well I ordered the 1:50k Lake District National Park on Thurs night and it arrived this morning which is good service.
Cost was around £30 which is good value I feel, just been having a play and must say its easy to use etc, will write a review once I've played with it enough.
Hi, We're keen walkers who run a guest house and I'm looking to build up a set of route sheets for guests centred on our village. Typicallly text plus map with route overlaid plus photos and annotation. Any views on which of these is most appropriate for that?
OK Bill, DO NOT QUOTE ME WORD FOR WORD, but I don't think you can do what you are planning to do without buying a licence from OS. Ask about, and maybe start another thread, don't want to hijack this one, but if you look on David Hall and Andrew Learney's web sites they have licence numbers for all their maps that they show on each page, with out that they can and will be prosecuted for copyright... given this I would check what you are planning to do. I may be totally wrong on this one BTW..h hope you don't mind me mentioning. Oh PS great idea BTW.
I know this thread is Memory Map vs Anquet but I have to cast another vote for TrackLogs.
I suppose it depends on how detailed you want your mapping (1:25,000 or 1:50,000) as to which gives best value for money but after reading Moggy's review elsewhere on this forum and recommendations from others I went with TrackLogs.
On average it's a quarter the price of MM and has pretty much the same features and functions as MM and Anquet.
Also I'd read that a number of people were finding the new version of Anquet (version 6 I think)trickier to use than previous releases.
After installing TrackLogs I was up and running in no time.
It took me about 10 minutes of playing around to discover how it works.
I then spent about 30 minutes working my way through the manual to gain a more thorough understanding of the software from start to finish.
The only downside to TrackLogs in comparison to MM & Anquet is you can't use it with a PDA (but it will talk to your gps)- other than that it does everything I want and is worth every penny.
As others have suggested, all 3 are available to try for free.
Bill, I'd say the most expedient way forward would be for you to use a cheaper (and still better in my view) application such as Tracklogs for your local area, make the routes you want as a *.trl file and save each of these as *.gpx files. This means you can provide each of these formats as routes that people can download and use with their respective mapping applications, or just put them on their GPSes. For mapping related stuff, you will of course breach copyright to put OS stuff on your site, but you may want to have a link to something like Google maps and figure something that way. YHA wardens often used to make up their own maps of local routes and sell them for something terrible like 20p. As YHAs have closed <stifle gripe here> a lot of these maps have been scanned in and put on the web as a regular reminder of how good the YHA once was. Ystradfellte is a great example.
