Friday, May 01, 2009 at 10:09
Hello Bill - I suppose Hema include them because they are free and compliment their own maps. Hema maps are very good for their intended purpose but they are mostly small scale e.g. the Great Desert Tracks series are 1:1,250,000 - scaling off shows highways being represented by 900m wide red lines, the CSR is a 200m wide line!! They show all the main "tourist" routes and a few side tracks but, overall, don’t have as much track detail as the 250K maps. This should not be seen as a criticism of the Hema maps - they have not been created to replace the 250K series - they have a different specific use and they do it well (IMHO).
Hema’s other claim to fame is that they re-mapped a lot of the main tracks so they are in some cases more accurately positioned/up to date than the same areas/tracks shown on the 250K series.
On the same token there is only so much detail you can show on a 250K map - it is no surprise they are, overall, not as detailed as Oztopo or Topo Aus both of which claim (I think) to be equivalent to a 25K map in detail. You will however still find some areas with tracks on the 250K maps that aren’t on one or the other of these Garmin products, though that is probably the exception and not the rule.
Trouble is there is no single map set that will suit everyone all of the time. My solution, get every map you can get your hands on!!
Cheers
Greg
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