[Talk-ro] Travel Experience

[Stefan Hegnauer]

Hi there,

 

sorry if this is the wrong place, but I would like to share my experiences
using http://osm.stilpu.org/garmin-mapsource/OSM-RO-20110727.exe on my
recent motorbike trip through Romania, totaling close to 3000km in two
weeks. Equipment used: MapSource 6.16.3 for route creation on a HP 5103
Netbook, Garmin StreetPilot 2610 on the bike.

 

- Map quality: mostly exceptional good quality even on small roads - big
compliments!

- Routing: works reasonably well both within MapSource and on the SP2610,
although the GPS 'lock to road' feature is missing for most of the roads I
travelled (easily detectable as there is always a circle-of-error shown on
the GPS device around the current position)

- main complaint: terrain description (orchard, wood, swamp etc.) is almost
always in the foreground on the GPS device, i.e. the route is not visible
90% of the time, irrespective of zoom level. In some locations (for example
the area between Hungarian border and Arad on the DN7) even the roads and
villages are hidden behind the terrain. This is very annoying. I would
switch terrain completely off for usage in MapSource.

- minor complaint: the terrain indication is mostly wrong (for example, it
shows 'orchard' when there is forest, swamp when there is vineyards and so
on - but not systematically, i.e. forest is not always shown as 'orchard',
it all seems very erratic. But most of the time it is just plain wrong).
This would be another reason to switch terrain display off.

- minor complaint: the OSM map and the base map of the GPS device are shown
concurrently. For some unknown reason the much better OSM map does not take
priority over the built-in base map which can be confusing when navigating
without a fixed, pre-calculated route (i.e. using the GPS device just as a
map replacement).

 

That being said, my trip would have been much more difficult without using
your map, so again, big compliments to you! Keep up the good work!

 

 

Thanks a lot, and best regards

 

Stefan Hegnauer, Switzerland

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