Thread: Hema maps

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 (?).

Mounting it ???

When travelling alone my laptop is "mounted" on the passenger seat....
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 )

Stevo

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Originally Posted by sschmez

Mounting it ???

When travelling alone my laptop is "mounted" on the passenger seat....
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 )

Stevo

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?

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.