Magellan 980611 Mapsend Topo Us

Maximize the potential of your Magellan GPS receiver. The MapSend Topo for the United States CD-ROM provides the capability to download highly elaborated maps into your Meridian and MAP 330 family of products. These are elaborated topographic maps including trails, streets, rivers, lakes, coastlines, and recreational points of interest for the entire United States. Customize the map sizes and regions to your needs. Create waypoints and routes and then download them directly into your Meridian or MAP 330 for use in the field or save them to your PC. Download your tracks from your GPS handheld to view on MapSend. Use the search function to without apparent effort find elevations, trails, street addresses, cities, lakes and waterways, parks, airports, campgrounds, geysers, waterfalls, towers, caves, mines, summits, dams, bridges, and more. Magellan's topographic maps are derived from the U.S. Government's Digital Elevation Model (DEM). This allows elevation readouts for each emplacement on the map for both the PC and the Magellan receiver. The MapSend Topo for the United States CD-ROM is compatible with Windows 95, 98, and NT 4.0 or later. You will likewise need PC cable for both the Meridian series and the MAP 330 series. Magellan 980611 Mapsend Topo Us Image Magellan 980611 Mapsend Topo Us Image Magellan 980611 Mapsend Topo Us Pic Magellan 980611 Mapsend Topo Us Image Magellan 980611 Mapsend Topo Us Image Magellan 980611 Mapsend Topo Us Photo

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39 of 42 persons found the following review helpful.
MapSend Topo Limitations
By Phil Cooper
There are two limitations I've came across in the very short time of use. Item #1 - The implamentation of the GPS to the software is very poor. Apperently MapSend, Streets and Topo, were written for the 330 GPS unit. Magellan has chosen to use the same software for the Meridian series. As a result, it's not a very clean solution. There are a good deal of work-arounds and bandaids just to get it to work. Most inconvenient! Item #2 - For the most part, hiking trails are omitted. Even the most popular trails here in the NW are not to be found in Topo. Question - Why else would one by a topo software package if not to see and locate trails?

I've only had this software for one week and to find these two troubles so quickly, leads me to believe I've yet to find further and added limitations.

Phil

26 of 28 persons found the following review helpful.
MapSend Topo Review
By Phil Cooper
I've had MapSend Topo for in regards to a week now and I'm not impressed with it for the following reasons: 1. Doesn't comprise trails. Why would any person buy a topo software package and not want trails? Big oversight by Magellan. 2. Doesn't recognize new zip codes or towns. I've had my zip code for almost 4 years...Topo says it's invalid. Can't find my friend's zip in VA either. One would think that Magellan would have up-grades on their web internetsite that would up-date things like cities and zip codes. By the way, it's the same for MapSend Streets. 3. Too some bandaids and work-arounds to get a map into the GPS. Lots of rules here. No maps more spectacular that 8Meg and only 4 of those or the GPS unit will lock-up. Haven't tried that yet but I'll take Magellan's word on it...

By the way, it does work with WindowsXP. No troubles there for me.

23 of 25 humans found the following review helpful.
Poor Quality Maps and Overpriced Software
By Nathan C. Heston
I am gorgeous computer savy and I had no real trouble installing and using the program. I did find the programs buttons and workings a bit arcane, but usable nonetheless. Where I ran into extreme dissatisfaction after spending [hard earned cash], was that the topo maps are way off. I use my gps broad in the woods for navigating. I could watch my GPS and follow my position readings and see that that I had changed elevation by 500 feet. The maps from this topo cd would say that I only changed elevation by 10 or 20 feet. These maps are way off...the idea is good: Have your position displayed on a screen on top of a topo with countour lines etc. The problem is the maps are not usgs and in a great deal of cases are very inaccurate. GPS's are great. If you don't have one buy one. But don't waste your cash on these maps. Wait and buy U.S. Geological Survey maps when they become available in GPS software form.

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