Re: UK O/S 1:50000 which is best?

From: Andreas van Hooijdonk (ahooijdZ_at_piZ.beZ)
Date: 10/25/04 

Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:18:06 +0200

TreCastell wrote:
> UK Ordnance Survey Mapping Programmes....
> I've got Anquet 2003 installed on my own laptop, but notice a couple
> of others out there viz: Fugawi & Memory Map .... possibly others too
> that i don't know about??
> Any users of these other systems got any constructive comments about
> use/capabilities of the others?
> I use gps on Anquet, find it excellent, but find it lacking in route
> drawing capability.
> ALL progs have their plus and minus points i know, but thinking of
> investing in NEW mapping program and would be interested in other
> peoples findings before forking out another £250 and finding
> (perhaps) that it isn't quite all it's cracked up to be. eg. mapping
> not quite as up to date as expected..

I have used MemoryMap 2003 with 1:50k maps in SW England and it is
great. Also on the PC it is a real pleasure to play with it. For example
instaneous zooming with the scrollwheel on the mouse. Lovely. The same
maps are used in the Fugawi software that I have (also 2003) and there
zooming is a real pain as you have to click on a zoom button, then
choose you scale and than.....wait. Please mind that I talk about older
versions of both software packages. Both MemoryMap as Fugawi have newer
versions now. What I liked very much with MemoryMap on the PC is, when
you have downloaded a track from your GPSr to MM, it indicates the
direction of travel by means of arrows and when you pass your cursor
over the track, it displays long, lat, altitude, date and time for the
point where you point the track on the screen. ...... 

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Andreas van Hooijdonk
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