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We hope that you will find All Topo Maps are a great deal and valuable tool. But we realize that All Topo Maps may not be the best solution for your mapping needs. These links to our competitors and other products may help you find just what you are looking for.

Many trademarks and brand names are mentioned below. They are the property of their respective owners.

If you find or know of additional consumer topographical mapping systems, send a link to john@igage.com. We will add them to this page.

Prices and links updated August 21, 2002

Altimap Software; Virtual Terrain Explorer; +1 205 486-4669; http://www.altimap.com

This is pretty cool stuff. Roy Hooper has created a high resolution, interactive killer mapping application. Currently Great Smoky Mountains, Rocky Mountain, Grand Canyon, Mt Rainier, Yosemite, Glacier, Yellowstone, Olympic Mountains, Grand Teton, Kings Canyon / Sequoia, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef, Crater Lake, and North Cascades National Parks, plus Mount Saint Helens National Volcanic Monument are available but if you are going to these places you should get this tool and support Altimap's efforts.

AzTechSoft; +1 602-978-0720; http://www.aztechsoft.com/

Software and Resources for the Engineering, Architectural, and AutoCAD Communities

DeLorme;  1-(800) 452-5931; http://www.delorme.com/

DeLorme makes the great Gazetteer series, the fantastic Street Atlas USA (a registered trademark of DeLorme), and the Topo USA (again a registered trademark of DeLorme) topographic software. Topo USA runs about $99, and includes DEM (Digital Elevation Model) based topo maps of the entire United States.

Topo USA is a great product if you are traveling in an RV across the country. The map detail is disappointing for off road use. $99.95 [ http://www.delorme.com/topousa/default.asp ]

DeLorme has  '3D TopoQuads'. This tool provides both DEM based vector maps and seamless raster images of the 1:24,000 scale quads in a moderately priced tool. TopoQuads can 'drape' the topomap images over the DEM to generate a 3D shaded relief map effect.  $99.95 per state [ http://www.delorme.com/quads/default.asp ]

DeLorme also publishes the Eartha Atlas. This world atlas, rocks. Get one!

Destination Mapping Systems, Inc. (DMS); +1 800 224-8601; http://www.maptrails.com

DMS's product State Explorer  is a 1:100,000 scale USGS product available for several states.

ESRI; 1-800-447-9778; http://www.esri.com

ESRI makes ARC/INFO (registered trademark of ESRI) and ARC/VIEW (registered trademark of ESRI), the professional user's mapping program.

Even if you already own an ESRI product, you may find All Topo Maps a good companion product. All Topo Maps will export .TIF and .TFW worldfiles for direct input to most ESRI GIS products. Plus you will enjoy the higher resolution rendering that All Topo Maps provides for zoomed out views.

Fugawi / Pinpoint Systems Inc; +1 416-920-0447; http://www.fugawi.com

73 Warren Road
Toronto, Ontario
M4V 2R9 Canada

Moving map software for GPS receivers. $135 Canadian. Very nifty GPS interface, some maps are included.

GIS Data Depot; http://www.gisdatadepot.com/

The GIS Data Depot has some coverage of many states. Digital products are available in DRG, DEM, DLG and other formats. Free downloads of single DRG files may be possible, or files can be copied to a CD and sent to you.

GPS Pro; 888-477-7761; http://www.gpspro.com

MPN provides digital mapping, positioning and navigation tools. MPN's web site says: 'Lowest cost topo maps for the entire United States and Canada'.

See http://www.gpspro.com/mapdata.htm#top for information on MPN's digital map data.

Horizons Technology, Inc. / Sure! Maps RASTER; 1-800-828-3808

Horizon-Sure offers 1:24,000 scale maps. They even have a 'Download a Quad' store (http://tango.horizons.com/QuadStore/), but make sure your sitting down when you order a map. They are $15 each or $250 per county!

Horizons Technology, Inc.
3990 Ruffin Road
San Diego, CA 92123-1826
(619) 292-8331 or (800) 828-3808

Image Peak Systems; +1 (303) 774-8769 http://www.charttiff.com

Image Peak makes/distributes the ChartTiff series of de-collared maps. You can purchase decollared and tiled maps for $2 per map; or single DRG maps for $1 per quad.

Land Info International; +1 800 949-5080; http://www.landinfo.com

Land Info supplies digital maps. They have the 'mother-load' of digital map stock. They also have an interesting use policy: [ http://www.landinfo.com/datalicense.pdf ]

Maptech; 1-800-627-7236; http://www.maptech.com

Maptech's fine product line is similar to All Topo Map sets.

Micropath; http://www.micropath.com ; +1 303 526-5454

In addition to a full line of microwave and point-to-point link analysis software, Micropath supplies DRG stock at the most reasonable prices with the best service.

National Geographic / Topo!; 1-415-558-8700; http://www.topo.com

(used to be Wildflower Productions - 'Topo!')

National Geographic now has "full state" sets available. The NG product is seamless, Lat/Lon projections.

Navitrak; 1 902 429-1438; http://www.navitrak.com

Navitrak produces Canadian mapping products.  Along with many other mapping devices.

Peak Geo-Design Inc. +1-800-248-6277  http://www.colorview-peak.com/index.htm

Quad Companion  from Peak Geo-Design, Inc. is a USGS DRG clip and seam utility. "Quad Companion was designed specifically to solve the problem of clipping collars and seaming USGS DRG's together, on-the-fly, as you need them."

If you are using DRG's, this $299 tool will clip map collars so that you can overlay them in GIS applications.

Topo3D; (505) 440-9959; http://www.topo3d.com/

Nifty DEM (Digital Elevation Model) based interactive 3D maps. Covers various states. About $100.

United States Geological Survey; http://www.usgs.gov/

The USGS is the base source for almost every 1:24,000, most 1:100,000 scale and 1:250,000 scale digital mapping products. You too can purchase the raw DRGs (Digital Raster Graphic) maps from the USGS.

DRGs (see http://mcmcweb.er.usgs.gov/drg/) are big .TIFF files. They may be purchased one at a time or in groups. DRGs are available by ftp or on CD-ROM. The USGS charges $45 per order plus $1 per file. (Utah = $1,475; Colorado = $1,990; Idaho=$1,864.)

The USGS has several commercial partners. Check out http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/buspartners/digital/currentpart.html for a current list of USGS Digital Cartographic Data Business Partners.

Raw DRGs for many states are available at no cost via the web, see http://mcmcweb.er.usgs.gov/drg/avail.html#online, http://www.gisdatadepot.com/. You may wonder why iGage sells a derivative product of data that is available at no cost:

The DRG's don't include a viewer, nor are they connected to each other in an easy to use format (DRG's have very cryptic filenames.) You can't enter a place name and get there easily with the raw DRG's. Since the DRGs are so large, it takes quite a bit of computer resources to view them. Even if you are going to use the DRG's with another viewing program like Fugawi, you may still find All Topo Maps convenient for determining which DRG file to open.

An entire state, the size of Idaho or Wyoming, zip compressed, represents about 6 gigabytes of data. Since the data is fully compressed, your modem can not further compress each file for transfer. Expect download times of 10 to 15 minutes with a 56K modem per quad, that's about 13 days download time per state.  Uncompressed a full state requires about 14 gigabytes.

'All Topo Maps provide value by making the DRGs easy to use at an inexpensive price.'