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NSW and national maps

Postby Lophophaps » Thu 19 Oct, 2017 5:37 am

Alternatives to Google maps.

Sixmaps for NSW
https://maps.six.nsw.gov.au/

For all Australia
http://nationalmap.gov.au/
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Re: NSW and national maps

Postby crollsurf » Thu 19 Oct, 2017 7:41 am

Like six maps because of the topo lines but never worked out a good way of printing for on the track.
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Re: NSW and national maps

Postby johnw » Thu 19 Oct, 2017 12:26 pm

crollsurf wrote:Like six maps because of the topo lines but never worked out a good way of printing for on the track.

Have you tried the Print/PDF tool? In preview mode you can pull the map around, scale it etc before generating a PDF for printing. I've used it like that to get required detail for a specific location. May need more than one depending on length of walk etc.
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Re: NSW and national maps

Postby johnw » Thu 19 Oct, 2017 12:26 pm

For QLD QTopo seems quite good. I used it for a visit in June this year. You can download the standard 1:25,000 map sheets among other functions:
http://qtopo.dnrm.qld.gov.au/
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Re: NSW and national maps

Postby crollsurf » Thu 19 Oct, 2017 1:41 pm

johnw wrote:Have you tried the Print/PDF tool? In preview mode you can pull the map around, scale it etc before generating a PDF for printing. I've used it like that to get required detail for a specific location. May need more than one depending on length of walk etc.


Not sure if they have updated it recently or I hadn't played around with it enough before but printing works well now!

Been using http://maps.ozultimate.com/, especially for creating GPX and KMLs. Unless someone has a better suggestion for that as well, I might stick with maps.ozultimate.com but jump across to six maps for printing.
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Re: NSW and national maps

Postby Tyreless » Thu 19 Oct, 2017 3:40 pm

crollsurf wrote:Been using http://maps.ozultimate.com/, especially for creating GPX and KMLs. Unless someone has a better suggestion for that as well, I might stick with maps.ozultimate.com but jump across to six maps for printing.


Tom produced a specific version for printing these maps at http://maps.ozultimate.com/archive/08_print/#. It adds grid references and produces a high quality png file - it just takes a little time for the file to be generated.
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Re: NSW and national maps

Postby rcaffin » Fri 20 Oct, 2017 12:59 pm

And at least in NSW you can still buy all the printed topo maps over the counter. An A3 photocopier is wonderful. The paper takes pencil in the field too!

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Re: NSW and national maps

Postby tom_brennan » Fri 20 Oct, 2017 9:09 pm

Keep in mind in NSW you can download the PDF topographic maps directly. These will probably print at higher quality, assuming your area of interest is within the boundary of one map.
https://maps.six.nsw.gov.au/etopo.html

Tyreless wrote:Tom produced a specific version for printing these maps at http://maps.ozultimate.com/archive/08_print/#. It adds grid references and produces a high quality png file - it just takes a little time for the file to be generated.

I find I have to do a bit of work in Photoshop to get the contours to print well, with enough contrast. I do have another version that does that automatically, but it tends to consume all of the browser's memory and then crashes. Not sure if I can work out how to fix that...
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Re: NSW and national maps

Postby Neo » Mon 08 Jan, 2018 3:45 pm

Not quite sure how, through sixmaps etopo I've downloaded a section of a map then fiddled with it in a default photo viewer to be close to 1:25000 scale! (42mm grid)

Edit: printed a colour A4 and folded to fit A5 laminating sleeve I have.
Nope, confused, map thanks to the ozultimate print link above :)
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Re: NSW and national maps

Postby tyggriffic » Wed 17 Jan, 2018 1:29 pm

I download the full etopo maps from sixmaps - https://maps.six.nsw.gov.au/etopo.html. it downloads as a pdf, which i then convert through gimp, overlay on google earth, then use a program called g-raster ($7) which separates the map into segments and exports it as a .kmz file so that i can have a full topo custom map in super high res on my garmin device. I also import it into basecamp to create routes and waypoints, poi's etc. It takes a little effort, but once you get into the knack of it, it becomes super quick (approx 2-3 mins) for each full topo map. And the more sixmap tiles you have, it becomes easier to calibrate the maps in earth. And then because i have to convert the map to jpg for the overlay, i can use that file to easier print the map into a4 segments. Happy to provide full links and instructions if anyone wants them.
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