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I lost my Disco on the side of a mountain .... Help !!!
Had a small bit of a scare on a mountain last week and leaned a very valuable lesson. In order to
prevent what happened happening again ,once again I turn to the vast knowledge base that is disco3.co.uk
To get to the point , I go mountain biking (not your cycle through your local forest park , but up the side of very remote
mountains) , Im after some sort of handheld or Bike mountable GPS system , some thing that will allow me to define way-points
and mark landmarks on , Distance from point to point and distance travelled ... you get the idea.
Garmin do these type of things .
What I would like is something with built in mapping , once again Garmin do these , but My question here is
does anyone use anything like this in Ireland , that is to say what are the irish Maps like , If they exist at all ?
Sat Nav maps for Ireland are very very poor compared with the UK , they are getting better but I wonder
how good they are out side of main cities for this type of application , I'm speaking specifically about geographic data maps
not national roads and city maps.
Anyways anybody got any ideas , As mentioned the maps would be in the ideal world , but to be honest I don't think
they exist for Ireland. So any recommendations of device's for way-point etc would be great.
B.
15th Feb 2007 3:15 pm
joness7
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Re: I lost my Disco on the side of a mountain .... Help !!!
BarryG wrote:
Anyways anybody got any ideas , As mentioned the maps would be in the ideal world , but to be honest I don't think
they exist for Ireland. So any recommendations of device's for way-point etc would be great.
B.
Hi BarryG
I use a Garmin Quest on my motorbike in unpowered mode. I have used it both in Ireland on road trips and "cross country" whilst green laning etc. The road maps of Ireland are "ok", not great though. Although I have v7 of the mapping, they are up to v9 now I think.
The Quest is waterproof, stores a definable amount of "breadcrumbs" on your route which you can then follow back, and would seem to do most of what you want. Plus it's cheap!!
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15th Feb 2007 3:46 pm
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Barry, I reckon that the most basic Garmin Etrex should do the job for you.
When I first read your post, I thought you meant you nearly lost your Disco on mountainside because you had got it stuck or something, but now I realise you just misplaced its whereabouts! 8)
If you had a basic Etrex, you could mark the D3 position, go off on your bike and mark waypoints as you go. When you want to find your Disco, just set the route to take you to waypoint "D3" (yes, you can name waypoints on it).
You could go direct, and follow the arrow, or you could go via other waypoints to give you a more interesting route.
15th Feb 2007 4:35 pm
BarryG
Member Since: 30 Apr 2006
Location: Eire
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Thanks Guys for your suggestions.
Gareth : you have the idea mate, What happened was that we were on a new mountain range that we had very little local knowledge on, I didn't quite misplace my Disco , in that i new where it was but due to a heavy weather we were forced to alter our route back to Base (d3) in favor of lower ground. ,
Having a defined way-point to aim for "way-point d3" , would have made life easier , Mapping information in the same unit would be even better as we could have defined our route back in favor of easier terrain.
The Etrex sounds good , any views on the Foretrex 101 , anyone have one, ?
would love if there was a device with the features of the Etrex but also with geographic map data
Cheers again guys,
here's pic from the day in question , before the weather got bad ,
15th Feb 2007 5:30 pm
ronp
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Barry, I also do serious mountain biking [ s-works stumpjumper].
I got an Etrex and find my way back to 'D3 base' ok.
But have also invested in Anquet maps.
The idea of this is that I can download onto my handheld ipaq, connect this up to my Etrex and hey presto, real time placement on OS maps.
Trouble is I aint got around to loading it yet!!I was a normal heterosexual chap, but in these new woke awakenings I now identify as a Wardrobe.
15th Feb 2007 5:55 pm
BarryG
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Location: Eire
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Ron.
That sounds great mate ,but no Anquet Maps for Ireland
I guess it going to have be a Etrex and good old fashioned paper map
but the Etrex will be great for setting new way point and places of interest
that I want to visit again
s-works stumpjumper .... 8)
trek 8000 Disc perfect for what I want it for .
Ron you must be big into MTB , tell us more.
15th Feb 2007 6:16 pm
ronp
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So no Anquet!!, I assume it's the same with all other pc based map system ...sod!!!
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15th Feb 2007 6:58 pm
bkehoe
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Any device using Navteq maps will have full, complete detailed coverage of all of Ireland. All the latest Garmin devices have these maps as far as I know. The full Irish maps from Navteq became available approx 11 months ago - I remember getting an AA Navigator at the time which had the complete maps. Everything is covered, all the townlands are on there too, even some private laneways are mapped.
LRs latest DVD, for example, has a slightly older version and only two thirds of the country is mapped to full detail.
Anything with Tele Atlas maps will have no detail in the countryside other than 'R' roads, e.g. Tom TomIE - 05 D3 TDV6 HSE - Zambezi Silver
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15th Feb 2007 8:04 pm
freebie2disco
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bkehoe wrote:
Anything with Tele Atlas maps will have no detail in the countryside other than 'R' roads, e.g. Tom Tom
Some of the TomTom's now use navteq maps.
15th Feb 2007 9:17 pm
nobbyclark
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Garmin Quest is what you need, as mentioned above. I've got one and use it in both cars and on my Orange mountain bike.No longer a D3 owner but still subscribed to multiple threads!
17th Feb 2007 12:32 am
BarryG
Member Since: 30 Apr 2006
Location: Eire
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thanks one and all for your help and suggestions.
Garmin etrex purchased today due on Monday,
B.
17th Feb 2007 1:33 am
zetecr
Member Since: 11 Aug 2006
Location: Sydney
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You might wish to check out OziExplorer CE (www.oziexplorer.com) that runs on Windows Mobile. I guess this may not be well known in Europe, but it will do all you need, real time tracking and navigation along pre-defined routes, and lets you create maps from scanned images of paper maps as well.
17th Feb 2007 10:52 am
Nash
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Location: Barcelona
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Hello ..I use a Garmin in the car and in the bike.
It´s a MAP60CSX..very good one..with high sensibility chip technology (SirfIII)...Of course you need topographic maps in img (extension). We have that recently in spain and if not, you have to "built" your own maps based on other format. (very anoying).
Garmin is very compact but if you don't have that and you still want to have maps "underneath" your plot position you can go for a PDA with "waterproof cage" and install OZI explorer for PDA...with other type of maps (not img)...easy to find.
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