View OziExplorer files in your browser
The waypoints, tracks and routes of OziExplorer, the mapping app of 4WD drivers, hikers and pilots since the 1990s. Open them right here on a map, with no OziExplorer. The files never leave your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your file opens on a map, framed to fit, its layers drawn over OpenStreetMap's streets and what it holds listed beside it.
- OpenStreetMap, dark or light • Flat or a globe
- Every layer and feature in a list • Search their names and fields
- Click a feature for its fields • Measure distances
- Export • PNG, GeoJSON, GPX, KML and CSV
About OziExplorer
Des Newman's OziExplorer, from Australia, moves a GPS's waypoints, tracks and routes to and from scanned maps on Windows, and later on Android. Its text files are still how outback trips, rally routes and old GPS logs get passed around.
Each is plain text with its datum on its second line: a .wpt holds waypoints with their names, symbols and colors, a .plt a track point by point with its height in feet and its time as a count of days, and a .rte routes of waypoints. OziExplorer's .map files, which tie a scanned map to the earth, are another thing.
Drop one or more on this page and Filepeek draws them over OpenStreetMap in their own colors. Click a point for its name, height and time, and save the features as GPX, KML, GeoJSON or CSV, or the view as PNG.
OziExplorer's waypoints, tracks and routes
.wpt • .plt • .rte
Format
- MIME type
- text/plain
- Made by
- Des Newman's D & L Software, for OziExplorer
- Released
- Late 1990s
Inside the file
- Holds
- Waypoints, a track or routes
- Datum
- Named on its second line
- Heights
- In feet
- Built on
- Comma separated text
Opens in every browser
Filepeek opens OziExplorer's files on a map in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. On their own, browsers download them or show them as text.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Apps that open OziExplorer
- WindowsOziExplorer • GPSBabel converts it
- MacNo app built in opens it • GPSBabel converts it
- iPhone and iPadNo app built in opens it
- AndroidOziExplorer for Android
Questions
How do I open a PLT file?
Drop it on this page with any .wpt and .rte you have. A .plt that's OziExplorer's track opens on the map, and one a plotter prints opens as the plot.
Can I turn Ozi tracks into GPX?
Yes. Open them, choose Export, then Save the features as GPX or KML, which Garmin's apps, Google Earth and every GPS app read.
Why is my track a little off?
OziExplorer saves each file in the datum chosen in it, named on its second line. Filepeek draws every file as WGS 84, so one in an old local datum can sit a few hundred meters off, and Show details says so.
Does it open OziExplorer's .map files?
No. A .map ties a scanned map's picture to the earth for OziExplorer and holds no waypoints or tracks. The picture itself opens here as an image.