Product Description
Weekend Explorer Washington DC – Balitmore & Catoctin Mountain, C&O Canal, N. Blue Ridge Mountains features detailed, accurate, USGS topographic maps Washington Metro Area, Baltimore Metro Area, Annapolis, Easton, Solomons, Royal, Cumberland, Harpers Ferry, Blackwater N.W.R., Green Ridge Forest, Massanutten Mountain, George Washington National Forest, Savage River Forest, Deep Creek Lake, more. Weekend Explorer harnesses power authen… More >>
TOPO! Weekend Explorer 3D Outdoor Recreation Mapping Software
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This product might be great, I would never know. I paid $80 for it and it didn’t come with the disc to install it. I guess the worker in China was having a bad day that day. I tried on numerous attempts to contact the company, but was deferred to leave a message on a machine that nobody checks. You can’t reach anybody at their customer service. I highly recommend not buying this product.
Rating: 1 / 5
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.
Rating: 4 / 5
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.
Rating: 2 / 5
I purchased this product to use with my GPS for trailriding. The five levels of zoom help tremendously when deciding where to take my horse. An added bonus is this application seems to allow me to open a fifth level of zoom with my State series which supports only four levels. I’m very happy with my purchase and have passed along this bonus information to my friends that have the State series.
Rating: 5 / 5
I like this software overall and some of NatGeo’s maps. I would have given it 5 stars if NatGeo had not been so tight with the map data. You get all of Maryland beyond Baltimore 3.5 hours West of Baltimore (almost 200 miles!)but once over the Bay Bridge (about 40 miles) there is little of the Eastern Shore beyond the actual shoreline. There are a lot of fantastic Parks and great Rivers just a bit further East and still in Maryland but NatGeo didn’t want to give up the extra quads to include these areas since they also include Delaware. Shame on you NatGeo! Cheap and greedy of you. I would have gladly paid a few extra bucks to have the MD’s Eastern Shore and the Delaware Shore included with the DC/Balto region. Also, the maps are pretty old–1970’s. I’d like to see NatGeo put a little more effort into this one.
Rating: 3 / 5