Garmin TOPO U.S. 24K West DVD - West Coast and Nevada
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- Covers Washington, Oregon, California and Nevada
- Similar in format to USGS 1:24,000 scale, topographic paper maps, detailed features include elevation contours, trails and more
- Map names correspond to USGS map names for easy referencing from guidebooks; USGS trail names are also used to facilitate planning
- Points of interest use thematic icons for areas like parks, campgrounds, boat ramps, airports and other sites, making it easy to plan outings
- Covers national, state and local parks, national and state forests, national and state wilderness areas
- Also features interstates, major highways, rural roads, trails, city neighborhood roads, railroads, power lines, borders and more
- Searchable database of cities, geographic names, summits, lakes and other points of interest makes locating a special spot quick and easy
- Summit locations feature elevation information, handy for calibrating altimeters
- Nautical information includes radio beacons, fog signals, river, harbor and other lights, as well as shipwrecks and other submerged hazards
- Topographic contours with shading enhances relief viewing; elevation profile displays on PC and some compatible units to estimate terrain difficulty
Made in USA.
Your mapping-capable Garmin GPS receiver may require a free update from Garmin.com before using this mapping software.
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Jun 28, 2015It works if you put some work into it.
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May 23, 2013Good Product, Needs Some ImprovementMap quality is average. Sometimes it's hard to make out the countour lines, and tell exactly which countour lines are being pointed to by the elevations. The software has some shifty things ...
Read More Map quality is average. Sometimes it's hard to make out the countour lines, and tell exactly which countour lines are being pointed to by the elevations. The software has some shifty things going on with the programming. When you are trying to highlight the edges of the map, or make it bigger, the outline of the map flickers on and off. You can tell that the programmers didn't put a lot of thought into the software. The biggest issue is the ability to toggle high or low detail, and large or small font. The categories that they have setup for the different types of labels makes it a huge guess and check adventure to find out which labels you don't want displayed and which ones you do. And each time you want to do this you have to clicke 5 different levels of windows. All in all, some smart 18 year old could go into this software and make it way more user friendly. The maps also don't differentiate between grass, rock, alpine and such. Everything is one color except rivers and water. So that makes things slightly difficult. -
Sep 3, 2012No problems...I read all the negative reviews and was leery of buying this DVD. I decided to take a chance and glad I did. I used this DVD with my old Garmin Quest on an off-road motorcycle ride in Cent...
Read More I read all the negative reviews and was leery of buying this DVD. I decided to take a chance and glad I did. I used this DVD with my old Garmin Quest on an off-road motorcycle ride in Central OR. Overall the software was spot on when compared to USGS maps. Create waypoints then create a route based on those waypoints. I would recommmend this software and base all the previous reviews on user error. -
May 19, 2012So 1980'sTopo Maps (free app) on my iPhone is better than the $100.00 Garmin maps. My app has the real USGA 24k topos, while Garmin uses a cheesy knock up that is poorer in every regard. Topo Maps i...
Read More Topo Maps (free app) on my iPhone is better than the $100.00 Garmin maps. My app has the real USGA 24k topos, while Garmin uses a cheesy knock up that is poorer in every regard. Topo Maps is more legible, more accurate, and of course free. Garmin had better step up to the plate and deliver on their software. Every day that goes by the smartphone and iPad products get better and better while Garmin relies on outdated maps (from 2009) and sticks with a stone age interface. We know that stand alone GPS devices are dying the death of a thousand cuts, but Garmin is slicing its jugular by resting on its laurels while the real world passes it by. -
Mar 23, 2012Use 24K and Prepare to Be FrustratedLoading took 45 minutes but worked well. After that the product is totally NOT user friendly. Very poor maps, no detail(like structures that are or were there) Before purchasing I read th...
Read More Loading took 45 minutes but worked well. After that the product is totally NOT user friendly. Very poor maps, no detail(like structures that are or were there) Before purchasing I read the reviews and thought it can't be that bad, It IS! I would get close to where I wanted to be and the program would hang. Next I will try CD's from [@] and if that fails I will go back to pure paper maps. I would not use this IF it were FREE! -
Feb 26, 2012Fair software, decent mapsSoftware: I bought this CA/NV/OR/WA 24K topo disk along with an Etrex 20. The two were my first GPS purchase, so I came into the map installation with no the prior knowledge except what I...
