Anyone using an Ipad for their navigation ?

C'mon Les, you know you want a copy and $100 is pocket money to a bloke like you ! So why not download a copy and give us an independent review :)

cheers

As someone who came to moving map navigation via OziExplorer, just about anything else is a big let down, but I too have made peace with Memory Maps and can work quite well with it. It comes with a free AusTopo 250K map of all of Australia but as Robert1660 says, you can buy others.

I also bought the EOTopo 200K maps from ExplorOz which are generally better than the free AusTopo 250k on Memory Maps but you can't use the iPad version on your PC with OziExplorer as the PC and Apple versions are different licenses. This I find infuriating as it was not cheap. You can download a PC version of Memory Maps but it isn't a patch on Ozi for functionality

For your initial purposes, I wouldn't spend money on maps as the Free AusTopo is pretty much good enough.

The iPad is certainly a very elegant device for in-vehicle moving map navigation, without the absolute spaghetti of wires that PC's seem to need.

Good luck with it.

Paul


Agree with your sentiment.

I run Oziexplorer on a Panasonic Toughbook, which can be used in tablet format, and find it a great combination.

Cheers, Baz – The Landy

Baz
I had a look on ebay at some refurbed toughbooks but strangely the sellers wouldn't commit to them having built-in gps ,apparently some do and some don't !. They do look the goods though being able to run Ozi without the hassle of cables and plug in gps units

Wicket, having now re-read your original post I hadn't appreciated that you didn't actually already own an iPad.

Depending on what else you're going to use your iPad for, I'd be awfully tempted to follow Baz' example (above) with a Windows tablet of some sort so that you can get the full flexibility of OziExplorer on a largish screen rather than the restrictions imposed on moving map navigation programmers by Apple's IOS system.

The iPad is brilliant for lots of things, but it's a very poor second with moving map navigation compared to a Windows PC or tablet running Ozi.

Paul
I've been using a 10" netbook with ozi with a magellan gps unit for a number of years, it can be a bit of a hassle to set it up each time so looking for a tablet alternative.
Definitely need a bigger better screen , the Surface Pro would be a good fit BUT no gps even in their new unit with LTE still no gps.
The Ipad Pro caught my eye but do realize I would have to dump Ozi hence my first post re that software .
No big (12") android screens apart from the HP Slate which I'm not that impressed with, so options are limited.

My iPad is one of the wifi only versions so no GPS functionality, which I get around with a Dual Bluetooth GPS receiver, which works very well. It was around $100 from memory 4 or 5 years ago but I note there's now much cheaper options in the $25 price range, some of which are bluetooth and some USB.

So the absence of GPS functionality on the Windows capable tablet need not be fatal, although you will need to ensure the USB in the GPS matches that in the tablet, which are often mini or micro USB.

But now that you've let the cat out of the bag that you're an Ozi user already, I can guarantee that any of the iPad based moving map applications will really give you the heebie jeebs. Good luck with it.

Hi Wickett

Mine does have built-in GPS and was sold refurbished on that basis. But the reality is, where I have it mounted in the vehicle it is hit and miss, so I run a GPS mouse.

And whilst I am with you on having cords everywhere, I find this quite okay. You can read more about it here...

In Vehicle Mounting Solution

Cheers, Baz…

Baz,

What model is your Toughbook? There are a lot of CF-19's about. Would one of those be a good choice. 250Gb SSD, 8Gb RAM, GPS are the main things on the one I'm looking at.

Cheers

Frank

Hi Frank

That is about the specs I have (from memory) and is a solid and robust unit...

Cheers, Baz

Thanks Baz. There are so many Toughbook models it's difficult to know which to choose.

Cheers

Frank

ah ya poor old bugger, definitely a bit behind :) click on the link I originally posted in the first post and you will see the maps that are downloaded into the ipad itself , once there no internet needed.
ya gotta love progress eh Doug !

looks like that link is dead so try this

vms 3D

These iPads, and probably Android devices with in-built GPS, work pretty well without any intervention from the Internet, or phone towers, Doug.



This is a photo of part of our trip(Les, Gunther & I)across the Simpson last Oct. Turn the "logging" on and you can see where you've been. Just need to have them on a charger, they're a bit power hungry in the tracking mode.

Bob

Yeh ya poor old bugger, looks like your finally learning how to make links work...

touché .....!