off road maps?

[Septic]

hi folks
Do you know if you can get off road maps
so i can do some decent off roading?


stevie

 

[Mouse]

The obvious answer is the TRF.

But if you want maps for your GPS, it's a bit trickier. You can transfer information from paper maps to the computer and upload to the GPS as a track log, that's what I do and eventually you build up a decent database of good lanes to ride on the computer. I use OS mapping software called Fugawi but others use Memory Map and similar - they are all much the same.

You can also get some information about green lanes from this site: http://www.way-finder.co.uk/ but it's not very user friendly

 

[Septic]

Thanks mouse
ill have a look.

stevie

 

[samwise]

http://www.garmin.com/cartography/mapSource/topogb.jsp



Looks like a new product, as the page doesn't show compatability yet This was a link from a thread started by a Garmin employee on ADVRider, mentioning City Select Mexico, Malaysia/Singapore and New Zealand.

 

[Kritou]

Garmin has just announced TOPO Great Britain v2 and at £149 may be affordable - it's also routable on "roads"!

http://www.garmin.com/cartography/mapSource/topogb.jsp

They are being coy however about which GPSRs it will run on. However at the Basingstoke show the rep said it would run on a Quest and the Mapsource demo (full UK OS mapping down to 200feet) shows it on an eTrex

 

[Yellow Peril]

I have the same question as Kritou, will this be any good for roads. I am debating to upgrade to Version 7 City navigator but as most of my riding is UK based would this new product be more suitable for me, doing a bit of off roading etc etc

 

[BLUE(UK)]

It doesn't show any footpaths,bridleways,BOATS etc.