[Az-Geocaching] Southwest Trails mapset for Garmin GPSr's Released!

[Andrew Ayre]

I have City Navigator NT and it is definitely more accurate in the vast 
majority of areas. However you mentioned one free alternative, so I 
mentioned another.

Note that Ibycus is based on "census data" which I guess means TIGER 
data. That data set (for Tucson at least) is IMO quite poor - the roads 
are not aligned with reality, glitches, missing roads, etc. 
OpenStreetMap uses TIGER data as a starting point but at least everyone 
can work to fix it, which will result in better accuracy. Already quite 
a few sections of Tucson have been fixed.

   http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tucson

Andy

Mark Fleming wrote:
> OpenStreetMap is good as well. I've used both, but I must say I prefer 
> City Navigator. It seems to be much more accurate, and worth the money I 
> paid for it.
> 
> Mark
> 
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Andrew Ayre <andy at britishideas.com 
> <mailto:andy at britishideas.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Also OpenStreetMap - www.outdoornavigators.com
>     <http://www.outdoornavigators.com> (one example).
> 
>     Andy
> 
> 
>     Mark Fleming wrote:
> 
>         Hi Bob,
> 
>         The road and city information provided in the preview map is
>         very inadequate and probably has tons of holes in it. I'd rather
>         not support it, though I do appreciate it's slightly better than
>         the standard basemaps. If you are looking for a free alternative
>         to City Navigator, I'd recommend Ibycus USA :
>         http://www.gpsfiledepot.com/maps/view/19
> 
>         Thanks!
> 
>         Mark


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Andy
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