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robertn
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I'm going to start a ball rolling and see if theres enough interest to keep it going.
Has anyone tried any of these open source maps - if so, how good are they. Also does anyone know of any others, particularly a UK or EU project
Ibycus USA
New Zealand Open GPS
How much interest is there in open source maps, given the complaints we regularly see over the pricing and qulaity of maps, I would think quite a high level of interest, but are they good enough? It seems the open source community has embraced Garmin formats, does anyone know if other formats (tomtom and Navman) are availble? |
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gatorguy6996
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A New Zealand member of another forum advised that the OpenSource map for his country was very good, confirmed by a recent visitor he recommended it to.
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openstreetmap is your friend  |
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greg_m
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robertn
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| Anyone know how good the openstreetmap maps are? Anyone used them for routing etc? Are they comparable to commercial maps |
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mikealder
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Open Street Mapping coverage will really depend upon where you are in the country, some areas have a very well defined coverage with greater levels of detail than the TA/ NT mapping.
Other areas can be devoid of any coverage, but you can add detail to the map yourself, it takes a little getting used to but once you start it can become very addictive - Mike |
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robertn
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It may be a problem then - I have an addictive sort of personality 
Thanks everyone for all the input. |
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Thanks for the map links thats great stuff, much better than hunting round for them, brilliant..
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