looking for good Australian road maps

Have you considered WAC (World Aviation Charts) maps? They show a wealth of detail other than roads and Lat/Long.

Hi Martijn,

If you're chasing Australian ROAD maps with latitude/longitude (I presume you're not REALLY after "Altitude") I fear you may be in for a long wait.

I don't think I've seen much of that kind anywhere, although I'm sure others, who have located them, will be only to keen to enlighten us both if there are any.

Most road maps over here are really only what we'd call "mud-maps" - the relationship of any particular town to others is fairly reasonable, but you'd probably be struggling to identify your position on the ground between them with anything like real accuracy. Most will be missing some roads or tracks, as an absolute certainty.

While not ROAD maps, you may find the NATMAP 1:250,000 series some help. Not much use in towns and cities, because of the scale, these are available from any map shop (in paper and in electronic form) and cover the whole country. These do have lat/long and if you need finer detail of particular areas, map shops may have 1:100,000, 1: 50:000 or even larger scale maps where those are available for the area you're interested in.

Hope this triggers some wider discussion and provides you with a few more possibilities.

Regards,


Charlie

The HEMA 4WD atlas is the only paper map we carry these days.
Add a GPS with the HEMA in electronic form plus the Auslig 1:250,000 and it is pretty much covered (except for some ''specialty' areas at 1:50,000)

Cheers,
Peter
OKA196 Motorhome

I think CFS maps give you all the info you may need, the problem is you will need about 6 -9 books just for SA.

I know you can get them from the map shop in SA.

A lot of books to carry around though.