'NAOMI' Program Features

Overview
'NAOMI' is a data-driven mapping suite for the Radio Amateur that combines Overlay Mapping, Online Mapping, an attractive World Map with Gray Line plotting, and a multi-background Great Circle Map with onboard searchable US and Canadian Callbooks, plus a range of other plottable databases.

Map Types
The following is a list of the different types of maps that can be produced:

1. Overlay Mapper for USA and Canada with 47 1020x650 pixel maps at 1:2,000,000 scale, and 2 full screen overview maps at 1:20,000,000 scale. Each Overlay map has 8 backgrounds: CQ Zones, ITU Zones, Time Zones, ARRL Sections, States and Provinces, Counties and Municipal Regions, Satellite Photo, Color Relief Map. Each Overlay map has 16 foregrounds: State, County, Areacode, Zipcode, Water, Urban Areas, Major City, Minor City, Roads, Railroads, Prefix, Section, IOTA, Flags, Grid Locators, Lat/Lon mesh.
2. Online Mapping, with 20 Map Provider options.
3. World Map with Multiple Foreground Overlays, and 16 different Backgrounds. Gray-Line Overlay with Night-time or Color Images.
4. Unique Great Circle Map with Gray-Line and Plotting. Programmable Lat/Lon Circle and Radial Line overlays.

Map Plotting
The following is a list of the different types of Map Plotting Facilities:

1. Plot Log QSOs with 37 different types and colors of icon marker, plus 16 user-colored box markers.
2. Plot callbook entries geo-referenced by US zipcode or Canadian postcode.
3. Plot the outlines of all Grid Locators, IOTA boxes, and Counties in a log or database.
4. Plot markers for Place Names, Lighthouses, Parks, and Summits.
5. Plot Imported Lists of Lat/Lon Positions, Grid Locators, Callsigns.
6. Plot your own Lists of Callsigns with added Category Colors.

Export
You can export your plotted maps and table data in a number of different ways:

1. Export Table-data from Databases to Delimited File.
2. Export Main or Auxiliary Logs to ADIF format.
3. Export Filtered Main or Auxiliary Log to Delimited File.
4. Export Grid Squares to Delimited File.
5. Export Counties to Delimited File.
6. Export Overlay, Online, World, or Great Circle Maps as Image.
7. Save any map in JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP, or TIF Image Format for Online Sharing.

Search
The 'Search' facilty has 9 sub tab-pages: US Callbook, Canada Callbook, Places and Codes, Counties, Position, IOTA, Lighthouses, Parks, Summits. Each enables you to search the various internal databases and tables in many different ways, using a variety of Search options. Results are returned in the 'Tables' tab-page, where you can right-click a line for further actions, including map-plotting, editing, or row-sorting.

Logs
The program can import amateur radio logs in either the ADIF or Cabrillo format to the two onboard logs. The log format is recognised automatically, and the log is then parsed to identify the States, Sections, Counties, and Grid Locators for each QSO, as well as the other standard QSO values. Unique values for each QSO entity are calculated and displayed in the Log Summary, separated by band. Logs can be sorted by any column-value. Logs can then have these values plotted on the map. Logs can also be merged or edited in different ways, with new values checked for validity. Logs can be exported in CSV or ADIF format.

Callbook Imports
Up-to-the-minute Callbook Databases from the FCC and ISED are downloaded and processed automatically, and then made available for searching, filtering, ordering, and plotting on any of the maps. Addresses are geo-referenced by US zipcode or Canadian postcode. This is more than sufficient for most Amateur Radio mapping needs, but will not show the actual house on a large-scale map.

Help Guide
The program has a comprehensive Help Guide with nearly 100 pages of useful information.