Read More Software: I bought this CA/NV/OR/WA 24K topo disk along with an Etrex 20. The two were my first GPS purchase, so I came into the map installation with no the prior knowledge except what I'd gained researching what to buy. The package contains a CD with minimal instructions: put it in your computer, run the set-up, and follow the instructions. (I'm using a PC with Windows 7.) That's mostly true, although the installed version of the management program, BaseCamp, was, I learned a little later, several versions old. The check updates button reported all was current. Sometime later, I found and downloaded a much newer, and much more capable, version at the Garmin website. From there, all was fairly smooth. BaseCamp documentation isn't great, but it's workable. A little problem-solving is sometimes needed though: you can be on your own to figure out how to string individually well-documented steps together to execute some larger task. The videos that advertise themselves when you open the new (downloaded) version of BaseCamp help a bit here. Map data: As for the maps themselves, I'm reasonably happy based on an initial review. Topographic detail seems good. Trail coverage is good but not perfect. I will use the GPS mainly for hiking and backpacking in state parks, national parks, and national forest wildernesses. To get a sense of how much I might rely on these maps, I took a look at some of the places I've visited in the last few years. California state park trail coverage – I looked at Henry Coe, Robert Lewis Stevenson, and Prairie Creek – seems incomplete. Some trails are there; some not. The Miner's Ridge Camp at Prairie Creek was in the wrong place. National parks are better. A tour around Yosemite and Sequoia-Kings Canyon showed all the trails I expected plus some extras. For example, the now-abandoned routing of the John Muir Trail over Junction Pass is on the map. That's good if you know the status of this historic now-partly-cross-country route. It's not if it leads you to expect a maintained trail. National forest coverage looks to match what's on the 1995 series of updates to the USGS Quadrangle maps based Forest Service revisions. The trails are there, but not all match what's on the ground today. John Muir Wilderness data looks pretty good. There are even a few well-used unofficial routes. The full route over Italy Pass is mapped, even though some is cross-country. Given that, I was a little surprised to see no trails mapped in the Pioneer Basin above Lake 1. I saw more more gaps and deviations relative to what I know is on the ground in both the Ventana and South Warner Wildernesses. All told, this disk's data is probably as good as could reasonably be expected, but it's worthwhile to seek out some of the supplemental freeware trail maps that can be found on line. -
Aug 28, 2011Real cost is several hundred $$$ moreGarmin locks the software to your serial number. If you break or lose your GPS and buy a new one, prepare to buy the software again. Also, if you buy a new computer, reload your OS or any nu...
Read More Garmin locks the software to your serial number. If you break or lose your GPS and buy a new one, prepare to buy the software again. Also, if you buy a new computer, reload your OS or any number of other changes, you will need to call Garmin to unlock. Map set has many errors that result in routing issues. -
Jul 23, 2011Too many inaccuraciesI purchased this software to load on the Oregon 450 that I bought. I loaded the software on my PC and started playing around with it. It was not obvious at first how to use any of the softwa...
Read More I purchased this software to load on the Oregon 450 that I bought. I loaded the software on my PC and started playing around with it. It was not obvious at first how to use any of the software, but with only a few minutes with it and 'Help' I was able to to get some maps loaded on my GPS and could set waypoints and routes in BaseCamp. My first successful route was Whitney Portal to Mt. Whitney via Trail Camp and Mt. Muir. The route distance much shorter than expected (8.7 miles vs. 11 miles actual) and the estimated time was less than 3 hours (normally the round trip is 10+ hours with most of the time doing the ascent). I figured the software would be wrong on distance since switchbacks tend to throw trail distances off. I also figured that I needed to change speed settings for walking to get a better time estimate. There is a screen to change autoroute settings, but apparently one can only change average speeds for driving as the pedestrian mode had all settings grayed out. I then looked closer at various details on the trip. Mt Muir was listed as a less than 14,000 ft peak, and Mt Whitney is likewise listed as significantly shorter than other sources list it. As I mentioned these issues to my girlfriend, she suggested I check out a few other areas that we are very familiar with. So I scrolled down to the Cottonwood Lakes/Mt Langley/Horseshoe Meadows area. To my great surprise I saw roads across Cottonwood Lakes. One of the roads is shown as perfectly straight from Cottonwood lakes to South Lakes, another has a long straight section across a small cliff. Just to be clear, the roads do not exist and are impossible to be where they are shown, even a hiker needs ropes, cams, and 5.7+ climbing skills to traverse some of the places where it shows roads. The trails are similar to old USGS data, but not the same. There are a couple trails shown in the lakes area that are not there, and it does not show a couple trails that are there. Nevermind the minor annoyances the other reviewers mentioned, like visual quality and usability. The map data is sufficiently incorrect to be potentially dangerous to use in the backcountry. I am returning this product.
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Read More These maps are OLD and outdated USGS TOPO maps. At times, it will show you as being a few hundred yards off trial. However, if you know how to use the software, you can make it work. I used this software with the Oregon 600 in the Mammoth back country for four days and managed to make it work okay. You will need to drop a lot of waypoints to mark trails and destinations. otherwise, good luck finding anything. There are a lot of missing trails and roads and the maps don't distinguish between the two unless you are completely zoomed in. I have to take time with a Tom Harrison TOPO and mark out where everything was. The trails are faint and hard to see. I would NOT rely on these maps OR any GPS device as my only means of navigation, but that is fairly common sense I think. But since this is the only TOPO maps that garmin offers, you are up against a wall. Even though these maps aren't great, they are better than free download off of the net. I would trust old maps over home made maps any day of the week. They will get the job done but don't expect them to be anywhere near as good as Tom Harrison or Nat Geo maps.