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National Geographic Back Roads Explorer 3D

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Platform: Windows XP / 2000 / 98 / Me, Mac OS X
Media: CD-ROM
Item Quantity: 1

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Product Features

18-CD-ROM set includes TOPO! maps with updated roads for all 50 states
Seamlessly scroll across the entire U.S. with 4 levels of map detail
View any map in 3D and fly along any trail with 3D fly-thru�s
Customize and print photo-quality maps; import and export GPX files
Load your GPS with routes and waypoints; USB compatible

Product Details

Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
Note: Gift-wrapping is not available for this item.
ASIN: B000BD4TD0
Item model number: 80723
Date first available at Amazon.com: September 11, 2005

Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,039 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)
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Hikers and sports enthusiasts can now travel off the beaten path anywhere in the USA with Back Roads Explorer 3D on 18 CD-ROMs, offering thousands of maps and custom features. Back Roads Explorer 3D provides TOPO! maps with updated road data for all 50 states. Print maps, create elevation profiles, and watch a 3D visual fly-thru of your trip before you go!

With Back Roads Explorer 3D you can:

Seamlessly scroll across the entire U.S. with four levels of map detail, including 1:100,000-scale topographic maps. For 1:24,000-scale maps, see the TOPO! State Series.
View any map in 3D and fly along any trail with 3D fly-thru's.
Customize and print photo-quality maps.
Add current road and street information and shaded relief.
Draw your own routes and create elevation profiles.
Load your GPS with routes and waypoints; USB compatible.
Import and export GPX files for geocaching.

Up-to-date roads: Tele Atlas has partnered with National Geographic to provide the most recent road database available. Back Roads Explorer gets you to your destination and back again with confidence.

Print custom maps: Customize maps in Back Roads Explorer 3D with digital photos, notes, symbols, and Web links. You can draw your own routes and create elevation profiles to see distance and all the ups and downs. After customizing your map, print photo-quality maps on your inkjet or laser printer.

Product Description

Hikers, sportsmen, and outdoor enthusiasts: now, you can travel off the beaten path anywhere in the United States, with Back Roads Explorer 3D on CD-ROM. Pan and zoom across almost 2,000 United States Geological Survey maps featuring all 50 states in extraordinary detail. Customize your route as you seamlessly navigate multiple maps and insert text, symbols, and elevation markers along your path. Then, get an animated three-dimensional preview of your journey as you wind through your chosen path stopping to admire the panoramic vistas along the way.

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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The worst mappping software that I own., December 25, 2005

By	Mark L. Poulos "mlpoulos" (WINAMAC, IN USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

While this software installed easily on my iMacG5, the map data CD's zoom and travel very slowly. Also no roads are named and routing is rudimentary at best. My dvd rom also burnt the yellow dye off the first data CD I put in the machine. None of these things has ever happened with my other mapping software. One could get better and more detailed mapping info online for free than with this. Finally, when the zoom is eventually accomplished, it is not at a very close scale. All in all, a very disappointing product.

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1.0 out of 5 stars don't waste your money, October 8, 2006

By	rjc3000 (Armonk, NY) - See all my reviews

Don't bother with this - I don't know how they managed to get the National Geographic name on this product. It's almost as if someone said "Let's scan a whole bunch of maps from USGS and put the worst interface in the world on the program."

Google maps and Google Earth have better maps, better road detail, and a better interface. Plus they have satellite photos. And they are free!

Don't waste your money. If i could rate it 0 or negative I would since it uses time and money and gives nothing in return.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Not ready for prime time, March 9, 2006

By	Willie D. Book Wormie (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews

As an owner of two different full state versions of Topo programs I have found the only way to really use the software is to do your thing and then save it as a pdf. If you load the whole program (all the CDs) on to a hard drive so it works seamlessly. This you can't do with Back Roads Explorer. If you want do do a search for a place that data is on CD1 along with the maps for California, where there is no way to know which files those are, and if you copy the whole file to a drive into the topo data folder, the program can't find it. Then once you find a place and picking one of several you have to go to the state CD. If that is not the place you are looking for it is back to CD1 and start all over again.

I tried to load the state CD and not all of it would copy to the Hard Drive. Cleaning the new disc didn't seem to have any effect, but it seems to work OK off the CD drive. I've had the same trouble with the state programs, but fooling around with cleaning and different computers it could eventually be accomplished and the moved by a flash disc.

The 18 CDs come with a half sheet instructions. The operating help is a simple 48 page pdf that is only slightly more detailed.

Having said all that, you get most of the full state versions (to level 4 of 5) and it is interesting to be able to follow the roads within a topographic relief and gps data. For the price it is a pretty good deal, but if you are just looking for general topo maps, satellite and aerial photos, and trace your own maps that is available online for free.

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Most Recent Customer Reviews

1.0 out of 5 stars Horrible!
This title is horrible. Clunky, S-L-O-W, non-intuitive interface and antiquated looking maps. Then, you must constantly swap CD's in and out of the drive. Read more

Published 11 months ago by ibuprofen

5.0 out of 5 stars Works great on my mac!
I have some of the national geographic state topo maps, and they do print a little prettier than these, but these will give you an overlay with the street names. Read more

Published 12 months ago by Older Wiser

1.0 out of 5 stars What a Rip-Off
"It's almost as if someone said "Let's scan a whole bunch of maps from USGS and put the worst interface in the world on the program. Read more

Published 18 months ago by Michael Finn

1.0 out of 5 stars Cheating specs
When I bought this the scale quoted for detail on the maps was the same for the state product as it was for the national product... so I bough the naional product. Read more

Published 23 months ago by CarNut

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't Buy This Piece Of Junk
I wish that I had bothered to read the reviews before buying this worthless software.
I don't understand how National Geographic could put their name on it. Read more

Published 24 months ago by D. Stori

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't Buy
Could not believe that this product is from Nat. Geo. It is so bad
There is no detail whatsoever. Read more

Published on February 10, 2007 by Donald Willard

2.0 out of 5 stars Topo not exactly
My husband was looking for a topo program for the Adirondacks. Not exactly what he wanted. Ended up returning the product. Topography on this program is very basic.

Published on January 19, 2007 by D. Schramek

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't Waste Your Money
National Geographic Backroads Explorer 3D over-promises and under-delivers. The marketing and packaging are very slick -"Seamless USGS topographic maps of the entire United... Read more

Published on August 13, 2006 by Peter J. Licastro

3.0 out of 5 stars not bad but not good
kind of a cheesy review, but true. Its not all its written up to be, but it does have a few features that are worthy. Read more

Published on March 12, 2006 by D. Brooks

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Maps!!
I gave the Back Roads Explorer Computer Program as a gift, and he loved it! It really is perfect for the outdoorsman/fisherman/hunter/hiker who is interested in TOPO maps,... Read more

Published on February 26, 2006 by Mary C. Casey

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