Thursday, Apr 08, 2004 at 22:01
Hi all, I have a Megellan Meridian GPS and had some software installed. (SA Aand Australia). However, I think that they could best be described as "stick-maps". Line drawings that you can zoom into to see where you are, street names are OK but the locality is mostly out of wack. It tells me that my street is at Scott Creek, (10 Kms away), obviously a listed geographic locality that is the nearest to me. My suburb is not listed. Niether is my daughters city-
Port Pirie. Her street is where it is supposed to be when we are there but not the city name. We then decided to buy the Magellan "Discover Aus, streets and tracks". This isn't any better. Sure we can watch our progress on the GPS screen but I was very disappointed not to see "real maps". Then we decided to do a short course on GPS at our local Map
Shop. The instructor recommended Ozi-explorer for the GPS interface. Geodata 250 (Natmap Mosaic) for the maps and the Great Desert Tracks for the outback. He also had topographic maps for SA that enabled him to zoom in at street level, plot his course around the city and see it on the laptop as a real time moving map. We didn't know what we were letting ourselves in for when we bought the GPS, now we have spent as much on the software as the unit itself. The Discover Aus from Magellan was a waste of money for what I wanted. The same info was already on the unit but you can't tell this from the adverts. We will now be buying Ozi-Explorer and the NatMap series. What a fun toy, tells us where we are but unless we have a good map reference, no point in knowing! Cheers,
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