Mapping software

[Curious George]

Sorry if this has been asked before - I'm trying to decide between Fugawi and Ozi Explorer. I'll be using it mainly for caching and hiking. I want live GPS display and tracking, the ability to input waypoint and routes and download them to my Garmin Venture. Any reason to choose one over the other?

[+Olar]

George I have used Fugawi software and topos for over a year now and would rate it excellent. It does everything you want and more. I have no experience with Ozie but from the sound of comments on this forum I think it is quite comparable.

Fugawi topos are more than satisfactory for my caching and hiking needs. It allows importing of a number of different maps and of course scanned maps.

Sorry I couldn't give you any firm reason to choose one over the other.

Cheers, Olar

 

"Pi 'r not square, Pie 'r round you dummy!"

[Curious George]

Thanks Olar - I forgot to mention that I live in Canada and Fugawi doesn't have maps that cover this area, so I would have to use maps from another source.

[+Goodguys]

We use Oziexplorer and are very satisfied with it. You can dowload a trial version from their website - they are continually improving the product. We are using maps from Spectrum: topos scanned onto CD, as well as Toporama maps, jpg images downloaded from the internet and maps we've scanned from a Backroads map book. All work equally well, but the Government topo maps that are professionally scanned onto CD are far better quality than Toporama. I believe that Ozi and Fugawi are similar in their ability to use many types of map images, but I have no experience with Fugawi.

 

From Olar's reply I really think this is a Ford/Chevy kind of choice.

[halldrain & cashdrain]

I don't think you have that quite right. Fugawi

is a Canadian company and has topos for all of Canada (as far as I know). I use Ozi and bought Canadian Topos from Quo Vadis (now TourTech). Fugawi may have been OK but I found the demo version (about 2 years ago) essentially unusable.

 

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Originally posted by Curious George:

Thanks Olar - I forgot to mention that I live in Canada and Fugawi doesn't have maps that cover this area, so I would have to use maps from another source.

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[Cdn Geoquester]

In Canada where we don't have the topos that can be uploaded to the GPS, I think Ozi gives us the best software and options.