Bushwalk Australia

by **Zone-5** » Sun 22 Feb, 2015 5:51 pm

CN Australia & New Zealand NT 2015.40 - HERE

... out now!

Can anyone else review it before I get it and test it out on my Etrex 20?

by **nevw** » Mon 02 Mar, 2015 7:35 pm

Your etrex is most useful for bush walking.
The CN Aus & NZ is for vehicle routing and best left to the Nuvis, etc and and is not much use to you for bush walking.
The latest version would have a few more roads on it but it is unlikely to have much in the way off off road tracks.

A far better option (IMHO) is to use the free Openstreetmap (osm) http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/-34.3327/140.5606 options for the garmin.
There are many options but here is a popular place to download a map for your area - RTFM first. http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/
Other pre made maps here http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin/Download

You can also edit the osm to add bushwalking tracks and facilities . Every time I go somewhere and find the osm is lacking, I do my best to edit the map so that others can benefit too. That is one of the best reasons to use an open street map.

I guess most bush walkers would go online and use a routing site first to plan their route and make a gpx track and download to the GPSr or download one that someone else posted, and if you do this routinely then it probably does not matter so much which map you use to overlay it on.

However, if you want to use the map to find an address to route to then the osm is pretty well useless as there are few addresses entered over most of Aus and in this regard the CN Aus & NZ is superb.

Another option is the Garmin topo v5 which also has routing included and also has the contours.
http://bushwalk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=18409 I think this would be more suitable than the CN series for most etrex users.
I think there is a less featured lite version too.

by **Zone-5** » Tue 03 Mar, 2015 11:34 pm

nevw wrote:Another option is the Garmin topo v5 which also has routing included and also has the contours.
http://bushwalk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=18409 I think this would be more suitable than the CN series for most etrex users.
I think there is a less featured lite version too.

Yes my thread ^^, the lite version v5 Topo does not have routing so NO street by street guidance!

Yes I agree that the eTrex is good for walking generally and in fact I use it to find my car in the city when I grab a park where I can. follow the arrow...

I have CN, CE, Bluechart, Topo, contours 5m, OSM, HEMA raster, tracks4Australia, public toilets and Navionics sonar maps on the card in the Etrex 20. All have been optimised with Imgtool to display over each other if need be in any order.

CN is best on the Nuvi as I have one as well but it also works very well on the Etrex.

This new version by HERE does seem to be not as updated as the Sensis CN 2015.30!

Go Figure...