Topo USA 8.0 National Edition
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Up-to-date, feature-rich topographic software works on PCs as a stand-alone product or in conjunction with Delorme GPS unitsUpdated highway, street, back road, and trail detail, including highways and streets for Canada and major roads for MexicoPaperless geocaching with DeLorme Earthmate PN-Series GPS receivers--easily import, export, manage, and update your geocache filesThe most current available USGS terrain and land cover data, with realistic 3-D terrain views, with flyovers and 360-degree rotationVoice navigation for PCs, UMPCs, touchscreen phones, and PDAs
Product Description
Scout your destination as if you were there, with up-to-date terrain, trail, and road detail. Explore or fly over realistic 3-D. Import aerial imagery. Route your travels over roads and trails. Find public recreation lands. See elevation profiles. Customize and print maps at a wide range of scales. Topo USA 8.0 does it all. The Most Complete & Best Value Mapping Software for Recreation Topo USA 8.0 is the most comprehensive computer mapping program for outdoor recreation, with unsurpassed maps, available imagery, trip planning features, on-road navigation, and GPS capabilities. | 
What's New in Topo USA 8.0
Updates
- Over 300,000 new or updated U.S. streets
- Thousands of new trails
- Detailed streets and roads for Canada
- Main roads for Mexico
- More than 200,000 ADDITIONAL POIs (places-of-interest)
In-Vehicle Navigation & Travel Features
- GPS Radar--find points of interest near your current location
- 2-D or 3-D NavMode for hands-free full-screen view while navigating in your vehicle
- UMPC mode--optimizes your screen for ultra-mobile PCs and small screens
- Spoken directions and voice commands
- Plan Trip option--estimate end of day breaks, fuel stops, and fuel cost
Advanced Geocaching Features
If you own or purchase a PN-Series Handheld GPS, you can take advantage of several new features: - Import Geocaching.com pocket queries using Cache Register (coming soon)
- Send-to-GPS now available for Delorme PN-Series handhelds
- See cache descriptions in full, with other cachers' log notes
- Geocaching symbols added to PN-Series symbol set support new geocaching features on PN-Series devices
- Drag cursor to multi-select caches from Topo USA and send them directly to your GPS
- Cache names on maps are hyperlinked to their Geocaching.com pages
| And it's by far the best value for the price--EVERYTHING needed comes in-the-box for the purchase price, including: - Complete USA topographic maps and detailed streets
- Detailed streets for Canada; major roads for Mexico
- Over 4 million places-of-interest (POIs)
- Extensive USA trails network
- Flexible printing choices
- Ability to share your custom maps over the internet, and more
Core Functions Map Controls
The maps can be controlled using a variety of methods, including the traditional push-button zooming, which drills in/out while keeping the map exactly centered. Drag and Zoom CursorAlso, holding down the left mouse button enables you to drag and zoom, left-to-right, across the map, and moving the mouse in the same manner but in the opposite direction zooms out. 3-D Map Views and Flyovers
See the terrain in vivid detail using the 3-D map views and controls. These realistic views also retain the various elements you add to your customized maps--trails, MapNotes, GPS waypoints, and Draw objects. The split-screen framework lets you see 2-D and 3-D maps side by side, with linked Draw tools that move and update in tandem. Now you can also grab the 3-D map views using the image grabber tool and scroll rapidly through 3-D views with great precision. The 3-D software engine has been completely rebuilt for this new version. Find
DeLorme employs several powerful search capabilities within the software. The first is a simple box called QuickSearch where you type common requests including towns, cities, lakes, mountains, lat/lons, ZIP codes, street addresses and many more to receive the quickest possible matches. The Advanced Search helps clarify more complex searches to provide the best possible results. Enhancements to Find with version 8.0 include the ability to perform searches based on multiple criteria: address, intersection, place name, natural feature, coordinates, places of interest, and more. Profile
The Profile tool lets you click on a route, line object, or body of water and see the elevation gain between one point and the next. Ideal for bikers, hikers, and large rigs wanting to know the elevation on their trips. It also gives you the ability to import heart rate, speed, and cadence data from GPS wrist computers, and graph them with the terrain profile for evaluation of athlete performance. Draw
Add MapNotes; draw your own circles, polygons, and squares; measure the area of your draw objects--even draw in your own roads and route on them--these are amazingly powerful draw tools for the money. Measure
The Measure Tool lets you measure linear distance and area on the map based on the units chosen in the Display tab of the Options dialog box. Draw polygons on the map and see the square footage or acreage of plots of land. Info
Right-click on the map to learn more about what's underneath your cursor. Lat/Lon, names of streets and bodies of water--even local radio station information--can be viewed in this manner. Moreover, the bottom toolbar of the software displays a continuously updated readout of what's underneath your cursor. Attaching Images, Web URLs, and Other Documents
Add your own images, live Web URLs, and diagrams and documents to the maps. Embed photos and diagrams showing fleet personnel what they will find at each location. Embed URLs next to your important stops on the maps for easy access when additional information is needed or updated online. Image Tagger
Preserve a record of exactly where you took your digital photos--all you need is a GPS track. The enlargeable thumbnail images appear on your map exactly where you took them on your trip. | SAMPLE MAPS |  3-D, Color Imagery for a Realistic View of Your Hike
