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New Versions of Garmin Topo USA 100k and Topo Canada

Updated 4/20: GPSCity has provided more details on Garmin Topo Canada and the Garmin Oregon Canada 400t and are showing availability is today (4/20) — let us know if you get your hands on either product.
Updated 4/13: Buyers getting the first Oregon 400t Canada units are claiming they are coming preloaded with Topo V2 [...]

Garmin Oregon 400t Aussie Style

New versions of the Garmin Oregon 400t with new versions of DEM enabled Topo maps seem to be showing up daily.  A reader here on GPSFix (thanks David!) alerted us to the fact that Garmin has released an Austrailian version of the Oregon 400t which includes a preinstalled version of Topo Australia.  Mapsource Topo Austraila [...]

Garmin BaseCamp 2.0.4 Released

Garmin has released the first public version of BaseCamp for the PC.   BaseCamp is Garmin’s new outdoor-centric mapping software.   Similar to Mapsource you can view your Garmin maps (as long as they include DEM) on your computer and do things like view 3D terrain, plot tracks, and analyze elevation profiles.   I’ve downloaded BaseCamp [...]

Garmin Releases Topo U.S. 24K on DVD, First Screen Shots of BaseCamp

About a month ago when Garmin announced BaseCamp, they also hinted that the Topo U.S. 24K maps, currently available only in microSD format,  would be released on DVD.  Garmin’s web site now lists two $130 Topo U.S. 24K DVDs — West and Southwest.   West provides coverage for California, Oregon, Washington and Nevada and the Southwest [...]

Garmin 1:24K Topos on Regional DVDs, GB Discoverer Improvements, New Belt Clip

GPSTracklog is reporting that Garmin will be making their 1:24k US Topo maps available as a series of regional DVDs.  The coverage of one DVD will be the equivalent of what two microSD cards cover today.   The first DVD will be available this quarter for around $130.   Garmin made some confusing statements in their BaseCamp [...]

Garmin Announces BaseCamp™, hints at 1:24k Topos on DVD

Updated 1/15/09: GPS Business News is reporting that 1:24K Topos will be available on 4 regional DVDs for $99 each.
Garmin has announced a new software utility called BaseCamp which is aimed at outdoor users.   This new product feels like an updated version of Mapsource with some new features.   The new features that I picked [...]

How To: Using Preinstalled 400t Topo Maps in Mapsource

A frequent complaint about the Colorado and Oregon 400t has been the inability to use the preinstalled Topo 2008 maps in Mapsource.   Shortly after getting my Colorado 400t I worked with some clever folks who were able to make it work but the procedure wasn’t quite ready for prime time.   After messing with this for [...]