TOPO! National Geographic USGS Topographic Maps, Colorado
by National Geographic
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Software Reviews of TOPO! National Geographic USGS Topographic Maps, Colorado
Customer Review: usgs topo maps
Summary: 4 Stars
happy w/program, easy to use, but when i printed out manual the table of contents came out unreadable and pages were not numbered.this is my first map program ,so i don't have any thing to compare with----Customer Review: Great mapping tool
Summary: 5 Stars
I recently purchased this software to help design hiking routes for use with my Garmin GPS Map60CSx. It took just a few minutes to learn, and I found it easy to create routes and waypoints. The integration with the GPS receiver was seamless, and the pictures are beautiful. You can build elevation profiles, see your route in animated 3D, and National Geographic's MapXchange server allows you to find and download routes from the web for use with this software. You will have to check and perform the software upgrade in order to integrate with the newest mapping receivers, but this was neither challenging nor problematic. Please remember that you cannot copy the maps to your GPS - only the routes and waypoints. And this software is quite expensive for the limited coverage. I also have Garmin's MapSource Topo software, which has all of the US on 3 CDs for about the same price. But there really is no comparison - you get what you pay for. With National Geographic, you will get high quality maps and an excellent user interface. I actually find it easier to use the National Geographic software with my Garmin receiver, rather than Garmin's own product.Customer Review: NG topo map
Summary: 4 Stars
Doesn't interface with our GPS, but made a recent trip up California's PCH even more interesting and informative. All the little trailheads we usually drive past were on there for hike planning. Changing disks along the way were a bit inconvenient.Customer Review: supplement for old software
Summary: 1 Stars
I was disappointed to receive this software; it is actually an upgrade for an old version of National Geographics Topo software, not an expansion pack for the software generally. I bought the current version at the same time so I didn't need this because these features are built in to the current software. If you have an old version of the Topo software, it would probably be useful.Customer Review: Better than the Garmin counterpart, but still not good!
Summary: 3 Stars
The best part of this package is the possibility to have all maps in hiking friendly 1:24000 scale. Though these maps are not really up to date, not really recommendable for power hikers in the CA bay area. Also on the down side is the strange user interface, you really have to get used to it. Considering some crashes of the software itself I can only give 3 stars. But it is at least the best GPS mapping software I know, among the blind the one-eyed is king...