Aboman Panay Posted June 11, 2011 Share Posted June 11, 2011 60Csx Philippine maps? I Hello folks, I’m new here. Hey I have a 60Csx and we are moving to the Philippines, Panay Island, Tigbauan. I am new to GPS in general and will need to learn from all of you up the road but right now, before we leave Las Vegas, can you tell me what map software to get? I have the Garmin BlueChart g2 now but what is the best stuff for Land use? We are leaving on July 31 to retire there. Thanks in advance for your help. Robin Quote Link to comment
+silverquill Posted June 11, 2011 Share Posted June 11, 2011 We have been in Korea for three years and I still can't find out if there are road maps that are compatible with my Garmin Colorado. Almost every vehicle in this country has a GPS unit on the dash, but Garmin has a very small share of the market. So, I get by with my base map for geocaching and Waymarking. I have Mappy for the car. We spent a week (okay, only a few days) on Panay in Feb. but at the other end, near Padan, Anitque. It was absolutely fabulous! There are no geocaches on Panay, although there are a couple on Boracay. Very few geocaches at all in the Philippines. I've put up some waymarks from the part of Panay where we stayed (Phaidon Resort), a few around Manila and Rizal province where we also stayed. Next time maybe we'll get down to Iloilo and see you! (Please hide some caches! They won't let us vacationers do that). Anyway, you can try contacting Garmin directly or do some web searching for maps. There are some third party map suppliers. But, for general geocaching, probably the base map is good enough. Gets me by here fine, and there as well. Quote Link to comment
+btonyb Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 Look into openstreetmap. Many people around the world conribute to OSM and from OSM files you can generate local maps. Quote Link to comment
Aboman Panay Posted June 15, 2011 Author Share Posted June 15, 2011 Hey silverquill and btonyb, thanks for the replys, I now have openstreetmap in my favorites, appreciate the input. Robin Quote Link to comment
+FloridaFour Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 Hey, there.... please put out some caches in the Philippines if you move there!!!!! This summer we are probably going again and I want to hunt some! Manila, Bohol, Boracay, Cebu.... Quote Link to comment
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