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Originally Posted by Frank Warner
Most GPSes only take vector maps... (T4Africa, Morrotopo etc)
The maps backofbeyond is taking of are raster based maps .. they won't go on most GPSes.
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Perfectly true, but when I was looking at this a year or so ago I couldn't find any vector based maps of west africa that were of much use and there seemed little point in buying a gps that would only give me something marginally better than lat/lon. I've got an old GPS2+ Garmin that still does that perfectly well.
Having seen how many raster based maps were available though made me look at hardware that would use them and at the moment I'm about 80% happy with it (the other 20% is because there are about 100 individual maps covering West Africa and at the moment I have to manually switch from one to the next).
It's not an approach I'd suggest others follow unless you like to be hands on with this type of thing. If there had been an open the box and plug it in solution that's what I'd have gone with last year.
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