Click to enlarge. |  Adding Unique USGS Quad Detail to Topo USA 8.0
Click to enlarge. |  Converting Collected GPS Tracks Into Routable Trails
Click to enlarge. |  Creating a Trail Route That Best Suits Your Preferences
Click to enlarge. |  Displaying Collected GPS Waypoints in Topo USA
Click to enlarge. |  Enjoy Paperless Geocaching
Click to enlarge. |  GeoTag Your Digital Photos by their Precise Location
Click to enlarge. |  GPS Navigation with NavMode
Click to enlarge. |  Large Area Perspective with Satellite Imagery
Click to enlarge. |  Navigating on the Water with NOAA Nautical Charts
Click to enlarge. |  Overlay Streets, Places of Interest on Aerial Imagery
Click to enlarge. |  Planning a Fishing Trip With Atlas & Gazetteer Locations
Click to enlarge. | Ease of Use 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. Routing Routing on Roads or Trails
Create automatic road routes to get you to the trailhead, then use automatic trail routing to bring on your hikes. You can create routes from the Route tab or by simply right-clicking on the map and setting your Starts, Stops, and Finish points. Personalized Routing with Address Book
New is the ability to create and save commonly-used names for places you visit often, such as "home," work," or "Dad's." Once these names are assigned, the routing Starts, Stops, and Finishes also display these names making retrieval easy for repeated usage. Customize routes using your own names and save them within MapShare for others to see--they'll be amazed. You can also include up to 200 names from your address book to be recognized using this system. Add Local Roads to Routing
A DeLorme exclusive, this is the best way to update local roads when new developments are planned or added between DeLorme software releases. This tool is located within the Draw tab and lets you draw in the road segment, connecting it to another local road within the database. Assign a name, save it, and when you create automatic routes, the software is smart enough to include these new local roads in the routing calculations and also update the directions. Map & Travel Information NEW! Points-of-Interest
New to Topo USA with the release of version 8.0 are 4 million places of interest from DeLorme's Street Atlas USA, including restaurants, lodgings, retailers, and businesses of all kinds. Also new are backcountry locations from the DeLorme Atlas & Gazetteers with icons for boat ramps, unique natural features, fishing and hunting locations, and more. Map Data
Topo USA offers the best of both worlds--the latest USGS digital topographic data and the latest DeLorme street network. Unlike the scanned raster USGS paper maps used in many other topographic software products, this unique DeLorme vector data blending assures you are working with the latest information. Many scanned USGS quad maps were made decades ago, so the roads shown are oftentimes outdated or nonexistent. Topo USA's vector -- or intelligent -- blended data enables smart searching, better labeling, and many other powerful software capabilities. Data Download Dollars--FREE Map, Chart, and Imagery Downloads
In addition to the enhanced topographic and street maps on the included Topo USA 8.0 DVD-ROM, your purchase entitles you to $40 in new Data Download Dollars, good for supplementary data as Web downloads. Options include USGS 1:24,000 quad maps, NOAA nautical charts, and the following imagery types: color aerial, black-and-white aerial, high-resolution cities (color aerial), and 10-meter color satellite. Data Download Dollars and the ability to purchase each dataset separately replaces the former Aerial Data Packets, that combined three data type together. Now you get only what you really need. Visit the Netlink tab of your DeLorme software to supplementary datasets. GPS Features | 
PN-Series Handhelds
The Perfect Topo USA Outdoor Partner
- Insert positionally-accurate waypoints and tracks into the maps you upload to your PN-Series receiver
- Automatically create routes on roads or trails for upload to your receiver
- Convert collected tracks to routable roads or trails*
- Easily manage your collected GPS data
| GPS Waypoint Exchange
Use the automatic route generation tool to create the route you want without hand-drawing each object. Then exchange this track log to your handheld GPS receiver and bring the information with you into the field. Bring your field data back into the desktop software from your GPS receiver to see where you have been. Supports Garmin, Magellan, and most other NMEA-compliant receivers. GPS Log Playback
Create a route along your favorite trail, right-click on the trail and Save as GPS Log File. Open the GPS tab, switch to 3-D mode, and play back the log file showing various icons moving along the trail. It's as close to being there as one can get without actually leaving your home. Geocaching Support
Topo USA supports popular geocaching site file formats .gpx and .loc, which makes geocaching more fun than ever. New with version 8.0 is the ability to import extended descriptions and hints from .gpx files found online at geocaching.com, also transportable to the PN-Series GPS Devices. Printing & Sharing Print
Print crisp color or black & white maps that you control to best match what is seen on screen. Print maps including the elevation profile or simply print the elevation profile by itself. New in this version, print the split-screen maps showing your various datasets and Draw objects. MapShare
MapShare makes it easy to share your customized maps and directions with family, friends, and business associates. You create exactly the content you want and then post within our online MapShare library, which includes private administrative tools for you to manage. Similar to some of the better online photo resources, MapShare allows you to provide controlled access to your important maps without worrying about email and spam filters.
