HN7 NSW 25k digital maps

Next question?

Does anyone have an image of the index map or a hard copy that they can scan or photograph?

Make it a bit easier it select what you want.

Cheers.

And the next one....

What about 50k maps?

A lot of the state is not covered by 25k, but is covered by 50k.

Particularly in my region.

Thanks

Phil.

Yep that's true however they are free by the look of it.

"does the HN7 put all the maps together when i open them in it"?

The maps are opened individually. As you travel across the edge of one map the program (OziExplorerCE) opens the adjoining map (and closes previous one). It doesn't open all the maps at once.

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Greg

Don't know what happened to my previous post, maybe it timed out.

Downloaded them all yesterday.
Ended up with over 800 files.

It's not necessary to download them one at a time.
I used a free utility called VisualWget.

Simply to use, you just install it then enter the address of the site where the zip files are stored.

I ended up with more than I expected as I didn't tick the box to stop it looking in the folders above,

NSW 25k maps were 1.1Gig & I ended up with 100k as well, another 800k.

Also ended up with Victoria & Magellan maps.

Should have paid a little closer to the help on which boxes to tick in VisualWget.

Cheers.

Hi

If you want more detail when driving (or walking) you need to get larger scale maps (i.e. 25K , 50K) - simple fact.

200K/250K scale maps simply do not show enough detail when driving in some areas. e.g. cities/forests. Below is a screen shot of a section of Perth from 200K scale map. followed by a 25K scale map of similar area.





What would be better for navigating around the streets of Perth? Answer obvious.

Same scenario in the forest ....





Clearly 25K better with the 200K map not even showing most tracks.

As far as screen size goes it is always a compromise between size and what each person finds practical. HN7 is fine for viewing 25K maps - its actually much bigger than most "street" navigators and phones which people use all the time in cities for large scale maps.

Memory is much less of a drama these days with large size SD cards available. Space management still may be required but I would be not giving up on large scale maps because "you will need a lot of memory".

With raster maps I would guess than many people have a range of maps at various scales to suit various circumstances. In many cases a small scale 200K map is more than adequate and all you need. In other areas larger scale maps (25, 50 or 100K) are without doubt better. There is no need to restrict yourself to one set - get what suits you needs.

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Greg

What an excellently response Greg.

Written and pictorial explanations make it clear for anyone to understand.

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Anthony

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Greg

email address on Fred's profile if it's still current.

It is....
Fred B