Hema maps converted to "ozfx3" format .... can you buy them ????

Sorry was going to add I have many maps and hema are my least used. Just no detail at all. I use them occasionally for trip planning when just driving roads as there lack of detail makes it easy to work out main routes

so why was there more detail on the paper "hemas" than Natmaps on the GPS .... or are they both crap, i want to load the best i can get so please let me know eh.. got caught a few time in the Desert tracks, Strazlecki track to Camerons was a bit bland as was Norsman in ......
Cheers
Joe

ive never found more detail on a hema than a natmap. 100% the opposite most of the tracks i drive arnt on Hema. There fine if your just driving some tourist route but as soon as you turn off thats the end of the hema maps

my most commonly used maps are Natmap, geological survey maps and CALM 50 k maps for the soth west. if i go paper then i use the QPA maps and tracks of WA

I have in electronic form every hema map made in 2008 and in paper form all the maps and tracks desert series but as i said i rarely use them if at all due to the total lack of detail
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Might be different in Qld but in WA thats the way it is

Yep, I agree, Hema maps look colourful but no contour lines. I prefer the Topo maps as you can use the contour lines to help find out were you are and what sort of terrain is up ahead.Toppos I prefer for the work in the ranges but the Hema's have there use in the open country.

I find some maps are very detailed in some areas & not so in others . My garmin oz topo very detailed here in rural s.a but go to Alice springs very average , don't show half the track I have used ....

Has anyone use open street maps ? detail etc

"Strazlecki track to Camerons was a bit bland" ...that's puzzling ...

cheers nick

Hi

Different scale/types of maps have different uses. Just because Hema maps are small scale and don’t have topo lines doesn’t mean they are of no use to anyone. They have been designed for a specific purpose for a specific market and the makers have done (and are still doing) and excellent job of this. Sounds like they suited Joes requirements up till his point so I wouldn’t be suggesting a change unless they maps could be used for the same purpose.

My guess is if he obtained some 50K maps for the same purpose he uses the Hema maps for he would be disappointed as while they may have more "detail" they don’t have the same information e.g. annotations of town services, phone numbers etc. All good to have 10m contours and many secondary tracks ...but if it’s not the information you require at the scale you want it’s not a benefit. Also many of the larger scale maps (100K, 50K, 25K) are not as up to date as producing them is far more expensive and the market is smaller.

So..don’t get talked into getting larger scale maps on the sole argument they have more “detail”. My suggestion is to get them all to cover all circumstances :)

Cheers
Greg