Delorme Topo USA v5.0 (DVD) [Old Version]

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Product Features

• Advanced map customization and printing
• Automatic routing on trails and roads
• Nationwide campground information
• GPS compatibility; USGS digital map data
• $50 of free aerial and satellite imagery included

Product Details

Product Manual [2.52mb PDF]

• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0001X6VNG
• Item model number: AO-007232-201
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 18, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #8,622 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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Product Description

From the Manufacturer

New Topo USA 5.0 provides up-to-date map detail and the routing, GPS, editing, and printing capabilities to create exactly the maps needed for any outdoor adventure. Not simply the product of outdated scanned maps, Topo USA 5.0 maps are built from the ground up with USGS digital map data plus the latest DeLorme street network.

Includes $50 of free aerial and satellite imagery downloads with purchase. View imagery in the split-screen window to better preview the terrain. Also new: link photos and urls to maps; 360-degree 3-D map views; downloadable campground locations, and new GPS tools.

Product Description

Topo USA 5.0 is for the trailblazer who wants to explore the city, the country & everything in between! With its route-finding tools, 2D & 3D map options, and elevation profiles, you'll know everything an outdoorsman needs to know. Combine that with the vector-based topographic and street info, and you'll be able to get anywhere in country, more easily than ever. Create and print your own automatic street and highway routes, or print trail routes with elevations Simple waypoint management through the data exchange wizard Add your own routable trails & local streets to maps -- update as you discover new ways to get there Download GPS track files as roads or trails, along with campground information for National parks and breathtaking aerial data

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

52 of 54 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hikers: read this review, ignore the others, March 7, 2005

By	William Ames (State College, PA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Most of the people that have reviewed this software on Amazon simply bought the program for the wrong purpose or they simply don't know what they're talking about.

Topo USA is designed for hikers, plain and simple. Sure, there are other uses, and I'm not suggesting that fisherman, for example, or hunters wouldn't likewise find it useful. After all, those activities involve hiking, too.

Topo USA is certainly not designed to replace car navigation systems--don't even think that you can hook up your laptop and use this thing in busy traffic, it's not the right product. Get an in-dash system for that.

Topo USA is not for professional engineers designing new roads and bridges.

Topo USA is designed to show you trails that are out there, or to make your own, and it does that very well.

If you want something to map your trip to Washington, you would be better off with something else. If, on the other hand, you want to make maps from your hikes, or even to make maps *before* your hikes, this is a great product.

What Topo USA does better than anything else is to map data from your handheld GPS. The EarthMate isn't the best option for this. I use a Garmin eTrex Summit, myself, and the data I get is good enough to make online maps for my hiking web site, HikePA.com.

If you want something to help you map out your recreational hiking, this is it.

Read the other reviews here, and you'll find that the ones who give this negative remarks all want it to do something it's not designed to do. These are the same people who want to go off-roading with their yuppie SUV when they really need a Jeep :-)

Feel free to drop me a line if you have questions . . .

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Its Not That Bad, February 9, 2005

By	B. Armstrong (San Francisco) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I bought this product after looking at Topo! and Microsoft Streets which I think it is signifcantly better than. I use it specifically for creating route maps with directions for long distance road cycling as I train people for charity rides. There are some limitations in the data sets, I found a few missing bike paths and such like, but the fact that you can draw these on as routable paths is great. You can't do this with Microsoft. I also love the fact that you get profiles and elevations etc.

Better printing options would be nice, but for road cycling - this is a great product.

42 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A poor alternative, November 1, 2004

By	Jack Purcell (Placitas, NM USA) - See all my reviews

This 21st Century is blessed with a lot of good topo software for the average backwoodsy person. I'd call the industry standard the USGS Topos on paper and digitized. If a product's as good as the USGS 7.5 minute topo provided through an all-right source, I'd call it good.

This one doesn't make the grade. I do some consulting work in erosion mitigation. Some of the folks I work for wanted to get an overlay of their streets and lots that could be provided to Delorme so they could get the five year old development onto the next upgrade of Street Atlas USA, which it wasn't on the 2005 version. So they bought this and asked me to perform the dread deed.

The mapping is mediocre, the functions are awkward and the Earthmate receiver is tempermental.

Give this one a miss, do some searches and you'll find a good receiver, good software, and support people who will actually give you a hand if you have problems. Delorme doesn't even provide email addresses so you can contact them outside the website. Makes you awfully easy to ignore.

Incidently, the Earthmate receiver isn't supported by Delorme for 3rd party software, which makes no sense, but there's a darned good reason they don't.