thanx sutripta.  will upload to openstreet maps as soon i get back

joseph




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From: Sutripta <sutripta@...>
To: map_authors@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 9:10:54 AM
Subject: Re: [ GPS Maps ] Any detailed maps available for India





Hi,
Sorry for the delay. Was travelling (in NE India!)

I really cannot comment on the accuracy of GPS maps of S. India. One of the
better forums to ask on would be, for eg.
http://www.team-bhp.com/forum/street-travel-experiences/
S. India seems to be better publicly mapped than my neck of woods.

Garmin has recently started advertising on its own in India. But
garmin.co.in takes you to their Singapore site.

I dont know who is supplying the India maps, Garmin, or one of their
distributors. In other countries, I believe, Garmin gives you a way of
generating a license for non SD card machines. The 276 seems to be quite
popular in S. Africa. Check out that site.

For travelling along highways in S. India, I don't think you really need a
GPS. And I am saying this as one of the early adopters of GPS here! As a
record of your trips, it would ofcourse be great. If you do log your
travels, could I request you to please keep "lock on road" off, log at the
highest density you can manage within memory limits, and upload your tracks
to some public, not for profit site like openstreetmaps.

Hope your sons procedure goes well.

Regards
Sutripta

----- Original Message -----
From: "lone_shj12" <lone_shj12@yahoo. com>
To: <map_authors@ yahoogroups. com>
Sent: Sunday, 21 June, 2009 08:43
Subject: Re: [ GPS Maps ] Any detailed maps available for India

hi guys,
Thanx for the reply Sutripta. I will be flying down to Madras
(Chennai) during the first week of July and drive down to Vellore (I'll be
there for a surgery on my kid at CMC) and then later drive down to Kottayam,
Kerela (coz my son will have to be transported in a sleeping position.) In
between I will be going a couple of times to Madras. All this I intend to
drive except for my flight into Madras from Dubai. I might even drive down
to relatives in Bangalore. So most of my travellin will be concentrated to
the South. Basically I need a map that atleast gives the highways correctly
as the ones in wikimapia or google earth. Yes, I dont mind if major cities
like Chennai, Bangalore, Cochin and Trivandrum is also available.
I had written to Mapmyindia, they replied that they dont have any
product right now which is compatible with Garmin 276C. Anyways should I
write to them to find out if their maps are locked on the sd card they
provide?

Thanks for the reply.

Regards
Joseph.

--- In map_authors@ yahoogroups. com, "Sutripta" <sutripta@.. .> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> The 276 is one of the most capable ogf Garmins units. However, it uses a
> proprietery (and very expensive) storage card.
>
> Most maps on SD cards are locked to the card. You can copy the contents,
and
> put it on another card, but it will not run. If the maps are not locked to
> the card, it will run. I don't know if MapMyIndia's maps are locked or
not.
> Drop them a line, and see.
>
> If a GPS is really important to you, for India I would suggest a WinCE, or
> Symbian based system, not Garmin, in addition to your 276, which you can
use
> for datalogging work.
>
> The 276 is essentially a car unit. Are you driving down to India?
>
> Of the handful of vendors providing GPS maps for India, MapMyIndia is
> probably the best. (Assuming that the free maps available, which by their
> very nature are not locked, will not do your job). But having said that, I
> would not put too much of faith in these, esp for the NE. Where do you
> intend travelling? And when are you coming into India?
>
> Regards
> Sutripta
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "lone_shj12" <lone_shj12@ ...>
> To: <map_authors@ yahoogroups. com>
> Sent: Tuesday, 16 June, 2009 13:17
> Subject: [ GPS Maps ] Any detailed maps available for India
>
>
> hi every1,
> I'll be going to India in a weeks time and was wondering if there were any
> gps maps available of India. I have the world map v4 but wanted a little
> more detailed map. I have a garmin 276c.
>
> This site is offering a map
> http://navigator. mapmyindia. com/garmin_ mmi_map_offer. html
> but my unit is not mentioned, it says its providing it in a sd card. Is
> there anyway I can get it transfered into a garmin data card (for the
276c).
>
> I basically need a map of South India with major highways to get around
> Chennai to bangalore and most of Kerela state.
> I am a newbie to this, and though I dont have the time now but, if
someone
> could tell me how to get a map from say wikimapia to my garmin 276c, that
> would also help. I
>
> If anyone could help me or any advice would be much appreciated.
>
> thanx
> Joseph.
>







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