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Saleen
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 Posted - 30 juin 2004 : 13:25:10
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I need TOPO that is downloadable to my Garmin Rhino 120, but I can't seem to find a source and I am fast running out of time before deployment.
Any help will be appreciated.
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gpspassion
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Saleen
USA
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Posted - 30 juin 2004 : 13:36:26
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I can't believe there is not a huge demand for such a program. Is that regular program what they are using over there right now?
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gpspassion
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Saleen
USA
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Posted - 30 juin 2004 : 13:50:27
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The military does. But my understanding is that personal civilian units are also in widespread use. I just can't seem to hook up with anyone who is actually using one over there or who knows where to get the downloads to use.
The quest continues.....
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gpspassion
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jsiegel
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richardstephens
USA
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Posted - 30 juin 2004 : 14:26:14
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Some people are using Memory-Map Navigator on a Pocket PC, with Maptech's Baghdad Street map. This includes a small scale map of Iraq, and several other cities, but it does not include topographic detail.
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gpspassion
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igurevich38
USA
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Posted - 02 juil. 2004 : 19:03:05
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If you get really desperate, you can buy (really expensive) 50K TOPO maps of Iraq from Cartogrpahic, from 2002 by The Russian General Staff.
But they are in Russian, so if you can't read it then it won't help. However they are precalibrated and accurate enough and will work with a lot of different tools on PC, PPC, and Palm.
By the way, since you're getting deployed, can't the US government give you something that they have? I am sure they have great maps for all kinds of devices. |
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Saleen
USA
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Posted - 02 juil. 2004 : 20:49:11
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I could use what the Govt. issues IF it gets issued to me. My last time over there, however, (Desert Storm) you had to be a platoon leader, company commander, or similar command element to get a GPS. If you happened to get seperated from one of those chosen few, you were screwed.
I'm sure that GPS systems are more wide spread now, but life's experiences have taught me to always have a back-up so I am going over there with my own just in case one isn't provided to me.
I did find those Russian maps on a link that someone provided here, but I do not believe that they are in a format compatible with the Garmin (someone correct me if I'm wrong). Language differences don't bother me because I can always create and rename the cities as waypoints in english.
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Saleen
USA
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Posted - 02 juil. 2004 : 21:53:28
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That's what I thought. The unit itself already has the country of Iraq in the database, but beyond Baghdad there appears to be no other city.
I may have to build it from scratch when I get there using known coordinates and named waypoints. I guess that's an option.
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igurevich38
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arpad
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Posted - 13 août 2004 : 14:08:51
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| Saleen, do you know of any software that displays your coordinates in Military Grid Reference (MGRS)? |
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Saleen
USA
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Posted - 13 août 2004 : 14:58:33
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No, I don't. I just checked my manual and found that there is no reference to that in there so I'm wondering how well this Rhino will work with whatever paper maps I get. Perhaps I should call Garmin.....again.
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Need help for TOPO in Iraq
