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Hello Group,

I've been lurking around this newsgroup for a while,
I've finally convinced myself that you won't bite if I
join in :-)

Just wondered if anyone has any experience of using
either Anquet or Fugawi mapping software? I have been
looking at purchasing 1:50000 mapping data for Scotland
(or Great Britain North as we seem to be known in
software land). It would appear that I can get the area
covered by Fugawi for only £90, but a similar area from
from Anquet would cost £120.

To cut a long story short, the Anquet software seems to
have a lot of extra features, and I was just wondering if
anybody has any opinion on whether it really is worth the
extra money? If anybody knows where I would pick these
packages up even cheaper then I will be eternally grateful.

Or does anybody have any other recommendations for maps?

Cheers

Scott

I used to use Fugawi, but it really hasn't kept up with
what the others are doing, so I would not recommend it
these days.

I now use Memory Map, but Anquet certainly has its
followers as well.
--
Chris Morriss

ScottM said:

To cut a long story short, the Anquet software seems to
have a lot of extra features, and I was just wondering if
anybody has any opinion on whether it really is worth the
extra money? If anybody knows where I would pick these
packages up even cheaper then I will be eternally
grateful.

I think the Anquet software is worth the extra spend, for
the customer service never mind the extra features. Owing to
a persistent habit of messing about with my PC's workings
I've had to contact Anquet several times to help clear up
the chaos; they've always came up with the goods.

The Great Britain North label does look a bit odd ( to
everyone other than Brian 'Last of the North Britons' Wilson
MP) but as it covers the Lake District & Yorkshire too,
there's no real cause for complaint.

Bernie

(ScottM) said:

Just wondered if anyone has any experience of using either
Anquet or Fugawi mapping software?

Probably recommend Anquet tho' I use Fugawi (but 3, not
UK) which I find perfect for my needs (don't require O/S
maps, scans are fine). One thing that I *much* prefer with
Fugawi is the interface - intuitive and easy to use.
Support isn't great!

. Mark Cavendish Cardiff, Wales

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Quoted message said:

Hello Group,

I've been lurking around this newsgroup for a while,
I've finally convinced myself that you won't bite if I
join in :-)

Just wondered if anyone has any experience of using
either Anquet or Fugawi mapping software? I have been
looking at purchasing 1:50000 mapping data for Scotland
(or Great Britain North as we seem to be known in
software land). It would appear that I can get the area
covered by Fugawi for only £90, but a similar area from
from Anquet would cost £120.

To cut a long story short, the Anquet software seems to
have a lot of extra features, and I was just wondering if
anybody has any opinion on whether it really is worth the
extra money? If anybody knows where I would pick these
packages up even cheaper then I will be eternally
grateful.

Or does anybody have any other recommendations for maps?

Cheers

Scott

Have a look at Oziexplorer. Possible the best
programme around.

www.oziexplorer.com

Mike Mason

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Quoted message said:

Hello Group,

I've been lurking around this newsgroup for a while,
I've finally convinced myself that you won't bite if I
join in :-)

Just wondered if anyone has any experience of using
either Anquet or Fugawi mapping software? I have been
looking at purchasing 1:50000 mapping data for Scotland
(or Great Britain North as we seem to be known in
software land). It would appear that I can get the area
covered by Fugawi for only £90, but a similar area from
from Anquet would cost £120.

To cut a long story short, the Anquet software seems to
have a lot of extra features, and I was just wondering if
anybody has any opinion on whether it really is worth the
extra money? If anybody knows where I would pick these
packages up even cheaper then I will be eternally
grateful.

Or does anybody have any other recommendations for maps?

Cheers

Scott

www.tracklogs.co.uk

Clive

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Or does anybody have any other recommendations for maps?

Try www.trailguage.com - free evaluation version available
online. The registered version costs $25. It allows you to
scan in maps, then once calibrated to map co-ordinates it
will import NASA STRM data so that you can do fly throughs
etc to check your route before exporting to GPS. The map
scale can be of your choosing. I believe (from what I've
read in this NG) that the intervals for height data are 90
metres, so a fly through will occasionally show your path as
being beside rather than along a ridge. Anquet probably does
better, but at a cost, especially for the limited area that
1:25000 CD's will cover. I tried it for Cadair Idris and I
was well impressed that the fly-through was a very
realistic representation. I certainly recommend it as a
cheap alternative and if it does'nt measure up to your
needs, then carry on and buy one of the 'big boys'.

Steve

In a recent message <[email hidden]>,
Chris Morriss <[email hidden]> wrote.

