Thread: Hema or VMS?

Going to dig this up again. for a number of valid reasons.

Hema is putting all their effort into their own hardware product and not providing digital maps with resolutions greater than 250K for their digital only offerings.

VMS is in a similar boat, but their offering seems to be better than Hema. I have also noticed that a lot of alleged 'professional' outfits are starting to move towards VMS. VMS is also getting a lot of attention through tv/digital media 4wd publication / television as well.

Of course, none of this helps me one iota. I've run a Garmin unit for 9 years now, and while the actual hardware is a handheld (it was a very expensive unit back then) it is still very fast to acquire satellites, and runs the topo maps which are the same as hemas 250K series and haven't been significantly updated for some years now.
I also have a subscription to Garmin's Birds' Eye imagery, which is simply an aerial photo overlay map. It's Okay-ish. It would probably be much better on a larger screen, like an iPad.

But my handheld sits in a ram mount, and has been stuck in the RRC since the day I bought the vehicle. One of the good things about the garmin is that it also has turn by turn 'beep' navigation (it's a handheld, not a car gps) and is actually very good. I had a tom tom which I threw out, simply because of the nav.

However, I am looking now for a dedicated iPad app. whether it be VMS or Hema, or some other app - it needs to have offline maps, and topo resolution better than 250K.

I'm keen to know what others are currently doing in this area, because the only fault of the garmin handheld now is the screen size and the limited microSD card size (4gb) maximum readable capacity.

Thoughts?

Originally Posted by Expedition 130

Hi Mercguy,

Have a look at Mudmap 3 for the iPad. I recently purchased this and to date I'm impressed with the quality of the maps displayed. I loaded a heap of my old campsites into the iPad and they certainly show up much much better than on my Garmin Map60.

Greg

Will be good until they go Mudmap 4 and want you to pay again (and Mudmap 3 will stop working).