Trimble Adventure Planner U.S.A. Topographical/Street/Aerial Map Digital Download (Windows)

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Product Details

Product Manual [1.52mb PDF]

• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 1.5 x 9.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0006G0KOO
• Item model number: TRMB2-100-0
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

Product Description

Trimble Outdoors was designed to help outdoor enthusiast make the most of their outdoor adventures. Trimble Outdoors combines the ability to: research trips posted by other Trimble Outdoors users, plan trips with topographic, street and aerial maps, transfer routes and waypoints with the most popular GPS receivers, insert pictures and notes into trip maps, and share adventures with friends, family and the on-line Trimble Outdoors community. View trip reports and pictures posted by other Trimble Outdoors Community members. Complete US coverage eliminates the need to purchase maps of each state, and the Web-based maps eliminate CD swapping when planning trips across different maps. Personalize trip maps with icons, text, waypoints, points-of-interest, routes and pictures. A graphical-user-interface (GUI) and tool tips make planning, personalizing and sharing trips on-line easy. All for a fraction of the cost of competing trip planning applications. Trimble Outdoor members and users include: hikers, hunters, fishers, mountain bikers, trail runners, cross-country skiers, snowshoers, snowmobilers, ATV and 4 X 4 drivers, motorcycle riders, prospectors, paddlers, boaters, geocachers and others venturing away from cities and streets (with or without a GPS receiver). Requirements: Windows 98 SE, 2000, ME or XP. Compatible with data transfer capable Garmin and Magellan GPS receivers. Data transfer requires an input/output serial cable (sold separately). Also compatible with Nextel i710, i730, i830, or i860 mobiles phones. Note: complete aerial maps of Hawaii were not available at the time of printing.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Bow Hunting, January 10, 2005

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Rob DeStasio "RAD" (Westchester, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Trimble Adventure Planner U.S.A. Topographical/Street/Aerial Map Digital Download (Windows) (Electronics)

This was my first season of bow hunting in the New York area. My wife bought me Trimble Outdoors Adventure Planner for my Garmin eTrex and it worked like a dream. By using the Aerial photos on the Adventure Planner I was able to identify potential locations for my tree stand. The ruler function also gave me the advantage of determining shot distance to watering holes. I loaded all these waypoints to my eTrex, which made for a much easier trip. -Trimble Outdoors definitely does everything it says it does and more. --Westchester, NY

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Cool, May 11, 2005

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Bob - See all my reviews

This review is from: Trimble Adventure Planner U.S.A. Topographical/Street/Aerial Map Digital Download (Windows) (Electronics)

I started using this product with my garmin, and it was decent, the one really cool thing about it was that I could upload photos after my trip and then share the trip online. Sharing trips online is awesome because I can email them to my friends... I almost didn't buy this product because of the a bad review on this site, but decided to give it a try anyway, and I'm glad I did. After playing with it for a while I bought a nextel phone, and it was even better... I could send trips, routes, points, maps, etc all to my phone overthe air... started leaving my garmin at home and doing it all with my cell phone. Really cool stuff... I would suggest after buying to go and get the latest version from their website... seems to get a little better each version, and you can upgrade for free!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Way cool, May 11, 2005

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gpsCraig (Chandler, AZ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Trimble Adventure Planner U.S.A. Topographical/Street/Aerial Map Digital Download (Windows) (Electronics)

The maps on this product are so cool. I bought this with a Nextel i860 camera phone (which includes software for the phone), and it divides the screen up into a grid so I could select individual map tiles to send to the phone. The result: I could look at my phone and see myself walking on an aerial photo. When I was in an area around my neighborhood, I switched to street map by pressing one key on the phone.

My friend had a Garmin, so I uploaded one of his trips into the Adventure Planner with a usb - serial cable. The points all appeared on the map flawlessly. Then we had fun uploading pictures from his trips at the correct locations. I noticed an option to "share trip" with others, but wasn't sure how. Then I figured out that the trimbleoutdoors.com website has everyone's shared trips online. We pulled up my friends trip and could see all the points and photos. We could even e-mail the trip to anyone.

I had a similar display problem as another reviewer where the menu items are all cut off. To fix this I right clicked on my desktop | properties | settings | [Advanced] and changed the DPI setting to Normal Size (96 DPI). Not only did it fix the problem with the Adventure planner, some of my other programs looked better as well.

It is a little slow with dial-up when getting maps. This is because all the maps are retrieved from the internet. The benefit is I don't have to go look for CD #9 when I pan around. Also, when maps are updated, I don't have to buy an upgrade. I have a cable modem, so the speed of the application is great.