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I used to use Fugawi, but it really hasn't kept up with
what the others are doing

[...]

But nor has the price. I use Fugawi UK (South) for planning
walks, sending the data to my GPS and plotting the actual
track afterwards. It does everything I need and for about
GBP 45 for England and Wales south of Birmingham at
1:50,000, it's super value. At first sight the user-
interface is unusual, but not difficult to learn.

Of course, Fugawi doesn't do 3D-views and fly-bys, et
cetera, but it gives you a lot of map for not much money.

As has been mentioned in another thread, Fugawi could be
improved at next to no cost by adding the facility to use
SRTM elevation data, but perhaps Fugawi's agreement with the
OS does not allow this to be done. Did we ever get anywhere
with this, by the way?

So there we are, Fugawi keeps *me* on the straight and
narrow and I'm the bloke who gets lost on the Thames Path
<g>.

Regards, Nick.
--
Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England
<[email hidden]

Bitstring
<[email hidden]>, from the
wonderful person Steve Jones <[email hidden]> said

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Quoted message said:

Or does anybody have any other recommendations for maps?

Try www.trailguage.com - free evaluation version available
online. The registered version costs $25. It allows you to
scan in maps, then once calibrated to map co-ordinates it
will import NASA STRM data so that you can do fly throughs
etc to check your route before exporting to GPS. The map
scale can be of your choosing. I believe (from what I've
read in this NG) that the intervals for height data are 90
metres, so a fly through will occasionally show your path
as being beside rather than along a ridge. Anquet probably
does better, but at a cost, especially for the limited
area that
1:25000 CD's will cover. I tried it for Cadair Idris and I
was well impressed that the fly-through was a very
realistic representation. I certainly recommend it as a
cheap alternative and if it does'nt measure up to your
needs, then carry on and buy one of the 'big boys'.

I went with tracklogs (www.tracklogs.co.uk) purely because
they can sell me (at, I admit, ruinous cost!) any part of
the UK at 1:25k, not just the national parks. A 40km*40km
area, centred on the spot of your choice (well, to a 10km
rounding) will cost you ~£50 in 1:25k .. much cheaper in
1:50k. Or you can buy 1:25k on the normal sheet boundaries.

--
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indistinguishable from human typing.

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Bitstring
<[email hidden]>, from the
wonderful person Steve Jones <[email hidden]> said

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Quoted message said:

Or does anybody have any other recommendations for maps?

Try www.trailguage.com - free evaluation version available
online. The registered version costs $25. It allows you to
scan in maps, then once calibrated to map co-ordinates it
will import NASA STRM data so that you can do fly throughs
etc to check your route before exporting to GPS. The map
scale can be of your choosing. I believe (from what I've
read in this NG) that the intervals for height data are 90
metres, so a fly through will occasionally show your path
as being beside rather than along a ridge. Anquet probably
does better, but at a cost, especially for the limited
area that
1:25000 CD's will cover. I tried it for Cadair Idris and I
was well impressed that the fly-through was a very
realistic representation. I certainly recommend it as a
cheap alternative and if it does'nt measure up to your
needs, then carry on and buy one of the 'big boys'.

I went with tracklogs (www.tracklogs.co.uk) purely because
they can sell me (at, I admit, ruinous cost!) any part of
the UK at 1:25k, not just the national parks. A 40km*40km
area, centred on the spot of your choice (well, to a 10km
rounding) will cost you ~£50 in 1:25k .. much cheaper in
1:50k. Or you can buy 1:25k on the normal sheet boundaries.

That's useful. I've been waiting for Memory map to get the
whole country available in 1:25000. They've had a 'real soon
now' notice on the website for some time, but the ability to
buy selected areas at
1:25000 hasn't materialised yet.
--
Chris Morriss

In a recent message <[email hidden]>,
Andrew Whaley <[email hidden]> wrote.

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On the subject of maps, I have one user who uses it with
the OS maps that come with Fugawi to provide a detailed
elevation data that you don't get with Fugawi and the 3d
stuff. I don't know how they get them out of Fugawi but I
could probably ask if anybody's interested.

[...]

Yes please, this is something in which I'd be
interested too!

Regards, Nick.
--
Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England
<[email hidden]

[email hidden] (ScottM) wrote in message

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Or does anybody have any other recommendations for maps?

Cheers

Scott

I seem to remember a freeware application for Windows that
used to extract the 1:25000 OS map snippets from
multimap.co.uk and stitch them together to make a large OS
landranger style map, centred on whereever uou like. Does
anyone else remember this and what is it called?

Mike Mason said:

Have a look at Oziexplorer. Possible the best
programme around.

