What is an ospx file and why do people send them?

My wife has to go somewhere tomorrow and downloaded a map that she wanted me
to print out, so she sent me the file, and I found it has an .ospx extension,
and my computer could not open it.

Why do Google maps send files in such an obscure format that I'd never heard
of it before?

I did a web search, and found here

http://www.pagemarktechnology.com/home/products.html

that I would have to pay $US 169 to print a one page map!

Is this the future of computing?




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Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm
Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk

On 2014-12-06, Steve Hayes wrote:
My wife has to go somewhere tomorrow and downloaded a map that she wanted me
to print out, so she sent me the file, and I found it has an .ospx extension,
and my computer could not open it.

Why do Google maps send files in such an obscure format that I'd never heard
of it before?

I did a web search, and found here

http://www.pagemarktechnology.com/home/products.html

that I would have to pay $US 169 to print a one page map!

Is this the future of computing?


Can't she send you a link, or a zip code.?
Otherwise, buy her a gps.
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In Steve Hayes
wrote:

Is this the future of computing?

Sounds more like you or your wife did something wrong, or you're not
completely describing what happened.

If you're using Google maps from their Web site on a PC, you can simply
click the "gear" symbol at the bottom right of the page, select "Share
or embed map," and email the link to someone else, who can then bring up
the same map in their browser and print it.

In fact, I can't find a way to get Google maps to create a ".ospx" file
for me.

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St. Paul, MN

On 06/12/2014 21:18, Bert wrote:
Sounds more like you or your wife did something wrong,


you mean like not getting the file extension correct!!!!!!!!

In Good Guy
wrote:

html
head
meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
http-equiv="Content-Type"
/head
body bgcolor="#FFFFCC" text="#000000"

What?

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St. Paul, MN

On Sat, 6 Dec 2014 22:17:42 +0000 (UTC)
Bert wrote:

In Good Guy
wrote:

html
head
meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
http-equiv="Content-Type"
/head
body bgcolor="#FFFFCC" text="#000000"

What?


He does it to **** people off, because he is a Good Guy. Use Claws
Mail, and all you will see is plain text.

On 06 Dec 2014, Johnny wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

He does it to **** people off, because he is a Good Guy. Use Claws
Mail, and all you will see is plain text.

Better yet, use a killfile and you won't see any of him.

On 2014-12-06, Nil wrote:
On 06 Dec 2014, Johnny wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

He does it to **** people off, because he is a Good Guy. Use Claws
Mail, and all you will see is plain text.

Better yet, use a killfile and you won't see any of him.


Genius.
A killfiler.
Or, learn to not care.

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On 12/06/2014 03:06 PM, Steve Hayes wrote:
My wife has to go somewhere tomorrow and downloaded a map that she wanted me
to print out, so she sent me the file, and I found it has an .ospx extension,
and my computer could not open it.

Why do Google maps send files in such an obscure format that I'd never heard
of it before?

I did a web search, and found here

http://www.pagemarktechnology.com/home/products.html

that I would have to pay $US 169 to print a one page map!

Is this the future of computing?







I bet you mean aspx

if so, you will get plenty of info from a Google search

Are you sure it wasn't aspx? That's a webpage, like
..html. She may have mistakenly sent you the webpage
rather than the link to it. If she'd sent the actual map
it probably would have been a JPG file.

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| http://www.pagemarktechnology.com/home/products.html
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I didn't find anything for ospx. What you found seems to
be some kind of XML editor. I don't see how you arrived there.

For what it's worth, some may find this useful:

http://www.jsware.net/jsware/gmapkit.php5

It's a simple program I wrote myself about a year ago.
I got tired of needing to enable script in order to use
Google maps, and needing to get software in order to
see streetview or satellite images.

Google allows anyone to call their map server. All that's
required is to know how to code it. They provide directions.
So I wrote a small program that calls Google directly. No
cookies. No tracking. No script required. It shows maps,
streetview, satellite, or directions. It also has all the
basics: zoom, move the map, draw on the map, save
it as a file, print it (color or grayscale), etc. The program
uses no browser. It communicates with the Google server
directly, so there's no History or tracking data possible.

Now if I want directions to Ace and Acme at 110 Highland
Ave, Somewhere, USA I don't have to be limited to their map.
I can just enter the adress into my program, get a map of
any zoom, look at a photo of the store, etc.

On 2014-12-06, philoÂ* wrote:
On 12/06/2014 03:06 PM, Steve Hayes wrote:
My wife has to go somewhere tomorrow and downloaded a map that she wanted me
to print out, so she sent me the file, and I found it has an .ospx extension,
and my computer could not open it.

