Overview
Key concepts
The thinking behind oziTarget Map — familiar enough that you are not learning a whole new philosophy, but with the old quirks fixed and the lag gone.
Ozi Explorer and oziTarget — without the lag
Ozi Explorer is great at what it does, and with oziTarget alongside it became the default solution for many competition pilots. But development of the main app stalled, and modern ARM-based PCs offer such good battery life and performance that it was time to skip the emulation step.
As good as the Ozi API was, it limited how we could draw on the map and caused lag during multiple drawing interactions. oziTarget Map stays familiar, but with the core app under our control and every tool built in, it does much more — quickly, efficiently, and with more colour and style than before.
Competition bred, competition focused
oziTarget Map is designed for competition pilots with one focus: winning. Modern competition is about data processing, and with the old constraints removed there is finally room to do much more.
Plenty of phone and tablet apps show where you and your crew are, and some have load charts or other flight planning tools but none are built with the workflow and focus a championship demands.
Files, sessions & workspaces
A handful of file types keep your planning, flying, and debrief organised — set up once, then reuse and recover with confidence.
Project files
.otmp Save a base map with its waypoints and track files for a specific area or competition. Set up your base map once, load it before the flight, and start with a clean slate. A project can embed the full map for a single portable file, or link to the map to keep the file small.
Flight files
.otflight Everything you do during a flight — waypoint edits, added tracks, Windreader data — is kept in the flight file and saved automatically, so you never lose work if the PC shuts down. The last flight reloads on restart; save it with a name at the end to keep the record. Loading a clean project clears the previous flight data.
Workspaces
.otws Set up the perfect tool set for any mode of flight. Tweak every toolbar, open tools at the window position and size you want, then save it as a workspace. Keep a dedicated planning workspace, a 3D task workspace, or a debrief workspace — like Photoshop workspaces, but for flying.
NMEA logs
Record the raw NMEA stream from your GPS for later playback and review — Navigation → Log NMEA to file. Access, save, or replay it from Navigation → View NMEA log history. Working with the actual GPS stream is invaluable for replaying a flight. (Playback is a ProPack feature.)
Flight logs
Track files are recorded automatically (or not) per Settings → Tracks — appended per session, daily, weekly, monthly, or never. Open them from Tracks → View flight track history, move them into the track editor, or save elsewhere. A track plot can play back or simulate the flight — a great training tool.
About time! Quality-of-life fixes
Built on more than 30 years of competition experience with Ozi Explorer, oziTarget Map fixes the things that have always been irritating. Have a wish list of your own? Share it — no promises to add everything, but try me.
Instant navigate to a new waypoint
No need to cancel navigation first. Pick a new waypoint and go.
Auto-cancel map centring
Manually pan the map and centring cancels automatically — no more snapping back to your location while you look around.
Choose what happens on navigate
Centre on the new waypoint, pause and return to your location, or leave the map where it is. You choose the behaviour.
Add one waypoint or many
Auto-cancel the add-waypoint button after one, or latch it on to add many. You decide how it behaves.
Clear snap indications
See whether you are snapping to a waypoint or a track point, and choose what to use or ignore — reliable snapping for drawing and closing shapes.
Draw primitive shapes
Draw a square centred on a point, a circle through three points, and snap to grid lines or every 100 m.
Tag and filter waypoints
Add tags to waypoints, then quickly filter them on and off or edit as a group. Only see what you need on the map.
Multiple custom layouts
Save toolbars and tool windows as workspaces for planning, flight, or debrief — keep the map as clear or as detailed as you want.
Get exploring to find so much more
Start a free 14-day trial of every feature, or see how the map system works if you are coming from Ozi Explorer.