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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: - * Best available topo map for Garmin GPS ...
If you hike in areas not covered by Mapsource's National Parks 24K, then this is the only way to get topo maps into your Garmin GPS unit. The scale is 1:100,000 in USA TOPO whereas the National Parks version is 1:24,000. So, you get less detail but complete coverage. One nit-pick, although it's not Garmin's fault; the 1:100,000 scale USGS maps are in metric so, Garmin converted the meter contours to feet which means that even contours like 1000 meters is shown as 3280 feet. At least, you don't have to deal with elevations in meters, though.

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Buyer's feedback: - Ol,d
The data base used for the ToPo CD is old, very old. May not be Garmin's fault, but $75 for a 10 to 15 year old data base! I will take my business someplace else. Once again, great hardware not supported by software.

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Buyer's feedback: - * What they offer is nice, but... ...
I was expecting a little more current map. I'm not sure how old the map data is, all I can say is that the street I live on which has been here for at least 8 years hasn't been added yet. That was kind of a disappointment, but the amount of detail for older areas is great!

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Buyer's feedback: - Outdated software
This GPS mapping program is a real disappointment. To begin with there is insufficient documentation to get started using it. Once you do fumble your way through, you discover that it lacks detail enough to be very useful. It is an outdated program for today's powerful GPS units.

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Buyer's feedback: - * Time for an update ...
The copyright date on these CDs is 2002. The data itself may be reasonably current but I'm disappointed in Garmin for not updating the product to include the USB drivers required for downloading map data into its newer GPSs.