Hi Oliver, > this is usually what GPS devices or smartphones are used for. For > instance I do not print maps at all. It's the other way around. I > digitize papermaps to be used by QMapShack and my GPS. The only > feature I use, is to export the map with a track to a bitmap. To be > part of a photo album.
Yes. But I'm a romantic. I want to go hiking without such technical devices communicating with satellites. I don't have any that I could use anyway, and I don't want to buy one more expensive source of distraction. So I use a compass. > I know some users print the map with a track to be used for > orientation on a bike tour. But for the sole purpose of a map I think > a good commercial hiking map is way better investment than printing > maps from the internet. I made that investments several years ago. First, these maps are quite unhandy. More importantly, at least in my region, these maps are very inferior to Openstreetmap. Small paths are often just missing, ways are drawn very imprecise. But I need to see their exact shape for orientation. And the maps I have don't even distinguish wide, street-like, worked up (I mean German "ausgebaut") forest tracks with small overgrown paths. In Openstreetmap, I even have the names of the several districts of the forest. With the commercial maps available here, it's very easy to loose orientation in the forest if you leave the declared hiking trails. That's why I print my own maps. Michael. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Qlandkartegt-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qlandkartegt-users
