Garmin MapSource CD ROM
- Similar to U.S. Geological Survey 1:100,000-scale topographic paper maps
- View highways, roads, hiking trails, snowmobile trails, backwoods trails, and shoreline detail
- Icons represent boat ramps, campgrounds, public facilities, swimming, and ski areas
- Transfer waypoints, routes, and tracks between your PC and nearly all Garmin GPS units
- See Product Description for compatible Garmin products
Product Description
Weve mapped every hill and valley. Download data from the MapSource TOPO U.S. 2008 DVD directly to your compatible Garmin GPS. Now you can enjoy topographic mapping detail no matter where your adventures take you. TOPO U.S. 2008 features digital topographic maps for the U.S., including Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. It 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.Amazon.com Product Description
Garmin’s United States TOPO MapSource CD-ROM is similar to U.S. Geological Survey 1:100,000-scale topographic paper maps. It 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, e… More >>
Garmin MapSource CD ROM
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5 comments
Charlotte E. Glinski on January 14, 2010 at 9:30 am
You sent the correct item but we didn’t order the one we really wanted. I returned the Garmin eTrex Vista and you sent refund information. Thank you.
Now, my daughter’s boyfriend has ordered the correct one for me.
The Garmin Map Source CD ROM is fine and we are keeping it.
A. Fodor on January 14, 2010 at 12:10 pm
Their software is very bad. Difficult to use, expensive, full of errors and gives a lot of problems (a package costs over $100 and it doesn’t even work).
J. Flood on January 14, 2010 at 12:43 pm
This software is garbage, it barely works even after being updated to the latest version available on their web site. Try zooming in or panning the map, or transfering to your GPS and 90% of the time it will crash or tell you an error occured. I can’t beleive a company with a name like Garmin’s would ship something so completely useless and overpriced. If you have a Garmin GPS and you want maps for your GPS you are stuck with Garmin’s software: so don’t buy a Garmin GPS either!
C. Bailey on January 14, 2010 at 2:41 pm
I installed this software package on my year-old computer, but when I tried to start it I just got an error log file to be emailed to Garmin. Their tech support department was closed. Worse, another Garmin software package (MetroGuide) had now stopped working, and the Windows Uninstaller kept crashing when I tried to remove them. A good hour and a half later I have finally reinstalled MetroGuide and made it run, but USA TOPO is going back to the store. I already have enough things that don’t work!
Beach Guy on January 14, 2010 at 3:17 pm
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!