TOPO! National Geographic USGS Topographic Maps, New York and New Jersey | 
 enlarge | Brand: National Geographic
Category: CE
This item is no longer available
Rating:  21 reviews
Format: Cd-rom
Media: Electronics
Operating System: Windows 95, 98, NT, ME, 2000, or XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 10 x 8 x 2
MPN: NY and NJ
Model: NY and NJ
ISBN: 1597750468
UPC: 749717205307
EAN: 9781597750462
ASIN: 1597750468
Release Date: April 1, 2006
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| Features:
| • | Print photo quality USGS topographic maps | | • | GPS Ready - Easiest Way to tell your GPS where you want to go and record where you've been | | • | Navigate in three dimensions with 3D fly-thru and instant elevation profiling | | • | Customize maps with photos, notes and icons | | • | Live Map Update ensures you always have the most current maps and software |
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Product Description
With the TOPO! New York, New Jersey, National Geographic has taken the interactive topographic map experience to a new level. By combining its own standard-setting maps with the high-quality scanned versions of the actual paper USGS topographical maps, the National Geographic TOPO! State Series offers five levels of map detail that is unprecedented in its accuracy. Simply load TOPO!, and you'll immediately begin to see the benefits of this award-winning software. With TOPO! you can customize any of the hundreds of state maps available with your proposed routes, notes and even photos. You can also create and view elevation profiles that will help you visualize your planned trek. By connecting to any standard color or black-and-white desktop printer, TOPO! allows you to select the exact area that you want to print, even if it is larger than the screen or covers multiple quad maps. TOPO! makes it a breeze to add map border information to printouts, including UTM or latitude/longitude grids, scale bars, north arrows, and magnetic declination. With Adventure Paper (sold separately) you can print out waterproof trail mapsTOPO! is also GPS ready, with no extensions or upgrades required. Transferring waypoints and routes between your GPS and TOPO! couldn't be easier.The many advanced features that make the TOPO! mapping software the ultimate topographic map experience. * TOPO! USA Place Finder: Use TOPO!'s advanced search functions to find trails, camps, lakes, parks, towns, and much more in a matter of seconds. * Export Features: With TOPO! you can export customized maps in a number of different raster file formats (.gif, .jpg, etc.) for use in other applications. * Import Features: Import GPS and vector data from a variety of sources, including GPS receivers, spreadsheets, and the web, to overlay on your maps. * National Geographic mapXchange: Download custom map overlays and swap files with other TOPO! users on the NG mapXchange Website.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 16 more reviews...
 Good Accurate Mapping July 3, 2008
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
All information is in USGS 1:100,000 scale for road and very good hiking mapping and navigation. Its all very, very easy to learn and includes cool features to customize your maps like adding notes, showing your trails and routes, elevation profiles for hiking mountains and a 3D feature. This allows you to actually view your route as your travel in simulation at varying angles. The `Search' feature is very handy in locating just about anything you are looking for in that section/region of the map. You can zoom into five different levels of detail and print out any portion of that map. If your GPS allows you to import information, you can upload your personalized map to it. You can also import most GPS information into your computer onto the topographic maps, such as .gpx files and geocache information. TOPO! National Geographic is the best in mapping information for GPS or everyday route or hiking planning.
I had a Magellan Triton that claims you could download the maps to your Triton handheld, but that software is flawed and I had to return the Triton four times. Now that I have a Garmin, I can download info to my PC and use the National Geographic TOPO! information, but I still cannot import maps into my Garmin (just geocache information).
 National Geographic TOPO Maps June 30, 2008
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
This product is very hard to use, especially if you are trying to download it to a Magellan Triton 500. Not user friendly or intuitive at all.
Buyer Beware! May 5, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this software based on the belief it would show trail maps for hiking. Trail maps are only available via a download (not a big deal), but trail maps for PA and NJ don't exist!!!
If you want maps that show existing trail maps for hiking in PA, do not purchase this software.
0 stars. Ripoff. Can't download maps to GPS April 9, 2008
8 out of 13 found this review helpful
After spending $250 on a GPS, $40 on a memory card, and $100 on this software (all at the advice of REI (yeah, I bought it from REI, not Amazon)), I saw that the fine print of the software says you can't download the maps to your GPS.
What's the point of having maps sitting on your computer hard drive that you can't download to your GPS? My computer hard drive isn't going hiking. My computer hard drive isn't hunting for difficult-to-find street. My computer hard drive isn't doing a search and rescue mission. Oh, but if your computer hard drive ever DOES want to go hiking, it won't get lost. You, on the other hand, will be lost and out $80-$100 if you buy this software.
If you thought National Geographic was a reputable organization, they're not! (And I guess the same is true of REI.) And does Amazon warn you about this -- not that I've found so far.
TOPO! California April 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Good product and fairly easy to use. The software allows you create straightforward topo maps at whatever scale you desire. I am an archaeologist and most mapping software is extremely expensive. TOPO! is reasonable priced and produces quality results.
The only reason I did not give 5-stars is because the waypoint labeling information is cumbersome and difficult to edit.
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