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40-Foot Contours:
Above the Timber's Arizona Topos are at
40-foot intervals, the same as standard 7.5-minute USGS Quad maps.
Because of the multi-layered nature of the maps, as you zoom out,
contours will automatically reduce to 200 foot intervals to avoid
contour clutter.
High Resolution
Water Data:
Besides the contour interval, the High
Resolution Water Data is what makes these maps stand out. Most vector
maps only have named water features, named lakes and streams. For every
named water feature, their are 100-unnamed water features. To the extent
possible with USGS water feature databases, ALL unnamed water features
are on these maps. We're talking beaver pond resolution!!!
Additionally, most Arizona rivers are shown at their true extent, bank
to bank, not just a line indicating river.
Federal Lands in Unique Colors:
Virtually all Arizona
federal lands are included on these maps and most have a unique color
for quick identification.
Here's a comparison of Above the Timber's maps verses Garmin's 24K Topo
maps:
30-minute Coverage
per Map:
Each map segment covers an area of 30 x
30 minutes of arc or exactly 16 - 7.5 minute Quad Maps. These maps
seamlessly join one to another, therefore you can have the entire
coverage area as one seamless map inside your GPS receiver. Their are in
total 130 - 30-min maps in the Arizona map set. All segments are
at 24,000:1 (24K) resolution. The total map
set is 326MB.
Covers ALL
of Arizona:
Extensive
Geologic Feature Points:
Their are over 40,000 points of interest
showing summits, mines, cemeteries, arches, pillars, basins, springs,
flats, ridges, cliffs, waterfalls, communication towers, passes and on
and on.
Forest Service
and National Park Trails:
Four of the five Arizona National Forests
and Grand Canyon NP are included with named and/or numbered trails. The
high visibility red-dashed trails work particularly well in the visually
challenged, Garmin touch screen GPS receivers.
Latest Roads:
Major state and federal highways shown in
distinct colors and with unique shields for quick identification. All
city streets are included, while not routable, the road features greatly
aid navigation.
Free Trial Download:
Here's a 2 MB file which will demonstrate
many of the features of the Arizona GPS Topos. It will show many highway types, wilderness, BLM, state land,
National Forest, National Park, Indian Reservations and much, much more. The map is in a
self-extracting executable file. The map will appear in Mapsource or Basecamp as
Ariz Topo Demo and you
can load it into any Garmin mapping GPS. If you're new to Mapsource,
these
screenshots will help immensely. You can also use this download
to verify that Above the Timber's maps will work in your Garmin GPS
receiver.
PC Download A link to download the
latest version of Mapsource is included in the PC file.
Mac Download
See the Mac installation directions
here.
Cost and Upgrade:
$49.95
Click the price link for Order Type Options.
For the cost of a half-dozen
paper 7.5-minute USGS Quads, you can buy this map set with the same coverage
as 1792 - 7.5-minute Quads. That's less than $0.03 per Quad. The paper
equivalent is a single borderless map 980 x 720
inches or 82 x 60 feet.
The upgrade options will
differ depending on whether you downloaded or bought retail, here's the
Upgrade Link.
Screenshots:
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