Why do Google maps send files in such an obscure format that I'd never heard
of it before?

I did a web search, and found here

http://www.pagemarktechnology.com/home/products.html

that I would have to pay $US 169 to print a one page map!

Is this the future of computing?







I bet you mean aspx

if so, you will get plenty of info from a Google search

He could get the ****in map from a ggggle link.
Do you run in circles all day?

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| (___ | | | | | | \ / | |__) | | |
\___ \ | | | | | | |\/| | ___/ | |
____) | | | | |__| | | | | | |_|
|_____/ |_| \____/|_| |_|_| (_)

Steve Hayes wrote:
My wife has to go somewhere tomorrow and downloaded a map that she wanted me
to print out, so she sent me the file, and I found it has an .ospx extension,
and my computer could not open it.

Why do Google maps send files in such an obscure format that I'd never heard
of it before?

I did a web search, and found here

http://www.pagemarktechnology.com/home/products.html

that I would have to pay $US 169 to print a one page map!

Is this the future of computing?

I have a couple of tools I use:

1) Use a hex editor. If you see plain text inside,
you can then move on to Notepad or Wordpad if you want.
Otherwise, the hex editor might show a 4CC code, hinting
at what the file type really is. Maybe you see structured
XML in there, in which case that would be text.

2) Use a port of the "file" command, which can identify the
true file type of hundreds of file types.

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/file.htm

The only problem with "file", is the enclosed magic file
hasn't been updated for a while. So if a new file format
is created, it might not be detected.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_(command)

*******

The XPS format is the Microsoft imitation of PDF which
nobody uses. The OS should have a viewer, in Windows 7.
And that would automatically be launched if the file
had the *correct* extension.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/w...ewer=windows-7

Paul

On Sat, 06 Dec 2014 16:54:57 -0600, philoÂ* wrote:

On 12/06/2014 03:06 PM, Steve Hayes wrote:
My wife has to go somewhere tomorrow and downloaded a map that she wanted me
to print out, so she sent me the file, and I found it has an .ospx extension,
and my computer could not open it.

Why do Google maps send files in such an obscure format that I'd never heard
of it before?

I did a web search, and found here

http://www.pagemarktechnology.com/home/products.html

that I would have to pay $US 169 to print a one page map!

Is this the future of computing?







I bet you mean aspx

if so, you will get plenty of info from a Google search

No I don't mean aspx. I mean .oxps.

I'm not sure why anyone would want to print an aspx file to find how to get
somewhere.

But my wife copied and pasted the content to a .docx file, which Libre Officce
opened, and so I was able to print it.

The original one she got was what she got when she wanted to print something
from Google maps.



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Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm
Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk

On Sat, 6 Dec 2014 17:57:02 -0500, "Mayayana" wrote:

Are you sure it wasn't aspx? That's a webpage, like
.html. She may have mistakenly sent you the webpage
rather than the link to it. If she'd sent the actual map
it probably would have been a JPG file.

No, I mean oxps, which is apparently something only used by Windows 8.1, and
to convert to to a format usable by a computer with another OS, including
another Windows O/S, you apparently need a program that costs $169

If that is the wasy that Google distrpibutes printable versions of their maps,
then I'd like a cheaper alternative.




--
Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm
Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk

On Sat, 06 Dec 2014 20:03:39 -0500, Paul wrote:

Steve Hayes wrote:
My wife has to go somewhere tomorrow and downloaded a map that she wanted me
to print out, so she sent me the file, and I found it has an .ospx extension,
and my computer could not open it.

Why do Google maps send files in such an obscure format that I'd never heard
of it before?

I did a web search, and found here

http://www.pagemarktechnology.com/home/products.html

that I would have to pay $US 169 to print a one page map!

Is this the future of computing?

I have a couple of tools I use:

1) Use a hex editor. If you see plain text inside,
you can then move on to Notepad or Wordpad if you want.
Otherwise, the hex editor might show a 4CC code, hinting
at what the file type really is. Maybe you see structured
XML in there, in which case that would be text.

That is very unlikely to produce a readable map.


2) Use a port of the "file" command, which can identify the
true file type of hundreds of file types.

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/file.htm

The only problem with "file", is the enclosed magic file
hasn't been updated for a while. So if a new file format
is created, it might not be detected.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_(command)

*******

The XPS format is the Microsoft imitation of PDF which
nobody uses. The OS should have a viewer, in Windows 7.
And that would automatically be launched if the file
had the *correct* extension.

It doesn't.

Microsoft says explicitly that the format cannot be read in Windows 7.

Perhaps they conned Google into using it as a way of forcing people to use
Windows 8.1.




--
Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm
Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk