- Platform: Windows Vista / 2000 / XP
- Media: DVD-ROM
- Item Quantity: 1
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As the innovation trendsetter in topographic mapping and GPS technologies, DeLorme Topo USA 7.0 continues to lead the way with advanced capabilities that provide a more meaningful outdoor experience.
Newly designed 3-D mapping engine produces life-like views of your favorite terrain. Soar above rivers and lakes, ascend mountains, and explore new places--all from your computer.
Features:
The Most Complete Selection of Data and Imagery Options
In addition to the highly detailed Topo USA and DeLorme Street Network maps, you can access a wide variety of indispensable map, chart, and imagery choices from USGS, NOAA, and other sources.
New! Improve Your Geocaching
Topo USA 7.0 offers a range of features that make it the perfect mapping software for geocachers. Easily manage and update your geocache data files. Import .gpx and .loc files. Include descriptions and hints from .gpx files found on geocaching.com.
Unrivaled GPS Capabilities
Topo USA 7.0 delivers high-end GPS data creation and exchange capabilities and lets you do more with data you collect in the field. A custom partner to the DeLorme Earthmate GPS PN-20.
New! Now Over Four Million Places of Interest from Trusted DeLorme Products
Now all your trip-planning information is at hand, from travel to a trailhead, to campgrounds, fishing spots, and provisioning on your way, including:
- From Street Atlas USA: attractions, lodgings, restaurants, stores, post offices, much more
- From the Atlas and Gazetteer series: boat ramps, campgrounds, fishing and hunting spots, unique natural features
Newly designed 3-D mapping engine produces life-like views of your favorite terrain. Soar above rivers and lakes, ascend mountains, and explore new places--all from your computer.
New! Geo-Tag Your Digital Photos
Preserve a record of exactly where you took your digital photos--all you need is a GPS track. Enlargeable thumbnails appear on your maps.
Data Included with Topo USA
The Complete DeLorme Topographic--Street Dataset
Comprised of USGS Digital Topographic Data and Elevation Models blended with the latest Delorme Street and Trail Network. This vector system enables many of the intelligent software features while providing customers with an innovative map database offering the best of all worlds.
Also includes:
- New! Four million points-of-Interest from DeLorme’s Street Atlas USA
- Backcountry features form the DeLorme Atlas and Gazetteer state series
- Updated campground listings
- Wildlife management units
- Bureau of Land Management lands
- National and scenic park trails
- Thousands of additional trails
- State parks
- E-Z Nav Toolbar: this handy toolbar runs along the top of the interface and offers access to commonly needed options, including GPS settings, the Measure tool, MapShare, and Routing functions.
- Keyboard Shortcuts: New is the ability to set your own keyboard shortcut preferences for optimum control when using GPS. The new key-bindings function is very powerful and advanced so you can design your ideal in-vehicle navigation solution to your own personal specifications.
- NetLink: NetLink is your online link to DeLorme for important technical support messages, as well as the place where you select the download areas you want for use within the software.
Product Description
Topo USA 7.0: The most Up-to-Date Topographic Mapping Software Available. Includes over 3 million new and updated roads, plus the latest terrain and trail data, BLM and other public lands, and Game Management Districts. The Most Complete Selection of Data and Imagery Options. In addition to the highly-detailed Topo USA maps, you can access a wide variety of indispensable map, chart, and imaginary choices from USGS, NOAA and other sources. Integrate Your Data Downloads with Topo USA 7.0 for Unrivaled Planning, Routing, and Navigating.
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33 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Some of the Worst Software Ever,
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This review is from: Topo USA 7.0 National Edition [Old Version] (DVD-ROM)
I've been a computer consultant for over 20 years and therefore I've seen a lot of software I'm unfamiliar with at first. On most systems, I can figure out how to do the basics relatively quickly. But not on this software. Let me also add that I helped design and build custom navigation systems for the US Navy, The Coast Guard and even Special Forces units, so I am no stranger to navigational software. But Topo USA 7 defies all logic. There are endless hoops that you have jump through to upload a map to the Earthmate PN-20, so I assume it's similar to other units as they are yet another menu deeper. The help files are scanty and poorly organized. I play around with geocaching and have always entered the files through GSAK software into a Garmin ETrex which was OK. But Gsak doesn't support the Earthmate, so I tried using the Topo ware. It downloaded and displayed the file and the location correctly, but following directions in the Help file and from the Earthmate manual failed to get the file on the GPS. The GPS itself is great and easy to use for the basics without a manual, but you'll need other software to make the unit workable for uploading waypoints and such, which I still haven't figured out. I don't know if DeLorme reads reviews about their products, but if they do, I hope they revamp their development team as this software is incredibly hard to use out of the box. In addition, you can't set Start and Finish waypoints by right clicking like you can in almost every other program. The Help files say you can, but there is no option on a right click to do so. And the help file opens in place of the regular window which means you have to minimize it to go back to the map and there is no way to split screen it. Or if there is it's not in help files either. Want to set a route between two waypoints? You can't. You can do it OK in the GPS but not on your desk top unless you know a specific address to put in the Address book. Not very handy for geocaching especially away from developed areas. And since this is all a proprietary interface between the GPS and the Topo software, you can't use another program to get around the short comings of this absolutely awful software. It is without a doubt the worst software I've ever run across.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
DeLorme Topo Maps,
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This review is from: Topo USA 7.0 National Edition [Old Version] (DVD-ROM)
Topo USA 7 is the 1st version of this program I've bought. I have previously owned Street Atlas USA and right from the very first version I was impressed with the completeness of the maps. Even dirt roads in campgrounds, trails and markers are included. The maps are far more accurate and inclusive than any of the on-line maps and with the addition of the GPS receiver, you have a laptop GPS!
My only complaint is with the interface. They have removed the menu bar and replaced it with arcane hieroglyphics (icons). Now when I need to find something, I have to hover over every icon to let the hint come up so I can read what it does. Very hard when you are trying to find a particular function. I don't use the program daily, therefore I can't remember them. However, I can read, so the old menus worked great. They were well organized and it took little or no thought to find what you were looking for.
15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Clunky interface,
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This review is from: Topo USA 7.0 National Edition [Old Version] (DVD-ROM)
Although DeLorme Topo has the reputation as the best of its kind, I find it unyieldy and unusable. Its user interface in no way reflects standards established since Windows 98. Adding, editing, deleting waypoints is more of an adventure than actually being on the trail -- you never know the effect of any one tool, nor how perform simple edits. Worse, although the interface has two panels (one for a macro view, one for close out), zooming in or out inexplicably affects the other panel. Sorry, I find this software unusable, except perhaps to print maps of very localized areas. Forget trying to create a route to upload to your GPS.
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