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SImonB
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| Posted: 14 July 2010 at 9:36pm | IP Logged
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Sorry of this is in the wrong section but I don't see a more suitable location.
I was wondering if anyone subscribes to Garmin BirdsEye, and would be willing to share some thoughts.
I am just wondering how up to date these satellite Images are and whether their coverage in SA is worth the US$29 subs.
Thanks
Simon
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AndyT
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| Posted: 14 July 2010 at 10:33pm | IP Logged
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I have downloaded some of the imagery.
Firstly for the Cape Peninsula, the quality is Ok, no cloud cover and looks to be reasonably up to date.
I also downloaded some files for the Cedarberg - mostly good quality, but there is a block of stuff at very low res.
It seems to be a bit hit and miss for some areas, but if I wanted aerial imagery on my unit for say the Cape Peninsula, the $29 I spent was worth it over the hassle of creating Garmin Custom Maps for the same area.
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| Posted: 15 July 2010 at 9:27am | IP Logged
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Thanks Andy  (Are you the Andy from FBUC?)
Would it be possible for you to do a couple of screenshots of the Cederberg area (one good one bad)
Simon
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Simon, The question is just why would you want to pay for something you can get free on Google Earth. Or does Garmin have aspects that Google does not have? I know Microsoft has a program similar to Google that I had a look at some time back. On this you could super impose a map on the birds eye view which assisted in identifying points of interest. In the mean time Google has improved it's search facility so that I felt no further need for MS.
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Hi Simon
Yup it is me :-)
Will try for the screenshots, just not today.
You can download Birdseye without a subscription through Basecamp at any quality level provided you have a compatible unit - an Oregon in my case. You will just not be able to send it to your GPS.
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Frederick wrote:
| Simon, The question is just why would you want to pay for something you can get free on Google Earth. Or does Garmin have aspects that Google does not have? |
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How do you load Google Earth Images onto the GPS then? You can't as far as I am aware.
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AndyT wrote:
You can download Birdseye without a subscription through Basecamp at any quality level provided you have a compatible unit - an Oregon in my case. You will just not be able to send it to your GPS.
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Thanks Andy - am now doing some downloads to see what it looks like
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AndyT
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| Posted: 15 July 2010 at 12:50pm | IP Logged
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For a "good" area, try a few tiles around Wupperthal.
For a "poor" area look a few km north of Citrusdal (around say 5km), although I suspect the town itself is not so great.
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Here's a free alternate, but as it is custom maps that you are creating you are limited to 100 tiles at around 1000 x 1000 pixels.
If you only want a small ares it may do the job.
http://mobac.dnsalias.org/
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