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| Garmin MapSource US TOPO CD-ROM for Garmin GPS Units (010-10215-12) | 
 enlarge | Brand: Garmin
Category: CE
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Avg. Customer Rating:  18 reviews
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8 x 2 x 8
MPN: 010-10215-12
Model: 010-10215-12
UPC: 753759057961
EAN: 0753759057961
ASIN: B000HZ6AHA
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| Features:
| • | CD with topographic maps for the U.S. including Alaska and Hawaii | | • | Trip and waypoint management functions | | • | Highways, roads, hiking trails, snowmobile trails, backwoods trails, elevation contours, point elevations | | • | Icons representing boat ramps, dams, marinas, campgrounds, public facilities, mile markers, first-aid stations, picnic, swimming, and ski areas |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 13 more reviews...
Paper Maps Still Better, Not Completely Updated October 10, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I encouraged my husband to get a Garmin and use these maps because he goes hunting and fishing with friends and family in rural parts of Colorado and Missouri. Some of the country roads and trails are on this, but some still are not, even though they have been there forever. So I'm still worried about him off in the boonies.
Also, I tried to find a friend's new home in a subdivision that has been layed out, paved, with street names and signs for nearly ten years. Not only was her house not on it, her street is not. She bought her lot five years ago. The street was paved and named at that time. So why isn't the street even on this program that I bought less than a year ago. I guess things just take forever to get updated, but that was frustrating to me.
In my opinion there is just no substitute for good old paper maps.
 Works great for me May 13, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have found this to be a great product. I have used it extensively for Geocaching with great results. It has saved me a lot of time and driving while searching for Geocaches. I also use it for laying out and checking trails for the Bureau of Forestry in my state. I for one am glad I purchased this product. I won't be without it in any of my Garmin GPS'S
 you do not have a choice but, it is not that great April 27, 2007
the title says it all- you have to use this for Garmin (if I am wrong please tell me so I can buy something else) but, it is only marginal. Not very up to date or detailed. i have been very very disappointed.
 Nice Topo Map Product April 4, 2007
I gave this as a gift to my brother who uses in on his Rino 530. He has only been able to use these maps a little bit. For the areas it covers, it does a good job. And it gives you maps across the entire United States!
Unlike the street maps that require an unlock code, these maps did not ask for one. I think this is because you can't download all the maps onto your computer (it downloads a basemap for you to zoom in on and at a certain point it asks you to insert the appropriate disk: Alaska/Hawaii, Western United States, or Eastern United States). This means that if you go on a hike with multiple friends with compatible GPS units such as a Rino, you should be able to load the appropriate map onto each of their units from the same disks.
The biggest problem we haven't been able to figure out a work around is it only gives data for around recreational areas. If you wish to load up a street map beyond the base map, you can't use it at the same time for the same section. In other words, we haven't been able to figure out how you can use the Rino to guide you to your hiking destination, then change the mapping function to the Topo features to help you with your hike without loading up new maps from a laptop at your destination.
Even with its downfalls (known and yet to be discovered), I plan on getting one for myself when I get around to getting my own GPS unit.
Makes GPS unit & navigation far better March 23, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've been using a GPS for kayaking and hiking in parks and forests for about 4 months now. First I tried doing each activity without the topo software. Then with it. Big difference!
The GPS (Garmin's 76CX, which I think is excellent) has a basemap that is close to worthless. A few major highways, basic mountains, rivers and oceans, and not much else. Without the topo I found myself kayaking across solid land which was rather disconcerting.
The topo software does have its limitations, as others have noted. It's USGS based, and probably has not been updated in 20-30 years. It's 1:100,000 scale so it doesn't have most trails, and a lot of campgrounds are missing. Details like the exact dimensions of islands, the location of shorelines, etc. (stuff that can change in 20-30 years of storms and whatnot) are not quite precise.
BUT, it's a vast improvement over the basemap. I also can take other maps, such as those that national parks give out showing trails or paddle routes, and create an uploadable route on the topo software which is pretty accurate. It takes a little bit of time and effort, but I've done it repeatedly, and it's of large benefit.
There are also some nice benefits to having the topo contours available. e.g. I had planned on doing a particular trail up in a Canadian park, and when I saw what the topo software showed (3000+ feet of altitude gain in 3 miles) I thought twice.
The software also allows one to download tracks from the GPS, and save them for future use. I've done so, showed them to my kayaking/hiking buddies, and it's fun for me and them to see where we've been, and get a better feel for the lay of the land/water that we've traversed.
The software documentation is not the greatest, but then I haven't found the hardware manuals from Garmin to be fantastic either. I have two of their GPS units, and from just fiddling around with them for 5-10 minutes apiece had figured out about 90% of what I needed to know. Whatever faults Garmin has, they do make very intuitive stuff. The same can be said for the topo software. About 5 minutes of playing around with it and I knew enough of how to use it. I'm sure there's lot of features in it that I haven't discovered. But, what I know is sufficient to get far better use of the GPS now.
I'll also mention that though the scale is large, it does permit a tremendous amount of maps to be put in to a small card. I think the entire east coast of the US took maybe 100-200 megs of memory. The entire country of Canada only takes 1.9 gb, and some of that is in 1:50K (a different software CD).
So, overall, it's not perfect. What is? But it's a big step forward in making the GPS' far more practical and useful.
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