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Thanks. That was really helpful. I have now successfully converted my Spanish map into Oruxmaps format and it works fine.

I use OruxMapsDesktop to create offline maps to use on my phone. One of the inputs to this program is a calibration file, which is in OziExplorer .map format. Unfortunately, I don't own a copy of OziExplorer but I am a software developer with a mapping application that I wrote myself (MapMan - you can Google it if you are interested). My application can generate OziExplorer map files, but currently only for maps that use the WGS84 datum.



I want to create an Orux-compatible map for a region of Spain I shall be visiting later this year. I have scanned in a paper map and my application is capable of calibrating it. On my Spanish map is written: "Datum Europeo 1950".



Now as I understand it, the European 1950 datum comes in different variants. There is EURA, which is the mean for Western Europe. There's EURD for Portugal/Spain, EUR7S for Spain excluding the NW and EUR7SNW for NW Spain. Which of these is my "Europeo 1950" map likely to be?



Once I have identified the precise datum, I need to know exactly what OziExplorer would call it. For a WGS84 map, the fourth line of an OziExplorer .map file reads:

     WGS 84,,   0.0000,   0.0000,WGS 84

What character string should I use to replace "WGS 84" for my Spanish map?



Any help with the above would be greatly appreciated. If anyone has a sample OziExplorer .map file for anywhere in Spain, that might be a help too.



Kind Regards

Keith ("MapMan").