National Geographic TOPO! Weekend Explorer 3D (Salt Lake City Area, Wasatch Range, Uinta Mountains) | 
enlarge | Brand: National Geographic Category: CE
List Price: $29.99 Buy New: $24.95 You Save: $5.04 (17%)
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Rating: 4 reviews
Format: Dvd-rom Color: n Media: Electronics Operating System: Windows 95, 98, NT, ME, 2000, XP, Vista Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 8 x 6 x 1
MPN: Salt Lake,Wasatch Model: Salt Lake,Wasatch UPC: 749717230026 EAN: 0749717230026 ASIN: B000JUTC2I
Release Date: October 23, 2006 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Interactive, GPS-ready software helps you plan the ultimate weekend outdoor adventure in the Salt Lake City area, Wasatch Range, and the Uinta Mountains | | • | Provides accurate, dependable information that will enhance your trip or excursion, including a true sense of the terrain before you head out | | • | Generate and print high-quality maps; include elevation profiles, select latitude/longitude or UTM grids | | • | Elevation profiling option lets you visualize elevation gain; intuitive navigation tools make it easy to see hidden valleys, or stand on top of a mountain and get a bird's eye view | | • | "Maps by Mail" feature lets you order large, high-resolution prints of your maps, and get them delivered to your door; search function locates trails, camps, and campgrounds, lakes and more |
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Amazon.com Product Description Enjoy the ultimate topographic map experience for your weekend outdoor adventures with the GPS-ready TOPO! Weekend Explorer 3D from National Geographic. This interactive software lets you print photo quality USGS topographic maps of the Salt Lake City area, as well as the Wasatch Range and Uinta Mountains so you won't miss a thing on your excursion. Seamlessly scroll across topo maps covering key sites and enjoy five levels of map detail, including 1:24,000 and 1:100,000 scale topographic maps. This version of Weekend Explorer 3D software features the same great capabilities as the state series products, but is limited in coverage to the following cities and recreational areas: Salt Lake City Metro Area, Ogden, Provo, Vernal Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Ashley National Forest, Uinta National Forest, High Uintas Wilderness, Lone Peak Wilderness, Dinosaur National Monument, Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area, Bear Lake, and more. Weekend Explorer makes it a snap to generate and print high-quality maps, even if the area you choose is larger than the screen or covers multiple quad maps. And the true color imaging uses millions of colors to optimize your selected maps for viewing. When it's time to print, this software gives you loads of customization options to help you plan your trip: choose color or black and white ink and regular or waterproof Adventure paper, include elevation profiles, select latitude/longitude or UTM grids, or choose from a variety of other navigation aids. You can even personalize your maps with routes, symbols, notes, web links, and photos, or share trail files with other weekend travel enthusiasts. Weekend Explorer 3D provides accurate, dependable information that will enhance your trip or excursion, including a true sense of the terrain before you head out. First, the elevation profiling option lets you visualize elevation gain. Simply trace a route anywhere on a map in the Weekend Explorer, and the software will generate an elevation profile showing distance and all the ups and downs. This package also incorporates the updated 3D views and animated fly-through technology so you can virtually travel along a trail you have drawn as it winds and climbs to your destination. Intuitive navigation tools make it easy to see hidden valleys, or stand on top of a mountain and get a bird's eye view of what your surroundings will look like. In fact, you can choose any spot on the map or trail, then zoom and pan to see the view. For even better image quality, resizable split screens make it easy to expand any screen so you can take in every detail. And thanks to PC and Mac compatible live map updates, which automatically search your defined areas to see if something new is available, you'll never have to worry about out-of-date maps and information ruining your trip. Because it comes equipped with several special features, Weekend Explorer 3D can help you plan every detail of your trip. The "Maps by Mail" feature lets you order large, high-resolution prints of your maps, and get them delivered to your door, while the search function helps you locate trails, camps, and campgrounds, lakes and ponds, parks, cities and towns, and USGS 7.5-foot quad names. You can also export customized maps in a number of different file formats (like .gif and .jpg) for use in other applications. Or add map border information to printouts, including UTM or latitude/longitude grids, scale bars, north arrows, and magnetic declination. Whichever options you choose, Weekend Explorer helps ensure that your trip to the Salt Lake City Area, Wasatch Range and Uinta Mountains will be truly memorable.
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| Customer Reviews:
Not Enough Map For Money August 27, 2008 I like this software overall and some of NatGeo's maps. I would have given it 5 stars if NatGeo had not been so tight with the map data. You get all of Maryland beyond Baltimore 3.5 hours West of Baltimore (almost 200 miles!)but once over the Bay Bridge (about 40 miles) there is little of the Eastern Shore beyond the actual shoreline. There are a lot of fantastic Parks and great Rivers just a bit further East and still in Maryland but NatGeo didn't want to give up the extra quads to include these areas since they also include Delaware. Shame on you NatGeo! Cheap and greedy of you. I would have gladly paid a few extra bucks to have the MD's Eastern Shore and the Delaware Shore included with the DC/Balto region. Also, the maps are pretty old--1970's. I'd like to see NatGeo put a little more effort into this one.
National Geo Weekend Explorer - Albuquerque August 26, 2008 I purchased this product to use with my GPS for trailriding. The five levels of zoom help tremendously when deciding where to take my horse. An added bonus is this application seems to allow me to open a fifth level of zoom with my State series which supports only four levels. I'm very happy with my purchase and have passed along this bonus information to my friends that have the State series.
A million maps in one... for $30! January 24, 2008 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This software is great! I've used it for 5 trips now throughout the Las Vegas area. Mostly out at Red Rocks, Lake Mead and Valley of Fire. As soon as Mt. Charleston thaws out, that will be the next destination.
Features I like: 1.Multiple views from broad general overviews of southern Nevada to highly detailed 7.5 USGS spec maps that I can really plan a trip with. 2. Transferring waypoints to and from my GPS. 3. Route making ability allows me to project and plot routes. 4. Routes are measured by distance and profile grade. I can see if a route I planned is too steep or not down to a percentage of a grade. 5. Photo/Note tool allows me to chronicle my travels on the software and save the maps for later reference. 6. Print/Export capabilities allow me to print out the part of the maps I want for my trips and allows me to save them as JPEGS to send to fellow hikers. Also can send projected hiking itineraries to friends in case of an emergency. 7. You can download the CD map content to your hard drive so you don't need the disk every time you use the software.
Features I don't like: 1. Some of the maps used by the USGS for this area haven't been updated since 1982, so the water level around Lake Mead is not accurate. It makes trip planning out there more difficult because you always end up in the drink on the map. 2. The route making tool is a little tricky to get the hang of. They should have made this tool easier to use. 3. Anytime you change options on the 3D portion of the map, you have to reload that feature; it just doesn't update on the fly.
No GPS? Boring... January 3, 2008 0 out of 2 found this review helpful
To get full use out of TOPO! you really need to install it on a laptop and have a GPS connected. I have neither.
What it is good for, however, is amateur radio and other 2-way radio operators, who want to get elevation profiles from wherever they are to the mountaintop repeaters or other portable or mobile stations they are talking to. In other words, to see how blocked their line-of-sight is or will be.
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