Can anyone give me advice on maps. We're thinking of purchasing either Hema or Mud maps. Are they easy to set up, easy to run, after sales service. Thanks
Just my 2c worth but we prefer paper maps anyday. You can read them whilst on the road and when camped with no power plus they are instantly ON.
They can be cheap if you buy them from Op Shops - usually $2 - 5 will buy you one of the larger maps that covers the whole country that is only a few years old and roads don't change.
For free camping you need "Camps Australia Wide 7"
Good Luck.
I have a Hema Australia Road Atlas. Got it in 1999 & used to mark it up with all my trips. Got that way that it was difficult to read the distances.
It's all marked up with information that was given to us by other travelers & our own observations about our preferred CPs & even best sites. Pretty messy & repaired with sticky tape.
I use it for general planning & then over to local maps from Info Center brochures & area maps like Cartographer series of the East Coast for more detailed stuff.
A GPS comes in handy for assistance thru larger Cities like Sydney & where new by passes etc have been built more recently.
We use the Hema maps from their CD package in conjunction with OziExplorer. We too have done a lot of off-road and remote travel in the past and find this combination works really well.
I run OziExplorer on an android tablet coupled with a bluetooth GPS receiver, both mounted near the dash so it's easy for both myself and the "navigator" to see where we are. Yes, we do carry paper maps just in case, but rarely refer to them now except in our planning stages.
There are various GPS units that run OziExplorer and HEMA do the HN7 which does Ozi as well as street navigation which is handy in built up areas with its voice directions.
Ozi takes a bit of getting used to and you really need the desktop PC version to make route planning easier, but it's well worth it in the end.
Can anyone give me advice on maps. We're thinking of purchasing either Hema or Mud maps. Are they easy to set up, easy to run, after sales service. Thanks
The Camps 7 have Hema Maps in them as well as free camps.
I don't know about the other States, but Camping Stores, book shops etc in WA have one map book on bush tracks in WA, I think the Dunmowin's had one when in WA.
