French Maps

windsor · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 25, 2004 Posts: 51

Hi

I'm looking for some decent scale walking type maps of France; ie like Memory Map OS Explorer, to use on Pocket PC, but France.

Does anyone have any experience of say, Cartoexploreur, or IGN Rando, to help me make a choice.

Geoff

lbendlin · Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2004 5:52 pm Post subject:

Please try to post this question over at our friends www.gpspassion.com They are specializing in all stuff french.
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windsor · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 25, 2004 Posts: 51

Thanks Lutz,
I did just that, and as a guide for non french speakers, I have aquired Cartoexploreur 3.1 and a few maps. IGN Rando does not yet seem to work on Pocket pc, but the Bayo product does. Its a little bit fiddly to run, not especially intuitive, and of course its all in French, so intuitive would be good!.
However I have got it to run on PC and Pocket PC using my Haicom Bluetooth setup, so if anyone needs help - please ask.

Geoff

paulmk · Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 8:51 pm Post subject: Also looking for French Maps

Geoff

I have Memory map V4 and am also looking for maps of the Jura region for France. I think i have found the maps i need via IGN, they are the Cartoexploreur 3 for district 39 (Jura Sud) (www.ign.fr/affiche_rubrique.asp?rbr_id=1312&lng_id=FR&GRA_ID=BAY25)

Anyway do you know if these maps will work with memory map 4, any details you can give me on importation/installation and callibration would be well received.

cheers

Paul

windsor · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 25, 2004 Posts: 51

Paul,

Sorry for the delay in replying. I am fairly sure that the cartoexplorer maps wont be compatible with memory map, but the cartoexploreur viewer/gps software comes on the cd with the map. It sits happily on a pocket pc alongside your other software. Just load it thru active sync in the usual way.
Geoff

Countryman · Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 10:28 am Post subject:

Schwep · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 07, 2005 Posts: 1

Bayo software is OK when it works, good maps. They are available in two scales: 1:100.000 for whole regions (for instance the whole of Auvergne), or at 1:25.000 (equivalent to the Series Bleu paper hiking maps) at two CDs per province (i.e. for just the Puy de Dôme, province 63, you need 63 Nord and 63 Sud). The problem is that they have written various versions of the Bayo CartoExploreur software and these will not always work seamlessly together - I suppose they will certainly not work with other software. The data CDs are accompanied by a software CD, that needs to find a specific 'protection system' (an executable file) on the map CD once it has been installed and starts to read or transfer maps from the map CD. My guess is that any other software will not be able to read this protection system to extract the maps. CartoExploreur comes ready with a PocketPC version, though, so you may install it separately on a PDA.
I just found that different versions of the PC software version are not always capable of reading the 'protection system' executable of a more recent or, possibly, ancient version of a map CD of the same brand. It may mean that you have, say, CartoExploreur version 3.02 installed, you buy another CD with maps of a neighbouring area, which has version 3.04 of the software on it, and your installed version will not read the maps. Worse, it will not cleanly uninstall and if you try to install the newest version, the two versions will create a quagmire of faulty Windows registry entries and leftover files, with the result that none of your old maps already on the PC will work (I had to go through the registry by hand to remove dozens of faulty entries before I could restore my old version). I just had a situation with Bayo, when I returned a new CD with version 3.04 for this reason, assuming the CD must be faulty, but they tested it as being OK, told me that it was the abovementioned software issue - and returned my CD set without the software disk, so now I have a data CD that cannot be read by any of the versions I already have (I already had four, but all with older versions of the software), and no copy of the newer software.
One thing to note, thus, is to start off with the most recent (3.04 or later) version of the software, in the hope that this may read older versions as well. Whether this is an issue with the PocketPC version as well I don't know, but the more recent data CDs use a protection file with a different name (BayoTools.exe) than the older ones (where it was called GeoTools.exe). If an older version stubbornly looks for one and not the other, it may not be able to transfer or read the maps.

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