TOPO! National Geographic USGS Topographic Maps (Tennessee and Kentucky) |  | Brand: National Geographic
List Price: $49.95
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Rating:  46 reviews
Format: CD-ROM
Platforms: Windows NT, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP, Mac OS X, Windows 95
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 10 x 8 x 2
MPN: Tennessee & Kentucky
Model: Tennessee & Kentucky
ISBN: 1597750514
UPC: 749717205352
EAN: 9781597750516
Release Date: April 1, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Print photo quality USGS topographic maps | | • | GPS Ready - Easiest Way to tell your GPS where you want to go and record where you've been | | • | Navigate in three dimensions with 3D fly-thru and instant elevation profiling | | • | Customize maps with photos, notes and icons | | • | Live Map Update ensures you always have the most current maps and software |
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Product Description
National Geographic Maps TOPO! State Series - Tennessee, Kentucky: 8 x 6 x 1 The leading outdoor recreation TOPO! software for more then 10 years. Available in 28 individual state and multi-state packages covering the entire United States. Compatibl
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 Clunky interface, poor scans September 2, 2010
Jon
The interface is difficult to use, the maps are poorly scanned, and the icons and animations are very amateurish. The user guide doesn't cover all of the functions available (like "split in 2"). It's a poorly created program that shouldn't be associated with National Geographic. I wouldn't recommend this product.
Complete, accurate, hard to use August 24, 2010
CatskillHiker
The Topo! State products are the cheapest way to cover an entire state rather than use the Topo! Explorer and buy SuperQuads. The State series lacks the satellite imagery of the SuperQuads but many people don't use that anyway. What I don't like is the fact that there is no hand tool to pan but a travel tool that does not work as well. Also, the proprietary TPO format for files is annoying since it is impossible to easily trade between other programs. What happened to GPX? NatGeo customer service is slow but the techs seem to know what they are doing. Do not expect to talk to them on the phone. They only communicate by email!
 all on one dvd August 9, 2010
wayne robert ivey
A few years ago, I bought Az topo cds, 6 or 7, of them for the "best" price then of $80. And now the same topo map is on just one dvd and for less than half the price of the several topo cds. Not having to replace one cd with another when needed is time saving and not a nuisance as having to work with several cds is.
 Great if you have a Magellan Triton, otherwise... August 7, 2010
B. Uhl (New Mexico, USA)
I own 4 states worth of these. Though the $ start to really add up, it works great with my Triton 2000.
The data is old-ish (which is preferred, depending on your interests!) official USGS topographic data. You can do all the easy stuff like waypoints, etc. but the big benefit is direct download of arbitrarily-shaped maps straight to a Magellan Triton series GPS unit. Without this last feature, I'm not sure why the product should exist.
Nat Geo seems to have a new web-based service that charges you per-map to get files onto your GPS. Lacking a better alternative, maybe this makes sense - though to me this is a very bad trend, and one that will make me leave a product line. In this case, the product line is a GPS platform plus Map Data software combo.
Note that you must go in to VIEW-PREFERENCES AND SETTINGS-GPS-UNIT TYPE and change to your Triton to be able to attempt map downloads - and after that it is very simple!
Still waiting for a product that does all I want. I could'nt care less about instant sharing data to social networks, blah, blah, blah - but I REALLY want USGS, *Land Status*, and Aerial/Satellite on the same device that also properly handles my geo-tagged pictures and waypoints.
Until then, or until/if I leave the Magellan product line, then I'll probably end up with another few states worth of this series.
Slow & buggy August 3, 2010
J Veranth (Boulder UT)
This topo map software was a severe disappointment. . Opening files slow even on a newer iMac running OS 10.5. It takes over 3 minutes to open a file with a saved route and zoom in to the most detailed level. Scrolling across a map is painfully slow.
The software crashes frequently when trying to use features such as marking a route or calculating an elevation profile along a route.
In addition, the road information is very inaccurate. The red line road overlay shows non-existent roads, roads that have been closed for decades, and private driveways. Apparently this product was not integrated with the data from the Trails Illustrated maps which are also published by National Geographic.
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