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We?ve mapped every hill and valley. Download data from the MapSource T0P0 U.S. 2008 DVD directly to your compatible Garmin GPS. Now you can enjoy topographic mapping detail no matter where your adventures take you.

T0P0 U.S. 2008 features digital topographic maps for the U.S., including Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. lt is available in two different formats making it easy and convenient to load data to your compatible Garmin device: MapSource DVD and preprogrammed micro SD data cards.

Product Description:
Garmin's United States T0P0 MapSource CD-R0M is similar to U.S. Geological Survey 1:100,000-scale topographic paper maps. lt includes trip and waypoint management functions that allow you to transfer waypoints, routes, and tracks between your PC and nearly all Garmin GPS units (excluding the GPS 100 family and panel-mount aviation units). With MapSource, you can view highways, roads, hiking trails, snowmobile trails, backwoods trails, elevation contours, point and summit elevations, some bathymetric contours, geographic names, churches, and schools. Shoreline detail is included for lakes, reservoirs, small bodies of water, waterways, rivers, and streams. lcons represent boat ramps, dams, marinas, campgrounds, public facilities, mile markers, first aid stations, picnic sites, swimming areas, ski areas, wrecks, fuel locations, and dangerous and restricted areas.

ln addition, nautical navigational aids for the 50 states are provided, including radio beacons, RAC0Ns, and fog signals; river, harbor, and other lights; and day beacons and lighted and unlighted buoys. Shipwrecks, submerged rocks, obstructions, and other hazards to nautical navigation are also displayed.

Note on compatibility: The trip and waypoint management functions of this product work with nearly all Garmin GPS units, excluding the GPS 100 family and panel-mount aviation units. Specifically, the map-download features of this product work with the eTrex Legend, eTrex Vista, eMap, GPS V, StreetPilot, StreetPilot ColorMap, StreetPilot lll, and GPSMAP 76, 162, 168, 176, and 295. Some units may require a Garmin data card to upload map data.

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Buyer's feedback: - * Pure Rubbish... ...
I have been using a Garmin Vista C GPS since it was introduced, and although I have previously encountered serious problems with Garmin products, I decided to take a chance and buy this MapSource CD ROM from them. I solo hike in national forests, and I thought that if Garmin's maps provided any additional information whatever, then it might be worth the $79 I paid for it. I should have known better. This product is absolutely worthless as far as my needs and interests go. It would take a very long time to enumerate all of the product's many flaws, so here's a very short list. The documentation and help files are atrocious. They don't even provide clear information about how to transfer map data to the GPS. The CD ROM (on which the maps reside) must be inserted in your computer whenever you use MapSource, which means there'll be plenty of unnecessary wear and tear on your CD ROM drive. That's right! Proving that they are truly dunderheads of staggering proportions, Garmin's "genius engineers" won't even let you copy these maps to your harddrive...no matter how big it is!!! And once map data are transferred to the GPS, I have found them to be unhelpful and inaccurate. For instance, two water holes shown on the map are mislocated by several miles. If you need water during a hike and you intend to rely on Garmin...GOOD LUCK! One of the most annoying problems concerns the "scaling" algorithm used to display the map data on my GPS. Is this a GPS problem, a map problem, some combination problem? I DON'T care, because both products were made by Garmin...so Garmin owns the problems! Once again Garmin's resident geniuses used an appallingly stupid strategy that reflects a total failure to understand who their customers are and what they're trying to do. For example, when I zoom into get a close look at my location, various forest service roads are sometimes displayed. I'd like to see where they go, naturally, so I zoom out a bit to get a better view of them. WHAM! They suddenly vanish completely from the display! Yep, they are not displayed at all. Instead of seeing them, the screen is crowded with the names of landmarks that are many miles from my location and that have no relevance to what I'm trying to do. My frustrating experiences have led me to conclude that the GPS/map market is dominated by little-league, back-water, third-rate players like Garmin and DeLorme. I have had extensive experience with some of their products, and I have always found them to be totally unacceptable. I hope and pray that a major league player...like Google, Apple, or even Microsoft...will some day take an interest in this market and crush the losers who currently occupy it. Think about it: a Google cell phone with integrated GPS and the ability to download highly detailed topo maps (and related internet data) in real time! WOW! Can't wait for that to happen. In the meantime, I resent the fact that Garmin's hyper-inflated marketing claims have once again convinced me to waste my money on a piece of Garmin trash. I will do my best to avoid buying any other products from them. They should spend less money on marketing and more on customer-centered engineering. In other words, they should start to build some decent products!

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Buyer's feedback: - Alternative Install
The software is great, but I had to learn from the Garmin technical support how to install the software on my hard drive without having to keep the CD's handy. It's simple, just copy the CD(s) to your hard drive, then install from there. (If you've already installed the software you'll have to uninstall it first.)

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Buyer's feedback: - * Garmin TOPO US ...
I use this software in a GPS Map 76CS when riding an ATV. It shows many existing ATV and snowmobile trails, sometimes with the trail name. It also shows most logging roads, with names where applicable. Streams, lakes, and ponds are also listed. It's very accurate, and makes it easy to see where you are in relation to known landmarks. It's just what I was looking for!

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Buyer's feedback: - MapSource - Better than Expected
I purchased the US Topo 24K National Parks Series last year because I needed topos of Death Valley. This year, I needed topos of Nevada, so I bought USA Topo. I was expecting the detail to be less than adequate, but was pleasantly surprised. Every trail and Jeep road we traveled was shown, as well as all the abandoned mines and quarries we visited. If you don't need the terrain detail of the 24K series, give USA Topo a try first.

The one thing I am disappointed with is the program's insistence of having the CD in the drive to work. This is quite annoying. MapSource City Select and USA Topo 24K both allow you to install all the map files to your heard drive. USA Topo should too.

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Buyer's feedback: - * Lots of interesting data - perhaps not detailed enough sometimes ...
Lots of interesting data such as peaks and other landmarks. The data is not very detailed sometimes, however. I'm guessing that the data came from the 15' topo maps. On a trip I made to Yosemite, the data had the same error contained on the 15' topo maps and the Yosemite park maps itself (apparently, the 7.5' map has the right data). (The data had to do with the layout of some drainages.)