Product Description

Use these detailed OS maps to plan walks, mountain bike trails, print your own maps and program routes and waypoints into a GPS. Not only that but you can also review your performance and actual route taken by importing a GPS tracklog back into your PC and overlaying it on a map of your choice.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #781 in Software
• Brand: Memory-Map
• Published on: 2006-06-01
• Released on: 2006-06-16
• Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP
• Original language: English

Manufacturer's Description
This exclusive product includes OS Landranger 1:50,000 maps of all of Britain's National Parks and other key outdoor leisure areas on a single CD.

Features 150 routes from Trail and Country Walking Magazines

If you need some ideas on where to go, we've teamed up with Trail and Country Walking to include 150 of their best walks as featured in their magazines. Routes are available for different abilities and include easy to follow instructions for a great day out. You can also print your own route map and route card and add your own additional notes or download the route directly from Memory-Map into a GPS.

Memory-Map is already used to create the routes and provide the maps printed in both magazines. You can also add to your Memory-Map route collection with downloads from the magazines websites

Customer Reviews

Not the best choice
I bought the Memory Map National Parks mapping along with a Garmin GPS as an intro to hand held GPS & computer mapping. I like the Garmin, I don't like Memory Map, which is a shame as they have a tight hold on the marketplace. Buy a GPS and the salesman has MM maps and will try to sell them.

I found the mapping software to be utterly infuriating, non intuitive and unfriendly. I expect some sort of a learning curve but any and all Windows conventions are ignored, so doing anything is an utterly frustrating experience. No doubt you learn in time :-( For example if you want open a route you might expect to use File, Open. No. It's "Overlay".

I joined Walkingworld to get access to routes on-line. All routes download with the same waypoint names. Daft but there you are. So you can renumber them before loading them into your GPS can't you? Yes. One at a time, manually, at about 3 keystrokes per waypoint. Grrr!!

Or - (and I swear I am nothing to do with this company) you could use Mapyx Quo. The maps are significantly cheaper, the software is much more Windows compliant and easy to use. Don't get me wrong, there's a learning curve, but no more than you would expect. And support is really good if you need advice. You want to renumber those waypoints mentioned above? Easy. Set a prefix, say "Helvellyn" followed by %N and it's done. Your Helvellyn points don't get tangled with your Coniston points. Easy. Try the free download, which includes maps to practice on (very useful if you're going to the Peak Ditrict - hint!) before you spend money on MM.

John

All I wanted
I was surprised at how good this is. I live in the South so bought National Parks for when I'm away from home and Southern England for the rest of the time. I have had a great deal of navigation experience and have found this easy to use and huge saving in time. I can produce routes in 10 minutes that would have taken all afternoon with a map, roamer and compass. In addition I now have access to OS mapping which on paper would have cost hundreds of pounds.

Maps are fine, software is not
The maps are os maps so you can't really go wrong, except that Memory Map are expensive compared to other vendors. The MM software though is designed to drive you to distraction.

If you're not already committed to MM, look at the competition. Better software is available and cheaper maps.

JH