Topo Maps vs City Navigator

[+blksmith]

I currently have city navigator north America that I use on my Etrex Vista HCX. What are the advantages of the garmin topo maps? Would it be helpful to have both? I am starting to do more hiking caches. I live and cache mostly in the South East if that makes any difference. Just wanted to see if it would be worth the money to have them both. Thanks in advance for any advice you might have.

[+geodarts]

This might be moved to another section of the forums. But the topo maps have fire roads and trails that are not in the navigator -- as well as topo contours that can be useful when you are in an unfamiliar territory in the middle of nowhere.

 

My Colorado supports the 24k topo that has both the routable streets and the detailed topo, but it lacks the fire roads and trails that are in the regular garmin topo maps. Soo I only use it if I am really in the middle of nowhere.

Edited June 1, 2009 by Erickson

[Motorcycle_Mama]

Check out these free maps first.

 

http://www.gpsfiledepot.com/

[+StarBrand]

Both is nice!!

 

Have you checked out the free maps available for Garmin Units?

 

http://www.gpsfiledepot.com/maps/state/all

[+Triple Crown]

Topo's are definitely nice to have, the 24K versions especially. Since the data is not proprietary, its not locked to a single serial number. You can buy the Garmin versions or you can get free maps from www.GPSfiledepot.com

[Keystone]

I am moving this thread from the Geocaching Topics forum to the GPS and Technology forum.