[at-l] Whitetop elevation

[yumitori@montana.com (Ron Martino)]

	Re: DeLorme's Topo USA

kahley wrote:
>
> At 09:51 AM 8/28/02 -0400, DTimm65344@aol.com wrote:

> >>Is the AT marked on it?
> >
> >Of course... what a silly question. <VBG>
> >
> >Hence my ability to map out the profile.
>
> Wellll....knowing how clever you are, you might
> have added trail coordinates <g>.  I ask because there
> is a guy who sells TOPO programs on ebay but they
> don't include the trail.  Is this a pricey program?
> I bet it is.  Most cool stuff is expensive <g>.

	Not expensive, given that you get the entire country on disk.

	We reviewed these on BackpackGearTest -

http://www.backpackgeartest.org/reviews/Software/DeLorme%20Mapping/

	My opinion was that the trails were not placed accurately enough for my
liking. Folks familiar with the actual location of the AT on the ground
might want to compare their knowledge with the route as marked in the
software. I didn't have any up-to-date AT maps to compare with, but the
Topo USA placement of the CDT is entirely worthless - essentially all
the mappers did was place a fictitious trail parallel to the Continental
Divide.

	On the other hand, Topo USA allows you to see the lay of the land, both
through traditional 2-D contours, and in 3-D. This is a definite benefit
for those with other sources for the accurate positions of one's path.

	Ron
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