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11 Nov 2011
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GPS route for trans-african south to north. Anyone sharing?
Hey there,
So this is day 538 of my RTW trip. Currently in Brazil, and heading soon to Africa. Many people have done it, and I was wondering if someone has saved all the waypoints in a nice and usable GPS file that I could load on my GPS to, simply, drive north, from South Africa to Egypt, East coast. As you might imagine, at this point I am slightly tired of route planning and moon-like roads that take to nowhere, so I'd really thank anything that could possibly make my life easier in the new and complicated continent I am facing.
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If you have a Garmin gps then do yourself a HUGE favour by getting a copy of Tracks4Africa. Over a hundred thousand points of interest and many many routes etc
Welcome to Tracks4Africa
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12 Nov 2011
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T4A + OpenStreetMap
TracksForAfrica is by far the best GPS map for Africa w/ a lot of overlanders' waypoint including some helpful comments (ex. good food, bad hotels, customs, etc..)
But for the big cities in the north the T4A's map is very poor (ex.Addis Abeba, Khartoum, Cairo).
I'm currently using T4A to get the waypoints and the excellent OpenStreetMap ( Free worldwide routable Garmin maps from OpenStreetMap) for the maps. It's for free and always updated.
Have a nice African journey.
Cheers,
Marcelo
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Thanks Marcelo,
I had looked at the OpenStreetMap before but had not really gotten it to work well, but have now - they are very detailed!
Thanks! ;-)
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Too bad..
Finding your way through this wild continent is part of the fun - if you're tired of traveling you might look at shipping directly home and come back to Africa with full stamina - it requires it. Unless you absolutely need to write the "W" in "RTW".
Regarding T4A, I agree that they're excellent for southern Africa, but they're prettty much useless in center/west/east/north. And they're expensive: you're much better off downloading OSM maps for free.
Enjoy!
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