Thread: Paper topo maps

as hinted, availability of paper maps is a bit patchy specially if you’re more than 100km from the place you want to visit. Often only one or two shops in a city carry them so you’ll waste some time finding them.

Your fallback is the NZTopo50 app which you get one for south and one for north island and carry a couple of powerbanks which is comparable in weight to 3 or 4 paper. This is much easier to use than the UK Ordnance survey app.

You wont want to be dowloading croppoing and printing your own maps while on holiday unless youre a real virtual geek.

Rememember in NZ magnetic north is ~22deg different from grid north and you should ideally buy an NZ compass.

Just thought I should weigh in here too. Have made and paid for plenty of mistakes myself, specially the edge of the map one…