Touratech QV GPS Software

[Lobby]

I've got Touratech's 2003 catalog and the new 2004 / 2005 catalog.

Countless time have I read their description of what their QV software is. But I can't figure it out.

What does it do? How is it different from Garmin's City Select (BTW, I have a 276C)? What about the maps of central and South America?

Has anybody used this stuff?

[yzf1kr]

Touratech QV is a programm like Ozi-explorer.

You can load digitalized images of maps, calibrate them and design routes and tracks to upload them to your GPS.

But as with OZI there is no way to upload maps to your GPS with TQV.


BTW: TQV has a nice gimmick that compares the date of a picture taken with a digital camera and compares it with your recorded track. And then links the picture to a location on the map.

[Lobby]

I don't get it.

I mean, in the same area of the catalog Touratech sells map software for various parts of the world. So, apparently Touratech feels they offer a "better" or "different" capability than what Garmin offers.

[fasteddy]

TTQV GPS Software is simply the best you can find on the planet. If your into setting up your own routes or saving tracks of where you've been this software package makes it easy. If you need to edit a route, waypoints or track this software has the capability to do all of this effortlessly. Want to make a Roadbook this will do it for you.
Along with QVN Maps we have been using TTQV for the last three years and use it exclusively when setting up our GPS Adventure rides. I have all of the other GPS software, Mapsend, Mapsourse, Trackmaker, OziExplorer, Fugawi, Softmap, EasyGPS, Panterra, GPSUtility, Gartrip and many others most have not even heard of. Nothing holds a candle to TTQV. Take them up on their offer of a 30 day trial, if your a GPS power user this is the program for you.

Ed...

[Lobby]

Ed,

So give me an example of how you use it, would ya? I see where TT has a bunch of maps of Canada listed in their catalog.

How would you use QV vs using City Select (if you have a Garmin), if you don't mind explaining?

[fasteddy]

Originally Posted by He-Lob

Ed,

So give me an example of how you use it, would ya? I see where TT has a bunch of maps of Canada listed in their catalog.

How would you use QV vs using City Select (if you have a Garmin), if you don't mind explaining?

First of all I do not use it for city travel, What I do is set up Adventure Rides out in the boonies. The Canadian Maps that are available for TTQV are precalibrated Canadian Govenment issue 1-50000 topo maps. They have every highway, secondary road, gravel road, two track, single track trail and railway bed abandoned or otherwise on them. I use TTQV to lay out routes that I would like to follow or where I've never been. Now you have to understand that when laying out a route for a group of riders you must follow certain conventions. For instance TTQV will "talk" to most if not all GPS receivers but all receivers will not hold the same number of routes or waypoints. We have settled on 20 routes of 30 waypoints each, this seems to be the lowest common denominator when it comes to various makes. So for instance, I've just laided out a route with 300 waypoints and I want to "split' the route into routes of thirty waypoints each, TTQV allows me to pick how many waypoints I would like in a route, whether I would like to overlap waypoints at the start or end of the route and what I would like to name those waypoints. At the click of a mouse I can turn that 300 waypoint route into 10 routes of 30 waypoints each with a prefix of "X" and a suffix of "Y" and the first and last waypoints of each route in the exact same place. I'm just scratching the surface here with what this neat program can do. I'm not sure what your looking for but for what I do there is nothing comparable.

Ed....

[MooreRon]

Which model of XM Radios are most people using? I've heard good things about the Roadie. Are any of them waterproof?

Thanks.

[Boottrac]

I believe the new sofware will take the TQV, this is a Beta version but should be OK, I have nit tried it PhilSpace is checking it out.

[Lobby]

Bump.

[9Dave]

Originally Posted by Lobby

Bump.

You been sittin' by the computer for 3 years waiting for an answer, Lobby? No wonder they made you a mod.

But seriously, are you wondering what TT QV will do for you?

Dave

Originally Posted by Lobby

Originally Posted by He-Lob

Ahhhhhhh, we've discovered your secret identity, too.

[Lobby]

Originally Posted by Dave-950

You been sittin' by the computer for 3 years waiting for an answer, Lobby? No wonder they made you a mod.

But seriously, are you wondering what TT QV will do for you?

Dave

[/B]Ahhhhhhh, we've discovered your secret identity, too.

Hell, I read the Touratech catalog (who doesn't?), I read the answers to this thread, I read all the posts about bicimapas etc, and I STILL don't understand.

Sometimes I even do searches and I bump into interesting threads.

I'm going to Mexico next month and I'll be buying Bicimapas in a few days. But...

[mcnut]

Assuming you own MapSource and have downloaded a recent free update since 2004, just buy the Bicimapas maps. If you already know where you want to go your pretty well set. Be sure to take a good paper map also! If your not sure where to go check out some of the Mexico threads (Gaspipes are wonderful) and download a track file or two for the area from 'Outer Darkness". Don't need no stinking Euro software. Enjoy!

MCNut

[Lobby]

I'm downloading Bici this weekend. Unless somebody tells me that I should get TTQV instead.

[9Dave]

Lobby -

I think the answer to your question is that TT QV can do pretty much everything that Mapsource can, and a whole lot more.

According to the TT catalog, QV allows you to read, write, and send Mapsource compatible Garmin maps. It says you can draw your own maps.

It says:

In QV, you can not only use an unsurpassed range of vector and raster maps as well as satellite images, you can also use them in parallel to the navigation function! If commercial maps are not available in digital format, you can integrate self-scanned maps or, in the professional domain, import maps from the GIS system (from QV 4 Power User and above).

Versatile print functions
All maps can be printed with any scale you like. You can select and move the map sections to be printed easily with the mouse. Thus it is possible to print over more than one page perfectly.

Slide show
Digital photos can be linked directly to same way Internet links with special info called up with a click of the mouse.

Mapsource can't do any of the extra stuff - but it's free, and QV power user is $469 And then you can buy map data. There is a roadbook plug-in for it so you can do your own roadbooks. Nice, but more $$.

Bicimaps seem to be the best info out there for Mexico from what I've read. The key is getting the most detail you can.

You might want to check with cmwoodys, or bigdog as both seem to have used Bicimaps to navigate in Mexico.

Hope that helps a bit.

Dave

[Lobby]

I have several friends that use Bici and they love it. I was just trying, uh, to understand options. And clutter up this sub forum, apparently.