Nah, the best programme was Farscape, and before that
Babylon 5.

OziExplorer is the best GPS program though, but no
maps included.

Paul
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Thanks for the recommendations. I suspect I will be spending
the next few hours downloading and fiddling with evaluation
versions. Keeps me out of mischief I suppose.

Scott

Thanks for the recommendation Steve.

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Try www.trailguage.com - free evaluation version
available online. The

The url is trailgauge.co.uktrailgauge.co.ukOpen ↗ - perhaps I should of
picked a name that was less prone to being mistyped.

Scott, try the free demo it's pretty functional and may
even do everything you need - you can't get any cheaper
than that.

On the subject of maps, I have one user who uses it with the
OS maps that come with Fugawi to provide a detailed
elevation data that you don't get with Fugawi and the 3d
stuff. I don't know how they get them out of Fugawi but I
could probably ask if anybody's interested.

--
Andrew Whaley, author of :-

Trailgauge - Shareware 3D GPS Mapping Software
Free Download from trailgauge.comtrailgauge.comOpen ↗

On 29 Jun 2004 02:50:29 -0700, [email hidden] (Richard C)

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[email hidden] (ScottM) wrote in message

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Or does anybody have any other recommendations for maps?

Cheers

Scott

I seem to remember a freeware application for Windows that
used to extract the 1:25000 OS map snippets from
multimap.co.uk and stitch them together to make a large OS
landranger style map, centred on whereever uou like. Does
anyone else remember this and what is it called?

Funny you should post that, I had a try with it before it
was sussed and blocked. IIRC it had the familiar name of
trailgauge also. I imagine a similar ruse could be worked on
other online maps if you were not averse to breaching
copyright. Multimap made it obvious by using the os ref in
the url, now most providers obfuscate it, a bit.

AJH

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Scott, try the free demo it's pretty functional and may
even do everything you need - you can't get any cheaper
than that.

On the subject of maps, I have one user who uses it with
the OS maps that come with Fugawi to provide a detailed
elevation data that you don't get with Fugawi and the 3d
stuff. I don't know how they get them out of Fugawi but I
could probably ask if anybody's interested.

Thanks Andrew, there is no doubt that you've produced a
fantastic piece of software for the price. However, the lack
of map data is a sticking point for me, I'm sad to say that
I'm getting far too lazy to stick bits of downloaded map
together or scan maps in from scratch. If anybody out there
reading this thread is in the habit of getting their maps
online from streetmap, then I would definitely recommend you
try the trailgauge demo to see extra clever stuff you can do
with a basic jpeg map.

To summarise what I've seen so far from demos: Tracklogs -
Best all-round piece of software I've seen so far. Simple
to install (no tweaking required), easy to learn, packed
with features. However, it works out extremely expensive
if you want
1:25000 scale maps (£25 for a single OS Explorer map on CD).
Not such a bad price for 1:50000 scale (£100 for the whole
of Scotland in Landranger format)

Anquet - second best in terms of functionality, plus I found
it not quite as intuitive to use as Tracklogs. Also required
a bit of tweaking to get to work with my graphics card. On a
positive note it does work out slightly cheaper than
Tracklogs for the map data. Also, people do seem keen to
recommend it for their after-sales support and service,
which is always a good sign.

Trailgauge - functionality is as good as Anquet, but
enormously cheaper. Fantastic if you already have the map
data available on your PC, but time consuming if you don't.

Fugawi - no demo available anywhere, but seems to be a good
basic piece of software for a basic price.

Thanks to everyone who replied, if anyone has any other
opinions or favourites I'm still keen to hear them (it'll be
a few months before I can save enough pennies to buy
Tracklogs)

Cheers

Scott

Nick Hopton said:

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On the subject of maps, I have one user who uses it with
the OS maps that come with Fugawi to provide a detailed
elevation data that you don't get with Fugawi and the 3d
stuff. I don't know how they get them out of Fugawi but I
could probably ask if anybody's interested.

[...]

Yes please, this is something in which I'd be
interested too!

It turns out he's just doing Alt-PrtSc and then pasting the
snapshots together in a painting program. A better approach
might be to use a virtual print driver to capture the
printed output as an image, e.g. :-

bykeyword.comsoftwareOpen ↗
5/download-5615.html

Disclaimer: I'm sure doing either of these would contravene
the licence agreement with Fugawi so you'd best check
beforehand.

--
Andrew Whaley, author of :-

Trailgauge - Shareware 3D GPS Mapping Software
Free Download from trailgauge.comtrailgauge.comOpen ↗