Which Great Britain Topo Map do you recommend?

[+Laird McKai]

It is so easy in Germany. Garmin offers only one Topo Map of Germany.

 

But looking at Britain I'm a bit confused which Topo Map might be the best.

There is the Garmin Topo Great Britain, but what is with the Garmin GB Discoverer with Ordnance Survey Maps?

Ordnance Survey Maps I know as paper version and they were very useful.

But is the GPS version just as good?

Maybe free maps don't make much difference to Garmin stuff?

Is the Basic ST-Map good enough?

 

So far Garmin's City Navigator did work quite well, but planning a summer holiday in the Highlands of Scotland is a bit different.

 

What do you use? What would you recommend? Thanks in advance for your answers. The GPS is a 64ST

[+andyakashrek]

Talkytoaster.

Brilliant maps see his website. Used on my vista hcx and 550t

[+Graculus]

I've done some screen shots of the Garmin topo maps, Garmin OS GB Discoverer (both of which are quite expensive) and Talky Toasters Open Street maps. You can see the differences between them. The OS maps are excellent and I think the best in terms of features shown. But they are expensive and you can't zoom in too far because they go 'fuzzy'. No much good for towns. TT's OSM maps are much better for towns etc. I use both on my Oregon and switch between them as needed.

http://www.follow-the-arrow.co.uk/resources/gps.html#maps

 

Chris

Graculus

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[+Team Noodles]

Unfortunately there is now a charge for the 1:50K look alike talky toaster maps, although I agree they're better than the OS maps as they are raster maps whereas the TT maps are vector maps. I haven't updated mine since a charge was introduced, and now tend to rely more on the free maps from http://www.openfietsmap.nl/downloads/europe

 

Or you go global