Garmin Maps

[Garry Booth]

Garmin's GB Discover is circa £140 and is essentially the complete Ordnance Survey map collection for all the UK. That's worth saving for, if like me you have a Garmin Etrex 20, right?
(I already have the City Navigator that gives you a motorist's view of Europe and that works fine.) G

[Peter Molog]

Hmmm... For me that's €229,-- Thats a lot of money.

Try, for free Openfietsmap Europe.

And if you like it, donate.

[FatPunkOnBike]

Can someone explain the difference? I am baffled!!

[Mick F]

Garmin's GB Discover is circa £140

Try these people.
http://www.burrowsgps.co.uk/garmin-gb-d ... 16185.html

[Garry Booth]

Thanks Peter I'll take a look and see how it compares to OS Landranger. These are good for hiking too.

[binsted]

Hmmm... For me that's €229,-- Thats a lot of money.

Try, for free Openfietsmap Europe.

And if you like it, donate.

+1 I am a definite OSM convert. Would not go back to paying OS prices.

[Norman H]

I'm a big fan of OS Mapping but I think it's less useful when used as background mapping for hand held gps devices. OS maps are great for walking but for cycling there are better options. The big limitation is that the small screen only allows for a small portion of the map to be seen. Imagine trying to read a paper map through a mask the size of the average screen. Zoom out to see a bigger area and you need a magnifying glass to read the detail.

I don't know how the licensing of OS maps work on Garmin but unless you can use them on your computer to plan routes and print copies I wouldn't bother.

If you want digital OS maps on your computer look at something like Memory Map or Anquet. Memory map is currently about £100 for the entire country at 1:50k. The outdoor show is on at London Exel this weekend. http://www.telegraphoutdoorshow.co.uk/ There should be some bargains on gps and digital mapping.

[andrew_s]

Zoom out to see a bigger area and you need a magnifying glass to read the detail.

GPS screen resolution isn't high enough for a magnifying glass to be very useful.
You end up with 4, 9 or 16 map pixels per screen pixel, and if the map pixels are different colours, what colour do you show on your one screen pixel? the end result is that not only does all of the detail get smaller as you zoom out, it ends up disappearing altogether.
In general, raster (image) maps like the OS maps are only really much good from about half native scale to double native scale.

[Sweep]

My Etrex 20 came with a voucher for a small free slice of OS of my choosing.

It convinced me that it was worse than useless on the Etrex's screen.

I'm perfectly happy with OSM and the Openfietsmap variant.

[sjs]

My Etrex 20 came with a voucher for a small free slice of OS of my choosing.

It convinced me that it was worse than useless on the Etrex's screen.

I'm perfectly happy with OSM and the Openfietsmap variant.

+1. I find Talkytoaster pretty good. Just can't get the hang of Velomap's routing on my Oregon, clever though it is.

But for walking, you can't beat OS 1:25k in my opinion.

[Sweep]

But for walking, you can't beat OS 1:25k in my opinion.

Yes, great maps though I have too many of them - not the best for cycle trips - though being a slow learner I eventually learned this a bit late.

[stu1102]

In my view for cycling Openfietsmap because it is focused on the cyclist

Openfietsmap centerered on a area of Derby, zoomed at 150m



OS Map Discovery 150k

Same area, zoomed at 15om




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