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Sat 05 Dec, 2015 2:43 pm
Hi all,
First post on here - just thought I'd ask around because I've never really used maps before when hiking - I want to get some decent maps for the Alpine National Park and perhaps the Grampians. 1:25,000 would be best and must have grid squares suitable for the MGRS gps system.
Any help would be great.
Tom
First post on here - just thought I'd ask around because I've never really used maps before when hiking - I want to get some decent maps for the Alpine National Park and perhaps the Grampians. 1:25,000 would be best and must have grid squares suitable for the MGRS gps system.
Any help would be great.
Tom
Re: Best place to get maps (MGRS)
Sun 13 Dec, 2015 6:47 pm
You can get VicMaps 1:25000 and 1:50000 maps in hard copy from map shops, or A4/A3 versions online from http://www.land.vic.gov.au/home/go-to-l ... aps-130000 and you can print those out yourself.
The maps you get will use GDA94, and a Grid Reference can be derived from these maps.
If you are unfamiliar with maps and grid references, John Evans has a good PDF guide here: http://www.johnevans.id.au/Pages/Map%20 ... gation.pdf
It details the information on the map used to derive the Grid Reference.
The maps you get will use GDA94, and a Grid Reference can be derived from these maps.
If you are unfamiliar with maps and grid references, John Evans has a good PDF guide here: http://www.johnevans.id.au/Pages/Map%20 ... gation.pdf
It details the information on the map used to derive the Grid Reference.
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