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Somebody at Garmin sent me an extremely detailed response (impressive) why they didn't have the higher-resolution 1:24,000 maps, except for the national parks, which leads me to believe they're in no hurry to upgrade either the US topo or the National Parks products. However, I read that some people have made their own high-res maps out of publicly available data, which doesn't compute.(?) Garmin's map for the National Park in my area is even missing 30-40% of the park, so I decided to pass on both.

Not to mention the HAND scan.

Perhaps my dreams will come true...someday. I would LOVE to have a GPS that would load and display and plot over those high-resolution satellite images like they have on Google Maps. I hate carrying those paper printouts around, but having the detailed map of the vegetation and terrain is essential for off-trail exploring. Something that could grab the current satellite visible and IR cloud images would be dreamy, too.