Newsletter April 06
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“Let’s Go Geocaching” Festival in the Lakes”
Friday 12th May 5pm to Sunday 14th May 5pm
Weekend Packages – YHA Borrowdale – 2 Nights full board plus all weekend Geocaching activities - £125pp.
“Let’s Go Geocaching” Day Tickets including lunch and all Geocaching activities – £29 pp per day.
GPS Training and Geotrailing.com have teamed up with the Cumbria Tourist Board, Jennings Brewery’s “Cumberland Ale” brand, and the Youth Hostel Association to provide the best ever Geocaching Events.
Our festival will be a YHA “Activity Break” and will be based at Borrowdale YHA, located in one of the most scenic valleys in the Lake-District with great walking right out of the door. It will provide an action packed and fun weekend with opportunities to learn new skills!
Hands on Tuition from the GPS experts
Brush up your GPS navigation skills
All event caches transferable by Memory-Map.
Have a go sessions & “How To” Presentations
GPS to Borrow
Accompanied Treasure Trail
Over 20 Geotrails and 50 real caches to locate in fabulous walking country
Cumberland Ale Geotrails – locate the passwords to win free beer!
Garmin multi-cache challenge - chance to win Vista Cx and Topo GB
Presentation and “Let’s Go Geocaching” with Peter Howard UK
administrator for Geocaching.Com
Magellan Geocachers Quiz – Great prizes including eXplorist 500 GPS and
Topo Mapping.
Meet the “Gear Guru’s” from George Fisher Ltd.
Find out about the Lake-District Osprey Project
Meet the local Mountain Rescue Team
With the festival only one month away, don’t miss out on the fun!
If you would like to find out more about this festival in the Lakes, or our GPS training courses, then visit www.gpstraining.co.uk or to speak to a friendly GPS expert phone 01768 885855 today!
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A great show! - Topo Questions.
We were kept busy every day during the show, with many of our friends and customers visiting the stand or attending the very successful book launch on the Friday. Once again the O/S area was the star of the show with outdoor enthusiasts eager to find out about the latest GPS and mapping technology. Thank you to everyone who came to say hello it was good to see you all.
Topo Mapping v Digital Mapping Systems
Lots of our customers were asking us: “I’ve heard that Topo mapping
has arrived for handheld GPS receivers but surely it’s just digital mapping?
Can you explain what the differences are please?” We thought it would
be helpful to give you an easy-to-read summary of the main differences between
the two together with the main benefits of each
Topo Mapping
Can be downloaded to a handheld GPS and then
shown on the screen
Is a stripped-down map showing only contour lines, trig points, paths streams,
roads & inland waters.
May not show all paths
Does not include functions of route card production, text boxes, photo hotspots,
aerial view or fly through.
Cannot be printed out or emailed.
Works best on colour GPS with substantial memory or preferably with removable
memory cards.
Is memory intensive so only small chunks of map may be downloaded into compatible
GPS that do not have removable memory cards
Can create turn-by-turn routes to street addresses. (Magellan uses a separate
product to achieve this).
Digital Mapping
Can only be downloaded to a PDA and shown on
the screen. It cannot be downloaded to a handheld GPS.
Is a complete digital version of an OS Explorer or Landranger map with all the
details shown. It may include an aerial map depending on the version purchased
Will show all paths that are on the paper map.
Includes all top mapping functions plus route card production, text boxes, photo
hotspots, 3D view or 3D fly through depending on product/ version purchased.
Can be printed out to scale or in other ways and can be emailed.
Will work with all models of GPS that are computer compatible.
Can download map data (but not the map itself) to a GPS up to its memory capacity.
Cannot create turn-by-turn routes.
Conclusions
Clearly both products are similar but not the same. We think they are complementary and both have a place in the outdoor navigator’s toolbox. We would choose a digital mapping system for route planning, map printing and route analysis and the Topo product for navigating outdoors whether on the hill or in the car.
Garmin’s MapSource Topo product includes both the outdoors and turn-by-turn features whilst compatible Magellan GPSs need two products – Mapsend Topo and Mapsend DirectRoute – to achieve the same thing. The Magellan turn-by-turn product covers the whole of Europe whilst the Garmin product covers the UK. Neither products cover Northern Ireland.
Contact us if you want more information about any of these products or need a quote for a part exchange GPS upgrade – but importantly for Garmin users if you are an existing owner of the following products – eTrex Legend C, Vista C, GPSMap60C or CS then these models are fully compatible with the new Garmin Topo GB. For full information on how you can use Topo with your existing model then contact us here at the office on 01768 885855.
Best wishes from Peter and Simon
and the GPS Training Team.
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