Disappointed with EO Topo map updates 2018

Rod, I could give David heaps of tracks, but I also use heaps of different maps i.e. Eo Topo, Hema, Westprint, Spatial Vision etc

So when I am exploring the Vic High country, if a map doesn't have the tracks I want, I switch to another map. I thought the 144K maps might have been updated to include latest track info, but this is not the case. The tracks I am referring to have been on maps for a long time - they are not new tracks. So when I looked at the 144K maps I was very disappointed as the data being used must be at least 20 years old. This is frustrating.

So why not just drop David an email or message instead of airing it here? They put a lot of effort into this sort of stuff. I am sure they will appreciate being advised of the "missing tracks". Rods is correct when he says that "God Helps Those etc .. ".

Hi Rod and OBJ

I have been sitting on the fence with this reply, but feel what your replies were to Zebra are not warranted and he was only expressing what he has found.

As a consumer, we buy a product on what we think is going to be a good purchase and trust what we have been told is correct.

We buy maps to help as an aid when travelling into areas where we have not ventured before in the hope that what we have is accurate.

I have had numerous behind the screen private emails with a couple of EO Members, with one of them being classed as a true professional in his field, who offered David his skills for free, which were rejected.

From where I see it, there is only one real way to produce accurate, up to date maps and it involves accurate field checking and then countless hours using the latest software available to cartographers to check each area.

As for the Adventure Way Rod, can I ask how accurate your data was that you supplies to David, and what was your recording rate? According to the users tracks that you have submitted, the accuracy shows as only "Low".

Why I ask this as as I have also supplied David via my user Treks this data recorded at a rate of no more than every 30 metres. Anything more than that is not accurate enough for producing accurate maps.

Zebra was only expressing his views on an area that appears to be incorrect, and the questions now will hang over other viewers, this the only place or are there others.

David and Michelle do a fantastic job, but as I have always said, if the product that is produced is not up to date, there will always be someone to point it out.
This is not going to turn into a mud slinging match, but just my personal views and there are always more behind the scenes facts that others will not be aware of.

Stephen

Hi Stephen.

I agree with you. My point was that it may be easier to let David know privately so that he can do something about it rather than airing it in a public forum.

Another member quite correctly brought up the issue of people whingeing and complaining in an earier forum post and I had to agree. On the few isolated occasions where I have come across something that was not quite as I would have liked it I have emailed David or Michelle directly and have never been disappointed with their response, nor their efforts to put things right.

But the modern day thing seems to be to whinge and complain and hope for a response. I like to do things quietly and with manners and some dignity. Just my way.

In closing .. thanks for all your blogs. As I mentioned to you in response to one of your blogs .. I hate you going away because every time you go somewhere I end up spending heaps to travel the same or similar tracks. You are sending me broke :)

Best wishes.

Hi OBJ

Well said and agree 100% with what you have just posted.

We need to get more positive feedback from members and from what is written here, is most usually the case.

We will always get a few that want to challenge others, but being human nature, it will always happen.

Thank you for the thumbs up on my Blogs, and yes we have the best country in the World to get out there and see what it has on offer. Like many people here, I just wish that we could spend a lot more time out there and this year we will be out there for 7 weeks, taking some LSL and will be heading north to visit more great places that we have not been to before. The only trouble with that....more Blogs.......LOL

Take Care and you never know, you make even see me out there on a dusty road.


Cheers


Stephen

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Kerry, I look forward to downloading them.