v-g Backpacking in Britain BlogApologies to addicts of GPS/PDA/Smartphone mapping if this is obvious or old hat, but I was able to help a correspondent of mine recently in a quite unexpected way (I don’t own any GPS or mobile mapping devices at all but I’m really into mapping on a PC). It may be interesting to others in […]
More mapwork: I’ve uploaded new versions of all the Memory Map (MM) overlays in the Hill Lists section of the main site.
A reader pointed out a difficulty when loading two or more of the overlays at the same time:- the Marks (as MM calls them - also known as POIs or Points Of Interest) for […]
Following the level of interest in the calibrated Explorer Grid map for the 1:25,000 scale, several readers have enquired about a similar grid for the Landranger 1:50,000 maps. This would be a far longer and more tedious task, or so I thought, because I obtained the Explorer gridlines automatically from Memory-Map using the ‘Show Map […]
I have a new version of the Explorer Grid map available, showing the Explorer map numbers and boundaries as a grid overlaid on a 1:1,000,000 scale map of mainland UK. To recap for those who missed the first post, it enables you to see at a glance which Explorer maps cover a particular area, or […]
Anquet V6.2.6 is now available for download and a changelog is included below.
According to the changelog the installer has been improved, but the serious bug concerning registry keys that I reported to them in September is still not fixed:- if you install the product to a directory other than the default, you will not be […]
There are two new versions of Tracklogs available for download: a new production version and a beta version.
I installed the V3.13.0 Beta release tonight and did a quick test, and … hooray - it will import GPX files produced by Memory Map.
I’ve never heard of the Garmin TCX format, I’ll look that up when I […]
Since the summer of 2008, which in weather terms was February - April, I’ve been deeply engrossed in techie-land between the far too infrequent backpacks. The awful weather did at least allow us to get some of the long outstanding big jobs done, and the technical trend was forced on me by the death and […]
Back online at last, after nearly a fortnight of almost total cyber silence since the death of my master PC. It had shown occasional symptoms of age and general rot for a while and a power cut in the middle of the night finally did for it, but after many attempts I did manage to […]
I can’t say I’m surprised by this. I’ve just been playing with the latest USA edition MM V5.2.5 and they have introduced an online License Management system, similar to the product registration and activation system used by Anquet but with more complications. The system will no doubt appear in the next UK edition.
After installation on […]
For some time now, since I started doing some solo backpacks in fact, I’ve been keeping an eye on the available technology for personal tracking. Having very little knowledge or experience of portable electronics doesn’t help at all, and getting to grips with all this is uphill work. After much investigation and internet fatigue I […]
