Maping - for Garmins

------------- Sharing your tracks!

Island Olaf will also accept your tracks for his map for Morocco .. as will T4A.

There is also the 'open street maps' (osm) project that will also take your tracks OpenStreetMap

As will smelly biker for the 'Wanderlust' world map...

So that is at least 4 palces to send your Morocco tracks to. Anywhere in Africa to the T4Africa people. Anywhere in Autralia to the T4Australia people. Anywhere in the world to osm and Wanderlust.. and there are probably others in other parts of teh world that I've forgotten about. Your tacks are valuable - to improve the detail and acuracy of GPS maps .. send them in!

--------- Making your own maps ---
You can make your own garmin maps .. using cGPSmapper ... large learning curve. This is how some (T4A, Wanderlust) are making there maps .. you can underlay a digitised paper map and track it out by hand using this software .. tedious.
The 'old russian maps' for Africa have already been converted to digital (and OZiexplorer format) by madmappers and are avalible for free download.. though if you want the complete set it maybe cheaper to buy the CD! Note that the old russian maps are also avalible for some other parts of the world .. yes on the web in digital form ..
It is a lot of work .. most are better off sending their tracks in and letting others do the work...

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Do note that Oziexplorer uses 'raster' format maps - photos if you like of paper maps. Gramin GPS maps are 'vector' format ... the two fromats are not compatable nor easily converted from one to the other ..

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Regards Frank Warner
motorcycles BMW R80 G/S 1981, BMW K11LT 1993, BMW K75 G/S