Oziexplorer & Hema maps

Hello - difficult to say what is "best map" as it depends on your intended use. Larger scale maps (eg 25K) may show more detail but may be overkill when a 250K map will do. I have cut the following from previously thread on subject (and fixed links I hope)

Here is a quick list of commercial (and some non commercial) digital map products you can use with OziExplorer (note: some are expensive as some producers choose to sell the digital version of the map at the same price as the paper copy ..so when a DVD/CD has hundreds of maps you are up for a few bucks).

NOTE 2: Some of these maps sets are avialble in the exploroz shop so check there first before considering purchase elsewhwere.

Exploroz Digital Mapping products for sale

Westprint Outback Tracks - similar to Hema GDT

Westprint - Exploroz Shop

Westprint

They also have a digital version of their Holland Track (WA) paper map ready for use with OziExplorer

Meridian Maps have these

The Otways - 4WD Map
Sydney Adventures- 4WD Map
Wombat State Forest - 4WD Map
Victoria's Deserts - 4WD Map

Exploroz Shop - Meridian Maps

Meridian Map website

Australian TopoView Raster 2006 maps produced by the LPI of NSW

TopoView Raster 2006 maps on DVD are exact digital copies of the NSW Lands Department's topographic maps. They cover the whole of NSW and vary in scales from 1:100,000 (Western Region), 1:50,000 (Central NSW) and 1:25,000 (Eastern NSW)

Octa PC Topoview Maps for sale

Qld: Sunmap Raster CD contains all the available 1:25,000 scale topographic maps as georeferenced ECW images. Covers South East Queensland and some other major towns. These maps can be imported into OziExplorer.

QLD Sunmaps

Digital nautical charts
WA Marine Charts
Aus Marine Charts

Tasmania - TASMAP raster map

Tas Gov website

PDF catalogue download of Tas maps

West Oz Maps

Kimberley 50K
Pilbara 50K
South West WA 50K
South West WA 25K
(100k south and west cost WA available soon)

WA Digital Mapping

Coming soon 100K south & west coast WA
100K Goldfields Geology and Historical Leas maps - "Gold & Ghosts"

South Aust
Scanned 1:50 000 Topographical map series
South Australia

All of Australia 250K Geology maps
250K Geology Maps

Victoria maps

Victoria digital maps

NSW 25K map download

click to download 25K maps NSW

NSW 50K map download

click to download 50K maps NSW

You can use just about any digital map in oziexplorer as long as it is in right raster format and can be calibrated so may other sources around

Cheers
Greg

You can also download all but one of the 1:250000 maps from MapConnect.

The only one you can not download is the Yulara/Ayres Rock map for some unknown reason.

Cheers
Ross

You can also download NASA satellite photos here
http://zulu.ssc.nasa.gov/mrsid/

And if you are looking for overseas maps, a good source of maps is

http://en.poehali.org/maps

These are Russian military maps and some abit old.

Bruce

In my opinion this is the most convenient and covers the full range of mapps that I need

Hema 4WD Raster map

I have had a good play with the Hema map for the Kimberly as we are planning a trip on the Gibb River for next year. I am happy to buy the hema maps but feel that it might be a bit of a waste of money buying maps for the whole of australia that will be out of date by the time I need them (2014).

I would prefer to by the WA only maps for the moment, but am having trouble deciding if the Hema map is the best option or go for something else.

Too many choices now days. Bloody technology.

Thankyou all for you help. I have found what I was looking for, which is Hema maps for WA. Even better it is only and half the price of buy the full Australia set that are made by Hema. For some reason these are not online but I managed to buy it from a mapping shop in Fremantle.

Email me if you would like further details as I do not want to take business away from the great shop offered on this site. Hopefully the WA maps will be offered in the Explore oz shop soon.

Again, thanks for the reply's.

Simon

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