Thread: Garmin Monterra GPS

Legend mate

Originally Posted by SIKAHUNTER

You'd need to add them as a layer similar to the Garmin Custom Maps overlay Topo50 maps that you can download off topomap.co.nz. Standby and I'll whip a test Sat overlay for Garmins and post link to it.

Or pay for birds eye

Garmin | United Kingdom | Garmin Recreational Maps

http://l.bitcasa.com/Ru7E98Wf

Above is the link to a sample satellite overlay that'll hopefully work on compatible Garmins. Let me know if it works as I don't have a unit here yet to try it on. The sample area is just north of Kaweka Flats Biv in Kaweka Ranges.

Simon

Originally Posted by Gibo

Or pay for birds eye

Garmin | United Kingdom | Garmin Recreational Maps

Yeah true, does it cover NZ?

Originally Posted by SIKAHUNTER

Yeah true, does it cover NZ?

Yeah mate has it for his Oregon 450. From memory its $50NZ per year for PC. You then load selected areas onto your device and once done its there for ever. So a device with good internal mem is going to be able to take more.

Originally Posted by Gibo

Yeah mate has it for his Oregon 450. From memory its $50NZ per year for PC. You then load selected areas onto your device and once done its there for ever. So a device with good internal mem is going to be able to take more.

What's the detail like and how old are the pics? Can you zoom right in on it?

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

What's the detail like and how old are the pics? Can you zoom right in on it?

Not sure of the exact zoom levels VC but when we were out in the central north we were using it to hop from clearing to clearing. The detail is similar to google earth (shit in my opinion)
What we did find is that the iPhone maps (not google) have more detail (could pick a grassy clearing from a swamp).
I cannot justify the money just to have a sat picture of an area that I could just as easily print of google.......

I find Microsoft's Bing Sat pics to be of a better quality than Google.

Originally Posted by SIKAHUNTER

Yup is 1:50000 for sure, remember you don't get the 20 meter contours on 1:250000 scale maps (same as the old paper maps). Contours are 100m @ 1:250000 I believe. The area in the screen shot is basically 1 square km, with contour lines every 20m. Don't mistake a unclear zoom level for map scale. Overall clarity of the Topo50 maps depends on the zoom level incorporated into the maps, the higher the zoom level the greater the file size as you need more tiles for a given area. Basically in Locus once the max available zoom level is reached in a given map you can choose via settings to either lock the zoom or continue zooming where the image is simply enlarged, thus going unclear.

Try the zoom slider on www.nztopomaps (it has the different map scales bracketed on the zoom slider)

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1:250000 scale on same area (from PC)

Which screenshot? The one you posted on the previous page seems to have contour lines every 100m according to the scale at the bottom.

If you can get 1:50,000 for free on Locus then i'd be impressed!

Do you know of a way to add DOC boundaries to it? I have my budget way, but it'd be great to have really accurate overlays for them.

Originally Posted by SIKAHUNTER

I find Microsoft's Bing Sat pics to be of a better quality than Google.

Shit yes, thanks mate thats way clearer to look at

Originally Posted by MattyP

Which screenshot? The one you posted on the previous page seems to have contour lines every 100m according to the scale at the bottom.

If you can get 1:50,000 for free on Locus then i'd be impressed!

Do you know of a way to add DOC boundaries to it? I have my budget way, but it'd be great to have really accurate overlays for them.

Mate you do realize the distance between contour lines as viewed on a map vary with the gradient of the terrain? On flat ground contour lines can be kilometers apart or non-existent, on a near cliff stacked right next to each other. Contour spacing as viewed has nothing to do with map scale.

Mate I'd put my left nut on the line that it's 1:50000... fuck it and my right one too!

@MattyP a South Island example might make it more obvious

And one more for good measure, this time zoomed out a bit. The actual picture on-screen is clearer than the attached pic, I guess it's compressed somewhere along the way.

As for DOC boundaries I know you can download the DOC boundaries for the entire country on koordinates website but it is a huge ass csv file that'd need converting to kml. Shame you can't just download the area you want as the website gives you the option to download as a.kml file but the entire country is too large apparently. You'd need to cut and convert the areas of interest from the csv file.

Some reading here but arsed if i'm going to try it

http://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co.n...e-please-6704/

Originally Posted by Gibo

Some reading here but arsed if i'm going to try it

http://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co.n...e-please-6704/

Me either my poor computer just about had a hernia opening the koorinates data file, think I'll just stick to wearing a balaclava