TOPO! Weekend Explorer 3D Outdoor Recreation Mapping Software
- Print photo quality USGS topographic maps
- GPS Ready – Easiest Way to tell your GPS where you want to go and record where you’ve been
- Navigate in three dimensions with 3D fly thrus and instant elevation profiling
- Customize maps with photos, notes and icons
- Live Map Update ensures you always have the most current maps and software
Product Description
Weekend Explorer Tahoe, Reno, & Sacramento Areas features detailed, accurate, USGS topographic maps for Sacramento Metro Area, Reno Metro Area, Lake Tahoe Basin, Stockton, Carson City, Auburn, Bear Valley, Sierra City, Quincy, Tahoe National Forest, Eldorado National Forest, Plumas National Forest, Stanislaus National Forest, Feather River Canyon, Mokelumne Wilderness, Desolation Wilderness, Granite Chief Wilderness, Bucks Lake Wilderness, and more. Weekend Explorer harnesses the power of authentic USGS topographic maps in an easy-to-use software product that recreation enthusiasts use to customize and print photo-quality topographic maps. Weekend Explorer includes five levels of seamless mapping, including USA maps from the National Geographic World Atlas, USGS 1:100,000 scale mapping — perfect for back road navigation –and USGS 1:24,000 scale maps, also known as 7½ minute quads. Users can custom-center the map in any location, add their routes, trails… More >>
TOPO! Weekend Explorer 3D Outdoor Recreation Mapping Software
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5 comments
Daniel Robert Willett on January 14, 2010 at 9:37 am
This product might be great, I would never know. I paid $80 for it and it didn’t come with the disc to install it. I guess the worker in China was having a bad day that day. I tried on numerous attempts to contact the company, but was deferred to leave a message on a machine that nobody checks. You can’t reach anybody at their customer service. I highly recommend not buying this product.
Alwin on January 14, 2010 at 12:15 pm
To get full use out of TOPO! you really need to install it on a laptop and have a GPS connected. I have neither.
What it is good for, however, is amateur radio and other 2-way radio operators, who want to get elevation profiles from wherever they are to the mountaintop repeaters or other portable or mobile stations they are talking to. In other words, to see how blocked their line-of-sight is or will be.
Harry M. Shin on January 14, 2010 at 3:14 pm
1. I first tried these electronic topo maps when they first came on the market years ago; actually when the current NatGeo maps were owned via the “Topo” company. I was very disappointed in that product and thus didn’t utilize any cpu based mapping application for many years. But with the nice slick advertising of the current NatGeo maps, I decided to check out this product.
2. Bottomline, cpu based topo products still stink. The maps are not detailed enough, it’s still moderately slow (but not bad), and the bottomline is, for a place like the bay area (ie basically urban territory), you’re better off just getting a decent hiking book or paper topo maps; you’ll actually have more helpful information that way. Perhaps in the next generation of electronic topo maps things will change, but forget this product.
reiningldy on January 14, 2010 at 3:20 pm
I purchased this product to use with my GPS for trailriding. The five levels of zoom help tremendously when deciding where to take my horse. An added bonus is this application seems to allow me to open a fifth level of zoom with my State series which supports only four levels. I’m very happy with my purchase and have passed along this bonus information to my friends that have the State series.
Biggest E on January 14, 2010 at 5:23 pm
I like this software overall and some of NatGeo’s maps. I would have given it 5 stars if NatGeo had not been so tight with the map data. You get all of Maryland beyond Baltimore 3.5 hours West of Baltimore (almost 200 miles!)but once over the Bay Bridge (about 40 miles) there is little of the Eastern Shore beyond the actual shoreline. There are a lot of fantastic Parks and great Rivers just a bit further East and still in Maryland but NatGeo didn’t want to give up the extra quads to include these areas since they also include Delaware. Shame on you NatGeo! Cheap and greedy of you. I would have gladly paid a few extra bucks to have the MD’s Eastern Shore and the Delaware Shore included with the DC/Balto region. Also, the maps are pretty old–1970’s. I’d like to see NatGeo put a little more effort into this one.