Morocco March 2016

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SpaceDawg said:
MrNasty,

Why the Espri, I had one in the 80's a S3 red and white, what a terrible car, went like stink, held the road, but a nightmare.

Mind you it did have the same door handles as my Disco though.
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After many American cars and trucks, I then moved on to TVR Chimaeras, got so ****ed off with the quality of them, I know a chap who then worked on the Lotus F1 as a suspension guy who had a Esprit that had every known Esprit issue sorted out at the factory in Hethel I bought it off him, firstly because I wanted one as a kid and secondly it was totally sorted I had it for 18 months trouble free. Hand on heart it was the best handling car I've ever had, just sold it last week to by my 110 and all the mods and repairs I want to do to it. Yeah the Morris Marina door handles and the Austin 1100 ashtrays are odd fixtures to a 268hp 5.0 second 0-60 car.
 
3extruckers said:
So, lots of options for mapping. Depends on what tablet you're taking. Obviously you need to download the maps before you go.
I used OpenStreetMaps on my pokey HTC desire, downloaded detailed map of morocco on the friday morning before we left.
It has user contributed roads and tracks, even those over the moountain roads that just looked like mars.
The android app osmand, free version too, is what i used. you can download 10 maps for free i think.
I also had my panasonic toughbook with linux Mint and Navit on it, but for some reason if failed to load :/
Sharing GPS from my trusty desire let me pair it with the laptop, althoug the laptop had built-in GPS it too failed to initialize; Working on this now.

Hand held sat nav's are ok for major and some minor roads, but even the paper michellin map we had didn't have many of the minor roads on them, even in built up areas.
The olaf maps or waypoint or whatever they are, seem to work with specific garman maps n stuff. Never really bothered much with them.
Next time, i'll be using OSM with a **** load of POI's and waypoints loaded on them, spare BT GPS unit just in case and a copy of oamand on my desire :)
Sync this up with a eyefi card in the camera and plot your pics on google earth, when you get back, along with the route. Laptop will be recording route positions as we drive.
While i'm on a geeky rant, if you have a BT OBD reader, you could log all engine stats at same time too... How sad is that!.....

Now, where's my OBD reader......:der:
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I've got lost. I am downloading OpenStreetMaps and Osmand onto my mobile phone. Think I will need to go and lay down and read this again tomorrow when the wine has worn off.
 
3extruckers said:
So, lots of options for mapping. Depends on what tablet you're taking. Obviously you need to download the maps before you go.
I used OpenStreetMaps on my pokey HTC desire, downloaded detailed map of morocco on the friday morning before we left.
It has user contributed roads and tracks, even those over the moountain roads that just looked like mars.
The android app osmand, free version too, is what i used. you can download 10 maps for free i think.
I also had my panasonic toughbook with linux Mint and Navit on it, but for some reason if failed to load :/
Sharing GPS from my trusty desire let me pair it with the laptop, althoug the laptop had built-in GPS it too failed to initialize; Working on this now.

Hand held sat nav's are ok for major and some minor roads, but even the paper michellin map we had didn't have many of the minor roads on them, even in built up areas.
The olaf maps or waypoint or whatever they are, seem to work with specific garman maps n stuff. Never really bothered much with them.
Next time, i'll be using OSM with a **** load of POI's and waypoints loaded on them, spare BT GPS unit just in case and a copy of oamand on my desire :)
Sync this up with a eyefi card in the camera and plot your pics on google earth, when you get back, along with the route. Laptop will be recording route positions as we drive.
While i'm on a geeky rant, if you have a BT OBD reader, you could log all engine stats at same time too... How sad is that!.....

Now, where's my OBD reader......:der:
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Things I've got to get but understood so far.

Spade, check
Compressor understood, check
Spares, check
Beer fridge, check
Not a clue about what any of the above even means, except the OBD thing, I was thinking of some Garmin system dedicated just to maps of what I choose to upload, with inbuilt GPS, and then install the unit in a dash console, well, if such a thing exists? I don't trust laptops for navigation as I find the liappy is doing a million other things as well as navigation and are prone to freezing when you need them. I do have a old HP palm top thingy with an external GPS receiver which is probably 8 years old now, but that was reliable I dunno yet what I will do, busy focusing on the truck first before I get into all that.
 
