I am looking for a "Offroad GPS

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wes570

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I am looking for a "Offroad GPS" By offroad, i do not mean touring, I mean 4wding and camping in National Parks, and on large private properties, sometimes very large hilly remote properties along the new England. I have seen the Hema with their TOPO 250k maps, which I believe are useless for this type of driving, so I imagine the VMS is the same. I have also seen the Garmin Nuvi with OzTOPO 25K maps which I thought were great maps, and easy to use.. My mate with Nuvi had issues with Waypoints and favourites, which I understand is common with the garmins 3590's.
So which GPS, GPS mapping SW and maps are best for this purpose. I want to be able to mark gates, fence posts, cattle yards, boundaries, valleys, hills, creeks, shacks, homesteads, cattle water bowls etc, so I can use them as reference points at night or next time, so I do not get lost.
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mauriceb

mauriceb

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oZi with more detail maps

your gps is only as good as the maps you load into them . use a 1 to 25th map in oziexplorer or androzic if you have android .marking gates and way point and naming them is easy, You can download free detailed topo maps at http://maps.festy.org/downloads/ozi/NSW/ already in 0zf2 format
 
miked

miked

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Full blown version of OZI Explorer is the best, run on a 10 inch netbook with solid state drive and a BU353 GPS mouse, with perhaps a 7 ich ebay job GPS with IGO and an upgraded micro SD card 16 G running OZI-CE as a support(about $130 to your door from hong kong and including a 16msd from office works) mounted on the windscreen. The screen is bigger than the Hema but the screen can be a liitle bit difficult te read with glare. A substantial amount cheaper than Hema but when loaded up with OZI-CE and maps is more or less the same thing
Mapping info loaded is as previously mentioned the key to any GPS, poor maps ergo useless in the terrain your in. Raster 1:10000 covers some areas or how about cacheing in some sat images and converting to ozf3, plenty of programs online and info on how to do it. There are plenty of other maps available free on line , to purchase in a format for OZI,or you can scan and create your own map files from paper maps with the additional free softwear on the Ozi site.
Cheers miked:cool:
 
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wes570

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mauriceb said:
your gps is only as good as the maps you load into them . use a 1 to 25th map in oziexplorer or androzic if you have android .marking gates and way point and naming them is easy, You can download free detailed topo maps at http://maps.festy.org/downloads/ozi/NSW/ already in 0zf2 format
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thanks for the web site but i cant open them. how do i and with what program?
im new to this so i may ask dumb questions.
 
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billolga

billolga

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Right click & "Save as" then Windows will open them if you RIGHT CLICK ON THEM & open with Explorer (Zip is compressed file).
 
extremelimitsoff

extremelimitsoff

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HEMANavigator

I use a HEMA Navigator HN5i in car with the Hema explorer (cut down Ozi) with the full version on my laptop

Great unit both on and offroad
 
Grey Ghost

Grey Ghost

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I got Oziexplorer for Android, put it on my Galaxy, yes I know it's a phone with a small screen, but I can load up any maps I want, Hema, oztoppo, rooftop etc and can zoom in for detail and to mark waypoints etc. Ozi for Android is a full featured version too, I like it better than the laptop version actually.
 
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GQ shorty

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Grey Ghost said:
I got Oziexplorer for Android, put it on my Galaxy, yes I know it's a phone with a small screen, but I can load up any maps I want, Hema, oztoppo, rooftop etc and can zoom in for detail and to mark waypoints etc. Ozi for Android is a full featured version too, I like it better than the laptop version actually.
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Het Grey Ghost
Mate just got a samung tablet could you tell me how you got your maps everything to load I got ozimapper and androzic but cannt get the maps i want and the maps i can get dont show any of the tracks i know are there.
Cheers
 
billolga

billolga

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wes570 said:
do you mean ozi explorer? because i still cant open them:confused:
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You must extract the files from a .ZIP file (A means of compressing - One ZIP file can have many map files included) to the MAP folder in Ozi Explorer. Windows 7 will do it as I said before but there are other programs like ZipGenius6 (FREE) that will do it.

Each map will have two files a xxxx.map & xxxx.ozfx(2 or 3).
 
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wes570

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billolga said:
You must extract the files from a .ZIP file (A means of compressing - One ZIP file can have many map files included) to the MAP folder in Ozi Explorer. Windows 7 will do it as I said before but there are other programs like ZipGenius6 (FREE) that will do it.

Each map will have two files a xxxx.map & xxxx.ozfx(2 or 3).
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this may be a stupid question but do i need the FULL version of ozi or is the trial enough
 
riplock

riplock

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Buy a tablet and put memory maps on it if your serious about a GPS..you could also run ozi on it if you want..
You also get the benifits of the tablet.. even make post on Earth with the Tapatalk 2 app..

Check out the memory maps web site and quality of the maps, then make a decision


Sent from my MZ604 using Tapatalk 2
 
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wes570

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Thanks for your feed back il have to look into it more and see eg map quality and how close i can soom in befor it pixilizerse. As im not that good with these sorts of things.
 
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bmurray2250

bmurray2250

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I have oziexplorer on the android phone and on a 7" windows ce gps with works out great

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