RoadBook

RoadBook preparation and format

RoadBook or Itinerary (for rally races or just for planing private trips) is a list of items with the distance, direction, a graphic icon of a crossing/turn and a description.

For the OffRoadNAVI RoadBook data is in the format of images (GIF format is best) and is composed of individual pages (one page is one image file, RB_1.GIF, RB_2.GIF,...) The entire RoadBook (one stage or one day) is stored in one directory called [RoadBook*] (can have any suffix for example stage nr. "_E1, _E2,...") These directories (separate roadbooks) must be stored under "\OffRoadNAVI\" dir.

Take a look at the sample roadbooks to get an idea of what they should look like. This video shows how the roadbook looks like on the navi X720.

Create roadbook from XLS (Excel) or PDF:

 

• Convert XLS or PDF into GIF using online converter

use on-line service http://image.online-convert.com/convert-to-gif

• Convert XLS to PDF (one Sheet -> one Page)
  • use "print" to PDF for all sheets using latest Office or using PDFPrint (http://www.primopdf.com/)
  • or use on-line service http://www.sciweavers.org/free-online-image-converter (function x2Pdf)
• Convert each page in PDF into separate images (PNG)
  • use on-line service http://docupub.com/pdfconvert/ or http://pdf2png.com/ into PNG (can be send by e-mail)
• Crop and save images into GIF using (FastStoneImageViewer http://www.faststone.org/)
  • crop - try to crop "manually" on one page, remember crop values and use it for next step... (attention: check if each stage has the same margins)
  • use batch convert (F3), Advanced Options, Crop: InPixels and Specify X-Y Coordinate and Output Format as GIF
• Edit RB - custom colors, highlights, underlines
  • in FastStoneImageViewer - use DrawBoard and you can draw directly into the image....
• Resize the images - Width
  • use batch convert in FastStoneImageViewer (F3), Advanced Options, Resize: Resize based on one side (Width)
  • X720: whole screen = 800pix, two-third = 533pix
  • H61CS: whole screen = 480pix, two-third = 320pix
• Split separate Stages into dirs
  • put each stage into one directory for example RoadBook_S1, RoadBook_S2,...
  • copy all of them to your SD ..\OffRoadNAVI\, when you switch to RB mode you can choose what stage to load
    Directory structure should looks like:
    \OffRoadNAVI\Maps
    \OffRoadNAVI\RoadBook_S1
    \OffRoadNAVI\RoadBook_S2
    \OffRoadNAVI\RoadBook....
    \OffRoadNAVI\OffRoadNAVI.exe
    \OffRoadNAVI\OffRoadNAVI_conf.xml