LTA PzMap for OziExplorer 4

Companion app for ltapzmap.com - preload obstacles, airspace, airports, flight tracks, and an offline basemap into OziExplorer 4 with one click.

Download for Windows

v0.3.0 · ~100 KB · Free · Windows 10/11

New here? Read the illustrated how-to guide →

What it does

One-click preload of FAA obstacles, controlled airspace, protected lands, tribal lands, prisons, power lines, airports, skydive drop zones, pilot waypoints and zones, your flight tracks, plus power plants, industrial sites, zoos, the FAA UAS Facility Map (drone ceilings), and historical balloon flights.
Search a start point by city, ZIP code, FAA LID, or ICAO airport code.
Festival mode - pick a festival you've RSVP'd to on ltapzmap.com and use its exact area instead of a centre-point + radius.
Offline basemap - OSM, USGS topo, Esri / Google / Bing satellite, or MapTiler. Stitched into an OziExplorer-native calibrated .map + image pair.
UTM + lat/lon gridlines generated client-side and dropped in as .plt overlays.
Find feature in radius (server search) or in already-loaded data (local). Picks pan OziExplorer to the result via OziAPI when available.

Install

Download the zip above and right-click → Extract All.
Double-click install.bat inside the extracted folder.
Sign in with your ltapzmap.com email and password.

The installer fetches a per-user 32-bit Python automatically when needed - no admin password, no PATH changes. Re-running install.bat later upgrades in place.

Don't have an account?

ltapzmap.com is free for balloon pilots. Sign up, verify your email, come back here and hit Download.

Create an account at ltapzmap.com →

What gets loaded into OziExplorer

Each Preload writes one merged .wpt (every waypoint), one merged .plt (every line and polygon), a single merged .gpx (the same data in GPX form), and - if you ticked offline tiles - a calibrated .map + image pair for the basemap.

With OziAPI enabled in OziExplorer (Configuration → OziAPI), the app drives loading via the API - one OziExplorer window with everything in place. Without OziAPI, the app falls back to a single command-line launch with both files passed.