Map Question

Me | 9/12/15 | PaulR

[Oratam]

I miss Hagstrom maps.

[mad_as_he$$]

delorme.com

If you get their Topo s/w you can for 429/year download any map you want. You can control area, detail and size.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I use an app called GaiaGPS. It allows you to add any map from any source you want and view the maps as layers. You can turn any layer map on or off easily. GaiaGPS is picking up a lot of users who drive professionally on road whether main interstates or back roads.

I used to user maps, too. I thought I was the last holdout on that, but I now use my iPhone 6 Plus with the large screen for all my navigation. You say you are using the maps for driving, so you could get an iPad with built-in GPS and use any map you want. Maybe even consider the newest iPad Pro.

I don’t have a problem with contrast, but the scaling of some text bugs me. It stays small no matter how much you zoom in, so it stays hard to read.

[mad_as_he$$]

$29/year.

Freeping while the coffee brews.

[kingu]

Did you try out http://ttp.aaa.com/TripTik/ ? Used to get these done over at AAA, they’d come as a flip book for directions with each turn nicely detailed with good maps.

[razorback-bert]

Yes, me too, I have a large collection 0f USGS, service station and tourists maps.

[ConstantSkeptic]

I know you’re talking about printed out maps, so this is a bit outside what you’re talking about, but let me share something that works for my husband and me.

Yesterday we wanted to drive through a populated lake area about ½ hour away, so my husband printed out a few maps showing the roads and generally plotted where he wanted to go.

I’m the navigator when we drive. I have a Google Nexus 7 tablet. It’s wi-fi only, but it has built in GPS. (The Nexus 7 has been discontinued, but there are other tablets with GPS.) Before we left, I downloaded area maps from Google Maps. Once we got near the lake area with all the side roads going near the lake, I brought up Google Maps and my GPS could pinpoint exactly where we were. My Nexus won’t give me directions when I’m offline, but it does show me the context of where we are much better than our small screen Garmin. You can also save locations which will then appear on your Google Maps even when you’re offline. That’s great if you’re trying to find something in a strange area.

Anyway, just something to consider.

[Paul R.]

I’ve been away from an Internet connection for a couple days. I’ll try to respond to some of your posts when I get a chance, and I have several links to check out, I see.

As a general comment, some of the sources suggested provide good print quality, but don’t have options to create routes (eg., the “directions” function in some others.) But, still, most of the suggestions may still prove useful in one way or another, and I have several more that you good people have provided, to check out (probably this next weekend?)

Thanks to all for the ideas and suggestions (except for the one person who seems to think my time, toner, etc., for me to customize and then print out customized maps, is “free”!)