> > 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
:D Ok. > > 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. That is what usually happens to me with OSM maps. They are just crap in the mountains. They have some advantage in areas like Bayerischer Wald, as official maps haven't been updated for ages. But in that area I choose the less romantic way and use a GPS with alarm beep when leaving the planned track. Which is pretty nice as I do not have to cross check with the map constantly. Aynway I do not really see a common use case that would make the work worth it. But as usual if anyone volunteers, go ahead. Oliver ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Qlandkartegt-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qlandkartegt-users
