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Florida Topo Map
Last Updated: February 27th, 2009 12:02am
Map Coverage:
State: Florida
Price: Free
Introduction
The purpose of this venture is to create a detailed topographic map of the entire state of Florida at 24k detail. This map is created for Garmin GPS receivers and Mapsource.
Features
- Roads - Interstates, highways, arterial roads, residential roads, limited unpaved roads (2008 Tiger Data)
- Railroads
- High resolution water data - lakes, rivers, streams, and washes
- Federal Land Usage - Wilderness area, national parks, and military bases/ranges, native american reservations
- Borders - County and state boundary lines
- Elevation contours - 5ft intervals (equivalent to 24k)
- GNIS Points of Interest - summits, mines, falls, dams, cemeteries, towers, populated places, etc.
- Trails - trail coverage including all National Forests
- Bathymetric data to 300ft depth for the state
- Wetlands in Dry Tortugas National Park
- Biscayne National Park - nav buoys and tidal flats
- Everglades National Park - campsites and canoe trails
- 100k Grid Segments - no segment larger than 6mb means most older GPSr's can use this mapset
Coverage
This map covers the entire state of Florida.
Screenshots
Below is a picture of the map inside of mapsource (6.14.X):
This screenshot compares the Florida Topo (left) to Garmin US Topo (middle) to Garmin Topo 2008 (rigth). With the exception of the DEM shading you can see that the Florida Topo is significantly more detailed.
The screenshot below shows some of the attributes this map has that the Garmin Topo's are lacking. In this case, its canoe waterways in the Everglades. Also, this map has bathymetric data.
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 1.0 Released 25 Feb 09
Download Windows Version [126MB] (3522 Downloads)
Download Mac Version [125MB] (286 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 Arizona 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.
* You don't need paypal to donate but that is who will process the donation.
If you can't donate (or even if you can) another great way to help is by providing data for this map or other maps. If you have data please contact me.
References
Many resources were used to create this map, the main ones are listed here:
- USGS National Elevation Data (NED)
http://ned.usgs.gov/
The NED is elevation data provided in raster form by the USGS. - USGS National Hydrography Dataset
http://nhd.usgs.gov
The USGS provides hydrographic data in high resolution. - USGS National Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic
The USGS provides locations and names for many features throughout the United States. - U.S. National Park Service: GIS Data and Metadata
http://www.nps.gov/gis/data_info/park_gisdata/fl.htm
The National Park Service provides limited data for its parks throughout Florida.
Changelog
Version 1.00 (27 Feb 09)
- Initial release