A little bit of fun round Dartmoor.

mudfever said:

It is - fabulous , except on horseback , i can't actually think of a better way of enjoying the countryside and the 90 and spending time with nice folk in great places.
As i said on another thread , i'm buying up a few tiles from the OS 1:25,000 maps , and as an experiment just happened to buy a tile north of here , it's only BOAT central , ok a lot of lanes are on old mine waste areas , but me and Mr are certainly going to go for a lookie ...never know we may just drag some of these Devonshire folk further west!

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The V8 man said:

What are tiles then

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mudfever said:

On OS Mapfinder they have split the whole country into a grid , each square is called a tile , you can buy tiles that show the area as either 1:50,000 or 1:25,000 depending on the detail you want...most 1:25's are about £1.99 , if you down load the mapfinder app you can then record a route as you drive it as it maps you by GPS , basically i looked at Memory Map and decided i didn't want to spend £199 on the whole country , but this way i'm only buying bits where i know there are lanes that i want to do - simples ( altho i'm not sure all that waffling was?)

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DTd5 said:

I use Mapyx Quo, same as MemoryMap, the software is "free" and the 1:50K tiles are only £0.92 each plus VAT

Mapyx QUO - The Essential GB Mapping Software

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mudfever said:

I guess it's a simlier type of thing , but being posh , i can only use Ordnance Survey :drama:

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DTd5 said:

Yes they are all the same sort of thing, same maps, just slightly different interface

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