need help with maps

[mhdennis]

I'm going to both Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks in just a few months. I have a sportrak pro and would like good detailed maps... mainly concerned with roads, hiking trails, rivers, points of interests and such.

Can anyone recommend a good product for me? I have MapSend Streets & Destinations USA. I'm not very impressed with it. It is not very detailed.

Thank you.

[+Alan2]

Check out National Geographic Trail smart maps

 

Remember however that only the GPS manufacturers maps can be loaded into your GPS but you can use the NG maps to create waypoint, routes, etc.

 

I haven't used this product but have used their 7.5 quad topo series for the Northeast and it's an excellent product.

 

Good luck.

 

Alan

[LEC Boy]

nhdennis,

 

I have a SporTrak Pro, and although I'm a newbie, and don't know how it compares with others, I can tell you that I purchased the MapSend Topo program, and it is very similar to the Streets and Destinations program. Only difference is it does have topographic information built in (when zoomed in fairly tight shows the lines where the topo changes, and allows a couple more functions to be available in the SporTrak: when cursor is on a river, lake, railroad, street, etc., hitting enter shows a topo chart of the item (tells length, max elev/min elev, and a chart of the changes in elev). Also, you are supposed to be able to pull up an artificial horizon view of what is in front of you, with the slopes shown, etc, but I havn't tried that one).

The other big diff is the POIs shown. Topo has Campgrounds; Caves; Dams; Mines; Wells; Summits; Towers; and more.

 

The one drawback seems to be you can load maps from either the Streets program, or the Topo program, but not both. (at least I haven't figured out how to do it yet).

 

Know you weren't too impressed with Streets and Destinations, and neither was I. I do like Topo better, but heard some say they aren't impressed. But, I think you are limited by who the manufacturer is as to which maps you can use.

 

Good luck!

 

Ken

[LEC Boy]

mhdennis,

 

One thing I noticed is the amount of detail shown can be changed by going into map setup and changing detail level. I thought I had a bug with mine as some of the POIs weren't showing up on the GPS after downloading the maps, but then found the others when I adjusted to a higher map detail level.