love backpacking Posted February 28, 2003 Share Posted February 28, 2003 I have a Meridian yellow and I was thinking about purchasing Mapsend Topo until I learned about National Geographic Topo. I'm hoping to get input from users of each program explaining the + & -. Thanks! Quote Link to comment
JJW Posted February 28, 2003 Share Posted February 28, 2003 You may end up getting both. I have a Garmin Vista. I had to buy the Garmin Topo USA software to load maps into the Vista GPSr. But for everything else I have been using the N.G. TOPO! software. Uploading and downloading waypoints, routes, and downloading my tracklogs and printing maps are all done with N.G. TOPO!. GoodLuck JJW Quote Link to comment
+Searching_ut Posted February 28, 2003 Share Posted February 28, 2003 The only thing you can load into your Magellan receiver is Mapsends TOPO. Of how much use it will be for your trips though, tough to say. I use several products, Mapsend, National geographic TOPO, and ExpertGPS to name a few. Check out the maps section of my webpage for some examples: http://home.sprynet.com/~searching_ut/index.htm Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted February 28, 2003 Share Posted February 28, 2003 Both, but lately National Geographic is rather annoying and heading the wrong direction with their products. It took them about 2 months to respond to my last email on weather or not Active Sync USA could handle waypoints in it's PDA version. (It can't). Wherever you go there you are. Quote Link to comment
Geo-Scouter Posted February 28, 2003 Share Posted February 28, 2003 I have a Sportrak Map and use both programs. You have to use Mapsend topo to download to your GPSr if it is capable of receiving downloads. I do not know if the yellow one is or not. NG Topo! has more detailed topographic information but can not download to GPSr. It can read route and waypoint info from your GPSr and display the information on it's maps. I'm glad I have both and would recommend both. Quote Link to comment
+headmj Posted March 4, 2003 Share Posted March 4, 2003 I use both and I would recommend MapTech over NG. I think the mapTech software is more open with fewer hidden "gotcha's" that you have to pay for like their Sync package. I also got five states in a package for $129.00. There is nothing out there except MapSend that will download MAPS into your GPS. All the good map programs will transfer waypoints routes and tracks. Quote Link to comment
+embra Posted March 4, 2003 Share Posted March 4, 2003 There have been indications from Magellan that MapSend will have a new release in April that should have higher quality maps. I reather doubt they will be top of the line stuff, but you might want to wait a little while to see what the new package offers/costs. Max Often wrong but seldom in doubt Quote Link to comment
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