Offroad software

"With OziCe you'll need over 20 gigs of maps on your SD card. "

You sure???

Yep maybe more , I am talking about 50k scale maps of each state not 250k.

I have about 10 gigs on my home PC and thats not including NSW, Tassie, WA, NT, QLD .

Maybe I have too many maps

If you were going to explore virtually every inch of each State I'd probably agree with you SA_Patrol but for the usual Round-the-Block trip you should be able to get away with a lot less than 20gb.

Hello - you will not need 20gb of maps to do a 5 day trip. Most people can get by with the 250k scale maps or if available some more detailed maps of specific areas at larger scales (100, 50 or 25K). A single 250K map in OZF format is only about 8 to 12 mb. The 50K maps I have are of a similar size. The entire 250K mozaic of Australia is about ~700mb (ecw format). The comment above on the space required for maps being >20GB was theoretical and not an issue in most practical circumtances. True it would be a problem if for some reason you needed all of Aus at 50K (maps of this scale are not avaialble for all of Australia anyway) on your PDA and you didnt have a backup memory source such as a laptop...or a bag of 4GB sd cards. I have a 2GB SD card and that suits my purposes easily - you can fit about 180 OZF format full size topo maps on it. If memory is an issue just select what maps are required for each trip. SD cards are realtivley cheap these days anyway.

Cheers
Greg

There are 2 types of maps that cover the whole of Vic. 25k and CFA 50k.
You can also get Rooftop maps for the High Country and about 6 different State forests have there own map that only covers that area
Otways, Wombat State Forest, Vic Desert, and I forgot the others

Please contact me direct at the_explorer at iinet.net.au. I can send you the freely available Vic and NSW maps (these can be had from the gpsaustralia site but you have to download one at a time ...painfull). The maps are in ozf3 format and will only work with OziExplorer.

OziExplorerCE can be purchased from the exploroz shop.

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You can get by with just the CE version ..but it was designed to work with the PC version. If you get both you can plan your trips on the PC (eg Select required maps, create waypoints and routes etc) then upload to PDA. When you have finished your trip you can then download, display and store your data on the PC. You will need the PC version if you want to calibrate your own scanned maps. Both versions of OziExplorer can be run in trial mode before purchase (just download from the oziexplorer website) ..with some limitations...so you can have a bit of a play before spending any money. As with most programs there is a slight learning curve involved but if your are half keen its all pretty easy once the penny drops.

Cheers
Greg