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Mapsource topographic US 2008 (DVD-Rom). Digital topographic maps, comparable to 1:100000 scale USGS maps. Terrain contours, topographic elevations, summit locations with elevation, trails and rural roads; city neighborhood roads. Coastline, lake and river shoreline; wetlands; perennial and seasonal streams. Elevation profile on PC and compatible units; estimate terrain difficulty features lakes, reservoirs, waterways, rivers and streams with icons to represent boat ramps, dams, compgrounds and trails.
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- Usgs Topographical Data At 1:100.000 Scale- Terrain contours, topographic elevations
- Summit locations with elevation
- Trails and rural roads; city neighborhood roads
- Coastline, lake and river shoreline; wetlands; perennial and seasonal streams
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By Thomas (Seattle, WA USA)
OK, I am used to hiking with Green Trail maps for Washington State. I was hoping that this product would be to their level, or heck even more current. But no way, I pulled up areas I go to frequently and the maps are not even close to he quality of the green trail maps. Which is very sad considering google earth does a better job than this software and it is free.
For all you techies who rated this product highly get grip, paper maps dominate this product. GPS software is not even close to the quality of a paper map. Also, if I wanted to do all of this electronic file manipualtion that other users speak of why even buy a GPS unit. The point is I wanted something superior to old out of date paper maps and instead of that got "new" electronic maps that are worthless.
By Dennis Caisse (Lockport, New York USA)
I am new to the GPS hobby, as a walker/hiker/biker, and wanted to upgrade both my GPS inventory of tools, and my skill using them. I have the Garmin GPSMAP 60, and needed some mapping software to use with it. The TOPO is as it is advertised: a US Continental map, loaded with information, color, symbols, menus, and mapping tools. It is overwhelming at times, but still very interesting to use. I find the lack of drop down menus, to assist the ham-handed rookies among us, to be needed. I often find myself asking,"Why does it do that?". It is possible to switch back and forth between your GPS and the laptop, which makes the whole operation seem surrealistic. It is truly like living in the future. I am still jazzed by this purchase, and often just look at the maps because they are cool to look at. You can have a lot less fun and spend a whole lot more money. This is a good deal, and you may even learn something about maps.
By Lawrence G. Stevens (Hendersonville, NC United States)
The software is great but I was unable to install it. I had to spend over an hour with the Garmin help desk and they finally installed the product using some back door after giving the rep access to my pc. There was some issue with the Install Shield.
By K. Fox (Colorado)
Based on my earlier experiences with GPSs for 20 years now (recreation, flying, nothing exotic), and a recent Garmin street pilot, I decided to stick with the name brand Garmin. And earlier reviews about their basemaps being... well, too basic, I purchased TOPO, USA to supplement the map features of my GPSMAP 60Cx. (Magellen offered MapSend, therefore Garmin's topo program must be similar and useful, right?.) I pretty much discounted low rated reviews about TOPO USA issues, such as being locked, maps being off, etc. How tough can these be to install and use?
The Weakest Link can now be applied to TOPO, USA. Instructions were 3 steps inside the CD jacket, ending with "Follow the prompts" (which I did), there are NO OTHER INSTRUCTIONS. Nada. Zip. Not even on the CD.
Getting the software to connect via USB to GPSMAP 60Cx was... interesting. In spite of my 20+ years on a PC, I had to try a variety of PC reboots (1st, or 2nd), with the GPSMAP (on, or off). I did finally manage to get Colorado topo data transfered, and while still "connected" discovered the software/GMPSMAP no longer communicated, and had to revert to rebooting. Restarting TOPO USA did not reset any connection.
And finally, the map is not accurate, as the local US highway curves in opposite directions than the underlying Garmin map, my street has no 45 degree direction changes and is about 2-tenths of a mile further south than Garmin claims.
The receiver closely matchs my aging Magellen in lat/long numbers, so I give credit for all the above anomalies to the Garmin map datum and implementation.
Think I might try the preloaded Garmin Topo chip instead, but once burned...etc.
Previous poor reviews of TOPO USA were warranted, I was wrong to have dismissed them.
By John Newsom
Received Shipment in a timely manner. I will use the Vendor again in the near future.
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