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Originally Posted by Roman
Hello Richard,
Being a bit technophobic, aren't we?
Out of interest, how many 1:500 000 paper maps do you reckon are needed to cover the route from Europe to Oz?
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I get your point, BUT most travellers would get away with none at all. <500k maps are only really needed if you're route-finding in remote areas - typically a small enough proportion of the trip to carry printouts.
Bigger maps you'll want to take on paper anyway.
I spent days setting up a PDA with 200k maps for my last trip, it worked OK although a pain to read in bright sunlight. A custom-printed map book brought by a client with pre-marked waypoints proved much more useful in the end and unlike the PDA no one accidentally wiped it's memory!
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