Best Place to Find Topos?

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Best Place to Find Topos?

Unread postby SonofUlam » Tue Sep 23, 2014 7:55 am

Where do you some of you guys find your topo maps? Anyone have a really great website to view and/or download free topo maps? So far, I pretty much exclusively use the USGS website, but it has its limitations. Key word here is "free." Thanks!


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Re: Best Place to Find Topos?

Unread postby Beartown18 » Tue Sep 23, 2014 8:10 am

caltopo works pretty good, I think that is the name.
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Re: Best Place to Find Topos?

Unread postby seazofcheeze » Tue Sep 23, 2014 9:35 am

x2 for Caltopo

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Re: Best Place to Find Topos?

Unread postby Thermals » Tue Sep 23, 2014 9:41 am

The caltopo is very good my first go to

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Re: Best Place to Find Topos?

Unread postby semperfidelis » Tue Sep 23, 2014 9:44 am

seazofcheeze wrote:x2 for Caltopo

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Re: Best Place to Find Topos?

Unread postby liv4rut » Tue Sep 23, 2014 12:25 pm

I use backpacker gps app in my app store. It has differen options for maps. I am going to check out caltopo now!

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Re: Best Place to Find Topos?

Unread postby hunter_mike » Tue Sep 23, 2014 12:52 pm

Caltopo

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Re: Best Place to Find Topos?

Unread postby Edcyclopedia » Tue Sep 23, 2014 1:13 pm

Mapcard.com

I looked a Caltopo and for my area if hugely outdated...
I would say @ least over a decade!
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Re: Best Place to Find Topos?

Unread postby SonofUlam » Tue Sep 23, 2014 4:51 pm

Sounds like Caltopo is the winner! Looks pretty handy, though I'll be sure to check it against some other info I have to make sure its accurate. Thanks again!


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