EOTopo Map Roads Update Details

I have had a number of people wondering what the 200K vs 50K roads update means and what is the target for updates to the EOTopo 200K product. Well we have just been working through some areas of the Victorian High Country and I have some samples to show you where the product is going.




As you can see the label updates are significant and in fact we have had to adjust the labeling of the unsealed roads to make sure we fit as much as possible onto the map. The roads in this section have also been re-aligned to the latest data and this area and a whole lot of other areas will be 50K updated in the next release.

In time we will be producing maps at 50K, 100K and 200K so this is the driving force for getting our updates to the 50K level. It is a massive task and for roads networks updates alone to go from 250K base to 50K data takes about 6 hours per sheet (Australia is 512 sheets).

So when you are buying the EOTopo 200K product you are buying a map set being built from data (being updated all the time) at a much higher scale, hence the accuracy will be much better than anything else currently available. We actually have to filter out some of the 50K data to build the 200K product. Of course once the 50K & 100K products come out the detail will be provided at these scales.

Initially we are working towards having 100K scale maps for the ExplorOz Treks, on our 100K & 50K scale maps we will be including a great number of ExplorOz place features embedded in the map. We are avoiding adding too many features on the 200K map as all these labels and markers really mean nothing at the 200K level and only tend to cover up contours, rivers and other important topographic map features.

I hope this helps
David