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Originally Posted by AlbertaCowboy
Admittedly, I've not had a newer GPS system, but old school topo maps in B&W are just fine to read. My old Magellan 400 handheld was greyscale, and it just made use of stipling rather than colour to show bodies of water and topographical differences.
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The standard maps used in the UK are called "Ordnance Survey" maps, and they are extremely colour-intensive:
On a grey-scale screen it could be difficult to distinguish rivers from contour lines, for example.