Tramp wrote:I have a samsung A6 android tab with wifi and phone capable cost around £220..its great use with data card and android free mapping ...the spain one is excellent with very good coverage of trails....you can use the mapping with no phone connection too and also use downloaded gpx data as overlays to show route/tracks...
the technology is out there just need what you want....battery lasts 10+ hours...there was a thread on here from Daniel about a rugged tab and wez was inputting some very good info..
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Thanks Russ, but I think I've been wandering off my own topic somewhat! What I want to do is see the map I have on my Garmin but on a bigger screen wit better resolution, etc., while I'm actually using it.
I've been going down the line of toking at routes on Basecamp - see below - or whatever but that's not what I was asking about ...
To elaborate a bit, when I'm exploring I spend a lot of time being totally lost as tracks that are 'mapped' on TopoEspaña don't exist on the ground - I'm obviously drib¡ing along one that does exist! - and may bot exist on the printed 1:50 000 scale maps downloaded rom the Spanish cartography institute and printed off - at great expense I might add - in home made tiles on A1 sized sheet of paper.
Sometimes there are trails tantalisingly close on the screen and these are clearly mapping errors from some survey done possibly as log ago as the Civil War or more recently by army units composed of an officer/surveyor and a bunch of guys doubt their military service. A friend of mine was just one such - the latter - and is now a qualified surveyor. Back in the day his jib was to see to it that the officer was well suppled wit food, drink and women down in the village where they were billeted while the squaddies go on with they survey, which mainly consisted of drawing up - actually revising as often as not - maps by guess work while they hunk around in the shade ping for their mother's cooking ...
Since then I guess more 'refining' has been done using satellite imagery and some sort of algorithm meanwhile the forestry guys say' hey, look instead of clearing this old rail let's make a new on over there while we have the bulldozer ...
This of course makes the HISS and HUMM events great gigs but I find myself increasingly, er, lost!
daryl wrote:Diesel Pete wrote:Your Mac wont run Basecamp unless you put Windows on it which rather defeats the point of a make and it will become a pain like a Windows machine.
Basecamp in in the Mac App Store, and fully supported (without installing Windows). See:
http://www8.garmin.com/support/download ... sp?id=4449
Thanks Daryl. you beat me to it - in fact although I'm probably wrong I thought that Basecamp was developed for the Mac in the first place, hence it ding so/too much 'automatically' - just the way we Mac nerds like it! :whistle:
Regs
Simon