Help with getting maps from the internet for oziexplorer

True Andrew. There are mainly two areas at the moment.Cape York for next July. I need details of tracks and roads other than the usual the CREB, Starckie etc tracks. The other is Camerons Corner area and the Channel country. I think its too late for our victorian high country trip next week. But if you can help great.

Hows that for a start.Cape York and the corner country around Camerons Corner.

Phil

Hey Willem. Good to hear from you again.

Yes I agree. In other words "you get what you pay for". Know what you mean. But having just spent heaps on things I would like to minimise the cost. I will check out that CD.

Thanks

Phil and Sue, one of the benefits of membership of EO is that others may contact you. When you do that relationships are established and referrals too. I was given a pointer to some downloadable NSW maps two weeks ago, and told the source of others at either 25,000:1 or 100,000:1 which are good for my VMS. Much more detail than the 250,000:1 that Willem is talking about.

For your HC trip next week, there are some excellent Roof Top maps readily available but the NRE maps are good too, which are in Mosaic form for a laptop or map x map in ozfx3 format.

G'day Bro, hope you guys are well there. I don't want the heat that you get outside there, we actually got a good thunder storm here a few weeks back that has kept us green, or mostly that way. Of course I did a 'fuel reduction' 40 minutes before it, which worked out well. Hope we get some more over this weekend.

John,

How'd you go with those maps I sent you ? Not overly detailed but sufficient for most of your requirements I hope.

Regards

Al

Al, terrific thank you. I will send you some info and stuff. Gotta go to Mildura today, but need to burn a couple of DVDs. May give you a call later to while away the hours to Mildura. Hope you have a Telstra phone.

maybe not exactly legal but i have A map swap thing going with a guy at work
Ive got some maps he doesnt and hes got some i dont
- now we both have quite a bit
its simple copy and past

A lady said to me she knew all about copywrite. It was all about the right to copy. I don't think she understood the responsibilities under law. She did know how to back up a copy I guess.

John,

No worries. Telstra OK. I'll be sitting here in the air conditioning all day, currently 31 feels like 33 and expecting 41. Glad I've got the day off.

There's a few sources of FREE and LEGAL maps on the Internet, it just takes a bit of looking.

Regards

Thanks Dunedigger,

I recently did a course on Oxiexplorer and after trying others I think Ozi is the best for us. The only thing I must stress is that in no way will I let this map stuff become too big. This is why I will purchase etc instead of mucking around scanning and joining. You go for your life.

Me - well its the bush I like not computers. Thats why we will NEVER have a PC or laptop in the car. The VMS GPS is the closest we will get. Not again.

Computer chats and "Hey Phil how do I do . . . " on amateur radio got me so plain annoyed that I switched off and never went back. The hobby was NOT COMPUTERS.

No doubt I will at some time scan and join them. But only if I cannot purchase them already ready for the GPS.

Arhh, some of the fun is in the planing of a trip using the computer to research my next trip.

I also find using map while in the rough country a much easier way to navigate, mapping errors excepted !

Dunedigger

I will admit though that the internet is tops for getting info.

But I just put the maps in the VMS gps instead of using the paper ones all the time and use the Moving Map function when on the move. Mind you I still take the paper maps as backup. When stationary we still like laying them out on the bonnet with a rock at each corner and point to where we go next. You get that extra "feeling" of being there.

But I will not be taking a computer. Not interested in any email or anything the computer will give us. Nothing beats stopping and asking the locals. Also no phone. Yippee

We put our itinerary in a book and thats all we use apart from the maps. Not interested in waypoints etc as they are in the map. We may also change our minds as we did in the Kimberley.

See you out there some day.

Thats it. The computer now gets switched off until we get home. Catchyalatr and thanks to all for the info

Phil

Thanks WBS

Looks like I need to check out the Geoscience site and Maps on ExploreOz.

I really do not mind paying but as I said to Dunedigger already, the computing side of all this is not going to be allowed to overtake the real interest which is "getting out there". Map or no map.

I wonder what it will be like the first time I get lost!!! Hmmm No sweat as I take lots of extra stuff anyway.

Just had a chat with geoscience and downloaded a local map. Thanks for th there (2kms away) after this trip and have a chat with them. My old firm did a heap of work for them and they remembered me. Thats luck hey!!!