Spotlight Customer Reviews:
Summary:
Think Again....before you purchase
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Topo 8 is the worst software i have seen recently. Come on delorme...you can do better.
- The user controls are so messed up that you need a degree in Topo 8 to use it.
- The NetLink/Map Library (which is the source of maps) is the worst part of the software.
- You have to call customer support if you re-install/re-image your operating system to use your active Delorme subscription again
- Downloading high quality imagery is a big pain (downloads from their servers are slow and breaks often)
- Compatibility issues with other GPS formats (apparently Topo 8 supports only tp* files)
Unless Delorme decide to act on these general issues i do not recommend this product to anyone. Maybe i will have to think about returning the hardware just because of the buggy Topo 8.
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One of the least intuitive pieces of software I've ever used
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It's actually rather unbelievable that this is accepted as standard. Downloading from Delorme is a hassle to put it mildly. Trying to download the high res maps...zoom in close, click on each little square to download...but wait, you can only click on 8 squares at a time. Click submit, name the download, hit OK, hit OK again, click on the next 8 small squares, name it, click OK, click OK again...it will only let you do 17 of those total, which only covered a small part of Raleigh. Click the download tab, wait for all 17 to be READY to submit for download. Click the check box next to each of those, click download...then be prepared to wait a REALLY long time. It won't let you do anything while it downloads, either. Just leave it overnight, then do another small section of town.
Really, Delorme? Holy crap this software is awful!
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Be Aware
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I recently installed DeLorme Topo USA 8.0 National Edition on my Dell Latitude D-830 with the Mobile Intel® 965 Express Chipset Family Video Card. When I went to the 3-D function the program locked up. I installed it several times before I called DeLorme. They had me disable the 3-D function and suggested I install the latest video driver. After installing the new video driver I still had the same problem. I called again and talked to a different technician. He had me look at my video card, then said that the program would not work in the 3-D mode with my video card and there was no fix action planned from DeLorme. He stated that maybe Intel would fix the problem. They were aware of the problem, yet there was no mention of it in the documentation. Bad Practice! I installed it on a second computer with a different video card and it works fine. I like the program and the 3-D function works fine on my other computer. Make sure you check which video card you have before you buy this program.
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Pretty worthless for my needs
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Wanted to use it to track and plan back packing trips. Product details mentioned it was great for this.... Well, tracking, not so bad but any software (google earth, etc...) can do this really. Planning: Worthless. Seriously, I really wish they would have had a crippled or time limited trial of this software. I guess the reason why they don't is for suckers like me that fell for the literature. They Got my $$, don't let them get yours if your intentions are to plan hiking/backpacking trips.
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Tope USA 8.0 National
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I have bought this for several years now, and each time wonder why I bothered. The newest version has all the same bugs and issues that the 6 year old version that I bought in 2004.
The interface is hard to get use to, but that is not the worst part. I can only speak for the trails that I have planned and hiked, but they are just plan wrong! Trails that are marked as roads so you can not route them, and I have never figured out how to combine roads and trail into one route. The Continental divide trail is marked in two location a 100 yards apart, where there is but one trail. The real trail goes up to the edge of a map section and ends. Trails to not connect at intersections so that you can not route them. The company seem to be more interested in adding more marketable features than making the product better.
You can over come some of the issue by drawing your own trails (connecting trails at an intersection or over the top of roads that are really trails) however the process is so complicated that it take me an hour to figure out how to do it each time I go back.
The only saving grace it the cost of this product compared to others out there. And some companies are starting to catch-up.
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