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On 11/29/2004 4:31 PM, Jason Bleazard wrote:
| On Mon, November 29, 2004 2:33 pm, jon@dakota-truck.net said:
|
|>When we decide where we will end
|>up, I might have to buy some topographic maps for the area.
|
|
| Definitely. Paper maps are easy to find and cheap. The software gets a
| bit expensive. Might be worth doing a group buy on a good software
| package, though. We can wait until fairly soon before the event, to make
| sure it's up to date. Pick the best coverage for the area we'll be in.
|
|
|> I
|>have Topo USA on my laptop, but I don't know if it would be very
|>useful to bring that since it only has 1/2 hour of battery life.
|
|
| Can that generate maps that can be downloaded to mapping GPS units? Our
| eMap uses Delorme's software maps. We have the topo software, but it
| doesn't seem to have a terribly high level of detail. I'm not sure what's
| available now. Last time I looked, the eMap was obsolete, and I didn't
| bother checking to see what new things they've come out with.
~From what I've seen, the map file format for GPSes is proprietary per
manufacturer; IOW, the software that will generate a map for downloading
to my Magellan won't create anything that a Garmin can read.
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