Garmin US TOPO! 24K Topographical Maps of Washington and Oregon (microSD/SD Card)

by Garmin

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 0.2 x 0.1 x 1 inches ; 2.7 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B001AQOHOI
• California residents: Click here for Proposition 65 warning.
• Item model number: 010-C0948-00
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #17,379 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

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  Electronics > GPS & Navigation > GPS Mapping Software

• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 1, 2004

Product Description

Product Description

Outdoor enthusiasts: your adventure is waiting — in vivid detail. TOPO U.S. 24K – Northwest brings you the highest level of topographic detail available, with maps comparable to 1:24,000 scale USGS maps. These highly detailed maps include terrain contours, topo elevations, summits, routable roads and trails, parks, coastlines, rivers, lakes and geographical points — and they also display 3-D terrain shading on compatible devices. TOPO maps are ideal for hiking, hunting, camping, cycling and communing with nature. Coverage includes topographic detail of Washington and Oregon.

Customer Reviews

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24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not what I expected. Check product limitations., September 29, 2008

By	Jeri J. Boe "JB" (Bend, OR USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Garmin US TOPO! 24K Topographical Maps of Washington and Oregon (microSD/SD Card) (Electronics)

This software was purchased to be used with the Garmin Rino 530HCX units, but this review may apply to other units as well, so beware.

First to note: You can only use this on one unit, and you are not able to backup the software for safekeeping or for use on more than one unit if you happen to own more than one. One card per unit. If you overwrite it, you loose it. You cannot use this card for viewing on your computer, or back it up for safekeeping. It has a lock code that prevents you from using it in any manner but inserting it into the gps unit. Technical support will not help you with this issue.It does not state any of this on the box. It is a micro SD card with an adapter, so it is small.
Second: On the Rino 530HCX, this product only gives the elevation contour of the area, with roads and some trails. No DEM shading, no 3-D modeling, etc. These limitations are not noted on or in the box, or anywhere on the Garmin website. Technical support said the flat contour map may be more detailed than the US topo map on CD, but they were not specific as to the differences, if any.

I visited the Garmin website, and it did say it had limited capability, and gave a few examples:

From the Garmin website:
" "Limited capability" may mean that a unit may be able to draw all the map features from the MapSource software, such as roads, lakes, nav-aids, depth contours, wrecks, etc., but the interactive capability of the maps may be limited. For example, you may not be able to "find nearest marinas" or look up additional text about a specific mapping feature. "

So before you purchase this product, or any other software product of this nature from Garmin, realize that they may not be fully disclosing all of the pertinent information.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Room for improvement, June 7, 2009

By	Donald E. Thomas "Old Snipe" (Bend, Oregon) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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This review is from: Garmin US TOPO! 24K Topographical Maps of Washington and Oregon (microSD/SD Card) (Electronics)

It beats the heck out of the base map that came with my Oregon 200 but leaves a lot to be desired. Quite a lot of roads & trails in my local forest, (Deschutes) are not shown and some that are shown do not exist. In spite of all the copyrights and warnings it appears to have been taken straight off a Forest Service topo map I obtained from them a couple of years ago. I looked at points of interest and found it had not been updated in several years. Many listed are gone years ago. The city part streets are also about 3 years old. Better then the base map's 10 year old update. I only wish that Garmin would let me correct the errors I know of on my computer then re-load the map on the GPS!

All that being said, The Oregon 200 with the topo map is one heck of a tool for trecking, ATV'ing or driving the forest! Do bring a good compass though! and if you got room in your pocket a paper topo map.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars sd topo of nw u.s., January 17, 2010

By	backroads - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Garmin US TOPO! 24K Topographical Maps of Washington and Oregon (microSD/SD Card) (Electronics)

I don't like to "force" things and they don't have any installation instructions.

I had a real problem sticking it in and had to call and wait the half hour until I got someone and then they still couldn't tell me which way was up to stick it in. But I finally figured out that the contacts were up and the writing was down (counter intuitive) because it appeared that the contact points were up on the gps unit on very close inspection (not easy) while I was on the phone with them.

I still had a problem because the card kept springing out and after they told me that the card has to be stuck in all the way until it clicked, I decided to use my finger nail because my bare finger wouldn't press it in that far and then I got it to click in.

You still got to find out that the basic topo has to be turned off to see the topo map. I am not going to go through all the steps but a "big" clue is that you have to go to "info" ("not" just information "lol") after "map" to to turn it off.

The topo is hard to work with and bubbles keep getting in the way and are hard to get rid of without losing your location.

Otherwise it will help you navigate.