Ok, that is at least something, but for most of the states it hard to impossible to find good and detailed maps for free.
But I can feel with you as my sister had to rely on satellite internet for a few years in the bush too.
Download speeds painfully slow, drop outs and total overpricing gave her the frustation on a regular base.
A neighbour does regular downloads for friends in the bush and uses AU post and USB sticks to get them what they need.
At this stage I start to admit that the OSM project really starts to become a serious map provider.
Due to provided track logs their database now covers at least 60% more tracks in the areas I checked.
And in the general mapping area Ozi is fighting to keep their market share as more and more Android and Iphone apps pop up that offer free and paid sources with often easier user interfaces.
Ozi should go the online way as well and integrate online sources similar to what Global Mapper or free map downloader already offer.
A simply click and download is still easier than the manual creation of maps - at least for most.
Especially the "forced way" of updating to the latest Ozi tools is a step in the wrong direction.
Adding features is one thing, upping the version numbers only for new DRM protections a totally different story.
You now have to pay to export into unprotected formats and not even in this version you are able to save unprotected OZFX2 or OZFX3 files.
Only because more and more programs decided to support the unprotected Ozi format.
But for example creating your own overlays to intergrate in a map is made impossible if your base map or overlay was created in the protected formats.
I'm slowly moving away from Ozi and only use it for maps I share online in case they had a different format.
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