I am working on some kind of a road- book and you will get the possibility to get maps on paper.
However maps of Morocco aren't that precise and you will be going off road and in this case road maps are of no use.
Once on a two days off-road trip in Morocco I experienced that we for the last 36 hours off the trip we were not able to find any geographical point that we could relate to the map.
The only thing we knew from our compass, was that most off the time we had been going east.
That was a great trip!
But the feeling in my stomach on that trip, especially when and after we had repaired the suspension with rope (worked well for 700 km) learned me, that it is very okay to know exactly were you are.
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So I prefer that most of you bring GPS for off road navigation.
GPS for route navigation might be used since all gps can provide you coordinates and then you can find your self on the map and use your compass to find the direction.
Finding the correct position on a map from the coordinates certainly requires accuracy and a it is very hard to do sitting in a car bumping up and down/sidewards.
A gps that can show your own track and show you a gps route from a GPX file is to be preferred.
If the gps also can load a map over Morocco so that you can zoom out an see were in Morcco you are it is even more enjoyable.
When using a gps you just chose the path off the day, and when driving you can see your own position an try to keep it as close to the path as possible some times there can be quite a difference since my route planning will not be that precise.
Personally I will just be using my phone, it is a smart phone running windows and I am using a very fine little free program called Navi computer from http://www.navicomputer.com.
With this program I can use the free maps from http://www.openstreetmap.org
Like many other phones this one also includes a compass.
At the same time we are using the phone for music through headphones- saves weight
via intercom the whole thing can be coupled with the CB radio.If you are using an Android phone you might use ”tripcomputer”
For the Iphone ”twonav” might be a solution.
You must try these programs and maybe others to see how they work. I have only worked with those for windows phones and there are many programs to choose among. Some programs cost money, but this does not guarantee that they work well. As I mentioned Navicomputer works very well on my HTC hd2- but this is also one the most powerful phones at the moment.
Others might use for example the Garmin Oregon or Dakota or Magellan sportrack they cost from around 100 to 400 Euro.
You will need to have a charger for the phone or gps in the car and maybe you will need to have one extra charger( my experience is that they are not that long lasting but often very cheep and light).
Please fell free to ask me if you are going to buy a gps or a program, then I will try to check it out.
But most important is that you can see your own position (would n´t be much of a gps if you could n´t) and that it can read an show a gpx file track. The possibility of reading maps off Morocco is a great +.
Best regards Ulrik
