MOBAC - Mobile Atlas Creator

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This application creates off-line atlases of raster maps for various cell phone apps on Android, iPhone and WindowsCE as well as GPS devices (Garmin, Magellan and others): http://sourceforge.net/projects/mobac/

The Tasmanian forum has a start with 'LISTmap and Android' here: http://bushwalk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=17091#p228047. It explains how to use the Tasmanian data. How do we load the data for the other states and the Geoscience Australia Web Map Service data eg http://www.ga.gov.au/geows/?

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Copy these files into the ...\MOBAC\mapsources directory then select them as the Map Source.

NSW_Base.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<customMapSource>
 <name>NSWBase</name>
 <minZoom>0</minZoom>
 <maxZoom>16</maxZoom>
 <tileType>jpg</tileType>
 <tileUpdate>IfNoneMatch</tileUpdate>
 <url>http://mapsq.six.nsw.gov.au/arcgis/rest/services/sixmaps/LPIMap/MapServer/tile/{$z}/{$y}/{$x}</url>
 <backgroundColor>#000000</backgroundColor>
</customMapSource>

I don't know why I can't display zoom level 17 which has the walking trails in the National Parks.


NSW_Topo.xml - listed elsewhere on this forum

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<customMapSource>
 <name>NSWTopo</name>
 <minZoom>0</minZoom>
 <maxZoom>16</maxZoom>
 <tileType>jpg</tileType>
 <tileUpdate>IfNoneMatch</tileUpdate>
 <url>http://mapsq.six.nsw.gov.au/arcgis/rest/services/sixmaps/LPITopoMap/MapServer/tile/{$z}/{$y}/{$x}</url>
 <backgroundColor>#000000</backgroundColor>
</customMapSource>

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... As for Magellan units. They are probably no better or worst than Garmin units but sadly Magellan like Garmin have a deep love of propriety maps that means in Australia extremely poor maps for bushwalking. With luck someone might attempt to "crack" Magellan's code and import in OSM mapping data. ... Cheers

1. Well, Magellan are probably much better than Garmin units in many ways.
2. We know all we need to know about Magellan map formats - just ask.

3. If you use Mobac to make compile you can use the same maps on many different devices.