Memory Map Launches Digital Map Shop

Memory-Map has launched its own Digital Map Shop (DMS) which allows users to select and download customised areas of digital mapping to their PC, laptop or pocket PC.

Customers need to open an account on the site and buy Top-Up vouchers which are then redeemable against the exact map areas they want. It's basically a three-part process:

1. Choose the type of map - scale and country.

2. Draw around the area you want to download.

3. Download to a PC or Pocket PC, the correct amount is automatically deducted from your account.

Apart from the immediacy of the process, which allows you to, say, but mapping on a Friday afternoon for use over the weekend, it also means that you only buy the maps you actually need.

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At the moment, mapping available includes complete OS GB coverage at both Landranger and Explorer scales plus areas of Europe, America and Australia. You can also download aerial photography.

You can download mapping areas as small as 100 km square, it says here, in any shape you want. Pennine Way anyone?

More information from www.memory-map.com