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Moto270

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  1. After finding this thread I kinda did some checking. I wasn't going to get a Garmin product anyway I am getting a magellan but I have read they are really close so I figured I would check this out. My road was built 11 years ago. The only Garmin map that has it is the City navigator. I couldnt' find it anywhere else. That didn't really bother me. Alot of trails that I normally hike aren't in there. That didn't bother me I have paper maps and a means of printing paper topo's. What did bother me was that USGS Topo data was missing from the maps that I was looking at. In my area there is a abandoned USAF Base from the 50's that was an early warning station. But before that was built the USGS Topo maps designated that area a specific name. It just happens to not be in there. Along with the logging roads that lead to it. Which are used today for logging and misc mining in that area. They are very wide so that tractor trailers can pass each other on them and they are very maintained. In other words you can take your family car up there and have no problems. And these roads have been in use for at least 50 years. Since that Air Base is 50 years old. And when you purchase the USGS topo that was made for that area and not updated since 1976 or 81 can't remember which anyway when you roll that out its all there in striking detail. I just can't figure that. I thought that the USGS topo's were what they started with when they went to make new Topo's. And they updated and added from there. I don't care that my 11 year old road isn't in there. And I don't care that those trails aren't in there. (I haven't found any Delorme product that has them) But it does make me think when I start comparing it to the paper USGS topo maps I have and to the Delrome Software that has all of these old points and place names that haven't changed since before the 50's and this doesn't have them. IMHO if there is a fire tower on a ridge and the USGS map shows it, And the Delrome Topo software shows it, and I drive out to it and look at it and its still there, then this software should show it. Not because I want such minor details in my mapping software. But because the maps that this software should be based on have it and nothing has happend to it in 20 years then it should be in there. And by the way i also think its very ratty that Magellan sells their Mapsend Topo software for $99 until they offer a $50 rebate and now its all of a sudden $149. They need to open it up and let some companies compete. It would take a couple years but the cream would rise to the top. But why do that when you can keep on keeping on and charge $99 or $149 for something. I wouldn't.
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