You are of course right as ever Rob and I should have stated more clearly why I found the link interesting. 3 Main reasons :

- The file size, best I can tell all of them are smaller then 4 mb though that is not likely to be much of a problem judging from the tag lines here on the board. Still it suggests the maps are quite lean. One thing I found that complicated the whole idea (and if I recall Kim confirmed that to some degree) is the filtering of useful information from the current formats. These maps seem to have lost a lot of excess weight already. Wether they lost too much is hard to tell. The pictures and explanations on the site are inconclusive. I did notice they offered free addon packs (with location tags for various fields of interest, airports, hotels, etc) suggesting some open mindedness towards the user and his needs.
- Second is the price, sure you could start copying the (Kim mentioned this also) expensive Euro-mapcds but that would be illegal (don't look at me that way). The price for these maps is peanuts compared to some others. Again, these maps might not be what some people need (they are probably not down to street level etc). But as an extra fairprice addon for some empeg users it would be good.
- A third reason is the nature of the product itself. The maps are used for several types of palmtops and pocket pcs as well. So if you own one of those (like I do) it would be catching two birds with one stone. Maybe you could even use the IR port to up/download them to/from your empeg.

I agree though that it is not detailed enough for those that need a really intelligent route planner. Still imho it is worthwhile to look at.

Hans


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