Sep 12 2012
There’s been quite a lot of criticism recently, from various quarters, about hill walkers relying on mobile phones for navigation and then getting into trouble and having to be rescued. As I recently wrote an article on using your smartphone on the hills, I thought it may be worthwhile looking at some of the criticism …
Jan 06 2012
For those of us using Memory Map on mobile devices, the smartphone option has so far been limited to iPhone. Memory Map have long been promising an Android version and delivery has slipped and slipped, until just a couple of week ago when they launched a public beta program for Android OS. You can download …
Mar 31 2011
You can find the previous part of this guide here: Part 6: Importing and Exporting Data Part 7 of this parallel user’s guide covers the use of MM on a PDA device with an associated GPS card or device. The best way of experiencing digital Ordnance Survey mapping on the hills. This is likely to …
Mar 30 2011
You can find the previous part of this guide here: Part 5: Printing Part 6 of this parallel user’s guide covers the importing and exporting of data from MM. Something you will inevitably need to do. Importing and Exporting For the most part, you will use Import and Export to “Open” and “Save” MMO files …
Mar 29 2011
You can find the previous part of this guide here: Part 4: Working with Routes and Tracks Part 5 of this parallel user’s guide covers Printing. Yes, it gets a whole section to itself – it really is that important. Printing One of the great advantages of MM is that you can print your own …
Mar 28 2011
You can find the previous part of this guide here: Part 3: The Icon Ribbon and Terminology Part 4 of this parallel user’s guide covers working with routes and tracks and the rather odd way of working with files that MM has adopted. This is a long post and apologies for that, but it covers …
Mar 25 2011
You can find the previous part of this guide here: Part 2: Basics and Moving Around Part 3 of this parallel user’s guide covers the function of the Icon Toolbar and tries to explain some of the new names and terms that we are going to need to get to grips with when using MM. …
Mar 23 2011
You can find the previous part of this guide here: Part 1: Introduction and Installation Part 2 of this parallel user’s guide covers the basics of using Memory Map and moving around the map screen – something that definitely takes some getting used to. Getting Started Following on from the previous post, we hopefully have …
Mar 22 2011
I’ve been a Memory Map user for several years now and I’ve helped quite a few people get to grips with the idiosyncrasies of the program, because although it’s a Windows application, it doesn’t behave like one in several important ways. The help I’ve provided has spawned a parallel user guide to the one that’s …
Feb 26 2010
Although I’ve made a couple of approaches to Memory Map now to try and get some sort of discount for existing and loyal customers of the product – for the iPhone app, I’ve been told that there are no plans to discount the product and the senior members of the sales team feel that £20 …
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