Mud Maps

[drcuzo]

Hello LR Gurus

I have been looking at GPS options for my soon to be delivered Defender. I have an iPad and use the Tom Tom app for on road navigation. It is brilliant. The Mud Map app looks like it was written by Aussies. The reviews on the app store are very black and white. It is pretty pricey but would be excellent value if it works. Does anyone have any experience with it?

4WD GPS app with off road maps for iPad | MUD (http://www.mud-maps.com/apps/mudmaphd)

[wannabeexplorer]

If you need electronic maps, then go for it.
I have it on my iPad and phone and it works well, but it's not a replacement for a purpose built GPS such as Garmin or similar with all kinds of GPS & tracking features.
They had an option to try it out for $3, is that option not available anymore? (You can always send them an email, they are a great bunch of guys and a pleasure to deal with - yes Ausies, based in Vic)

[drcuzo]

I am new to the 4wd scene. I have used Garmin gps units on my mountain bike to log my rides but I have no idea what the units designed for 4wding offer. Can you plan a route and have it tell you to turn left in 100 m like they do on the road or are you just plotting your position on a map like to bike units.

Steve

[LowRanger]

I am new to the 4wd scene. I have used Garmin gps units on my mountain bike to log my rides but I have no idea what the units designed for 4wding offer. Can you plan a route and have it tell you to turn left in 100 m like they do on the road or are you just plotting your position on a map like to bike units.

Steve

There are no turn by turn announcements for off road maps.
And I have the latest Mud Maps,and even the 25k maps,leave a lot to be desired.
They have a lot of tracks missing that are on other maps of similar type.

[drcuzo]

Thanks for your reply Wayne. It is all a learning curve for me. This forum is a great resource. Hopefully I am up to speed soon

[mikehzz]

I have Mud Maps and agree that it leaves a lot to be desired. The so called 25k topo maps are street maps with topo lines and pretty useless out on the fire trails. I've found Memory Map to be the best behaved on my ipad but the 25k maps are expensive. I like Memory Maps computer planning application where I can draw my intended route with the mouse on my computer then upload it to the ipad.

[LowRanger]

I agree with Mike entirely,Memory map with the 25K maps,look very nice on an ipad,and have a lot more detail than Mud Map.The NSW maps are also the latest 2012 release,so are up to date.And memory map is very easy to use,when out in the field.

[Drover]

I have Mud Maps and HEMA on my iPad3.

After this trip to Cape York I found HEMA to be great, used it all the time. Mud Maps of the other hand were virtually useless.

The 25k Aus Topo has good detail but..... To see any detail you must zoom in so far you loose any perspective on where you are or what the track ahead will bring, if you start to zoom out all detail of tracks etc disappears and you are left on a green page with a couple of Topo lines that really mean nothing.

[Wil2k]

Yep. As a fellow Mud Map owner (iPhone version) I must say I'm a bit underwhelmed. It's almost a great app. The zoom out issue makes it completely useless for anything serious. I won mine so I can't whine too much I guess!

Another gripe is the number of times they have changed the purchase / subscription method for the once included Smart Topo maps. :-/ I might revisit Memory Map on iPad as it was good last time I used it.

[RVR110]

To see any detail you must zoom in so far you loose any perspective on where you are or what the track ahead will bring, if you start to zoom out all detail of tracks etc disappears and you are left on a green page with a couple of Topo lines that really mean nothing.

That's why I usually have the iPad and iPhone both running topo maps simultaneously - one is zoomed in and shows detail and the other is zoomed out to provide context. It's also nice to have a backup device just in case something goes wrong with one device. Since switching to this setup I've started losing interest in taking paper maps on trips.

[phl]

Any app that can use OZF maps from OziExplorer? Seeing that there is no iOS version on the horizon, I'd like to re-use all my existing maps and tracks. BitMap has been flaky.

[OffTrack]

Any app that can use OZF maps from OziExplorer? Seeing that there is no iOS version on the horizon, I'd like to re-use all my existing maps and tracks. BitMap has been flaky.

Third party ozi support is a bit hit and miss. Most apps rely on an open source library to support oZf maps. The problem is that library was written in Europe and has never supported the projections used in Australia properly. The result is apps silently fall back to latitude and longitude alignment and the this introduces an error that varies across the map. Support for things like maps which span more than zone are also missing.

So the answer is "not really".