with limited experience but lots of enthusiasm and was called agile programming, fortunately it has since died a well deserved death.

I've use Ozi Explorer since Adam was a boy and it does what it does very well on both Windows PCs and Android and despite virtually daily use I am not aware of any bugs in either version.

NB: Ozi Explorer is not "route finding" software and no maps are supplied with it. It is very well suited to off-road travel but there are now better products for bitumen touring, eg. Osmand, iGo etc.

In order to use Ozi Explorer effectively one needs to supply it with maps in raster format (I have about 50GB of same) which may be purchased, scanned or found on the net and one needs a basic understanding of mapping, eg. coordinate systems, map datums and such.

Ozi Explorer Android is not available via Google Play because I believe Des Newman (its author) found Google's requirement of a 25% levy on the sale price unacceptable and perhaps other aspects of their T&C too?

If you travel off-road much take a serious look at Ozi Explorer.

Peter_n_Margaret · Guru

And if you have any difficulty or any question, email Des because he supports his product.
OziExplorer is probably the best general mapping software available anywhere in the world today. Developed and sold by Des Newman in Australia.
If you buy the full version (about $130 from memory) it comes with lifetime upgrades and support. I bought mine in April 2002 on a CD for the same price and down load the new versions from time to time at no cost.
All the HEMA maps are configured to work on OziExplorer and there are plenty of maps available for free.
Cheers,
Peter

shakey55 · Senior Member

Mike Harding wrote:
PeterD wrote:
I not that the OziExplorer for Windows has not been updated since Feb 2016.
Which suggests that after about 20 years of development it is a very stable product:
Ozi Explorer
Software should not be updated simply for the sake of it - such behaviour use to be popular amongst a set of people with limited experience but lots of enthusiasm and was called agile programming, fortunately it has since died a well deserved death.
I've use Ozi Explorer since Adam was a boy and it does what it does very well on both Windows PCs and Android and despite virtually daily use I am not aware of any bugs in either version.
NB: Ozi Explorer is not "route finding" software and no maps are supplied with it. It is very well suited to off-road travel but there are now better products for bitumen touring, eg. Osmand, iGo etc.
In order to use Ozi Explorer effectively one needs to supply it with maps in raster format (I have about 50GB of same) which may be purchased, scanned or found on the net and one needs a basic understanding of mapping, eg. coordinate systems, map datums and such.
Ozi Explorer Android is not available via Google Play because I believe Des Newman (its author) found Google's requirement of a 25% levy on the sale price unacceptable and perhaps other aspects of their T&C too?
If you travel off-road much take a serious look at Ozi Explorer.

Hi there Mike. It appears you have experience with this product. Ive recently purchased HEMA maps for my electronic devices. Stilllearning how to use (slowly). Do you know if oziexplorer a similar product, or better, or worse or are they completely different.

New to maps so looking to set up for travelling.

Peter_n_Margaret · Guru

shakey55 wrote:
Hi there Mike. It appears you have experience with this product. Ive recently purchased HEMA maps for my electronic devices. Stilllearning how to use (slowly). Do you know if oziexplorer a similar product, or better, or worse or are they completely different.

New to maps so looking to set up for travelling.

OziExplorer is mapping software. It enables maps to be read, trips recorded and lots of other stuff. It does not include maps. But it can be used with maps from all sorts of sources.

HEMA produce maps, but not the software to use them. If they have software wuth what you purchased it will be a simplified version of OziExplorer.

Cheers,

Peter

Mike Harding · Guru

shakey55 wrote:
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Hi there Mike. It appears you have experience with this product. Ive recently purchased HEMA maps for my electronic devices. Stilllearning how to use (slowly). Do you know if oziexplorer a similar product, or better, or worse or are they completely different.

Hi Shakey55

From your question I'm not really sure what you are asking....

If you have purchased some Hema maps in digital form you must already be using some sort of mapping software, let us know what that is and we may be able to offer help. I believe Hema sell a tablet like navigator with maps and, iirc, this comes with Ozi Explorer lite as Peter mentioned.

The full Ozi Explorer is available in three flavours; Windows PC, Windows CE and Android, it's ideal, but not essential, to own both the Windows PC and one of the tablet versions.

Ozi Explorer is not supplied with maps, you must add your own which may be obtained from many sources including Hema. Ozi Explorer can import a wide range of file types including paper maps scanned to PDF/JPG, I think (but am not certain) it will import the Hema maps but check with Ozi Explorer before you buy.

NB. Ozi Explorer *will not* devise a route from A to B (or C to D :) ) but it does do a hell of a lot of other stuff that software such as Tom Tom et al does not. It is ideally suited to off-road (tracks) travel and, really, you need some understanding of datums and coordinate systems to get the most out of it.