First, get your area data from THIS URL.
In the Download section select “Select and Download”
Which takes you to a map page where you can select your region of interest (I am doing Wyoming in this example) — select by clicking on the map or in the linked text below it:
Once you select a region, you get a page that allows you to select your download method. I have run into situations where there are too many records to download in one shot, thus you may need to select the individual Geographical Subdivisions to download. Choose the format of CSV as in the above screenshot, then click on the “Get Data” button. Its also a good idea to keep track of the number of mines that MRDS says you will be getting in your file — that way you can make sure your text editing doesn’t remove points, and once the points are loaded, you are seeing all of them.
That brings you to a final page where you can now download the file (get the compressed one — its faster).
Once extracted, you get a text file that looks like this:
Now we need to clean it up so OziUL can use it.
Method #1:
Open the text file in Excel, import as a comma separated value file. Start looking for these types to things to remove:
To check your work, check for the total number of remaining rows in Excel, it should be close to what the MRDS webpage said you should have. Then use OziUL to import and load the .csv file, and save the file as Ozi point files. Then load into OziExplorer by loading a multi point file.
Open OziExplorer Point Control to see how many points were loaded in comparison to the number in the csv file:
Double click on one of the points to make sure OziUL load the information, and your all done!
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