T4A on Google Earth
I noticed the other day that Track4Africa now has potentially useful (ie: free) content on Google Earth 4.3 in the Sahara, including some routes from the Sahara book. Libyan Sahara is by far the best/most accurate: zoom in close enough on the Fezzan and wait a bit for the orange tracks (not the best colour out there) to appear. The purple or white highways are mostly correct (L6 is an exception).
Elsewhere the purple T4A 'main road' and white 'Metro/secondary road' designations are a bit batty. Bilma to Nguigmi a main road? It may lead to the same false expectations as using the Mich 953 did in the old days.
I notice Route M12 in Morocco is half Main road and half Metro/secondary (it was still mostly what they would call 'Off-Road Track' a couple of months back).
And some of the T4A 'fuel stop' information in Morocco did not match my recent observations either so I suppose it's not that much better than a paper map, but it's always fun to use GE.
To view it click:
Layers - Primary - More - T4A ... and then clicking T4A gives you even more options like fuel.
Like I say it can take time when zoomed right in for the orange dirt road routes to come up
Ch
Last edited by Chris Scott; 1 Jul 2008 at 10:14.
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