Garmin MapSource TOPO! US 24k West Topographic Coverage for Washington, Oregon, California, and Nevada (DVD) |  | Brand: Garmin
Category: CE
List Price: $129.99
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Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 1,337
Format: DVD-ROM
Media: DVD-ROM
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Number Of Items: 1
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Operating System: Other
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Dimensions (in): 8 x 7.8 x 1.5
MPN: 010-11314-00
Model: 010-11314-00
UPC: 753759093495
EAN: 0753759093495
ASIN: B001RYFYYK
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| Features:
| • | Provides detailed digital topographic maps, comparable to 1:24,000 scale USGS maps, for Washington, Oregon, California, and Nevada | | • | Contains detailed hydrographic features, including coastlines, lake and river shorelines, wetlands and perennial | | • | Contains many routable trails, rural roads, city neighborhood roads, major highways and interstates | | • | Displays national, state and local parks, forests, conservation areas and wilderness areas. | | • | Includes BaseCamp¿ software for managing data on GPS and computer, playing back routes and tracks, geotagging photos and more | | • | Also includes Bureau of Land Management township, range and section information, and USGS quad locations |
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Product Description
Topo U.S. 24K Topo U.S. 24K DVD gives access to a wider coverage area than Garmin's Topo U.S. 24k data cards. The new Topo U.S. 24K West DVD provides up-to-date detailed 24k topographic coverage for Washington, Oregon, California, and Nevada. Built-in DEM (digital elevation model) data supports 3-D terrain shading and route elevation profiles to help estimate terrain difficulty. With routable roads and trails in metropolitan and rural areas, getting to your destination is made easy by creating point to point routes on compatible units. In addition, you can search for points of interest by name or proximity to enhanced shoreline detail to help prepare you for your next outdoor adventure. Feature Garmin's new computer application, BaseCamp. BaseCamp allows you to plan and manage trips, routes and waypoints on both your computer and GPS. It provides the user with 2-D and 3-D map views, and animated playback of routes and tracks. BaseCamp also supports photo geotagging and allows for photo and map data transfers both to and from your GPS device. Routable road content and searchable business points of interest provided by NAVTEQ searchable points of interest including food and drink, lodging, park, trails, camping, fuel and more Dense contour interval generated from elevation data approximating the 24k USGS quad maps. Enhanced shoreline equivalent to 24k. Built in DEM and 3-D terrain shading on your computer and compatible units. Elevation profile of routes on your computer and compatible units, helps you estimate terrain difficulty. Detailed lakes, rivers, streams and wetlands. Geographic place names such as summits, trailheads, towns and natural features. National, state, and local parks, forests, recreational and wildlife area boundaries. Inland lakes detail: bathymetry, fish attractors, navigation channels. Searchable Section, Township and Range where coverage
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 Indispensible, BUT... August 27, 2010
Ludwig (Milford, New Hampshire)
If you use a Garmin GPS off-road in the US you'll want this disc and/or its companions for other areas & will not want to do without it. Also on the positive side, it installs easily.
That said, however, there's plenty to grumble about. For one, it's characteristically extortionately expensive. At ~$100 for 4 states it will cost you $200-$300 to get regional coverage and about $1000 for the entire US. The mapping application delivered with the data, Base Camp, is not only different from Garmin's heretofore standard mapping application, MapSource, and is delivered without documentation (confusing on both counts!) but is also second-rate (as is, btw. MapSource). The 24K topo discs are also very late: Garmin should have made these discs available 5-10 years ago.
When it comes down to it Garmin is first and foremost a hardware company whose primary customer base consists of drivers using primary and secondary streets and highways. For Garmin the production of sophisticated software for hikers, horsemen & horsewomen, and off-road drivers has always been and always will be a sideline. So go out in the woods & eat dirt.
 Not pleased August 20, 2010
Terry Labissoniere (Seattle, Washington)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The very first track that I tried to mapped out I found is incomplete and incorrect therefore I can only imagine the accuracy of this TOPO is suspicious. Unfortunately Garmin has a stranglehold not only on the navigation instrument but also with the proprietary software and of course the maps software that you HAVE to own. You cannot use ANY other mapping software/product with the Garmin GPS. For the $129.95 PLUS tax, shipping and handling I think I have a reasonable expectation the Garmin TOPO would be accurate. It is not. My other complaint with the TOPO software is there are no instructions on use. I guess the TOPO engineers expect new users to be intuitive or just learn by trial and error. It is sad Garmin can't provide easy to use instructions in plain English.
 using topo 24K west June 21, 2010
J. Patera
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I feel like I just got ripped off with this product. It would be great if topo 24K worked, but with no manual and email support that doesn't seem to go anywhere I have nothing. I've been holding on the 800 # support line for almost a hour and starting to feel ripped off. This is just too expensive of a product to have no documentation.
1st It doesn't want to install on any other drive then C: So have a lot of space available just to install it. 3 gigs+
2nd Once I enlarged the boot drive so that the software would load I tried to use it. Again, with no manual and NO help there's little one can do with it unless your into a treasure hunt. I think I got some maps on the Oregon 450T, but I'm not really sure. To delete the files the program says 'find the file you want to delete then delete it'. What file, whats the name of it? Where is it located? Oh I guess one just deletes files randomly until the correct one goes away, which ever that file is???
 Usable in Flat terain cities June 6, 2010
S. Wennerberg
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Auto routing yes. Universal single use mapping trails great, except Garmin chose brown elevation lines and brown city roads. In parts of San Francisco distinguishing streets from a high fill of elevation lines is not that feasible. As far as preparing to write to a Micro SD card a "Core 2 Duo 6300" took 6 hours to prepare a single 8 min write. "Quad Core 9550" more than 4 hours. More than twice the estimated displayed. Also firmware update for Etrex and 60CSX allowing a 4 gig card, not quite enough capacity for CA NA OR WA 24K. I made a special card part City Navigator NT part Topo 24k. City Navigator NT disables elevation lines when active. California is two map files on NT (from map, hit menu, select setup map, check or uncheck NT map for your city needs). Topo 24K is a separate map file for a zillion USGS Quad maps. By the way, even the older City Navigator maps cover some roads in Death Vally that require experienced 4WD operators (Stripped Butte Valley Rd).
Missing A lot of Trails - NOT FOR HIKERS May 2, 2010
S Tenent (California, USA)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I bought a GPSMAP 60Csx and the western US topo 24K maps to use for hikes in and around northern California. I specifically bought the 24K map version because it has routable trails. The problem is that the map is missing a LOT of trails. For example, in Mt Tam, Steep Ravine is not included. Around Santa Cruz, all of the trails that make up the Skyline to the Sea trail are missing. These are major, heavily used trails and having incomplete trail information really limits the functionality of the maps and the GPS unit for hikers. I have heard that the 100K version includes all of these trails (albeit with less contour information). I'm really pissed at Garmin and will probably be returning these maps.
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