Thanks, I'll get the apps mentioned above and have a play. My camera geotags photos so we could do the map thing.

On another topic my nan has a place in Marbella that has 2 double and 4 single beds, so we could plan that into the trip if people wanted a place to meet or a day by the pool, would have to let her know if we want it tho, as it gets booked up reasonably quick in spring.
 
james6546 said:
Thanks, I'll get the apps mentioned above and have a play. My camera geotags photos so we could do the map thing.

On another topic my nan has a place in Marbella that has 2 double and 4 single beds, so we could plan that into the trip if people wanted a place to meet or a day by the pool, would have to let her know if we want it tho, as it gets booked up reasonably quick in spring.
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Nice offer. Marbella to Algeciras where we catch the ferry is 245 Kilometers which is about a 3 hour drive. On the last trip we all met up at a campsite in Algeciras which was quiet nice. Bar, Restaurant etc. wasn't very expensive and only a short drive to the port which enabled us to catch an earlier ferry and collect the tickets from Carlos the day before.
 
3extruckers said:
So, lots of options for mapping. Depends on what tablet you're taking. Obviously you need to download the maps before you go.
I used OpenStreetMaps on my pokey HTC desire, downloaded detailed map of morocco on the friday morning before we left.
It has user contributed roads and tracks, even those over the moountain roads that just looked like mars.
The android app osmand, free version too, is what i used. you can download 10 maps for free i think.
I also had my panasonic toughbook with linux Mint and Navit on it, but for some reason if failed to load :/
Sharing GPS from my trusty desire let me pair it with the laptop, althoug the laptop had built-in GPS it too failed to initialize; Working on this now.

Hand held sat nav's are ok for major and some minor roads, but even the paper michellin map we had didn't have many of the minor roads on them, even in built up areas.
The olaf maps or waypoint or whatever they are, seem to work with specific garman maps n stuff. Never really bothered much with them.
Next time, i'll be using OSM with a **** load of POI's and waypoints loaded on them, spare BT GPS unit just in case and a copy of oamand on my desire :)
Sync this up with a eyefi card in the camera and plot your pics on google earth, when you get back, along with the route. Laptop will be recording route positions as we drive.
While i'm on a geeky rant, if you have a BT OBD reader, you could log all engine stats at same time too... How sad is that!.....

Now, where's my OBD reader......:der:
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I have downloaded Osmand and OpenStreetMaps onto my mobile phone to play around with. You mentioned way points, where do you get them from. I tried to open up Olaf and only got some text document. That was when I tried to load them onto MapSource and BaseCamp. If I can get the hang of this I will then look into buying a tablet of some sort to transfer everything on there.:cool:
 
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mikescuba said:
I have downloaded Osmand and OpenStreetMaps onto my mobile phone to play around with. You mentioned way points, where do you get them from. I tried to open up Olaf and only got some text document. That was when I tried to load them onto MapSource and BaseCamp. If I can get the hang of this I will then look into buying a tablet of some sort to transfer everything on there.:cool:
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Something like a Tesco hudl would be perfect I think. I have a cheap Lenovo one and it seems really good so far. I am going to use a tablet desk mount to mount it to the front of the shelf which will hopefully be strong enough for the job.

3 hours is probably a bit far to drive, but the offer is there if people fancy.
 
MrNasty said:
How many people/ vehicles will be going next Easter?
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Too early to tell at the moment. Oldun and I will know for sure beginning December. I would then do a post for 2015 Easter Morocco and I am sure we will get a few more showing interest. Some of them will be dreamers and fizzle out as the time approaches. We had one guy who was supposed to meet us in Algecrias but never showed up. I would hope to get around five vehicles. That is a nice manageable number. I am preparing my 110 for both a 2015 and a 2016 trip. 2016 I can commit to but wont know for sure about 2015 till December.
 
Well I'm definitely in for 2015, going to be on my own on this trip, but in 2016 my family are coming with me to do a trip around Iceland.
 
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I have just gone ahead and bought a Panasonic thoughbook CF18 MK5 With surf 4 GPS and a multi charger. Hopefully this time I should have some idea where we are going or where we have been.
 
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