Difference in coverage - Metroguide & City Navigator

Udderchaos · Post by **Udderchaos** » 12 February 05 8:07 pm

ive got metroguide on a 60c and i live in a rural area.

Its about 5 years out of date, but every rural town ive been too is on there.

tell me where you are and i will send u some screen shots,

drop me an email for the above

Map Monkey · Post by **Map Monkey** » 12 February 05 8:54 pm

Hi Hord,

I have a 60CS and love it :lol.

I find MGA good for rural areas even though the data is a couple of years old....for rural areas this doesn't matter one bit as they generally don't change/add roads, only potholes

GPS Screen captures (Ximage, g7toWin etc) are hard to produce over a large area......if you want a smaller area just say so

Ulverstone on Mapsource looks like this (slightly reduced quality and .gif image)

Note that when zooming in again, all road names are shown.....

Agsmky

Cached · Post by **Cached** » 12 February 05 9:23 pm

Welcome to another Ulverstone Cacher - that makes three - Robtas, Team Tiges and you.

I'm the in absentia Ulverstonian - I live in Adelaide now but visit regularly.

Map Monkey · Post by **Map Monkey** » 13 February 05 9:21 am

Hi Hord,

The area around Post Macquarie seems adequate...though there may be yocals who may be able to help you better

BTW to throw a spanner in your spokes....CN5 also has coverage for Port MacQuarie and someone may be able to give you an idea of its coverage quality...

The MGA coverage for Port MacQuarie (city heart ?) when zoomed in more, seems strange as there must be lots of traffic islands, malls, divided traffic conditions etc. See this:

Please be aware this information does not look as good on a GPSr as we are talking about a smaller screen and different screen orientation

BTW you can search for addresses (in a lot of cases with street numbers, though they may be out by 1 or 2 premises

) for the Port Macquarie area though i'm not sure of the real extent of it......

Agsmky

Cached · Post by **Cached** » 14 February 05 11:03 am

Hi hord,

If you want to drop into see robtas in Ulverstone, he has metroguide up and running. Well, he owns a copy anyway. Making an assumption it's in use

Drop me a PM and we'll organise something. Better still, drop him one!

Cached · Post by **Cached** » 14 February 05 4:31 pm

Taa very much for the offer cached! I am sure robtas is VERY grateful you are inviting strangers to his place!

robtas is my Dad, so I feel kinda free to take such liberties !