Errors, Corrections and Clarifications to Sahara Overland II
Important information in red

Corrections up to September 2007 have been incorporated with other amendments
into the second reprint (v2.2) which will be in the shops from mid-November 2007.
You can tell if you have v2.1 or 2.2 by looking at the 'reprinted' info at the top of p.2

  November 2007

p.319 - GPS on the meridian. I'm told that the WGS84 Meridian is actually 102.5m west of the Greenwich meridian, so in fact the pictured GPSs were pretty close

p.324 - GPS for anything anywhere. Try http://gnswww.nga.mil/geonames/GNS/index.jsp or this one. But I hear both are unreliable (for the reasons stated) compared to real waypoints. Wayhoo does not seem to respond anymore.

p.325 - Maps. You'll always find the latest on Saharan maps here.

p.329 - Michelin 741 is £5 - 6 euros), not 3 euros. Latest edition reviewed here.

p.363 - Abdelrazik was caught and extradited by Libya to Algeria in November 2004.

p.399 - Algeria has now joined Libya as a country that takes the pillage of stone age artefacts very seriously. Five Germans were imprisoned and fined huge amounts in November 2004.

p.418 - Morocco. Tangiers port is no drama now I hear. Official guys with numbered badges help you out and access onto the motorway or into town is straightforward. I also used Nador recently - again no drama but insurance seemed quite pricey now - 2 euros a day for a car.

p.434 - Morocco; Route M5: Suggested duration - motorbikes can do this route easily in half a day.
KM0, last line: "towards a gravel plain and THE VILLAGE VISIBLE IN the hills beyond".
There's a restaurant in Iknioun (KM54) at N31 10.3' W05 40.4' and a cafe at the top of Tizi n Tazazert (KM70) at N31 07.3' W05 46.3'.

p.439 Waypoint 121 (239) should read 121 (118).

p.440 Route M6; KM 215 (24). A new tarmac road now runs to Merzouga and on to Rissani.

p.457 Waypoint 99 (286) should read 99 (288).

p.458 Morocco, Route M13. I'm told the waypoint for KM322 is wrong and I suspect it should be N27 04.0'

p.464 - Route R1 Guerguerat - Nouakchott: When doing the R1 route, at KM13 instead of driving south on the road, just cross it straight and head S-SE on the clearest track. You will reach the relocated Mauritanian border post about 4km later.

p.467 Waypoint 137, long; should probably read 16° 19.6' (not ... 09.6').

p.467 Waypoint 220 (273) should be 220 (263).

p.468 - Route R2 Nouadhibou - Atar: Rewritten and available to download here, including the correction of two repeated waypoints at KM360 and 394 which slipped into the 2007 v2.2 reprint.

p.473 Waypoint 33 (67) should read 33 (63).

p.483 - Route R10 - The waypoints from KM32 to KM202 should all read W12 (not W11, as written)

p.483 Waypoint 325 (50) should read 325 (70).

p.486 Waypoint 399 (401) should read 399 (406).

p.517 - Route A10 - New tarmac to In Guezzam now begins around N 20°40' (May 2006) - may well reach Tam in a year or two. Assamaka GPS should be N19° 20.2' E 05 46.3'

p.525 - firm sand plains

p.531 - Left edge of map - the road west to 'Bordj', etc, is the one below Djanet off to the left, not the one as shown.

p.592 - Agadez to Bilma, KM85. GPS point for Tourayet should probably be 8° 43.3’, but it isn't on most maps.

p.601 - New route description from El Gatrun to Madama. (pdf download).

p.630 - The massif of Jebel Uweinat mountain in the bottom left quarter of the map is not depicted.

p.638 - The Lama-Monod Pass (approx. N23 57.7' E 25 21.5') is just about drivable in both directions, but don't count on it with a heavy diesel (photo Werner Lenz, petrol Synchro).

p.651 - Decimal degree converter - left column should read N00° 00' 00"

 

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