Garmin GPS

I zoomed in as far as it would go and no more detail appeared that wasn't there at say 750M elevation ??

The already installed city navigator shows heaps more offroad tracks than Shonky ..

CN is probably better in this area as it's still really suburbia. Shonky comes into it's own when you're in the bush. I doubt that Garmin Topo will be any better in this area than CN but you do get 3D as a bonus.

Wicket
I live in a small NT Town and CN does not show the streets where as Garmin Topo does .
for outback areas it has the Simpson tracks and CSR, see a demo of Docker River area HERE

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Doug

Obviously it's horses for courses:)

wicket
Not really...........Ive seen humans running a course on tv ...tic

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I rang them up and although the topo maps are 1:100K compared to the topo maps I have at 1:25,000, he couldn't say how detailed they were as he couldn't compare....so I will try and get down to their Sydney store one day and have a look before I fork out money for something that the city navigator may do as good a job ??

I'm used to seeing topo maps with 1:25,000 and while I don't mind missing some "features".....I can't work out why most tracks would be missing ?? ( talking Shonky here )

If I'm going to be say travelling thru the Flinders ranges, why would I buy topo maps for the Garmin if the city navigation shows the same tracks ?? ( or more ?? )

Why indeed?

That said, tracks in that area won't change that often so older digital maps won't suffer built-in obsolescence.

I'd be interested in how much more up-to-date Hema dig maps are since common routes have been GPS mapped; I don't think they work on Garmins though but am happy to be corrected.

As far as I'm concerned the only advantage to Oztopo is auto-routing and this is not available in it with many smaller tracks as best I can make out.

And the last time I tried to look up a town with Oztopo and Mapsource it couldn't find it, despite the town being marked on the map.

I'm heading for the FR later in the year and the Hema paper map of the area is very nicely produced. As a 'map' of the same area Oztopo looks like rubbish.

I'm also going to the Flinders later in the year, and I have already bought a good Hema map, but it would be pointless ( wouldn't it ?? ) loading on something like Shonky to the Garmin if it doesn't show any more ( or maybe less ) than the city stuff already there ??

That would be my view.

You can still use the Nuvi to record a track log to help you recover from geographic embarassment.

(And you're sure that CN includes 4X4 tracks over there?).

I will check to see if CN covers the Flinders !!