Hema maps

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Originally Posted by stallie

I used the HEMA map app on ipad and iphone for the trip around Australia. Worked excellently IMHO.

The ipad was kept loose in the car in the glovebox (or more often by my 5yo who now can read maps perfectly) and just consulted before the drive. The actual map reference is done via the iphone on a basic windscreen mount and connected to power (which I permanently wired a iphone charge cable from the fuesebaox and out the back of the instrument cluster to keep it neat).

When you know where you are going (and where you are on the map at any time) all I found I needed to reference was the iphone screen.

It is $150 for the program (runs on both ipad and iphone) with all HEMA maps plus 1:250k govt topos. In app purchases for 1:25k etc. Buy with 20% off itunes cards makes it even cheaper. Simple and works

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Sounds like a good setup!

It's worth noting that the Hema app is simply a rebranded version of Memory Map. The main advantage of the Hema version is that they seem to be updating the Hema maps more frequently than occurs on Memory Map. The latest update apparently came with new GDT revisions. The ones via MM are still those which came with 2012 mapping and are "Copyright 2009".

The 1:25K topo maps will be the same as those that are sold via the Memory Map store. I personally find the 1:25K are pretty much useless for driving - especially on the iPhone. If you zoom in far enough to see the track, you end up not being able to see enough of the map to get context, but if you zoom out enough to see the context you can't see the track detail.

The Hema maps are about the right scale for use on the iPhone, and I was really happy using them when we did a trip up to the Flinders Ranges a couple of years back.

In Victoria the best Hema coverage is for the High Country. Elsewhere in the state the best you can hope for is highway touring coverage. Once you get into parks like Wyperfeld NP the information on the Hema's is woefully out of date. Many of the through tracks shown are MVO, and there is no indication of locked gates etc.

There is alternative coverage for this area from Meridian Maps and Westprint available via Avenza PDFMaps app but the app is pretty limited by it's lack of support of navigation based on tracks and routes*.

http://mapstore.avenza.com/public/62493/

http://mapstore.avenza.com/public/64037/

Until OziExplorer get around to building an app for iOS, PDFMaps embraces some navigation functionality, or Hema/Memory Map manage to get some of the other specialist vendors on board there is no single app with coverage that "does it all" for Victorian 4wd end users.

Thats my 5c anyway

cheers
Paul

* PDFMaps supports gps logging and user waypoints, but you can't load or navigate along tracks or routes. The app doesn't auto load maps when you move off the edge of the current map.

Thanks for the info and updates guys, I appriciate it.

So then, I guess I'll be looking into a laptop to do the job. SWMBO will like this, so now I just need to find one that'll do what we need.

Being in the Defender, with it's lack of room I don't want a massive unit, but I think I'll have to find some way of mounting it too, so as when I am on my own I can utilize it. I'm guessing some kind of bracket that screws into the dash somewhere is the go, something a bit like a flat screen TV wall bracket (?).

:eek::eek::eek: Mounting it ??? :eek::eek::eek:

When travelling alone my laptop is "mounted" on the passenger seat....:D
I've got one of those stable table type laptop trays with a non slip top and a beanbag foam balls cushion underneath.
steady as a rock (and rarely ends up on the passenger floor:o )

Stevo

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Originally Posted by sschmez

:eek::eek::eek: Mounting it ??? :eek::eek::eek:

When travelling alone my laptop is "mounted" on the passenger seat....:D
I've got one of those stable table type laptop trays with a non slip top and a beanbag foam balls cushion underneath.
steady as a rock (and rarely ends up on the passenger floor:o )

Stevo

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:o:o
Having been for a drive with you sschmez, it is quite remarkable that it rarely ends up on the passenger floor?

Cheers decibelcore

Is the app worth the $150? :confused:

It's quite a premium over a Hema road atlas or similar. Call me old fashioned, but I haven't gone wrong with my road atlas (at least, not yet!) as I tend to do journeys in sections. As a result I look at the map before heading off, and make a couple of short notes where I think I will need them :)

Cobber, when you think about it, you buy one map for one area,, $10 (min?) It won't take long to spend the $150, and still not cover all of Victoria. Then you've got lost maps, damaged etc etc,, the $150 to the best of my knowledge covers all of Aust.
And if you buy all 5(?) of the Spatial (s?) maps, that's $500. Vic only.
We're going to travel Aust, which is why we want electronic maps, we'll still have a general road atlas, but the electronic should be more defined.

I am also looking at the Hema app as we as a family have 2 iPads and 2 iPhones so a plethora of devices.

Can anyone confirm 100% that the Hema app for $150 from iTunes covers all of Aust and not just state based.

On another point raised below about the relative value of Electronic maps vs a road atlas think the benefit of a GPS style unit over paper maps is not so much for general touring but for when you are on tracks and actually need to know where you are and which track to take.

As an example I do some trips in the Vic High Country where there are often a number of tracks and options and a GPS would be handy as referring to paper maps is not always that simple on the go.

Regards,

George

george, from my reading the hema app covers all australia at 250k. if you want topo (25k) then you need to buy each state individually, another $150 each.

Yes the HEMA covers all of Australia.

It has

Aus planning map
1:000000 scale of Oz
The HEMA state maps
The HEMA area activity maps (eg Great desert tracks NW sheet)
Local national park maps
plus Australia at 1:250K

You scale up and down to get the different maps by zooming.

For our trip to the Kimberley, I would have spent over $150 in hard copy maps. And now I'm off on another trip to the Gulf and back and don't need to buy any more maps. The one account serves five devices (iPad and/or iPhone) so you only pay once.

Is it possible to put all the info from the disc/disc's, onto an SD Card and use it from a Garman Nuvi?