Well i think this has been bashed before, but i prefer to use good old paper maps instead of apps on phones or other forms. Camps 6/7/8 are still used and checked. Hema maps i find have more intricate detail if needed and government maps are also good info. The down side is keeping them all together and in some sort of order. Q What is mostly prefered.
I'm guilty of using electronic maps sorry Robert. I use Google maps while in the planning stages then my Garman to get me there in the tug. Sometimes I wonder why the Garman takes me a particular way but I get there so all good. I sometimes don't take a turn and get told off and "recalculaaaating".
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Same here and yes that miss Garmon has attitude in her voice alright
Woody
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Hi Doug i prefer to sit around the camp or in the house and spend specific time in planning the trip weather short or otherwise i cant seem to get into the fun of it if looking at a device but following lines on a map and seeing the area around as well does it for me. And woody i don't like a machine telling me where to go every body tells me already. cheers
Same here and yes that miss Garmon has attitude in her voice alright
Woody
"Boy" Ya not wrong about Miss Garmin Woody, I had her screeching at me on an older model Navigator, which I used on our trip "Around the block" a few years back,
We hit Adelaide on a Monday Morning just on 9.00 am in rush hour, It was Bucketing down, we had the Caravan in tow and couldn't see a thing,
Here's us, stuck in the centre lane on the freeway, bloody great semi's on both sides, and there was Miss Garmin telling me to take the next exit left, "Fat hope" carried on and ended up missing the next turn off and the following one,
By this time Miss Garmin was fare Screeching her head off, having already said she was recalculating three times.
The Missis reckoned. if I miss the next turn-off ,
there would be a hand coming out of that Navigator and I would cop a good slap across the face. !!!
We did find the next turn-off, then after towing the Caravan right through the C.B.D.
we ran into thick Fog on the hills on the other side of the City.
And you wonder why I like the back country roads. !!!! LOL
K.J.
-- Edited by kiwijims on Sunday 11th of September 2016 11:30:24 AM
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I like a paper map to give me a look just where we are headed, and what is around that area, as well as on the way. I then go to Wikicamps on the tablet, check the co-ordinates match with Camps Book - (had some doozies - ended up in a just cut wheat field turning around one time ) I will then put the details into the GPS - I have a Navman - the poor woman on there has some trouble with pronouncing some of the street and town names here in Australia!!!!
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Being an old school draftsman I have a love of paper maps (still work (sorry Doug!) in the town planning area of drafting!), but I also use electronics to plan in conjunction - have an online fuel map to check for cheapest fuel on route and wikicamps for checking out campsites etc. These days I think it's a must to be able to use both styles, and have both available. When your GPS goes down in an area with no phone signal a book/map will still work
Hema "Australian Road Atlas", Goggle and Garmin. Like to check Atlas and Google before loading destination in to Garmin as she can send you into some wild country not suitable for a van. In NSW I also use Map Six.
I like to do the rough plan on Google Maps then look on Wikicamps for info on places of interest and look at the comments and pics if any.
When the trip is roughed out I like to use Hema paper maps to have a good look at the route so when the Navman says turn here when really I shouldn't I can opt in or out.
Mrs V has the camps 8 book and the Hema map on hand while driving and I do prefer the paper maps as the GPS is only used as a guide for us.
Use paper map for planing , But use on board navigator all the time which is 7 years old just recently had it upgraded and I think that need for built up areas .
Like others, I use both. Hema maps to plan where we are going and whats about and which route is the best (like Jules), then use my Hema GPS to tell me how to get there. Being Aussie made, is doesn't have problems with weird names and how to pronounce them (Google cracks me up or confuses me to hell sometimes), but it still does the Dougwe "recalculating" thing and by the time its decided where you should go, you've past the side road or turnoff anyway, so its a 2nd or 3rd dose of "recalculating" lol
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Use both . Just in case elect type send you where you don't intend on going . My Camps 8 has plenty of writing on each page we've been to . It's almost a diary of where, what em we've done being nomads . Or mad ? Lol
-- Edited by Aus-Kiwi on Tuesday 13th of September 2016 01:44:06 AM
Example . From Penrith to Mt Gambier . The GPS always wants to take us Via ( near) Melbourne . So we enter towns in stages from paper maps to keep in country towns .
I've always had a love of maps and don't think any techo gadgets or apps will ever take their place. Occasionally I'll check things on Google but would always prefer to have a paper map in my hand. Anyway, my laptop got "virused" on my recent trip and I was so glad to have my map collection to help get by. It was an expensive virus and I now have a new laptop after about 3 weeks without the internet.
I also use maps.me. It is free....just have to download the maps when you have wi-fi. The program navigates for you and you do not require data. Used it through the europe and uk ... No problems
Camps7 book doesn't come out of the cupboard these days, Google maps, Wikicamps and Sygic offline maps do all my navigating these days. It is time to move into the 21st century people. I do all my planning with Google Maps, find my campsites with Wikicamps, which will send the coordinates straight to my Android based system, in dash GPS running Sygic offline maps. (this won't work with Ithingies)
I do all my planning with Google Maps, find my campsites with Wikicamps, which will send the coordinates straight to my Android based system, in dash GPS running Sygic offline maps. (this won't work with Ithingies)
