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Interesting thread, but i must say, i'm very confused?? Are you all in the dark ages? Why not get a GPSMAP, like a Garmin 60, load it with Worldmap (if it doesn't already have it), Buy the harness and a cradel, weather it be $30 from RAM, or $120 from Touratech, and your set. )
Just to end your confusion -- the GPS basemaps available for most of Africa (and probably other less 'mapped' places around the world) are pretty useless. For Africa you need to scan and calibrate your own maps or fork out for a very expensive all-in-one solution like Touratech's. Either way, if you're doing anything half-way serious off the tar, and need to read terrain you'll have to mess around with a PC at some stage in the game - even if only to print out your reliable paper sheets!
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Just looked at Morocco on Worldmap v4 (which I've never heard of) on the Garmin website. Detail compared to the IGN or Russian maps is minimal to say the least. Would probably be adequate for navigating town to town but for specific pistes or finding discrete features it's pretty useless.

I'll stick with my original plan of dash mounted gps pre-programmed with routes and a pda to show position on a map. Backed up with paper copies, and if I was doing a west africa circuit or similar, maybe even a used toughbook for comprehensive map and photo storage.

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So much to think about!

Wow - thanks for all the naswers and keep them coming.

Now I only want to go and spend £400 on a brand new Garmin GPS ....

Its all good fun finding out anyhow, but I do think the number one issue is making sure you have the quality of maps. I may well take you up on your offer for a tutorial for buying maps and converting them to something useful Andrew! (P.S. thanks for the PM).

Andy - yes it was the shire we were out with. Our first time with them and it was a great weekend. A really good way to learn what the vehicle can do. Hopefully we will be out with them again soon. When do you guys leave?

If you had an infinite supply of mpney, does anyone have an opinion on which would be the best electronic maps to buy? I might start begging

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We leave mid June. Cant wait life is just hanging around now waiting for May when we can arange the Iranian & Pakistan Visas. Will get the Indian in Islamabad.
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