Idaho Topo Map

Map Information

Created By: -Oz-
Last Updated: April 2nd, 2016 10:04pm
Map Coverage:
North: 49°
West: 117.5° East: 111°
South: 42°
Country: United States
State: Idaho
Price: Free

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Introduction

The purpose of this venture is to create a detailed topographic map of the entire state of Idaho at 24k detail. This map is created for Garmin GPS receivers and Mapsource on both the mac and PC.

Features

Roads - Interstates, highways, roads, limited unpaved roads (Census Data 2015)
Railroads
High resolution water data - lakes, rivers, streams, marshes, and washes
Federal/State Land Usage - Wilderness area, national parks, and military bases/ranges, native american reservations, some state parks
Borders - County and state boundary lines
Elevation contours - 24k scale
GNIS Points of Interest - summits, mines, falls, dams, cemeteries, towers, populated places, etc.
Trails - trail coverage inside of the forests; for even more download the NW Trails map.
Parks POI - trailheads, camping sites, forest service huts within the national parks/forests

Coverage

This map covers the entire state of Idaho. All data ends at the border of the state.

Screenshots

The two screenshots below were taken on a Garmin GPSMap 60csx. The one of the left is an area in Boise National Forest; the one on the right is roads near Twin Falls, ID:

This screenshot demonstrates how this topo looks in the new version (6.14.X+) of Garmin MapSource:

This final screenshot compares the Idaho Topo to Garmin's US Topo West and Garmin's Topo 2008:

Installation

Two options exist; for windows download and run setup. The map will then appear in Garmin MapSource and can be added to your GPS by selecting it in MapSource and sending it to the GPSr. For Mac download the mac version, extract it and double click the .gmapi file. Map Manager will then install the map for you.

Version 2.0 Released 3 Apr 16
Download Windows Version [169MB] (41937 Downloads)
Download Mac Version [168MB] (8761 Downloads)

GPS Usage

This map can be installed with any other Garmin Maps (How-To Tutorial). Then you simply hide and show other maps until you see the Idaho Topo. For more detailed instructions check out this tutorial.

Support The Effort

Although this map is free, and always will be if you find the map useful please consider making a donation to offset software, hardware, and hosting costs. The donate button is at the bottom of the page or on the download page.

References

The references used to create this map are listed in my How-To Create Maps tutorial.

Changelog

Version 2.00 (3 Apr 16)

Upgraded the Windows installer to work with Windows 10 64-bit and BaseCamp
All updated data.
Change contour intervals to true 1:24K data
Updated roads
Updated water data
Updated federal lands data (added fish & wildlife refuges)
Updated GNIS points
Compiled with a different program
Reduced the number of map segments to 24
Searchable Points of Interest

Version 1.00 (17 Oct 08)

Initial release