April 9, 2012
Best Buy:TOPO! Weekend Explorer 3D Outdoor Recreation Mapping Software (Las Vegas Area)
Product Description
Weekend Explorer Las Vegas Area & Spring Mountains, Lake Mead, Mojave National Reserve features detailed, accurate, USGS topographic maps for Las Vegas Metro Area, Bullhead City, Amargosa Valley, Mesquite, St. George, Mt. Charleston Wilderness, Red Rock Canyon N.C.A., Arrow Canyon, Muddy Mountains, McCullough Range, Desert National Wildlife Range, Pine Valley Mountain Wilderness, and more.Weekend Explorer harnesses the power of authentic USGS topographic maps in an easy-to-use software product that recreation enthusiasts use to customize and print photo-quality topographic maps. Weekend Explorer includes five levels of seamless mapping, including USA maps from the National Geographic World Atlas, USGS 1:100,000 scale mapping -- perfect for back road navigation --and USGS 1:24,000 scale maps, also known as 7½ minute quads. Users can custom-center the map in any location, add their routes, trails and notes. In addition, users can transfer waypoints and routes between Weekend Explorer and their GPS units. Weekend Explorer includes added content and features not on USGS maps: updated streets and roads, shaded relief, 3D views and fly-throughs and elevation profiles. Users can download map and software updates, and can print waterproof maps on their inkjet printers with Adventure Paper. The USA Placefinder locates more than a million places and natural features. Weekend Explorer is PC and Mac compatible.
- 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 thrus and instant elevation profiling
- Customize maps with photos, notes and icons
- Live Map Update ensures you always have the most current maps and software
TOPO! Weekend Explorer 3D Outdoor Recreation Mapping Software (Las Vegas Area) Reviews
TOPO! Weekend Explorer 3D Outdoor Recreation Mapping Software (Las Vegas Area) Reviews
| 3 of 3 people found the following review helpful  A million maps in one... for $30!, By Jajen "Jake" (Asia, Europe, N. America) - See all my reviews This review is from: TOPO! Weekend Explorer 3D Outdoor Recreation Mapping Software (Las Vegas Area) (Electronics) This software is great! I've used it for 5 trips now throughout the Las Vegas area. Mostly out at Red Rocks, Lake Mead and Valley of Fire. As soon as Mt. Charleston thaws out, that will be the next destination.Features I like: 1.Multiple views from broad general overviews of southern Nevada to highly detailed 7.5 USGS spec maps that I can really plan a trip with. 2. Transferring waypoints to and from my GPS. 3. Route making ability allows me to project and plot routes. 4. Routes are measured by distance and profile grade. I can see if a route I planned is too steep or not down to a percentage of a grade. 5. Photo/Note tool allows me to chronicle my travels on the software and save the maps for later reference. 6. Print/Export capabilities allow me to print out the part of the maps I want for my trips and allows me to save them as JPEGS to send to fellow hikers. Also can send projected hiking itineraries to friends in case of an emergency... Read more 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful  Of no fault of NatGeo; these topo maps are lame, By Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: National Geographic TOPO! Weekend Explorer 3D (San Francisco Bay Area, Big Sur, Napa Valley) (Electronics) 1. I first tried these electronic topo maps when they first came on the market years ago; actually when the current NatGeo maps were owned via the "Topo" company. I was very disappointed in that product and thus didn't utilize any cpu based mapping application for many years. But with the nice slick advertising of the current NatGeo maps, I decided to check out this product.2. Bottomline, cpu based topo products still stink. The maps are not detailed enough, it's still moderately slow (but not bad), and the bottomline is, for a place like the bay area (ie basically urban territory), you're better off just getting a decent hiking book or paper topo maps; you'll actually have more helpful information that way. Perhaps in the next generation of electronic topo maps things will change, but forget this product. 0 of 2 people found the following review helpful No GPS? Boring..., By Alwin (San Diego County, CA, USA) - See all my reviews This review is from: National Geographic TOPO! Weekend Explorer 3D (San Diego Area, Anza-Borrego, Santa Rosa Mountains) (Electronics) To get full use out of TOPO! you really need to install it on a laptop and have a GPS connected. I have neither.What it is good for, however, is amateur radio and other 2-way radio operators, who want to get elevation profiles from wherever they are to the mountaintop repeaters or other portable or mobile stations they are talking to. In other words, to see how blocked their line-of-sight is or will be. |
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