In my experience shonkymaps is pretty terrible for bushwalking - it's just not accurate enough (as it is compiled from 1:250k map data.) It will of course depend on the area you are going to - download shonkymaps and have a look at it before you by your gps.
Shonkymaps is ok for vehicle navigation, but beware that the maps are not "routable" - as in the gps cannot say turn left 500m because the data to link the roads together is not in shonkymaps (and cannot realistically be built in to it.) I have a garmin colorado 300 with shonkymaps and osm routable from http://garmin.na1400.info/routable.php Works great, although I did have some troubles with the first colorado I had - garmin swapped it for a new one for me. ~Cameron 2009/10/23 Ross Scanlon <[email protected]> > Hi All, > > I'm looking at buying a handheld gps, probably Garmin, that can have the > osm maps and shonkymaps loaded. > > This will mainly be used for bushwalking, thus the shonkymaps, so I'd like > to be able to have both available all the time. > > Is anyone here using a Garmin with osm maps and/or shonkymaps? If which > model? > > > -- > Cheers > Ross > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au >
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