+mustanglx Posted August 22, 2003 Share Posted August 22, 2003 I have just purchased the Topo software for PA from National Geographic the other day. The maps are great, the only thing that was a real pain was changing the cd's. Well I don't know if any one knows but you can copy each cd to your HD and never have to deal with the cd's again. I remember awhile back that there was a topic on how to do away with changing the cd's and someone mentioned a 'drive emulator', well I think this is much better. All you have to do is: Copy the folder called XX_D0X(example PA_D05) to the folder TPO_DATA in the TOPO folder. There should be a XX_DOX file on each cd of the set. It does take up alot of HD space. For PA it was around 2.5GB. I have a link to the page where I got this info if you care. maps.nationalgeographic.com/topo/support.cfm I hope this helps mustanglx Quote Link to comment
+mustanglx Posted August 22, 2003 Author Share Posted August 22, 2003 I forgot to tell you when you goto the site of the link that I gave, you will see a section on installation and under that heading there is a line that says 'To Install a TOPO State Series to your Hard Drive' That is what you are looking for. Good Luck mustanglx Quote Link to comment
+Logscaler and Red Posted August 22, 2003 Share Posted August 22, 2003 Also here from a few months back. And if you go to National Geographics web site, you can locate a program that lets you synchronize several states together. I just loaded all the map data files - I skipped most of the first "install" cd and just grabbed the maps file - into the same TPO_DATA folder. Works great. logscaler. "It is not fair to have a battle of wits with unarmed people." Quote Link to comment
+embra Posted August 22, 2003 Share Posted August 22, 2003 Wonderful! I was too lazy to look this up, but just lazy enough to take advantage of your dropping this into my lap. Max Often wrong but seldom in doubt Quote Link to comment
+Brian - Team A.I. Posted August 22, 2003 Share Posted August 22, 2003 The only downside is 8CDs worth of data (for AZ anyway) sitting on your HD. Lots of space to give up to one program, but then again, I have games that take up 2-3GB because I run them off the HD. Meh. Brian Team A.I. Quote Link to comment
+Logscaler and Red Posted August 22, 2003 Share Posted August 22, 2003 Your right Brian, a lot of room sucked up. But I find it a lot less of a pain in the butt the flipping in and out of cd's. And the wear and tear on the cd's was starting to show. NG sells the cd's at $10.00 a pop to replace them and as I was having to use three cd's just for the local area, I was starting to wear them out. Besides, it was a good "reason" to get a new laptop with a biger HD. logscaler. "It is not fair to have a battle of wits with unarmed people." Quote Link to comment
+mustanglx Posted August 23, 2003 Author Share Posted August 23, 2003 If you don't want to load all 8 cd's only load the most used ones and use the cd's for the less frequently used areas. mustanglx Quote Link to comment
+mustanglx Posted August 23, 2003 Author Share Posted August 23, 2003 Does NG actually sell replacement CD's?? Is it the same price for and cd?? mustanglx Quote Link to comment
+TeamThompson Posted August 23, 2003 Share Posted August 23, 2003 While we're on NG's Topo, is there any way to print a map that spans multiple pages? I'd like to be able to print a large map to put on my wall and plot where I've located caches/benchmarks and also as a weekend adventure planner for the kids: point somewhere on the map that we've never visited and go find something interesting there. Cheers, Bruce. Quote Link to comment
+Logscaler and Red Posted August 24, 2003 Share Posted August 24, 2003 Thompson Family, Would it not be easier just to go buy the maps for your area? They would be on better paper then most people use and you can get as many connecting ones as you want/need and just trim and overlap them to cover the area your dealing with. But if you want you just have to overlap each section you want covered and print a box full of pages. And if your in a USFS district, you should be able to go buy one of their fire maps, which can be huge. The ones I deal with - fire maps -are about 3' x 4' and are easy to just trim and overlap. And Yes mustanglx, NG does sell the single cd's for $10 each, as stated above. That was the price last year - 2002- when I called them anyway. If you do take them in and out a lot, I would burn a copy of the cd's you use the most and use them first. The problem I had with that is they have a nasty habit of "dropping" out whole sections - 1 square mile, 640 acres - of area. "It is not fair to have a battle of wits with unarmed people." Quote Link to comment
+TeamThompson Posted August 24, 2003 Share Posted August 24, 2003 quote:Originally posted by logscaler:Thompson Family, Would it not be easier just to go buy the maps for your area? They would be on better paper then most people use and you can get as many connecting ones as you want/need and just trim and overlap them to cover the area your dealing with. Hi, That's probably what I'm going to end up doing, but it does seem a bit of a pain and/or needless expense when I've already got the data. It's a shame the software can't support printing a given rectangular area at a given resolution tiled onto as many pages as needed. Cheers, Bruce. Quote Link to comment
+headmj Posted August 25, 2003 Share Posted August 25, 2003 Maptech terrain navigator has a seamless mode that will print any section you want even if it crosses quad borders. It will also take advantage of whatever size printer you have. have a D size plotter? Go for it! Quote Link to comment
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